My Evening - Falco balancing ....
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:57 am
Had a relatively useful evening.
Think I might just have fixed the boiler
.... though time will tell.
Then Aladinsane posts up about the bellypan which, although he'd told me about it earlier, I thought I'd read it anyhow.
Found out he needed bracket dimensions so I thought I'd whip mine off the bike to measure them.
Not too hard - first one was no problem.
Second one was a bit more entertaining ..... It was just as I was making the final turn with my socket wrench that my brain kicked in and I remembered that the fairing bracket fits to the sidestand bracket .... which was now undone .... me sitting on the floor the bike falling on top of me. No time to change into my super-hero underpants I just had to save the bike. Took all my strength to get it upright again. Next problem is my drive is on a slope .... so, still sitting on the ground, had to balance the bike and stop it rolling downhill with just one hand while I snicked it into gear with the other. Of course the bracket had rotated but was very stiff due to the remaining bolt .... so I had to balance the bike again with the one hand while bashing the bracket back with the other - aligning the holes in the dark and getting the bolt back in.
Think I was a bit lucky ! .... don't want to be doing that again in a hurry.
..... maybe that'll teach me to think next time.
Think I might just have fixed the boiler
.... though time will tell.Then Aladinsane posts up about the bellypan which, although he'd told me about it earlier, I thought I'd read it anyhow.
Found out he needed bracket dimensions so I thought I'd whip mine off the bike to measure them.
Not too hard - first one was no problem.
Second one was a bit more entertaining ..... It was just as I was making the final turn with my socket wrench that my brain kicked in and I remembered that the fairing bracket fits to the sidestand bracket .... which was now undone .... me sitting on the floor the bike falling on top of me. No time to change into my super-hero underpants I just had to save the bike. Took all my strength to get it upright again. Next problem is my drive is on a slope .... so, still sitting on the ground, had to balance the bike and stop it rolling downhill with just one hand while I snicked it into gear with the other. Of course the bracket had rotated but was very stiff due to the remaining bolt .... so I had to balance the bike again with the one hand while bashing the bracket back with the other - aligning the holes in the dark and getting the bolt back in.
Think I was a bit lucky ! .... don't want to be doing that again in a hurry.
..... maybe that'll teach me to think next time.
