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NickyT · #1 Post by **NickyT** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:41 am

Hello.

Thought I'd take the liberty of introducing myself. I have a 2005/05 Falco in Olympic Bronze, bought in August last year with 29,000 miles on the clock, to which I have since added 2,000.

It came with the following mods:

- GPR cans
- K & N filter
- Ohlins rear shock
- Braided hoses
- R & G crash bungs
- LSL yoke with Renthal 'bars

Not long after buying it I fitted a Forza chip and fitted the correct top yoke and clip-ons. It's still wearing the Roadsmarts it had on when I got it, which are great on the road.

Last week I started tearing it down for a bit of a restoration, to get it surgically clean and improve it in a few areas. Here's what I've either done, am in the process of doing, or will do before completion (within the next couple of weeks at the latest):

- Replace all front disc bolts with new
- Replace caliper bolts with new
- Replace front spindle nut with new
- Repaint wheels to remove chips/flakes (Volkwagen metallic graphite touch-up paint matches perfectly)
- Polish downpipes to remove all brown tarnishing
- Change oil & filter
- New brake pads & fluid
- New plugs
- Calipers removed and cleaned
- New clutch fluid
- New coolant
- Forks removed for clean out and new oil (Marzocchis - 10wt instead of 7.5, 100mm air gap instead of 110mm)
- New Skidmarx belly pan (just arrived, really chuffed with it)
- New Dunlop Sportsmarts
- Full degreaser/toothbrush/magnifying glass clean and polish, inside & out

The only thing left to do afterwards will be the valve clearances, which I shall get done at some point in the spring before I take it on track. Track days planned so far are Snett 18th March & Cadwell 6th April.

I was also recommended a 1-tooth smaller front sprocket but I quite like the way the front pings up off bumps and hovers a foot off the ground for a while when you're accelerating hard in second; down-gearing it might make it too wheelie-prone.

Wants:

- Some way to eliminate grab handles
- Clear or smoked indicators & rear lenses
- Someone to buy my LSL top yoke/billet risers/Renthal 'bars
- Some sunshine & dry roads

Toodle oo for now.

Aladinsaneuk · #2 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:49 am

Mr hacksaw met my grab handle.... Only the infill part is left

Smoked rear lenses are easy .... They are under the rocking horse shit next to the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow....

NickyT · #3 Post by **NickyT** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:55 am

Will have a look at the handles and consider the hacksaw.

The biggest fun & games so far have been getting good info on the Marzocchi forks. Or finding a manual for them for a start...the handbook that came with my bike has instructions for the Showas that aren't fitted to it!

I've got a PDF manual for them now if anyone wants a copy (Aladinsaneuk, I've already sent it to you via the other forum; my name on there is MrIncredible).

Dalemac · #4 Post by **Dalemac** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:53 am

Welcome!

That's a lot of cleaning up!

Mine could to with that sort of clean....but that would require time, which I have absolutely none of!

Enjoy the bike!

Dale

blinkey501 · #5 Post by **blinkey501** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:49 pm

Welcome to the forum nicky