Km 100000

Engine oil replacement

99999 km !

Stator fault

Km. 99700, burned wires on stator. Reading was 1,5ohms, 4 ohms, and 4.5 ohms. Soldered the burned wire (2 of them) and returned to normal meter reading, 0.5ohms. Vac output is a good 47v at 4000 rpm

Kinglake - Whittlesea - Yea

This is how it's done










Vrooommm!

Ride with my dad

From Bonbeach to the Mornington Peninsula via Arthur's Seat - Redhill. Beautiful weather.

Battery charger

Using Linksys adapter. Works fine 8 hrs.

Update: Dick smity battery charger regulator $15. Perfect, can be left connected all the time.

Km. 9650

Replaced Fan switch - $63 Brighton Kawasaki

Replaced radiator fluid - $16 Caltex radiator fluid

Replaced Radiator cap - $9 BP Servo

MotoGP 2006

Rode with Richard (swabio) via Cranbourne - Cardinia - Bayles - Poowong - Korrumbura - Kongwak - Daylston - San Remo PI. 2.5hrs, Very thick fog.

Battery & Gloves

Battery - Battery World $99. Km 95,350

Gloves - Brighton Kawasaki/Tarmac Glove $70 10%disc.

Telomoyo

Selo Pass volcanic ride !

Mount Telomoyo was active so we went for a look and rode through Cepogo - Selo - New Selo - Blabak. Continued to the southern coast of Java: Parang Tritis - Baron - Krakal - Kukup. Went home via Wonosari.

Australia's TwoWheels Magazine pics!

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Update 29/10/2010
This mountain just exploded again and has taken many casualities including a prominent resident (mbah Maridjan).

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24732
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03Qd1Bcavd4M1?q=volcano

Km. 95000

Oil change

Broadford Track Day

Telomoyo

Km. 91150

2x front brake pads from brigton kawasaki, $195, 91150km.

Previous pads was racing ones apparenlty (2 pads on each 'plate'), looks 'metal' and was very noisy. The new ones are very quiet and stops as quick.

DIY Heated Handgrips: part two

I ran the wire through the grip, isolate using a piece of bicycle tyre rubber, and then wound it back inside. Once completed I taped the whole thing.




At first attempt I used only insulation tape, which did not hold and produce some amount of smoke !!










Wound the wire to the inside. Took some trials to get the correct gaps. Pull it enough so it grips nicely. Remember that hot wire will increase in length.






Tape the whole grip to prevent water and moisture. I replaced the insulation tapes in the picture here with gaffa tape (cloth tape) at the end because it is more water resistant.






Do the same for the throttle grip, allowing cable slack. I also tied the cable to secure the connections.

DIY Heated Handgrips: part one

Seems like winter came early this year in Melbourne so I decided to do something about my numb fingers. Off to the shop, ebay, and such and could not find anything good and cheap enough. Oxford handgrip looks to be the most common but it's $149 and looks like farken harley grips... big and chromy.

So a quick search on Google "DIY heated handgrips" found nice instruction to make a cheap one.

Bill of material (all from Dick Smith Electronics):


4 metre packet of “Cuprothal” resistance wire
Part number. W 3200 about $2 (Note: the other option is“Nichrome” wire which is a bitch to solder)

Three-way switch (off-on-off), about $3from Dick Smith, also with the waterproof hood, $3.

Buy also a fuse holder.

Other stuff I already have are bicycle inner tube rubber (for insulation), soldering iron, solder, wire, insulation tape, etc……

The design I found on the internet is quite genius. It doesn't utilise a nasty hot resistor but simply connect the heater in parallel (for high temp) and serial (for low).

The desired heat is 18watts per grip which is the commercial norm, this translates to 8ohm worth of Cuphrotal wire -- approximately 1.2 meter in length per grip.

Update: I ended up not using this serial-parallel setup as the heat difference is too much. Simpler to use serial connection with 5W 1.3 ohms resistor.

Frame slider

Bought frame slider from the us, $37. Delrin ones.

Brake bleeder

Bought brake bleeder from eBay, $16 shipped from Germany.

DIY heated grips

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Km. 90,000

- Oil change 90,000km Valvoline Premium XLD
- Fitted HEL braided lines (2 front, $70 from ebay)
- Bled and replaced brake Fluid (Castrol DOT4)

Great Ocean Road with Dave

Dave arrived from UK. I Led 5 bikes (steve, michael -gold coast, Dave-UK, me, steve) through Sorrento - queenscliff - Lorne - Anglesea. Back through Geelong. Rainy and wet but beautiful rainbows all over the place!

Braided line

HEL steel braided lines, Ebay, $70 + $8 shipping.

Melbourne to Halls Gap

Anzac Day ride to Sth. Gippsland

Led 13 bikes to Sth. Gippsland (Cranbourne - Poowong -Korrumbura - Warragul - Trafalgar).

Km. 88868

Ban belakang kawasaki ninja. Pirelli diablo strada, $280, km 88868. Performance motorcycle & watercraft moorabbin (Michael).

Old tyre Dunlop Sportsmax GPR100 lasted 10192Km. Very good tyre for $225!

Replaced rear brake pads, $44

Andrew loves bikes !