What did you do to your bike today?

[TwiztedRabbit]

Build thread is up on pics and vids currently 

[Qman]

Got out for a nice ride today (Christmas eve)...about 85 miles.  Temps 34-36.  Light traffic and mostly clear roads.  Anyone else??

[B-Mac]

Unwrapped Christmas Presents for the garage steeds.

[JustinNck1]

Got some new shop tools today. Also some other tools to build a on the bike tool kit.

[Helmutt]

Finally got the rest of my race prep goodies last week, now it's a waiting game on decent temps outside so I can get to finishing my KTM in time for OMRL season. 

[Connie14]

 Upgrade the trail bike, so I can ride some dual sports this year.

[B-Mac]

Played in the Snow

Bigfoot Sighting!

[cptchaos]

13 degrees this afternoon, snow and ice on the driveway and the street. Nothing to do except clean and lube the chain! Ok I started it up and idled for a bit too, then drove it the 10 feet back into the corner of the garage. Sigh, just a few more weeks right?

[JR_ider]

Put the battery tender on it and pushed it out of the way so we can get my pickup and the wife’s suv both in the garage. Well this was Thursday night prior to the winter storm.

[Rodehard]

If by "today" we include over the past couple months: Valve clearance check, new plugs, clean all the crap you can't see and/or reach with the airbox installed, replaced dented radiator and complete the goofy air burp procedure, replaced a few little items that got scratched in the low side, sat on the bike and made vroom vroom noises.

PS - I am surprised to be able to report that KTM replacement parts are actually reasonable priced, comparable to Japanese brands.  Even KTM accessories, made by other companies (think soft luggage), are actually lower priced than the same item without KTM branding.  The BMW, on the other hand, parts were priced as if forged from pure gold.

[B-Mac]

Today the Wife suggested that the Driveway needed to be cleared of snow. I went outside to the garage and got sidetracked. The driveway can wait, It's getting warmer anyway.

P.S. I finally found a usage for the nanny Traction Control option, Playing in the snow.

Also my Epic Ride Hoodie with no writing on the front.

 

Edited January 19, 2018 by B-Mac

[TimTheAzn]

12 minutes ago, B-Mac said:

Today the Wife suggested that the Driveway needed to be cleared of snow. I went outside to the garage and got sidetracked. The driveway can wait, It's getting warmer anyway.

P.S. I finally found a usage for the nanny Traction Control option, Playing in the snow.

Also my Epic Ride Hoodie with no writing on the front.

 

That looks like a lot of fun!

[durk]

Nice work B-Mac

[jacobhawkins]

Got heat in the shop today.  That's more for me than the bikes, but it will make me able to do stuff with them again soon!  

[CBBaron]

Tore apart the rear suspension.

Replaced the spring with one better suited to my weight , cleaned and regreased all of the bearings and reassembled. 

No leftover nuts or bolts. I think I did OK

 

[flashesbuck]

Rode to work... Made the bike dirty.

[2talltim]

1 hour ago, flashesbuck said:

Rode to work... Made the bike dirty.

Get that chain cleaned or you will be replacing it. That salt will destroy them. 

[jacobhawkins]

Finally getting to the plug wires on Izzy.  Thanks @Pauly!  

[B-Mac]

Moved the motorcycles over to the other side of the garage so I can replace the timing belt and assorted components for the second time on my Honda Ridgeline.

[jacobhawkins]

How many miles on that beast?

[Rodehard]

Put some front axle sliders on the Duke - judging by the road rash on the axle nut, the PO could have used these when he laid her down.

Got some heated grips, but I only got so far as to take them out of the box and rub them gently.

[B-Mac]

15 hours ago, jacobhawkins said:

How many miles on that beast?

2006:   220K care free miles.

[jacobhawkins]

Rode the damn thing!  New wires were making all the right connections. 

[JustinNck1]

Got another tank ring so I can switch my tank bag from the FJR to the MT back and fourth. 

[motocat12]

frustratingly (as usual) soldered the new clutch switch to my old pig tail.  finagled all the cleaned switches back into the left switchblock/ then saw that the connector looked burned on one side almost from out-side in but no matching burned wiring. popped a full charged battery in and it started enthusiastically. Rode'er with snowboard pants over my kevlar pants. That worked very well.