Winter mods check list please.

SteveR said:

I`d get a lift and pop back in a month and see how it was coming along

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hahah it will be on here for sale before then nice modded mille fore sale

A haga too, that`b be a nice little earner for ya. Oh wel I`d have to cut my loses and help myself to something else from the selection, you wouldnt notice :thumbup

CHEAP SIDE STAND MOD :eatcorn

Me bike leans over too far & I can't be arsed to muck around with different stands so decided to extend my existing one :dunno



I can only extend it by 12mm otherwise it won't fit in the fairing cut out :roll but every little helps. Cut the foot off & bashed each piece into a short section of thick wall tube.



All welded up, ground down smooth & painted :biggrin jobs a goodun

Lol not cheap if you have yet to purchase weilding equipment captain fabrication!

True :biggrin

Have you got a pic with the stand done?

nikfubar said:

Top tip :biggrin drink all the bolly before you drain brake fluid into it :jack

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Mr La De Da with Bolly, i use a old jam jar :nana

mak595 said:

Mr La De Da with Bolly, i use a old jam jar :nana

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:lol yeah tried that & the jar kept falling over as the pipe turned when I undid the bleed nipple so had a rake through the recycle bin & this was the heaviest bottle I could find :dunno

mak595 said:

Have you got a pic with the stand done?

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There ya go, before & after :devious

So you wanted yours to be more upright? Mines the opposite. .

It's snowing outside so I thought I'd do the brown connector mod as I'm bored :roll As the other threads said, I started the bike & warmed it up to check the voltage
Tickover 13.6V
4K revs 12.8V

After 5 mins I checked the brown connector & it was warm approx the same temprature as the reg/rec so I pulled each of the connectors from the plug one at a time & soldered them. Now the brown plug stays stone cold :thumbup

Went about doing the white plug slightly different from others, I have a Motobat battery which has 4 terminals so I thought I would use the spare 2. I made a small loom to improve the output from the reg/rec to the battery.



The loom consists of 2 green wires linked together on an eyelet to the battery & the other ends go onto the 2 green wires on the white plug.
The heavy duty red wire goes from the battery to a 30A fuse then to the white plug where I have split the cable into 2 to connect to the red/white wires.

Checked the voltage again & I now get
Tickover 14.4V
4K revs 14.2V

Looking very professional.. that battery looks interesting? Why 4 terminals? Is that the one we should upgrade to?

Yup these are the batteries you want to upgrade to they are 14ah but with the spacer on the bottom removed they are the same size as the standard 12ah plus they have 200 CCA, the 4 terminals is so they fit the same battery to more models of bike, you only need to use 2 terminals.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MotoBatt-...73?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item23221bc609

I have a motobatt too and dint think of that option! doh.
Got mine all on one side which was a bit of a squeeze.

Those batteries look tasty... must not buy one. Need to wait a couple of months ive had a right telling off for my toys lately..

I can vouch for the Motobatt batteries. My SuperMoto was a factory 710cc single and would eat a weak battery in one turn. I got fed up with messing around so I got a Motobatt. It was fitted in May and was laid up from the end of August. Went through the whole of winter without an optimate and fired up in June first turn. The guy I brought the Ape off fitted a new Bosch Batt the day I picked it up but if it ever lets me down I will be fitting a motobatt straight away.