NBT: Ive just bought my forever bike part 3!

[Skub]

Winter?

It's fackin August,ya blurt.

[Taipan]

Winter?

It's fackin August,ya blurt.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

[Taipan]

I guess the bigger picture with winter prep is that I see that far ahead with a bike!

[Dodgy69]

Don't have winters anymore, ace innit.

[Yorick]

Don't have winters anymore, ace innit.

Yup

[Taipan]

Job jobbed.

[Taipan]

Rode the bike today. The new screen pushes the wind to just above my visor, so there is still some turbulence/buffeting but at least its not coming up under the chin bar now. Might be better when the colder weather comes and i revert to a non peaked m/x style lid too? I also have the option to drop the seat to the lower setting which might improve things even more? Not sure i'll bother though as seat to pedal height is more of an issue than a bit of buffeting.

[Taipan]

Took the long way home tonight. Hit some empty back roads and wrung its neck through the lower gears. Its an 1100 twin so i dont know why i'm surprised, but fook me it tramps on. I bottled it as I hit the bends, as its a long time since i chucked a bike about, and it immediately hit me how i dont like the feel of a big front wheel when leaning over. Cracking ride hoem though!

[gremlin]

i dont like the feel of a big front wheel when leaning over.

I'm looking through my book of Polari slang and I can't find that euphemism in there...

[Taipan]

More winter prep with the hand guard deflectors fitted and I’ve fired off an email to the bike cleaners to get in booked in for a clean and ACF50 treatment.

[Taipan]

My tubed tyres lose pressure and it's annoying me! The rear tube is new but the front isn't . I've put soapy water all over everywhere especially the valve but I cant see air escaping anywhere. Not had much experience of tubed tyres, except on my 1000 AT but I don't recall those ones losing air? Dunno whether I can be bothered to take the wheels off and check each tube though.

Its not normal right?

[Supermofo]

Not had tubed tyres in a very long time, but don't recall them losing pressure in anyway different to a non tubed tyre ie a few psi here and there over a month or 2. If anything I'd have thought they'd lose less pressure as surely the valve is the only source of a possible leak? On my car the alloys have some corrosion and that causes the front left to lose pressure over a few weeks, something like that shouldn't be possible on tubed tyre.

[Taipan]

I'll fit new valve cores just in case, but I cant see them bubbling as they are? Maybe I should bung some slime in?

[ajlog]

The tubed tyres on my Triumph also drop in pressure, especially the front, anything between 5 to 10 psi in a couple of weeks.

As I only use it for sunny Sunday type rides checking both and topping up the front is part of the routine of most rides.

Just like you I cannot find an obvious leak, and the internet wisdom tells me it's a common issue, probably related to budget inner tubes, folks have found a remedy by fitting heavy duty tubes. So that's on the list for me at the next tyre swap.

[Taff]

I had a tube get so thin that it started leaking from a few tiny pin prick holes, it was the normal movement between the tyre and tube chaffing against each other, but that was on a dirt bike running something like 18psi.

[Taipan]

The tubed tyres on my Triumph also drop in pressure, especially the front, anything between 5 to 10 psi in a couple of weeks.

As I only use it for sunny Sunday type rides checking both and topping up the front is part of the routine of most rides.

Just like you I cannot find an obvious leak, and the internet wisdom tells me it's a common issue, probably related to budget inner tubes, folks have found a remedy by fitting heavy duty tubes. So that's on the list for me at the next tyre swap.

Yes I've just been reading up on it and its not uncmmon. I did put a Michelin rear tube in, but as you say there are heavy duty tubes so I'll go for them as well. That said i'm a while off of new tyres yet, so may try the slime thing, which some use with good effect, in the mean time.

[Supermofo]

When I did have tubes I always used heavy duty ones as seemed a good idea whilst I was replacing them to go with decent ones.

[Eclipse]

I have been using Slime sealent in MTB , mobility scooter and motorbike tyres and dont remember the last time one lost pressure or got a puncture.

[Taipan]

I've ordered a bottle of slime and will put that in. I was concerned I'd be riding with a puncture and risk a rapid deflation, but from what I can gather many people put slime in to stop gradual pressure loss. Everyday is a school day!

[David]

If its losing pressure with no obvious sourve ( valve or puncture) then it will be the rim/bead seal.