weeksy wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 9:07 pm
What are you doing regards tyres? You're getting new?
I thought I should. But when we were talking when I dropped off the bike, Demannu reckoned he'd put a high psi in them to test them and if they were ok with that he thinks that, since I'm relearning to ride this summer and not playing silly buggers/pushing anything, that I should relearn on the ones on it and change them at the end of the summer/as I get some confidence back
I guess it will depend on his test and how the feel when it's ridden ???
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
No good talking about tyres until the tank is done!
Nog's won't be allowed on it until I'm happy it's safe.
If I think the tyres need replacing, then I'll tell her, but for gentle pootling around getting some miles under your arse again, we don't need a set of supercorsas.
The Pppppssssssssssssttttttttt when I took the vent cap off was quite impressive.
Made the dog jump!
It's got 12+ volts in it so guessing no harm, no foul!
Why they didn't let it settle for an hour gawd only knows!
The Spin Doctor wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 4:53 pm
With the headlight, as it's a standard round job a trick check the beam pattern. There are various designs but the simplest just have a kick-up on the nearside - so as you have a UK model it would look like \____ with the kick-up in the beam pattern on the left.
If it looks like that, the trick I used decades ago was simply to rotate the lens the other way inside the shell until the kick-up is now flat!
Of course, if you have a more complex pattern, it might not work.
It meant bending various locating tabs if I remember right, but whilst it wasn't perfect but it worked. It was still on the bike when my brother borrowed it and had it nicked several years later. You may be able to get away with doing that and save a bit of dosh till you can source a wrong-hand dip headlight.
IIRC the reason I needed to do this was because I'd bought a Cibie halogen conversion and it turned out to be a Euro pattern dip and as they were almost unobtainable in either form at the time.
Re the battery, I've gone for SHIDO Li-Fe batteries recently. So far, I'm impressed, and they're not too pricy. I've not ridden the Hornet since November of 2019 thanks to the pandemic and the battery is still fine, I've just given it one top-up on the charger since that last ride.
On some bikes you can do that rotation as standard, it maybe that Ducati already did?
(The dip beam lens on the Rockster can be rotated for this reason)
Don't think so, we had an issue with my favourite multimeter overeading by .75v.
Back up meter gave a tickover reading more to my liking.
Battery I was using was from the lawn mower, which to my knowledge is at least 5yo, so past its best, hence the weak cell.
