Recent content by WarthogARJ

Might be the bearing in the FD. That can wear and get loose. If it slops around, you can get a noise that's not easy to know where it's coming from. I do most of my own maintenance, but It looked hard to pull that bearing. So i removed the FD and sent it off to an engineering shop to replace...

That's correct: lithium batteries don't deliver a good current when cold. So you need to draw a small current from them so that the internal resistance of the battery warms itself up. You can turn on various accessories. Or even just use the starter to turn the engine over once: that helps...

Yeah is a big research topic now in my place: to replace chromium coatings. Cadmium too. As far as ceramic coatings, you COULD add one that made heat transfer BETTER. But the guys doing this are trying to do the opposite. They are deliberately trying to make thermal BARRIER. For under the hood...

Well that's a different matter: and in THAT case it IS acting to insulate the hot exhaust. But the main claims for cars & trucks are extra power and fuel efficiency. And they all say it REDUCES under hood temperatures, and acts as thermal barrier: exactly what I'm saying. Even Wikipedia...

Look on HP2 Enduro.com. I put one from a GS1200 there. It's almost identical. Except obviously for ABS. Wiring codes same though. Pins on modules same.

Hi Guys and Gals, I've seen a couple of posts about ceramic coating motorbike exhausts on this forum and another one. But you need to think about that before you do it. It won't IMPROVE your fuel economy, nor will it help you dissipate heat either. A ceramic is an INSULATOR, it makes heat...

One of my bike on my trip. I initially put the tool tubes on the side, where you can see them on the photo. But they weren't fastened on so securely and twice I found guys had tried to unscrew them: so I did my locking thing after the trip. I broke one when I fell off a 2m cliff...

Hi, You need to be careful what you do. The weak link on the HP2 is the rear end: it wasn't really designed to take either panniers or a pillion. The rear sub-frame can crack. I was at HPN and spoke to Klaus and he warned me about this: and he knows because HPN had a hand in designing it. I did...

You can re-powdercoat it: I just did a search and see that's how RaceTech, one of the experts in suspension, does it. But you really want the surface clean (bead blasting would be the best way). And then the coating has to be really resilient: your spring flexes quite a bit, and as I said, any...

I'm thinking of getting a new GPS and might go touch screen. I have a Garmin 60CSX that uses buttons. But might get the Montana which is touch screen. Anyone have experience with it? Can you use them easily with gloves? The Zumo 220 says "glove friendly". But I'm not getting that one: I want...

I recommend that before you do it, you give a spring company a call and see what they think. They powder coat their springs. There's quite a few in Joburg area, I'd try https://www.oal.co.za Well, or ideally whoever made the spring in the first place, who was it? Ask to speak to their...

If you check out a mountain bike shop or guy who does his own work, you can find one. Either for sale or maybe to borrow. If you install top-end carbon fibre parts like handlebars you need to be VERY careful to have the right torque on the stem. Too much and you can crack them. I bought a very...

Yeah I saw the blurb about it being "tested by demanding expert riders who fearlessly ride their German machines at high speeds thru the African jungles of South Africa" and immediately thought of BigDom. And felt quite happy to mortgage my house (even tho I don't own one) in order to buy such a...

It's only an issue if you fall over.....:-} And most (if not all?) GS1200 have the same system. But then those boys don't fall over: they are obviously either much better riders than BigDom and Big Warthog, or else their training wheels stabilize them... It's not a bad idea to have the high...

Hah hah hah.... You're fooked now..... Is gonna explode and burst into flames without having done this!!!! OK, well seriously the BMW manual says to torque up the steering adjusting screw to the pre-load: 19 Nm. Then you move the bars back and forth to move the bearings and "seat" them. The...