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It's been a fun day today :-)
it's minus 8(c) outside, (Thats 17 degrees in fahrenheit) and black ice/snow everywhere so have been in the garage all day with a couple of heaters on.. and the bike up in the air on my new hydraulic lift :-)
Today, as well as routine maintenance, I've fitted - Oxford heated grips, a Scottoiler e-system and a tomtom rider :-)
The Scottoiler - I know some of you are riding with no chain lube, but here with the constant wet weather & road salt & crap, I believe the scottoilers make a huge difference to chain/sprocket life. We'll see how it works out! It was dead easy to fit, and being the electronic one there was no need to tap into the vacuum..
The heated grips.. oh yeah, I'm so looking forward to these, it hasn't made it above 0 for quite some time now :-) Last trip I did was a couple of weeks back, and was -2c (28f) and my hands were painful - really hoping these will make a good difference. Again, they were pretty easy to fit. However -- they do conflict with the BMW hand protectors I put on recently, so those have had to be removed - I may see what I can achieve with some dremel work on those and maybe attempt to re-fit.
Tomtom rider, looks ok so far, I plan to do some trips down through France / Spain and around, so this is gonna be v handy. Its designed to be easy with gloves on, talks nicely to the iPhone too, and feeds the calls up via bluetooth to the helmet..
It was the first time I took the tank etc off, and all went just fine - I'm very very pleased with the lift, made it all very straightforward.
Tomorrow's job: detail clean, and then a comprehensive go over with the ACF50!
Happy days :-)
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Good for you Ben... what a nice way to spend a day! Regarding ACF50, is that all about preventing corrosion? It's a product name I don't recognize over here.
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Anti-corrosion, that's what I thought!
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It's been a fun day today :-)
it's minus 8(c) outside, (Thats 17 degrees in fahrenheit) and black ice/snow everywhere so have been in the garage all day with a couple of heaters on.. and the bike up in the air on my new hydraulic lift :-)
Today, as well as routine maintenance, I've fitted - Oxford heated grips, a Scottoiler e-system and a tomtom rider :-)
The Scottoiler - I know some of you are riding with no chain lube, but here with the constant wet weather & road salt & crap, I believe the scottoilers make a huge difference to chain/sprocket life. We'll see how it works out! It was dead easy to fit, and being the electronic one there was no need to tap into the vacuum..
The heated grips.. oh yeah, I'm so looking forward to these, it hasn't made it above 0 for quite some time now :-) Last trip I did was a couple of weeks back, and was -2c (28f) and my hands were painful - really hoping these will make a good difference. Again, they were pretty easy to fit. However -- they do conflict with the BMW hand protectors I put on recently, so those have had to be removed - I may see what I can achieve with some dremel work on those and maybe attempt to re-fit.
Tomtom rider, looks ok so far, I plan to do some trips down through France / Spain and around, so this is gonna be v handy. Its designed to be easy with gloves on, talks nicely to the iPhone too, and feeds the calls up via bluetooth to the helmet..
It was the first time I took the tank etc off, and all went just fine - I'm very very pleased with the lift, made it all very straightforward.
Tomorrow's job: detail clean, and then a comprehensive go over with the ACF50!
Happy days :-)
hey Bascule have you tried a set of hand guards from a 1050 tiger when i look at the set on my tiger it looks like they will bolt right up to my 2002 TBA???
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'I love the smell of Napalm in the morning'
Mine's also plastered in Acf-though I prefer the aroma of wd40(do you folks get this stuff in the States?)
Bloody cold and slippy today at the Vintage Motorcycle Club run to Eynsford-'Only the brave-or plain stupid'
Al
I took the Road Less Travelled.
Now where the ****** am I?
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'I love the smell of Napalm in the morning'
Uh huh, Al...and I'll bet it smells like [a] Victory [V-Twin that won't start 'cause it's flooded], huh?! 
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Mine's also plastered in Acf-though I prefer the aroma of wd40(do you folks get this stuff in the States?)
Ummm, well Al, seein' as how WD40 was invented by a guy in San Diego California...yep, we get to smell the sweet aroma of WD40 over here, too!
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Bloody cold and slippy today at the Vintage Motorcycle Club run to Eynsford-'Only the brave-or plain stupid'
Al
And well, you know what Kipling said about "Mad dogs and Englishmen, don't ya Al?!
Of course, I believe his reference was more geared toward the excessive heat of those mid-day Bengali summers, when you guys still had that there "Raj" thing a goin' on over there!
(...sorry Al, I appear to be just a little bored tonight...might be some kind'a post-Christmas letdown or somethin') 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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