Was going to go out for a ride, get to my bike and find that the extremely slow and only on prime petcock leak has gone to full blown beast mode. Emptied out the tank and will be calling around today to see if I can find new o-rings in hopes that that stops it. I've had a hard time figuring out exactly where the leak was coming from - I thought it was out the back of the petcock but looking at it yesterday it seems like its coming from the screw holes... so hopefully two new gaskets there and the problem is solved. But who knows. That'll be first step and see what happens from there.
Seeing as I couldn't ride anyway I decided to finally swap out all my screws for allen bolts. Its a small detail but I'm pretty pumped on it. All my screws were in various states of strippedness so now all the covers can be easily removed with a 5mm hex key instead of me needing to get to something and having to worry that I may totally strip a screw that is already on its last legs.
Also, more boring small stuff in the last week - I swapped out my grips and removed my passenger pegs.
All the pegs on the bike are pretty beat up and ratty looking. I'll want to replace them eventually but for now I just removed the ones not in use. I think it looks a bit better but learned that the peg is what keeps your helmet from resting on the pipes when using the lock, so I'll either need to relocate the lock or put the pegs back on. Damn.
The grips that were put on by the previous owner were either too long or he just didn't take the time to move the controls down the handle bars. The last inch of them was hanging off the bars and were kinda cut up and destroyed because of it. When I picked up my chain from my mechanics they had some grips for $20 so I grabbed them. Old on the left, new on the right.
My sprockets should be arriving today so I can get the chain installed soonish. My mechanics said I could go out on Sunday and put on the new sprockets and chain out there with them giving me guidance and a hand as needed but I can't get out there without a tank, so we'll have to hope for the best on the leak.
Seeing as I couldn't ride anyway I decided to finally swap out all my screws for allen bolts. Its a small detail but I'm pretty pumped on it. All my screws were in various states of strippedness so now all the covers can be easily removed with a 5mm hex key instead of me needing to get to something and having to worry that I may totally strip a screw that is already on its last legs.
Also, more boring small stuff in the last week - I swapped out my grips and removed my passenger pegs.
All the pegs on the bike are pretty beat up and ratty looking. I'll want to replace them eventually but for now I just removed the ones not in use. I think it looks a bit better but learned that the peg is what keeps your helmet from resting on the pipes when using the lock, so I'll either need to relocate the lock or put the pegs back on. Damn.
The grips that were put on by the previous owner were either too long or he just didn't take the time to move the controls down the handle bars. The last inch of them was hanging off the bars and were kinda cut up and destroyed because of it. When I picked up my chain from my mechanics they had some grips for $20 so I grabbed them. Old on the left, new on the right.
My sprockets should be arriving today so I can get the chain installed soonish. My mechanics said I could go out on Sunday and put on the new sprockets and chain out there with them giving me guidance and a hand as needed but I can't get out there without a tank, so we'll have to hope for the best on the leak.
Attachments
Last edited: