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Cubber · Super Guru

RE: Pete's '94 Raid

matteo · Veteran Member

Take it easy Mate sorry to hear about your eye!

Matt

cap83 · Veteran Member

Hi pedro

It's Chris by the way sorry mate and hope your ok that looks nasty at least it didn't hit you in the eye

Hope it heals quickly

Ok yea please let me know what your forks are like as mine are really bad. I fitted my braided lines last nite and for some reason it's being hard to bleed the front one n just bout got some pressure in the master cylinder and just bout stop so need to find out what the problem is.

Anyway take care of that eye and look forward to the next lot of updates

Chris

pedrosan · Senior Member

Cubber wrote:
Keep up the entertainment, it's more rivetting than the telly.
Martyn

Just for you Martyn:

Coming along nicely...

Cubber · Super Guru

Ouch - it's lost the full technicolor hues and gone Chinese. biggrin

I had one after some lane clearing we did in Devon in January. hmm

There's no trace of it now so in a couple of months yours will not be seen, maybe! confuse

Martyn

pedrosan · Senior Member

Matt and Chris, thanks for your concern, its never actually hurt since the half hour after I did it, I'm just having to put up with looking like a thug

Chris, are you talking about your front brake or your front forks? I've not got a problem with my brakes but the forks are an unknown quantity for me as I don't know what they should be like! Thats why I'm thinking of seeing what my mates WR250R forks are like.

Pete

This is a pic from when I crammed my Tomtom in to the instrument area for when I GPS'd my speed recently

Out of interest, the displayed digital kph were
35 at 20mph
55 at 30mph
75 at 40mph
95 at 50mph
115 at 60mph
135 at 70mph
Which is on another post but in case anyone who may be interested misses it.

Pete

pedrosan · Senior Member

Cubber wrote:
Ouch - it's lost the full technicolor hues and gone Chinese.
I had one after some lane clearing we did in Devon in January.
There's no trace of it now so in a couple of months yours will not be seen, maybe!
Martyn

That's hilarious! this thread is now a bruised eye comparrison competition biggrin smile wink

You've made me feel a bit better anyway aww

Pete

TTRfan · Super Guru

matteo wrote:
Ok Brian or Pete, if you would be kind enough to give me measurements of the brackets and locations I will be eternally grateful - of course if I can do anything for either of you dont hesitate to ask.

Matt

Just remembered your request Matt! What measurements would you find most helpful?

Brian

matteo · Veteran Member

if you could plnpoint the location of the upper chainguard brackets and if its not too much trouble the dimensions of those brackets, Ill fabricate some and fit them - I just want to get it right its a chainsaw if the guard is in the wrong place!

Thanks so mcuh Brian - I hope you are 100% after your flu?

Regards,

Matt

TTRfan · Super Guru

matteo wrote:
if you could plnpoint the location of the upper chainguard brackets and if its not too much trouble the dimensions of those brackets, Ill fabricate some and fit them - I just want to get it right its a chainsaw if the guard is in the wrong place!

Thanks so mcuh Brian - I hope you are 100% after your flu?

Regards,

Matt

I hope the pic is reasonably clear Matt. The rear tab is 12.3cm from the rear end of thes wing arm.

The tabs are about 20mm wide and 4mm thick.

It is important to note that the tabs are different heights. The centre of the 6mm screw hole on the rear tab is 27mm from the swing arm and 22mm for the front one.

Let me know what other dimensions might help.

The flu is hanging on. I went to the docs yesterday and am a bit worried that she thought I might have developed asthma! Waiting to get that checked out

Brian

Swing arm 005.jpg

Swing arm 003.jpg

pedrosan · Senior Member

Now then.

I have been silly-busy at work and home recently so have not had the Raid out at all, but just noticed it needs its MOT doing so I've booked it in for Friday. Before it goes in I am doing an oil and filter change, happily I have recieved the owners and workshop manual from Matt G (thanks so much for that, all the links I could find on the net were dud) which will make it a lot easier and ensure it is done as Mr Yamaha intended.

Astonishingly, having owned three Yamaha bikes previously, I have never done an oil or filter change. This just goes to show how reliable and bomb proof Yamahas are, and I suppose how I have grown up hmm .

I did the sprag clutch on the Raid with my mate and during the course of that we did drain the oil off, but he lives about 50 minutes ride from me so we let the bike cool off for quite a while before starting the job as the consensus seems to be a warm oil change, not a hot or cold one. This time I'll fire her up from cold and take a punt on when I think I'm up to temperature (and cross my fingers confuse ).

I'm hoping the bike sails through the MOT. Thanks to the TTR guru Brian (GET WELL SOON + HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER) at Totally TTRS I've also got a headlight bulb to fit and at some point an on/off switch to prevent it going again (I do quite a bit of daytime riding). I also got my oil filter from him and an iridium spark plug which is ready to go in.

Time and money, as always, are the limiting factors.

Pete

matteo · Veteran Member

cheers Brian, I hope you get well soon, make sure its not pnumonia!

feel better and thanks so much - you are the best!

Matt

pedrosan · Senior Member

Fail. Number plate not good enough, need to fit pillion footpegs and split link wrong way round. Split link my fault, amateur error that must have been when I was cursing it after refritting the chain for the fourth time whilst putting the swing arm back on. Think I've got the footpegs from the guy I got the bike from, and have ordered a number plate. Could have been worse!

matteo · Veteran Member

ahhh yes the old MOT the hitler youth of motor vehicles and rules.....

matteo · Veteran Member

I dont miss that al all!

pedrosan · Senior Member

He was a bit power-crazed

pedrosan · Senior Member

Catching up, my bike passed its MOT at the second time of asking biggrin

First off I tackled the number plate, clamping the old one to get the correct template before drilling the new one and bolting it on

I even salvaged the reflective oojah from the old one smile

then it was the split link to do, easy enough

At which point I thought I'd tackle the footpegs. The previous owner had helpfully given me them with the bike

But less helpfully not given me the bolts cry .

I went down to an industrial bolts and fasteners place I used to go to as part of my last job, and they gave me some for free!

happily, they were a perfect fit for length and even matced the colour

A view from the back, the bike looks wierd with them on now

The thread about racks is interesting, especially the idea about bracing the rear part of the subframe with struts from the pillion footpeg mounting points, I could see that working really well.

I also put the bung I got from Keith (tossworm) in and this is the old one that the local bike shop made up for me last time

It had melted a bit on the inside but came out OK. The new one tapped in fine but I have no confidence in it at all ashamed

Totally off topic, but we had a competition at work recently to make the most impressive piece of food, and I constructed a burger. It comprises of two butchers quarter pounders, with 4 slices of English back bacon, two fried free range eggs and lettuce. It is in a locally made roll contstructed by taking a slice out of the middle of a second roll and putting it in the middle of the first to make a tower. The burger rests on 9 butchers sausages and is surrounded by a fence of chips and a moat of beans. I won.

Cubber · Super Guru

Cor, a mechanical chef! biggrin

Wait till Brian sees that culinary challenge.

NU - Derbyshire registration, brought tears to my eyes , Matlock, Edale, Hathersage, Bamford, Chapel en le Frith, Derwent Reservoir - '66 nostalgia aww

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

pedrosan wrote:
Catching up, my bike passed its MOT at the second time of asking
Totally off topic, but we had a competition at work recently to make the most impressive piece of food, and I constructed a burger. It comprises of two butchers quarter pounders, with 4 slices of English back bacon, two fried free range eggs and lettuce. It is in a locally made roll contstructed by taking a slice out of the middle of a second roll and putting it in the middle of the first to make a tower. The burger rests on 9 butchers sausages and is surrounded by a fence of chips and a moat of beans. I won.

Well done on the MOT Pete but, more to the point, many congratulations on the "burger" win. Top marks from me on that glorious looking feast. I would have to wait for Mrs TTR to be away for a day or two to get the hang of that recipe wink

matteo · Veteran Member

did you eat it in one shot? those sausages look delicious.... one thing Americans dont do well......sausages... I miss them SOOoooooo much!

cheers

Matt

rattlyolddt · Senior Member

Since when were rear pegs needed? Neither of my bikes have them!

djkitchen · Member

Same here, I took the TTR for MOT last week and had removed the Pillion pegs the day before, didnt even get mentioned!

rattlyolddt · Senior Member

iin fact, if you have neither indicators or a chain guard, you cant have rear pegs.

TTRfan · Super Guru

There seems to be a degree of "interpretation" of MOT rules and regs.

I have found that it is best to stick to the same MOT station (preferably one that understands about dirt bikes!) and build up a relationship with the MOT tester. Not to get away with anything but just to avoid sillinesses like a failure because you forgot to put the spilt pin back on the rear wheel nut disbelief

I never seem to get my headlight aim right and my guy just fiddles about with it until its within parameters and, on something like the split pin, he would just fit one for me with no questions asked.

On the TTR it is almost impossible to remove all vertical play in the swing arm and a sensible MOT tester is essential here.

I quite enjoy my MOTs as they are done whilst I wait and I have a good chat with the tester in the process and sometimes even get tea and a bun wink

Brian

matteo · Veteran Member

Im sitting at the station waiting for a train laughing.....ahhhhh the ubiquitous tea and bun...... just had a cup of Yorkshire red myself from the 2000 tea bags I brought back with me last time I was home....

small comforts huh....
Matt

pedrosan · Senior Member

AAll.I.can say is that he wouldn't let it go without the rear footpegs, he did seem a bit anal but then most testers do in my experience

djkitchen · Member

Same here Brian, My car and Bikes go to the same one every time, and they are sympathetic to things like that, and I always get offered a cup of tea, although I often have to make it myself!