BLIZZO

this thread tickles my fancy. Over the last few years of hooning both small and large bikes I have had various editions of tool kits. I have come to the conclusion now that I need a separate tool kit of each bike. I also keep a separate "tyre change kit" that can be used on all of them, as levers make tool bags too big.

Tyre change kit is two short 10" levers and a bike pump and goes into a little 1L drybag usually with a single 21" tube, or the bigger of the wheel size for whatever bike i'm riding.

The africa twin has a much bigger tool bag as there is several various fasteners and sizes / weird spark plug socket, this lives on the tool bag on the back of the bike permanently.

For the KTM 500 i have a small enduro tool bag and a large adventure tool bag which is the enduristan one, its pretty lush - https://enduristan.com.au/products/tool-pack-1 for big small bike adventures i empty the enduristan bag out and pack it for the specific bike, i guess its my tool bag for any big trip.

The enduro tool bag is pretty much just the factory KTM tool bag which is ample to take anything off the bike including the wheel, and the wheel spanner doubles as a tyre lever, its a pretty choice kit and being an enduro bike its very simple to pull to bits. I have complimented this with a "doubletrak" multi tool from engduro which is pretty much the coolest tool I own, can other than wheel nuts i can pull everything off the bike with this one small lightweight allow tool, A+ would recommend, it just lives in my tank bag - https://saynotoslow.nz/products/doubletrak-with-bits-included

The most basic of tool kits needs to have everything in there to change either tyre, adjust chain tension and de water a bike. This is what my small tool kit will do and is what I take on small rides.

For larger adventures where a breakdown would suck balls I get more comprehensive with

-throttle cable repair kit (on some bikes i have cable tied a spare throttle cable to the existing one as a backup for big trips.

-small electrical kit, wee baby multimeter, various fuses, eyes and a small amount of wire and tape

-heaps of cable ties

-spark plug

-various spare fasteners

-chain master link

I always carry a leatherman with me as well which comes in pretty handy. Another we handy tip i got which ive done on the KTM is replacing the generic tank breather hose with actual fuel hose, gives you a good length of spare fuel hose if you or someone else should need it.

Well she's been a few years between haircuts with this old jigger. Finally decided a few months ago to get stuck into it so rolled the bike out of storage and up on to my motorcycle hoist. I figured the easiest thing to do would be break the restoration down into stages for a few reasons, first being getting the costs past the minister of war and finance but also to not burden myself with too much at once. I figured if i can work on "stage 1" which is get the bike back to a restored rolling frame wont take too much money and wont wind up with the thing in a million bits for ages and losing bits and pieces. 

I started stripping the bike down and making a list of things to order which quickly started adding up. Had a shopping spree on Siebenrock and got new fork stanchions, brake rotor, brake pads, spokes, headings, rubber driveshaft boot, fork seals and a few other bits and bobs, pretty much everything to get it back to a rolling frame. I'm currently tidying up the rims and have a big ole box of bits to drop to the vapor blasters.

Im pretty glad to be sorting this thing now as the frame is certainly pretty crusty, its all surface rust but wouldn't take much more to turn to a pitted mess. I'm still pretty sure that I wont powder coat the frame and will do a bit of research to see if i can find an outfit that does baked enamel, if not just a normal enamel out of a gun will probably be the go.

Engine out and on the bench, spot the missing bits here, i havn't removed anything other than the front cover. Bike ran fine but certainly wasn't going to have any working lights!

Wee bonus I found when pulling it apart, a cool old metal tyre pump inside the frame tube. Does anyone know if this is a genuine BMW pump or just some old bump someone has poked in there back in the day?

next task is to keep stripping the frame down, make any repairs needed, then blast and paint.

Engine will sit on the bench until the frame is back together then that will get pulled apart, blasted, some minor engine work and go back together. thanks stage 2 i guess.

Stage 3 will be the spendy part, paint, decals, seat recover, instrument repair, new rear shock, find a new ignition switch (didn't have one as it was stolen and recovered) and probably put a wedgetail electronic ignition kit in it. At least i have started now!

Just noticed you mentioned it does use danseys pass, just didn’t look like it on the map 

Also day 4, should def change the start of that from ranfurly to Kurow. Pansy’s pass from naesby to Kurow would be better than the current route. F people wanted to be hectic (would be a fun challenge) could always try some Over Mt buster / awakino saddle. It’s hard enough on a dirt bike and support vehicles can come but would be a notable achievement that’s for sure.

fizzing for this now!

If anyone needs a ride up from southern north island hit me up, imm be heading up thursday arvo / after work maybe. Have space on ute for another bike.

Rogeeee

On 26/01/2022 at 15:38, GregT said:

I won't use powder on my frames. BUT I do have a very good outfit in ChCh who can do traditional baked enamel to a high standard.

Ring around the painters and industrial finishers in your area to see if anyone offers baked enamel.

Hey mate, so ive not had much luck up here finding anyone that does baked enamel, what is the name of the outfit you use in chch? 

What’s the meetup point / time this morning? Te araroa? 

Yea I’ll enter tonight, was on the fence due to some family sickness. 
 

now I face a bike dilemma, today was the first chance I’ve had to do some prep, and the inlet to carb manifold on the trombone is crumbled, so it’s out, unless anyone has one handy they can bring to the start. 
 

my CT is fucked and in bits. Only running things in the shed are kids bikes and my drz400, so I might have to be a punishing medium bike barry if I’m still to come Soz 

if anyone else would like to offload some accomodations, i too would be interested, or ill steal some floor space somewhere

yea to be fair i havnt done the coastal rode for a few years so i could be keen for something different. will save the trombone falling to bits on corrugations anyway, it always seems to fall to bits when i use it on rough gravel

Yea ive done all over 5 years so why the fuck not. Not sure what bike to bring along, my back tells me i should bring the CT185 again, but I have taken a different bike every eastcape,

2017 - CT110

2018 - ST90

2019 - GP125

2020 - CT185

2021 - XR250

2022 - ???????

The trombone was the first bike I built, and its never done an eastcape, so parts of me say I should take it. Its currently still also broken from garlic masters. Maybe its time for an ass punishing on that

Also who here has Cardo's? keen as for some quality shit yarns during the ride this year

5 hours ago, anglia4 said:

What’s the black paint of choice for air cooled engines?

Something like brake caliper paint?

This is for a JR50. @BLIZZO what do you use?

ive had great results with VHT engine enamel.

I wouldn't call a 390 a big heavy bike, its about as small as "adventure" bikes go but it does make me lol with the popularity of adv riding these days the amount of people starting off on bikes not really suited for newby's to the world of motorcycling.

Back in amazing days of the 70s/80s/90s a 250cc was a typical sized adv bike for getting offroad as well as touring, that seems to have at least doubled now. I'm all about big bikes, but i didn't learn to ride on them. I was watching a video on the NZAR page about some dudes on a new T7 with all the trendy gear and another on a DR650 riding oldlins rd and making it sound super knarly with "rock walls" and shit. I've been in there plenty during mancamp and its a piece of piss, people in stock rav4s doing it and shit, old boys on R80 bmws. We have had guys that have never ridden a bike before ride it on CTX200s etc.

There seems to be so much keeping up with the jones' in the bike world now where you need to have the flashest bike, these 390s are case and point. She should be riding a $2500 Yamaha XT250 super sherper, would learn so much more skills and not be almost dead because of one single rock that she locked on to.

Keens 

1 hour ago, RUNAMUCK said:

How close do those two tracks take us to lake Rotoroa?

I stopped by there once for a look. It's an incredibly beautiful spot. 

However the sand flies there ride vee-rods........

Porika track takes you to a cool lookout point over the entire lake then winds down to the lakefront. Braeburn track is less of a track and actually just a gravel road. If short of time we may just turn around at the lake. 

5 minutes ago, RUNAMUCK said:

Porika and braeburn?

Ah dumb yea that’s a highlight of the ride, ferry team might need to leave Nelson at sparrows fart 

We are on the 7pm ferry on Sunday so checkin will likely be 6, so will be trying to get back a bit earlier. Might split off with you chris. What part of the ride are we missing if we do that?

12 hours ago, anglia4 said:

2009 - 2012

Ha, I was 2010-2013

looking at that UC student card in the guard post we must have been at UC at the same time!

3 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said:

You'd be having to wake up pretty early on Sunday morning to be at the meet up spot by the time we leave!

I’m used to being in the road at 5:30-6 on rides. I could sleep in takaka and still get back to you catching zyz in ya maggot sack Bartholomew

Might just turn up on @yoeddynz’s lawn 

1 hour ago, Chris.QCR said:

Just stay at home bro.

It should be 80 bucks because the guys organising and supporting this earn it and we get looked after while out on the road

I think he means $40 for the tent site at top ten jim 

soz, posted this before I saw other replies