What did you do with your bike today?

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Johnnystriple

Discussion Starter · Jul 29, 2013

Me and my lady went for a nice ride on the Street Glide to a nice restaurant in Evansville, Ind. It has been a beautiful day.

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MONI

· #461 · Nov 22, 2013

So glad to hear your surgery went well. I assume the other eye doesn't have one???

A close friend of ours had cataract surgery on 1 of his eyes this summer and is to have one removed from his other eye after 6 months...in the mean time he had to pop the lens out of the "good eye" side of his glasses & is wearing them with only 1 lens.

Klrlindy63

· #462 · Nov 22, 2013

Only one eye, because of the style glasses I have I cannot do that. It's only for a couple of weeks, I am managing.

Eye_m_no_angel

· #463 · Nov 22, 2013

I'm glad thing went well for you too! That would give me a headache just thinking about it.

Klrlindy63

· #464 · Nov 22, 2013

Being a desk jockey, reading and working on the computer has been giving me headaches from time to time.

LWRider

· #465 · Nov 22, 2013

Yesterday, I tried my hand at making a standoff for the Bonnie to hold the saddlebags off the shocks. The way it is I am wearing a hole in the bags where they rub against the shocks. There is no danger of the bags getting in the wheel, but the chocks constant movement is now the problem. I bent a length of 5/16" rod in my vice. Crude, but serviceable. I had made four brackets from 1/8" steel bar the day before and ground a flat in the bar where they were to join the brackets. All I have is a little 120 volt 20 amp arc welder, and whether it is because of my crappy welding skills or because of the welder, but my first bracket fell off while I was grinding back the globs of metal. Might try again later today.

Eye_m_no_angel

· #466 · Nov 22, 2013

If you have a propane torch it might help if you pre-heat the metal first. Also, make sure it's a very clean joint.

I've been down the hobby-welder road.

LWRider

· #467 · Nov 22, 2013

Eye_m_no_angel said:
If you have a propane torch it might help if you pre-heat the metal first. Also, make sure it's a very clean joint.

I've been down the hobby-welder road.

Yeah, I think that might be part of my problem. I will clean all the are to be welded thoroughly before I attempt it again.

Cheers,

Mike

Critter

· #468 · Nov 22, 2013

Klrlindy63 said:
I had eye surgery last week, that went very well took a ride on Saturday, very scary. I cannot get new glasses for a month. Needed glasses to see anything, now have great vision in "new" eye. But need glasses for old eye. Think I will have to leave bike parked until I get new ones.
Surgery was to remove a cataract due to an old eye injury. Pretty much popped my right eye when I was 25. Great surgeon was able to put it back together back then. He did tell me it would grow a cataract early.
So I just wiped my bike down today.

been there done that. I had surgery on both eyes 5 years apart I wore one contact during that period. You can get plain glass put in that one lense if you prefer.

hogcowboy

· #469 · Nov 22, 2013

LWRider said:
Yesterday, I tried my hand at making a standoff for the Bonnie to hold the saddlebags off the shocks. The way it is I am wearing a hole in the bags where they rub against the shocks. There is no danger of the bags getting in the wheel, but the chocks constant movement is now the problem. I bent a length of 5/16" rod in my vice. Crude, but serviceable. I had made four brackets from 1/8" steel bar the day before and ground a flat in the bar where they were to join the brackets. All I have is a little 120 volt 20 amp arc welder, and whether it is because of my crappy welding skills or because of the welder, but my first bracket fell off while I was grinding back the globs of metal. Might try again later today.

Hate to tell you but it's your welding skills. I'm self trained and I know I'm not good, but the trick in welding is good penetration so your welding rod flows into what you are welding. Took me for ever to get that. I still do more of what I call glob welding but when I get my heat level turned up just right for what I'm welding, it isn't too bad. Luckily most of my welding is on farm implements so an ugly weld that holds is still a good weld in my book. I quit using a grinding wheel just to pretty things up. But when I do my welds now hold and I think that's because I'm getting good penetration.

GatorJoe

· #470 · Nov 22, 2013

Hooked up a Battery Tender Jr to my Victory Kingpin .. Easiest Hookup ever done .. Pulled One side cover and battery terminals were right there was so simple was scary, didn't have to mess with anything else ..

Klrlindy63

· #471 · Nov 23, 2013

Critter said:
been there done that. I had surgery on both eyes 5 years apart I wore one contact during that period. You can get plain glass put in that one lense if you prefer.

Going for new contacts and glasses in 3 weeks, 1 month after the surgery. Just gonna deal with it until then. thanks

Johnnystriple

Discussion Starter · #472 · Nov 23, 2013

LWRider said:
Yesterday, I tried my hand at making a standoff for the Bonnie to hold the saddlebags off the shocks. The way it is I am wearing a hole in the bags where they rub against the shocks. There is no danger of the bags getting in the wheel, but the chocks constant movement is now the problem. I bent a length of 5/16" rod in my vice. Crude, but serviceable. I had made four brackets from 1/8" steel bar the day before and ground a flat in the bar where they were to join the brackets. All I have is a little 120 volt 20 amp arc welder, and whether it is because of my crappy welding skills or because of the welder, but my first bracket fell off while I was grinding back the globs of metal. Might try again later today.

If you are doing this to your bonny you might be interested in this.
http://www.triumphrat.net/twins-tec...ddlebag-support-mod-for-triumph-grabrail.html

Mudflap

· #473 · Nov 23, 2013

Wired in a battery tender quick connect on the Cross Roads today. It keeps snowing here.

Looks like maybe later this week it might hit 50, so there is hope for a short ride...

Klrlindy63

· #474 · Nov 24, 2013

I rode it to work, have gotten use to driving on one eye after the surgery. Two more weeks before I can get a new set of glasses.
Took the long way home from work too!
Temp did a dramatic drop tonight and we have had a little snow.

Eye_m_no_angel

· #475 · Nov 24, 2013

Good for you!

My wife wears one contact, so she can read and see things up close, but she'll also ride like that at times. I guess she's just used to it over the years, but I think it would make me dizzy.

billo

· #476 · Nov 24, 2013

was cold here in south Texas yesterday....rode 180 miles to watch a playoff high school playoff game...my team won 38-0...by cold i mean upper 30's

G

· #477 · Nov 24, 2013

I'm beginning to think my riding season may be over. Its 9 degrees here and not supposed to get any warmer than the mid 30s in the foreseeable future.:frown:

stevekozak

· #478 · Nov 24, 2013

Got geared up to ride, but when I hit the starter, got the old rrrrr rrrr rrrrr. Yup, no good juice from battery. Took the seat off and checked battery connections (a problem common to my bike). THey were fine. Spent a good frustrating 45 minutes trying to get the battery out. It is in there tight, and there is nothing to hold on to to pull it up. Finally succeeded and checked the electrolyte levels. One cell was very low and all the others were a bit below the lower level. I hadn't checked them since I bought the bike. Went to the store and got some distilled water. Returned and topped it off. Reinstalled the battery and jumped it from my truck. Hooray!! Let it warm up while I reinstalled side covers and seat. It was full dark by now. I rode it around the neighborhood streets for awhile to hopefully get a bit of a charge. I am planning to take at least a short ride this morning if it starts. The battery is the original which means it is 4 years old. I don't know how long they tend to last. I do know that when I replace it, it will be with a sealed battery.

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G

· #479 · Nov 24, 2013

If you use a battery tender when your not riding it, batteries can last pretty long. I have the original cheap batteries in our snowmobiles, and they're going on 8 years old. I do have plans to replace them with sealed ones before the season starts though. My new motorcycle came with a sealed battery, which I thought was nice.

Ops

· #480 · Nov 24, 2013

Currently warming up the final drive with a droplight to change the oil. Used some gasket sealer on my somewhat leaky oil filter cover, lost a about a quarter pint on the way back from Raleigh last week. BTW synthetic oil turns into soft wax..

No riding this week coming up, gonna be cold as hell. I need to move south.

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