Richard Browne
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- Joined
- Feb 25, 2019
- Messages
- 33
- Location
- North Buckinghamshire
- Ride
- 2009 Rocket 3 Touring and 1968 BSA Bantam...
There's lots of Rocket Action going on here - passing the MOT is always a smile for me, so congrats on that Stavros. Ragging, commuting, flagellating, just simple riding, polishing or looking at. Is there anybody here who doesn't love their Rocket?
Where in Yorkshire are you TattooMick? Family Browne have just been on a week's holiday at Pocklington, near to York - had a great result with the weather and all very relaxing - we love Yorkshire and it's one of the places on my "to retire to" list in the next few years. It's a bit like France though (another one of my retirement options) - lovely place, but the locals! (joke!)
Babagris - I absolutely will take some pics or a video of the lift process, I have to perfect the only tricky bit of the process - the placement of the rear engine bracket. There are two bolts which go through the holes in the frame where you'd expect a mainstand to bolt through. Placing the lift is a bit fiddly for me at the moment, probably because I've only done it twice so far and I'm not using a wheel stand to get the bike dead upright. After that it's a simple case of growing a pair and hitting the trigger on the drill.
Having said that, the lift started to pay for itself yesterday - it's a bit of a long story, but I was concerned about the footboard rubbing against the main column when I first assembled the lift, so I adjusted the placement of the rear bracket to move the bike out by an inch or so. Yesterday I spoke with David at Quasar to ask a couple of questions, including one about my adjustment - he confirmed my suspicions that the bracket really shouldn't be moved and the main lifting arm needed to be in line with an imaginary line between the centre of the wheels.
I adjusted the bracket and lifted the bike again to check. Whilst I was underneath the bike, I span the wheels to check the brakes weren't binding and noticed a shiny metal spot on the rear tyre. You all know that feeling when you see something sticking out of the tyre? I loosened it with a screwdriver and pulled it out with pliers. It was the remains of a nail which was long enough to eventually penetrate the tyre and, at best, cause the inconvenience of a puncture, at worst a rapid deflation whilst riding at motorway speeds. Given the location of the nail, it would probably be a new tyre whatever the speed of travel during deflation.
Time wasted, money spent and possibly a far worse result - all avoided. Thank you Big Blue!
Where in Yorkshire are you TattooMick? Family Browne have just been on a week's holiday at Pocklington, near to York - had a great result with the weather and all very relaxing - we love Yorkshire and it's one of the places on my "to retire to" list in the next few years. It's a bit like France though (another one of my retirement options) - lovely place, but the locals! (joke!)
Babagris - I absolutely will take some pics or a video of the lift process, I have to perfect the only tricky bit of the process - the placement of the rear engine bracket. There are two bolts which go through the holes in the frame where you'd expect a mainstand to bolt through. Placing the lift is a bit fiddly for me at the moment, probably because I've only done it twice so far and I'm not using a wheel stand to get the bike dead upright. After that it's a simple case of growing a pair and hitting the trigger on the drill.
Having said that, the lift started to pay for itself yesterday - it's a bit of a long story, but I was concerned about the footboard rubbing against the main column when I first assembled the lift, so I adjusted the placement of the rear bracket to move the bike out by an inch or so. Yesterday I spoke with David at Quasar to ask a couple of questions, including one about my adjustment - he confirmed my suspicions that the bracket really shouldn't be moved and the main lifting arm needed to be in line with an imaginary line between the centre of the wheels.
I adjusted the bracket and lifted the bike again to check. Whilst I was underneath the bike, I span the wheels to check the brakes weren't binding and noticed a shiny metal spot on the rear tyre. You all know that feeling when you see something sticking out of the tyre? I loosened it with a screwdriver and pulled it out with pliers. It was the remains of a nail which was long enough to eventually penetrate the tyre and, at best, cause the inconvenience of a puncture, at worst a rapid deflation whilst riding at motorway speeds. Given the location of the nail, it would probably be a new tyre whatever the speed of travel during deflation.
Time wasted, money spent and possibly a far worse result - all avoided. Thank you Big Blue!