Because I have a new to me bike, I’d like to invest a bit more in the products I use to keep my bike maintained.
In the past I’ve used Holts Chain grease (green, sticky stuff), Holts Spray grease, Nigrin Kettensprühfett -für Motorräder- and now S100 White Chain Lube.
Read my thoughts on it in this article 🙂
As almost everyone knows, stock exhaust systems never sound good on bikes, especially for commuters. As an old saying (and also controversial saying): Loud pipes save lives. This is partially true. I never get noticed by cagers unless I have a loud as f*ck exhaust on my bike. Never had problems with an exhaust that…
I like the look of riding without handguards, but the weather just doesn’t get better, and it even started hailing in April!
I thus impulse bought some Givi HP1111 handguards that will fit my Honda NC700X.
Having a windscreen also from Givi (D1111ST), I looked up if they fit, and they did.
Read more on my thoughts in this blogpost.
Bad news for the Freewind, time of death: March 30 2017. Died at age 19.
Cause of death: Broken gearbox.
Read more in this post what’s happened.
A blogpost about how you shouldn’t extend your kickstand, but will work, and how you should.
After almost riding a year with the Gianni Falco Mixto ATV’s as a replacement for the Held Gear (that leaked), I’m now ready to write a review on them.
The blog wasn’t kept up to date, that’s because nothing special has happened for the past months. Just the regular “idiots on the road”, and some minor maintenance on the XF650.
It was freezing cold for about a week, and I bought some GoreTex gloves, but they aren’t as thick as I thought they would be.
Read more on this by clicking ‘continue reading’.
A few days ago I saw that my right rear indicator had some kind of loose contact, but it was good enough, till it totally failed.
Now it’s repaired, and the following reasons why it failed and how long it took to repair is also in this blogpost 🙂
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When I bought my bike, it had some Metzeler Tourances on them. Not the NXT version, but the older one.
It showed some cracks, but shouldn’t be a problem because it’s a tubed tire (because of spoked wheels).
But after slipping and sliding around in the rain, I knew it was time to replace them to improve some handling and get a little more comfort out of them.
Read more about them in this post.
When I bought my bike, I didn’t see that it didn’t have enough maintenance.
The seller brought it to my doorstep (which was very friendly, because I didn’t want to spend money on a rental truck), but he had shown some paperwork that the front forks and carbs were cleaned and rebuilt.
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In my post “Radiosilence… Small update” I’ve written about making my own tankbag/tankcase. After reading a bit on advrider.com about people that also have made these, I went on and made on of those cases too.
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My search for new foglights has finally ended, after days of looking for a suitable replacement for the Hans Bo CREE U5 LED spots.
The weird part is that they were always close to me, in my local diy store!
Read my review by clicking “Continue reading”.
