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Does everybody else balance the tyres on their bikes? All the bikes I’ve owned and ridden and I’ve never, ever had to balance the tyres! Never even though about it. Yet my dtr used to ride like a pneumatic drill and I didn’t realise it wasn’t a ‘characteristic’ 🥴 Bad enough when it’s just one doing it! Throw in the rear with the rim~lock and it’s no wonder I didn’t like going over 60mph!! Bucking Flipping Bronco**!!**
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Did you upgrade your front master cylinder when you fitted the brembo 2pot calliper? If so what size? I’m gonna guess you used an aprilia one!
…Just trying to find out about front master cylinder sizes, mine has a 13mm which is interesting. The 13mm rear wasn’t ‘enough’ to work a 35mm front calliper when I fitted it on the rear…
I’ve found a few different nissin ones from different bikes. Triumph do a few 14mm & 5/8in ones.
There are loads that look identical to the dtr125 ones from different 125’s which can be had for £20-30 (minus the Dtr tax which would make it £60-80
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Cheers bud, I forgot you run ally wheels…
Do you have any knowledge about anybod that could manufacture a centre ‘hat’ rotor for the front hub? I would love to get a centre bit made so you could ‘bolt’ a floating disc to it. It shouldn’t be too difficult because there’s no offset to worry about. I’ve read that they can be made from aluminium, which shouldn’t be too hard. Just some CNC work and figuring what outer disc to fit/match it to. It’d be harder to make the calliper mounting plate to fit a 2 pot calliper too it, surely?…
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How bad are rear wheel bearings to replace?…
I’ve done one before but it was nearly 35 years ago. I seem to remember lump hammer and giant screwdriver, ala chisel? I seem to remember having to depress the centre tube to allow access to the bearing from the opposite side? Any help/tips appreciated
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I’m not a daytime/morning person but I will oblige when the good weather finally breaks!
…Has anyone ever had a water pump seal fail? I’ve had some contamination problems with my gear oil, it’s grey and emulsified. Horrible state! The only things I can think of are the pump seal letting a small amount of liquid into the gearbox, or possibly condisation from cold damp air during the winter. Which is a stretch of the imagination
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Finally got round to doing the forks! Got new genuine oil seals from fleabay for less than a tenner each, but try and find the top dust seals!!…
Made sure the bolts are separated from the aluminium by using CT1 sealant to ‘encapsulate’ the fuxors! Doesn’t hurt leaky copper washers either;) …
Used 1 & 1/2 extension bars to use the 27mm hex/Allen adapter to hold the inners in place made torquing it up real easy…
Finally fitted these puppies in the forks!…
Will fit the forks to the bike soon as possible, weather permitting
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I thought about it, even bought some (YZ) that had been fitted to a Dtr by a previous, but the reality of how massive tall they are just put me off. Getting the right donors is definitely the ‘ting’
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Has anyone else noticed that when you tighten up the front wheel spindle it wobbles up-down/side-side a little? I’ve had this with different forks and spindle combinations! Is this normal?!…
I’ve noticed that the gap on the speedo side is nearly 5mm more than the disc side, normal or not?…
Ta for any insight
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I’m guessing both mine are a bit bent!
I recon it’s what happens when you ride a bike any distance with 1 fork seal gone (which to my shame I have done) and put too much pressure on side, especially the side with thread…Both of mine were bent to hells fuck! If I had tog gotten a new one I would never of realised how fuxin awful my bike was handling at any speed over 50mph!
Nearly every thing that comes into contact with my Life seems to be just ‘that little bit wrong!’ It’s fuxin exhausting! Whatever happened to harmony, balance, in the World. The fuxin Holocene is wasted on money grubbing Torrie, Nazi, Capitalist fuckin head up their arses, “it doesn’t matter what I do cause it’s all just a dream” misery mongers!!
Please bring on the Zombie apocalypse, or some way of thinning the herd that is mankind. COVID wasn’t harsh enough!…Sorry, my Rant is over
I’m tired of living in a “world full of Wonders” not a “Wonderful World” that I believe this ball of spinning dirt could be….
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I really find it hard to believe I never noticed this before! I suppose I’ve always had higher priority problems to deal with
I did notice it enough to buy another spindle at some point, I just can’t remember when 
…Having good tyres, new forks with seals , bushes and springs has really made me focus in on the one imperfection left. My ’good’ spindle threads in almost straight until you have to torque it up, then it moves the wheel up & to the side quite noticeably. I always felt like the steering was tracking a bit, and having a bit of a sudden ‘dip’ when cornering hard! I always put it down to soppy shocks and knobblies
…The progressive springs are the bogs dollox! They feel like a different animal
Even with the spindle i can feel a hell of a difference, no more manic dive under brakes. They feel like they ‘flex’ less as well if that makes sense? They feel so much more positive than before…If you know a place I can buy a new spindle please let me know
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I rarely use my bikes and I certainly don't go at any speed
No play just the odd notch 🤬 Good job I bought some when I got the bike! 
