WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR MONSTER TODAY ??????

[GK]

Put the battery on the charger. Haven't ridden the bike in a few weeks.  

GK

[Marmaduc]

Fitted a seat bag. Bought a second alarm disc lock.

[JUC01]

I was setup in the garage shooting this week so I thought I'd roll the Monster onto the back ground and do some photos for it's "official sale"
Though I am now wavering after doing these.











How much does the buyer need to give you to take it off your hands?





So is it still for sale???
It's always for sale, I've just got to find the buyer.

[malamikigo]

Today I swapped my 696 rear shock mount for the 796 version, and raised my front suspension 10mm by dropping it in the triples.  The whole ordeal was pretty Macguyver but it worked out alright! 

[Marmaduc]

Brilliant idea for an A-frame lift! You must be some kind of savant.

[malamikigo]

Haha, yea.  Original plan had been to hang it from the metal bar of my little shack, but it's just put through the chainlink fence so it started to buckle a bit and was sketchy as hell when i started ratcheting it up.  Step ladder was a much better idea! 

[Marmaduc]

Hahaha, so that's the shack that houses your bike? Love the security features. Did you tell the insurance company it lives in an enclosed lock-up? Hehehehe. Keep it comin fella.
Bern

[malamikigo]

Haha, yep.  Bike lives in the shack.  Gotta make do with what ya got when you don't have a garage!  It works though, bike hasn't been subjected to a drop of rain since I built it. 

It's fully ghetto though, and I happily admit that!  I threw it together from scraps I found laying around the yard, with a very meagre toolkit. Some more photos:

All framed up:



Closeup of the fine quality joint.  Complete with 2x6 notched using a hatchet. 



After completion:





It works.  haha.

As for security/insurance company, the insurance where I live doesn't care where the bike is stored.  No additional savings for having it in a bank vault vs. sitting on the street.

[Marmaduc]

You're an artisan, mate, should enter your creation into the Architectural Design Awards. I mean, if shacks with rusty bits of corrugated iron can win, then you're in the running.
Fantastic plastic meets nature.

[JoeB]

for the purpose of this post I'm hijacking the thread and renaming it temporarily to:

"Who's a complete Numpty today?"

So, after 1200km of glorious hard riding on the Racetec K3's I washed the bike this morning, fully planning to head off for a run up the pass and down KV once the fog lifted this morning.

The K3's are an awesome tyre. Super predictable and phenomenal grip. But they were down to the wear indicators, so I had to give them one last parting run.

Got finished and cleaned up by 11, and the humidity was feral, so decided to head inside cool off and wait a few. By 12 I had the urge, so I headed down the hill, and caught up with a few regulars and had a chat for a bit, then we all headed off to do our own things.

But on the way down, I needed fuel, and after filling up for some reason I simply decided to get the tyres replaced and headed back up the coast rd to my mates bike shop for another set.

Again he tried to talk me into buying michelin Power 3's but instead, I decided to drop things back a notch from the racetec K3's and put on some Metzeler M5 interact's. 

No problem. job done in a pretty short space of time.  Thoroughly scrubbed the release off the tyres and headed off.

turning left out of the driveway onto the road, I fed in a little bit of throttle. Quick as you can say make the beast with two backs Me, she spun up, slid out to the right, hooked up and spat me oer te bars, not 5 metres out of the driveway, landing on the right side.

Of course, I felt like a complete numpty, the first time in 30 years I've dropped a bike in a low speed incident. first time I've been highsided at less than 20km/h and first time Ive bent a brake pedal, and scraped a bar end without writing off a bike.

Now the embarrasment and cosmetic damage I can live with…  but I landed hard on my right hand side and have cracked my ribs (again). So the easter ride I was going on….. well  didn't I just make the beast with two backs that up royally.

Off to get a new brake pedal and some new bar ends… shit theyre only 2 weeks old.  grr.

Numpty time.

[Wells]

turning left out of the driveway onto the road, I fed in a little bit of throttle. Quick as you can say make the beast with two backs Me, she spun up, slid out to the right, hooked up and spat me oer te bars, not 5 metres out of the driveway, landing on the right side.

Oh no man, sorry to hear it!
So frustrating when you have a brain fade like that. Hope the ribs aren't too tender for too long.

The M5s are a great tyre. They're no K3s, but I've found them to be brilliant in all conditions (once properly scrubbed of course... unfortunately no amount of running on buffer is going to scrub that outer layer like a 50 ks of easier riding ever will)

Mend up quick mate.

[Twizted]

Trying out some clip ons over the Easter break to see if I like them.

[Brett76]

I actually rode it on a double points weekend, breakfast at Church Point followed by the slow crawl back to Curly's for coffee. I am hanging for a day trip somewhere, anywhere...

[Brett76]

Then got motivated & cleaned it, got to do something about those white wheels this year...

[Betty]

Well it was last weekend actually ... a couple of things fell of the Monster: