Just received an email with the daily routes for our Pyrenees trip, attached in a file extension I’ve not seen before, *.gdb. The email tells me it will be plug and play for my XT2 Easy enough to drag and drop the file and so far the routes look to be available to load …….. for now At some point in the next couple of days, I suppose I had better look at packing a bag Andy
Worked out why my Gas Gas’ clutch was acting funny (I think the fluid return hole in the MC was getting intermittently blocked) and a change of MC seems to have cured it. Got the knobblies fitted. My guy takes ages to do anything as he likes a chat (as do I), but he can’t seem to walk and chew gum at the same time and after an hour he was still faffing around with rim tape on the first wheel, so I left the bike with him as I had somewhere I needed to be.
Ordered a new tail tidy for the gsxr750 project, will be going to the dealer later today to order two bolts to fit it, and two seat bolts with sleeves
Collected the GG from my tyre guy and had a final fettle, fiddle and general faff around ahead of this weekend's enduro, specifically putting a bit more preload on the shock spring as there are some big jumps and it sometimes runs out of stroke on landing (yeah yeah, I know that’s not really how you’re supposed to do it but there’s no other adjustment).
GDB is the old Garmin format from MapSource (their old route planner). The program ITN Converter can change them to GPX files.
Picked up my spare seat this evening thats been re padded. Find out tomorrow on the trip if its comfy to tour on vs any of the other hyper seats. Picture below is the performance seat vs the re padded stock hyper seat
collected the fixings for the tail tidy and seat for the GSXR750 project bike, tail tidy was delivered this morning, assembled the tail tidy, need to drill out the fixing holes before fitting, that can wait until after i return from Tunisia
As I’ve been buggering about with the tank off on my 916 after fitting the proalloy header tank I decided to eventually replace my airbox as front and rear mounts were cracked. I had located a new old stock airbox some time ago but never fitted as it wasn’t urgent & removing/refitting tank with aged fuel pipe o-rings was likely to be problematic. Anyways since I had to bite the bullet & replace those o-rings thought I swap the airbox whilst I was on. I’d already fitted “new” airbox with a new tank seal , and had to swap the front tank spigot rubber from old box to new. Refitting the tank turned out to be a PITA getting rear bolt hole lined up but got there in the end. I suspect new airbox tank seals made it tricky as new seal was a fair bit larger than the old (maybe original) one.
Yesterday Fitted new clutch plates to No1 DRZ400 after a 48 hour bath in engine oil. Today took it for a test ride after a very long warm and everything is ok apart from the clutch cable needing a tweak.
