MTTB: Mr. Sticky comes to town.
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:39 pm
Sticky Sava track tires for Mike's bike were the project for today. We employed Greg's bead breaker again--I was too busy getting a work out to take photos of that action, but here are a handful of nice ones, and one of the Brembo RCS14 Master.
We also did a carb swap to see if the bike would run better. It ran a little bit better, but still suffered major bogging with the throttle open.
To start things off we used Mike's tire warmers. We got the new tires nice, and warm, but as it turned out we needed to heat up the old tires to get them off. They were really stuck on the rim--probably from having been warmed up previously. It was so much easier having help to mount the tires on the wheels. Didn't take hardly any time at all, and I'm not nearly as sore as I've been from previous tire outings.
Front tire on the bike. I should have taken a photo of the rear one too. Have to get that later I suppose.
And the pretty Brembo action. Before heading over to meet up at Ed's for dyno day I unboxed Mike's new RCS14 that he picked up from KurveyGirl. It's really sweet. That titanium banjo bolt weighs so little that you can't even tell it is in your hand. Kurvey throws that, some tubing, and a bunch of crush washer in with the RCS. Is's that cool, or what? I put it on the bike, but didn't have a chance to take photos yet. The reservoir for it has yet to show up--so I used one from a GPR rear brake for now. This is becoming a very nice bike.
We also did a carb swap to see if the bike would run better. It ran a little bit better, but still suffered major bogging with the throttle open.
To start things off we used Mike's tire warmers. We got the new tires nice, and warm, but as it turned out we needed to heat up the old tires to get them off. They were really stuck on the rim--probably from having been warmed up previously. It was so much easier having help to mount the tires on the wheels. Didn't take hardly any time at all, and I'm not nearly as sore as I've been from previous tire outings.
Front tire on the bike. I should have taken a photo of the rear one too. Have to get that later I suppose.
And the pretty Brembo action. Before heading over to meet up at Ed's for dyno day I unboxed Mike's new RCS14 that he picked up from KurveyGirl. It's really sweet. That titanium banjo bolt weighs so little that you can't even tell it is in your hand. Kurvey throws that, some tubing, and a bunch of crush washer in with the RCS. Is's that cool, or what? I put it on the bike, but didn't have a chance to take photos yet. The reservoir for it has yet to show up--so I used one from a GPR rear brake for now. This is becoming a very nice bike.