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Batfastard replied to stantheman's topic in Advice on Repairing and maintaining your bike
One of our race team members put a dehumidifier in their caravan over winter. It was absolutely bone dry for the first round of the year. SO WAS THE BATTERY. Of course, we didn't take the pi**, well maybe just a little. In my camper.I just keep a little heat in it. A electric heater on frost guard and occasionally give the derv night heater a blast. -
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Batfastard replied to sparky's topic in Advice on Repairing and maintaining your bike
Sparky. Back bleed it mate. Empty most of the fluid out the reservoir, put a little pipe onto the nipple on the slave cyl (clutch end), open the nipple and force the fluid up into the reservoir and just watch how many bubbles come up.(a pipe on an old fairy liquid bottle will do if you are quick as it may react if left a long time) The trouble with bleeding brakes and clutches on a bike is that the cylinders are small diameter and move only a little fluid. The bubble goes down the tube a bit with each pump and then rises back up as you release the lever, ready for the next pump. So it's just going up and down. Try that and if you have no joy, pm me. I'm not far away. -
I don't know when it will end, but unfortunately, I can tell you how it will end and that's in tears. When different metals come into contact with each other one always becomes the anode and one the cathode and electrolysis (which is the technical name for the process people call oxidization or rusting, it's not a chemical reaction but an electrical process) happens. The combination of stainless on ally is one of the most aggressive in this process. I've just rebuilt a RD500 for a guy and every exhaust stud had been replaced with a stainless one. Every one came out leaving a big cavern of white powder where the hole with the thread should have been in the cylinder. A very typical result of the stainless/ally reaction and it has cost him a lot more money. We use them on the race bikes, that I will admit, but they are on/off, on/off so many times and have a relatively short life span it isn't such an issue. It's when they are left connected together for a long time the problem is occurring under your noses, but unfortunately, out of sight. There are some coated stainless bolts that reduce the risk. They are a lot safer, Titanium is far less aggressive. After all that, yea, just like you, it's nice to see a bit of bling.