Taken for a ride. Not a good ride though.

[Dwayne OMember]

As usual, Nice work for a relative stranger

:laugh: That exhaust shield looks a bit trick for an XR
Crazy Pom, touring the country & living with hippies :cheer:

What a life hey ,,,

[James RookyardMember]

That sure looks like a well used XR lol. XR’s Only exhaust shield?

Nice to see so much willing help out there!

[peteMember]

bugger :pinch: he could have swapped wheels with my XR as i only use mine for training and not riding,
my heat shield went ages ago but i never thought of putting foil on it :laugh:

PTW

[GregMember]

pete the wulf wrote:

bugger :pinch: he could have swapped wheels with my XR as i only use mine for training and not riding,
my heat shield went ages ago but i never thought of putting foil on it :laugh:

PTW

Please explain Pete? Train? do you have a rear wheel you want to swap, would save me some work I could get it picked up. His wheel isn’t that bad now I have got 99% of the movement out it’s just bad if you are going t ride around Australia :laugh:

TB

[peteMember]

if mine is any good to you then you are more than welcome to have it as long as i get one to put back on mine as i need to wheel mine around, it doesnt matter if i get a crap one in return as lond as it rolls

i guess the only problem is if mine has the same problem and like you said TB its hard to check.

PTW

[GregMember]

pete the wulf wrote:

if mine is any good to you then you are more than welcome to have it as long as i get one to put back on mine as i need to wheel mine around, it doesnt matter if i get a crap one in return as lond as it rolls

i guess the only problem is if mine has the same problem and like you said TB its hard to check.

PTW

Check your PMs Pete please

TB

[Mick DMember]

Looks like that XR600’s are getting to the age where that a good 2nd hand wheel is hard to come by.

Good work TB, that’s the spirit.

[Mark BuntingMember]

Nice work TB. Chris should be stoked

Any of those other ten helmets you need to give away …… :whistle: :laugh:

Kram

[GregMember]

Firstly a big thanks to Pete the Wolf as he donated a rear wheel for Chris’s XR in exchange for Chris’s current wheel which will be OK for Pete’s needs. I drove up to PTW’s place at Newcastle on Tuesday arvo after work. Got a dream run outa Sydney as well
Well the hub was OK on Petes wheel but as we knew the rim had a crack in it. So I thought I would whip the tyre off and unlace the rim. No the tyre was harder than any tyre I have ever seen, so I thought I would see if the spoke nipples would turn. Tried the first 10 all seized, so out come the air grinder with the cutting wheel

I had some old spokes from Chicken’s and Krusty’s wheel builds in the past. I stripped an old spare wheel with a stuffed hub I had here.

Stuffed Hub

New, 2nd hand heel built and ready for when Chris comes up tomorrow

Thanks Pete

TB

[alanMember]

well done TB good to see your looking after the chickens

[glennMember]

a big fat tick of approval all round,,,top job TB,

I wonder if this would happen if it was one of us in another country,, doesnt matter, his getting a good old aussie helping hand.

Long live OBT

[GregMember]

Sorry no Pictures they didn’t work it seems :dry:

Chris turned up at the agreed time of 11am this morning wearing these things riding and kick starting his XR600 :ohmy:

Said his steel capped boots has failed :laugh: I scratched around under the house and found a set old Oxstar boots I had from 2006 and said here have these. Chris said he didn’t want to feel like a charity case, so I said he could have them for a dollar . They had been lying around under the house for 3 years or more so it was good to see them get some use rather than just lay around

I had his built wheel yesterday and it was ready and waiting, I had fitted a 2nd hand Pirelli and tube I had here it was only waiting for his disc and sprocket.
He turned up with a pillion :ohmy: better looking then him I may add as I am sure she won’t mind, from the USA. Cant spell her name but she was quick to ask questions of everything I did and held the tyre changer to stop the bead breaker hitting me in the head twice :laugh: :laugh: :pinch:

So I fitted his sprocket and disc, the new wheel had brand new bearings fitted and seals. I gave him a set of 2nd hand bearings so He should be OK. He has been instructed to fit new bearing in Perth. I fitted a 2nd hand front tyre and a second hand set of brake pads as his were as we say in the industry “Rooted” :laugh:
Air filter was removed, he has never had it out since he bought the bike second hand in the middle of last year :huh: it was cleaned and re-oiled with Motul, I then drained the engine oil (again never been changed :pinch: ) and got less than 900lms :ohmy: Holds 1.9ls :whistle: I removed the oil filter and gave it a real close inspection given that it had hardly any oil in it. The filter was drained and squeezed, guess what was found. Nothing, no metal no nothing!! Try that with your euro trash
He had bought 2 litres of Motul 5100 so it was poured in, he test rode it and said it was all good. I charged him $115 bucks for the bearings, seals, ultra heavy duty tube, second hand tyres, labour for building the wheel, labour today, boots, helmet, brake pads and for my 5 hrs driving to Newcastle and back to get the wheel on Tuesday night. He was happy I am happy.
He is thinking about trailing us on the Scrapheap ride

I will try and find where the photos stored on my phone :huh: and post them up if I find them

TB

[alanMember]

sounds like he got a great deal there.would not have the pationce to put my toes in hiss shoes but

[Mick DMember]

Well I will be stuffed. I am amazed he is still mobile considering……….

1. I wanted to give it an oil change when he was here
2. I told him to replace the rear wheel bearings ASAP.

Gotta love a Honda.

Tripper rode his XR630 into my shed after a big day out on the trails, it was making all sorts of wild noises and blowing smoke. BUT it was still running and got him home, we drained the oil and only got 250ml out of a bike that should have close to 2 litres of oil. :huh:

[GregMember]

Cant kill them with a stick eh :laugh: Like I said only got 900mls out and he has done some miles. BTW he did replace the bearings pretty soon after your place, the hub was stuffed which no one knew. As you know you cant tell most of the time on the sprocket side because of the threaded retainer :blink: The retainer holds it for a while
He has been warned regarding the bearings being a weak link of the bike. Chicken is looking at a three bearing Talon for his

Here are some pictures, I worked out where they were

Chris ready to leave

Pillion (name sorry )

New second hand front

New rebuilt second hand rear wheel hub with tyre

On the way

Thanks again to Pete the Wolf for donating his rear hub off his training bike. Pete I have your new training wheel here and will get it up asap

TB

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