Continuing - So what did you do to your bike today...?

[Irish in Oz]

Found my oil leak.

[seth]

Found my oil leak.

If you have local industrial hose maker they can replace the hose part .
Hooli had his done a couple of times before the metal bit needed replacing.
The split part will be replaced as part not the job
 

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Wow, you blokes in the UK sure make the bike bits suffer from all that salt rubbish on the roads.  Checked the hoses on my Dec 02 built K3, still in excellent nick. (Now ive jinxed it and the hose will fail next ride out)...

[KiwiCol]

Yeah, I thought the same thing, gotta be the salt on the roads as both of mine are also fine.

[GSXKING]

Checked mine after reading this.
They still look fine & are flexible (covered in road grime) thank Buddha 🙏🙏

[Irish in Oz]

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If you have local industrial hose maker they can replace the hose part .
Hooli had his done a couple of times before the metal bit needed replacing.
The split part will be replaced as part not the job
 
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New hoses are about 300 quid a pair, however I picked up a very clean as new set on Ebay for 100 quid. I have Pirtek close by and will get a quote for repair.
The weather is fine over here it's just you southerners are soft.

[grog]

Not at all soft Irish,you already know that. Pouring down here, non stop 3 days,a bad riding year so far, 1000 mm in 11 weeks.Must stop one day.

[Hooli]

Wow, you blokes in the UK sure make the bike bits suffer from all that salt rubbish on the roads.  Checked the hoses on my Dec 02 built K3, still in excellent nick. (Now ive jinxed it and the hose will fail next ride out)...

Yup, I had the crimped bits by the oil filter fail twice. I'm pretty sure it was salt sprayed up into the joint off the front wheel that rotted it away.

[Irish in Oz]

Not at all soft Irish,you already know that. Pouring down here, non stop 3 days,a bad riding year so far, 1000 mm in 11 weeks.Must stop one day.

  Sure the rain is warm.

[Notty]

Started the bike, first time since end of October - ok I know some say start it regularly and warm it up but not for me - tyres checked and weather dry tomorrow - out with mate who's daughter sadly took her own life several weeks ago and only 23 years old , horrible thing to happen - he is a broken man so hoping a blast out for a coffee and a bacon roll will help bless him

[Globalrider]

Hope you went up the Beacons Geoff, there is something spiritual up there! Terrible thing to happen! Re oil cooler - Irish's line wasn't the problem on mine in Spain - the cooler went and thanks to the org I got a replacement to make it home. I promptly bought a new cooler which I still have as just-it-case!

[Hooli]

Not my bike, but my mate Nic's 125 is back in my garage tonight.

Some lowlife scum tried to steal it from outside her work. Luckily her lock to a solid metal railing resisted being smashed with a brick so they didn't get it. The scum threw it on the floor instead & have bent the bars too badly to ride as one side is resting on the fairing now. The bars are kinked on the bend too so need replacing.

I'll be searching breakers next week for bars to try & avoid the £105 new price from Honda. Being a '23 CBF the bars rise quite high so fake renthals etc wouldn't be any good. Lucky I've got two days off booked really, wasn't what I planned but it's more important than just wasting petrol on my bikes.

She rung me about 10pm not knowing what to do & obviously a bit shocked & stuff. Lucky the only mate I know with a van was just finishing work & went to help her get the bike back.

I'd love to cull thieving scum like them, they really are worthless rubbish not worthy of living.

[KiwiCol]

Agreed Hooli & bloody good on you for helping out.     

[grog]

Mongrels. 👏You Hooli. Lethal injection should be their only option.

[Hooli]

She's been checking the CCTV at work today, two scrotes who look about 13/14 years old were who did it. The ideal time to cull them before they get to breed, wipe out the worthless genes.