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bluestoesonnose
01-06-2013, 06:48 AM
I get up early for work during the week and the light mornings don't help me sleep on, so I'm generally up by 06:00....

Anyway

Thought I'd have a go at the last filter on the list, the fuel filter. Failed! The filler didn't want to come out (and yes I followed the workshop manual) it doesn't look like it's ever been done and this is a bike that's been "dealer" serviced from new!

To be honest the more I look the less I see done by the "main dealer" and this bike is meant to have had a major service last year! Air filter was marked 04, which probably means means it's the original and even the plugs were the original factory fit...

So in shear frustration I changed the brake and clutch fluids. So if nothing else that's all the fluids changed and just a filter to go!

pegboy
01-06-2013, 11:28 AM
If morning you mean early hours was working/cleaning my monster till 1:30am this morning.

bluestoesonnose
01-06-2013, 12:51 PM
I was out till 10:30, but I couldn't go past that...

DrD
01-06-2013, 01:33 PM
June year tax disc!

Rally
01-06-2013, 04:28 PM
We were riding around the TT course. :D

PDS
01-06-2013, 06:10 PM
Today I just checked the oil etc chain tension then went out on my first ever "ride out" (only been riding bikes for 20 years :) )with a bunch of power rangers, don't think I will be going again, the roads that they liked were, if honest boring dual carriage ways or just dead straight, I'm sticking with my B Road scratching,. :)

The filler is a bit of a pig to get out, I can see why it gets left!

NewMon
01-06-2013, 06:15 PM
I was rolling mine out ready for today's rideout. I just got back. 8hrs, A444, Carsington Water, Matlock, Buxton, Cat & Fiddle, Macclesfield and back to Matlock and then the Melton Mowbray to Market Harborough run. 282 miles. Perfect weather, great roads. Bliss. <Smug Mode Off>

JuZ
01-06-2013, 06:27 PM
Nothing this morning, but was out turning Petrol into noise this afternoon :D

slob
01-06-2013, 07:14 PM
Warmed it up gently just before 8am (lucky neighbours) and blasted to work through an empty square mile, sadly still at work now :-(

Albie
01-06-2013, 08:17 PM
Ridden it up the mountain at TT

bex
01-06-2013, 09:02 PM
Checked it still wasn't there. Kicked a few things to bits in its honor, and to cure some rage.

spacemonkey
01-06-2013, 09:24 PM
I washed mine for the first time since spring 2009.

Mohawk
02-06-2013, 07:55 PM
I rode mine up to Derbyshire for the weekend. Some different twisties just for a change :-)

wendy lea
02-06-2013, 08:05 PM
a ride out to Finchingfield, met a couple of other monster owners, cheers for the coffee Grumpy