1150 GS Adventure SE Rebuild

[Nin]

Right, bit of an update. Not made much progress today due to having to move this lot from a neighbour's to our back garden.

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[Nin]

But thought I'd assemble the new front end to try it out. Er, Houston we have a problem! Anyone got a straight front spindle?

A quick trip to Costco, got some supplies in. Not going to need this for a while but it was cheap. Let's not get into whether or not it's the right stuff ....

And a reflection on how things have changed. The first time I did this the manuals looked like this: (Anyone guess what bike it was btw?)

Now it's like this

At least it plays music as well.




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[Comfy Old Boots]

Wow, that spindle is fubar! Love this thread!

 

[twizzle]

Moro Guzzi Strada......what's my prize?

 

[newboy]

Moro Guzzi Strada......what's my prize?

lol - Said it on the sheet

 

[Nin]

Moro Guzzi Strada......what's my prize?

Nope.

 

[(RIP) trickytree]

Morini? Didn't realise they fitted Paiolis though.

 

[Ian J Hartley]

Triumph

They fitted Italian designed front suspension in the 1980's

 

[Nin]

Morini? Didn't realise they fitted Paiolis though.

Have that man shot and stuffed.

Correct, Moto Morini Strada 3 1/2 and yes they did but not to many bikes. Most common were Marzocchi which were sh1t as far as I remember.

 

[Nin]

Hmm, not showing the "After" picture as its a god-awful mess. One more go tonight and if that doesn't work it's a spray job.

 

[Nin]

Right, bit of an update - good news and bad. Not much time spent in the garage at Nin towers sadly, but some deliveries have come in. New rocker covers and wishbone from Colt- thanks very much.

New bars from rugged roads - going to be a while before I need them

 

[Nin]

Popped the headers off and despite using heat, gas plus, cold shock spray I managed to raj two of the studs, which to be fair are about half the original diameter. Heads off and over to the engineering shop then ...

 

[Nin]

Managed to salvage the bar ends - I'll need those later

And while it's off the oil cooler gets a strip back ready for the Baufix treatment

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Are you Ceramic Coating the headers?

 

[Nin]

Wasn't planning to, just going to bung them in the box for the guy whose doing the powder coating so he can get his YOPS boy to polish them up a bit. But now the heads are coming off and will probably be powder coated too I might just do that.

 

[Nin]

BTW - any thing I should do while heads are off? Bike is on 73k miles.

 

[DrAlf]

BTW - any thing I should do while heads are off? Bike is on 73k miles.

Gas flowing and maybe bigger valves would be on my radar along with some R1150RS cams. I'd also look at fitting R1100S pistons or aftermarket if available. Standard Y Piece and race can and a remap/PCIII/XF and you should be good to go

 

[Nin]

Ambitious! Maybe a gas flow - who's good these days? A John1100GS chip already enquired about. Any more will test the tkc80s a bit far I think!

 

[Aussie]

Check your side stand while you are at it, mine has just broken away from the frame when I pulled up in my garage and put it down, much too my surprise, I'm not sure if they all do it or not, mine has only 88000 k on it.

 

[Ian J Hartley]

Ambitious! Maybe a gas flow - who's good these days? A John1100GS chip already enquired about. Any more will test the tkc80s a bit far I think!

If this is your first GS, then my advice once you have it rebuilt, is to ride it as standard and enjoy it.

The standard bike is brilliant and you will find that the majority don't add any performance enhancing aids because they are not needed.

If after a while of riding, you feel that you need to enhance the performance, then that would be the time to consider adding them, and not before.


Ian