{"id":261,"date":"2010-10-01T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-10-02T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:36:41","slug":"the-suzuki-gets-some-new-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"The Suzuki gets some new shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am all signed up for an Aeros\u00adtich Tours Mex\u00adi\u00adco<\/a><\/strong><\/em> motor\u00adcy\u00adcle trip in Jan\u00adu\u00adary. Roger, one of the lead\u00ader\u2019s on the trip, com\u00adment\u00aded to me in an email this week: \u201cyou are cer\u00adtain\u00adly set up well for this trip. I would only sug\u00adgest as an addi\u00adtion that you install more aggres\u00adsive tires, even as far as the MKC80<\/span> Con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtal knob\u00adbies that are used on BMW<\/span> Adventures.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Wednes\u00adday I called friend Ian\u2019s much men\u00adtioned Pre\u00adci\u00adsion Motor\u00adcy\u00adcles<\/em> in Gole\u00adta and ordered the Con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtals. Today\u2019s task was to get the wheels off the Suzu\u00adki and out to Pre\u00adci\u00adsion to have the new tires mount\u00aded, then home and replace the wheels on the bike. The time to the first shot, tak\u00aden at 12:45 when the rear wheel was off, was about 50 min\u00adutes. Then it was on to the front wheel. The first task was to get the front wheel off the ground. Grab\u00adbing an eight foot 2x4 from friend &<\/span> neigh\u00adbor Jil\u00adl\u2019s yard, a con\u00adcrete block from my back\u00adyard, and neigh\u00adbor Greg as a push\u00ader, I lever\u00adaged the 2x4 under the bike and tilt\u00aded it up while Greg shoved the block under the bike. Low\u00ader\u00ading the bike onto the block I was then set to remove the front wheel.<\/p>\n

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But what\u2019s this?<\/strong> The front axle is tight\u00adened (and removed) with a 12mm allen. Bum\u00admer alert! Off to Sears to buy a 1\/2\u2033\u201312mm allen end\u00aded tool. No luck, but at lease they had a 12mm allen wrench that I am think\u00ading I\u2019ll use to get the wheel off then get a 1\/2\u2033 \u2014 12mm allen at Spe\u00adcial\u00adty in Gole\u00adta while the wheels are being retired near by so I will be able to tight\u00aden the axle to the spec\u00adi\u00adfied torque at reassem\u00adbly. An hour after image one we now have image two, i.e. both wheels are off (you can also see the con\u00adcrete block sup\u00adport\u00ading the front of the bike).<\/p>\n

At around 2:20 I\u2019ve just dropped the wheels at Pre\u00adci\u00adsion and turned to find\u00ading a 1\/2\u2033 \u2014 12mm sock\u00adet giz\u00admo. Spe\u00adcial\u00adty had all sizes but 12 and after a third strike at a third place I got the sug\u00adges\u00adtion to call the local Snap-On guy. He was at Per\u00adry Lin\u00adcoln-Mer\u00adcury and said he had the part so I drove there and end\u00aded up with a 3\/8\u2033 \u2014 12mm allen tool for $32! Yikes!<\/p>\n

After a very nice and serendip\u00adi\u00adtous lunch at Fres\u00adco with old friend Bev King, Pre\u00adci\u00adsion called to say all was ready so I drove out and grabbed the new\u00adly mount\u00aded Con\u00adti\u00adnen\u00adtals as well as my old tires and returned home (image #3 around 5:40). The front wheel went on pret\u00adty sim\u00adply. I walked next door and recruit\u00aded Jill to be the con\u00adcrete block remover as I again lever\u00adaged the bike up with her 2x4 and low\u00adered it down onto the front wheel. Thanks to Jill and she returned home to resume her dinner.<\/p>\n

On to the back wheel. After much strug\u00adgling with try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out how to put it all togeth\u00ader with the chain I am final\u00adly at the point of think\u00ading I am done and am tight\u00aden\u00ading the axle to its 72.5 ft-lbs of torque when I real\u00adize that the brake caliper does not sim\u00adply bolt on after the fact like the ones on the front wheel but is inte\u00adgrat\u00aded with the axle instal\u00adla\u00adtion. Back out<\/strong> comes the axle, fol\u00adlowed by more frus\u00adtra\u00adtion and strug\u00adgles attempt\u00ading to get it all cor\u00adrect\u00adly assem\u00adbled. I was about to give up for the night as I was feel\u00ading the need of anoth\u00ader pair of hands to fin\u00adish the assem\u00adbly and was rem\u00adi\u00adnisc\u00ading about days gone by when I had bud\u00addies to help and hang with me in such endeav\u00adors as this evenings when who reap\u00adpears but Jill with an offer of assistance.<\/p>\n

Too won\u00adder\u00adful<\/strong>. We went at it togeth\u00ader for about half an hour and then it real\u00adly was done; image four tak\u00aden at 7:35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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