New SkyTeam ST250 V-Raptor owner

[Weldangrind]

Originally Posted by daysleeper

So its my birthday soon (30th Dec) and as a present to myself I was going to make it go FASTER. Of course you can all understand this desire

Happy belated birthday, Dan!

Krasi, excellent job on the oiler. In Canada, we're all too familiar with the Lada; I always wanted a Niva, so I could stuff a small block Chevrolet engine into it.

[Spada3man]

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG

Apparently a mixture of offdays, bad weather and Internet access is not the best one can experience.

Hoovering around the virtual reality, I came across a forum thread called "Pooratech" ( ) in a South-African forum (tell me about it!) - http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/inde...&topic=12116.0
So, from there I was inspired to build myself a toolbox for the new toy. I may not be riding, but can do lots of dumb things.

I got myself a PVC pipe from the local hardware store:



2 caps (apparently this is how they are called) and a drawer lock:



One afternoon of cutting, drilling, swearing, scratching my head, and voila:






The masterpiece is 450mm long and 125mm in diameter (that's about 18x4.5 inches for our imperial viewers), which turned out quite big:



If it turns out that these sticking bolts get in the way, I'll swap them with rivets.

The "cool" lock:




The official version for the insulation band is that it's there to improve water tightness, but the cruel truth is that I put it to cover the dodgy cut I made:


Well this is for now. I made it that far.

Now I'm contemplating on the next creation - cheap and simple pannier racks... I hope I won't mess up the nice bike until spring time (my wife hopes!).

Really Useful! Could you show photos of the support/fixing/mounts please? Are they gutter brackets? I'll definitely be making one of these!

[Krasi_BG]

Don't know what's a gutter bracket, they are from this type, but bigger:

[Spada3man]

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG

Don't know what's a gutter bracket, they are from this type, but bigger:

Like this :

http://www.roofing-supplies.org.uk/o...own-Round.html
This type would need a little modification/butchery to fit... I think your type is much more suitable! Is that what you used?

David

[Krasi_BG]

Yes, that's the one I used, as we don't have these gutter brackets around here. Or at least I haven't seen any in our HW store.

I just hammered one of the ears straight and drilled a couple of extra holes for tighter fit to the tube.

[my01]

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG

Since I was prepared, I changed fork oil. There was about 150ml of oil in each fork, which seemed not enough to me. I consulted with a local suspension specialist, who also advised me to put more - till the top end of the spring with fork fully compressed. So I did - it came to about 250ml in each fork. "Preload" spring bushings are about 1/3 in length of the springs themselves. And the springs are progressive, believe it or not:

Can anybody confirm the amout of oil (250 ml each side) ? And maybe a hint of which viscisity (10W or 15W)?

Background: My Fork seems to be too soft.. It goes on block.