Saul

As long as the dog doesn't eat them obviously

Hes blown a seal

Genuine question, why don’t you do the job yourself?

I don’t think Honda claim any extra from the sport pack equipped Hornets. Like you say they look and sound much better.

Yeah that was part of the reason I chose the Delkevic can. I would have loved a SC but they are very expensive for a better noise. Circa £900 whereas the Delkevic looks like and sounds like for £270 and has a decent reputation. . At the end of the day for a real improvement in actual performance it would have to be a full de-cat system with a remap. I’m not sure I am really interested in doing that. I have never thought, in the two years I’ve had the Hornet, that it didn’t have enough power. If I genuinely wanted to go faster I would buy a real sport bike.

Brownie points coming your way

I don't think so, I just like things to look and be right. I think what was annoying me was the rear calliper was still the original gold and the front ones were black. If they were all the same colour I probably wouldn't have bothered.

Maybe All rebuilt and ready to go on. Probably won’t swap them over until next week now, don’t fancy stripping the bike before my weekend’s commute. Don’t want to be trouble shooting without sleep. Just in case.

Bugger, sad news.

Sorry boss . I'll get my coat

More cleaning, almost ready to rebuild. Managed to get most of the smoo off the callipers onto me. Therapeutic to do though.

Tighter rear end

Perfect for Marcey.

The Harley rider was an interesting fella. https://fb.watch/Bk7UHYmUhN/

Well I fitted a UK legal Delkevic titanium S-Oval end can on my Hornet today. I am pretty pleased with it to be honest, sounds good, fair bit deeper but not obnoxiously loud. I don't think it makes much if any difference to power but it sounds faster . Original end can was 7kg the new one is 1.45kg.

I'm not the one trying to convince everyone I am taller than I actually am. Also I don't have a Busa.

My mate who is short arse rides an Indian as that is the only thing he can flat foot @ 5’ 6”

Look at the thumbnail, bloody great turbo on the back of that Harley.

Oh Dear

Awesum.

Well I suppose that would make it reliable

Come on the 125 dropped a gear at the beginning of the vid. If it was a Gixxer 1000 it would have been off like a stabbed rat. .

Pretty sure it was an older Suzuki GSXR125R with the maximum 15 BHP. Pretty sure its the same bike as one of Shadows mates has.

My CBF600S has the wrong colour front brake callipers. They have obviously been replaced at some point with callipers from a naked CBF600N which are black not gold. They are functionally identical and work fine but it is getting on my tits that it’s wrong. So for no other reason than to satisfy my OCD, I am going to replace them. I got a second hand set of gold callipers from eBay for £27 and at the same time I ordered a rebuild kit for them for £34 from Wemoto. I started stripping and cleaning the callipers up today and to my surprise they are pretty good. All threads perfect and pistons appear spotless. I am waiting for the tool to come to get them out and polish them up. I know there are other ways to get the pistons out but I wanted the right tool which is coming tomorrow. I would guess that I don’t really need to replace the seals but I am going to because I have the new ones on the bench. First attempt at cleaning has brought them up quite well. There are a few minors blemishes here and there but I think the callipers will look fine once they are on the bike, after all it is 18 years old. Of course there will be more cleaning before I fit the new seals. Before anyone pipes up, if this is boring fuck off and read about Marcy’s adventures. I am a bike geak and I like this sort of stuff.