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I have a bit of a tender back from doing that one-legged mount the other day so no physical stuff for a few days. I order one of these gadgets mid-December but these are on backorder for the next couple of months so any mods to the handlebars including Bark Busters, Bar Risers won't happen till it turns up. What I want to do is have it to the height I can still see the instruments through the hole under it so I made a paper template and had a look and it looks like I will need at least a 30mm bar rise to do that or maybe some mods to the fairing mount. I found on that recent club ride the small headlight screen creates an incredibly loud wind roar at 80kph and above. Duck down below the screen and it's much quieter but very uncomfortable. At one point I thought it might be Tyre noise but it's defiantly from the screen. These Navigation Mini Towers can be ordered without their screen so I will get a clear screen made to suit and anchor it off the headlight so it should be nice and solid and hopefully quiet. There is a video 3 posts down that thread of what I want to do.
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Vince said:
The Big KTM Adventure Bike accessory people sell a filter I think called a Gogglemonster that you sit over the tank when you fill up to strain out crap. Slows filling by a lot though, they are notorious for having blocked in-tank fuel pump filters. So this is still an issue on modern bikes.
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Fuel-injected bikes need cleaner fuel than carbed. Carbs are actually quite forgiving regarding contaminated fuels, fuel injection systems not so. Get a spec of crap in an injector nozzle, you're not going anywhere and may as well pull out the Breakdown Assistance card, if you have phone reception out in the boonies. :rolleyes:

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Tough luck with the back Vince. I feel your pain, I did my right hamstring a couple of years back trying to hold my Mk 2 upright trying to get it off the stand (having just filled up with fuel). At least you didn’t drop the bike like I did. 🥲
 
It's not too bad, no sudden movements helps a lot. I did the bike shuffle today in the shed between the Atlas and 3c as the latter is what I will take on next weekends club ride. Neither bike really like being parked on the grass in my backyard without ply under the stands. Big open remote roads with riding style slightly more suited to the way more powerful bike,3c that is with I hope finally dialled-in rear shocks. My poor 3c has been neglected since its Camel-like brother turned up, what a shock it was riding it back into position 1 in the shed. It feels like a powerful MINIBIKE height-wise compared to the Atlas. Piet, I wonder if Injector nosels differ much from the idle jet size in the Atlas, I guess Injectors run at much great pressure than carb jets. 40ish psi on Ducatis?
 
Being a builder Vince would have thought you'd have a concrete slab and pathway layed.The sagas you have getting you bikes in and out I'd have done that years ago
 
Have you ever tried building anything in North Sydney, it's a DA to build anything from a Gararge to an Oil Refinery. The last thing I ever wanted to do was more building work on the 130-year-old Federation house after 2 Bathroom renos, a Kitchen reno a full paint job on 3-metre ceilings and walls throughout the 5 bedrooms and an addition on the rear. Well over Building work for me.
 
The Council rangers would be here immediately, it's not exactly a bush block, living in an upmarket area has the byproduct of dickhead neighbours. Had it happen on other small jobs. The neighbours drop a dime and the fines are huge. Guess how I know. So no one else uses anything under a side stand when you park on the grass. Have you ever seen any pictures of the Queensland Concourse when everyone gets this to avoid any damage? Jees Zero in on the big news.
 
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Really Vince, it's just a concrete pathway. How are the authorities ever going to know. You have just fucked your back dealing with your back yard.
Bit of form work, a concrete mixer and materials. just do a small section over a couple of weeks and presto, life is suddenly a shit load easier.
A few cartons of beer and a couple of mates jobs done.
 
So what your saying is you have to have council approval just to build a pathway in your back yard?? It's not exactly a structure.
Tell your neighbors to fuck off and mind their own business. Mate best thing I did was get the fuck out of Sydney, and I was living on the northern beaches, the only place to live in Sydney, right TC?. Too many people, cars, toll roads and time sitting in traffic. Ever thought about moving somewhere better?
 
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Really Vince,
A few cartons of beer and a couple of mates jobs done.
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That’s the way to get things done……..

Have Sasha, standing on the footpath to warn off the nosey neighbours!💪🏼 I’d even ride up from Vic just for the entertainment 🤣🤣
As long as I could trowel off Vince….. Nice non slip scroll finish for you 😉
 
motoddrob said:
So what your saying is you have to have council approval just to build a pathway in your back yard?? It's not exactly a structure.
Tell your neighbors to fuck off and mind their own business. Mate best thing I did was get the fuck out of Sydney, and I was living on the northern beaches, the only place to live in Sydney, right TC?. Too many people, cars, toll roads and time sitting in traffic. Ever thought about moving somewhere better?
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Even the Northern Beaches is pretty rooted now Rob, way too many people, too many cars, a lot of the ones I can't stand :rolleyes:
and the cult of "I love myself" is well and truly flourishing.
 
Thanks for the hint Rob 👍
Time to go play Exile On Main St, real loud.
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You think you've got it tough Vince? My house is in 3 overlapping planning schemes. I feel like I'm living in the middle of a Venn diagram. Two of them are heritage planning schemes with different (and sometimes contradictory) requirements and the other is just the normal council planning scheme that everyone has to comply with.

To build anything, I have to lodge 3 independent DA's that address each of the planning schemes, and there's a fee to submit each one. Then in order to go ahead, the project needs 3 approvals and 3 permits to build, each one attracting its own fee. There's always a risk that it'll get through two schemes, but get knocked back on the third, so you've paid for three DA submissions and two permits, but still can't build anything. You have to do your homework very thoroughly to avoid that happening.

Getting my shed built was a paperwork nightmare and all the fees ended up costing a good percentage of the total project cost.

After my experience with the shed, I now try to fly under the radar. I just do shit without telling anybody. They can't see inside my house, so I never put in a DA for internal work, even if it involves structural alterations. I've done structural stuff like moving walls around that's supposed to go through planning approval, but fuck 'em. I was a bit concerned when I put in a skylight that's visible from the outside. But it's been a decade or so now and nobody has noticed.

I also put up a rotary clothesline without permission. Seriously, that actually requires approval under the heritage schemes, but it wasn't such a big risk as I could just pull it out again if anyone objected. So far nobody has.

Temporary stuff is exempt, so I extended my shed storage space by plonking a 20-foot shipping container next to it. A container isn't a building, right? (don't tell anyone about the massive concrete footings I put in to support it). I also built a bloody great frame over three fruit trees and put netting over it to keep the parrots and possums out. One neighbour had a bit of a whinge about that, but I just said it's temporary. I'll probably have to disassemble it after I've harvested all the fruit.
 
My place is Heritage listed as well. I was midway through a Concrete block Double garage design about 15 years ago when I gave up. A big tax bill didn't help. You either have the time and no money or the money and no time. It was getting crazy with bond beams etc. The drawing requirements were nuts, shade diagrams for the sun position through the year, Heritage Architect signing off, loads of Requirements etc ext. The shed I have is an old tin site shed with a gal steel floor frame and a compressed 18mm sheet floor and a reinforced tin door. It's secure and does the job. I do go overboard occasionally, my rear double gates are swung from 2/ 100 x100 x 6 3mitre long gal posts sunk into the ground 1200 mm and set with 10 bags of quick set each. Both gates are made from Tig welded 50 x 50 square section Alloy 2.5mitres wide each with a 1200mm sliding alloy section bolt across the middle and clad with Treated pine palings. There have been there for 10 years and haven't saged a mm in that time. It's nice to have one long-term win occasionally
 
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