And you said many bad things about Koso!!

Uh oh!

 

There clearly was a contact failure in the connector as well since wiggling it made the gauge work momentarily and deleting the connector made the erratic speedo a little more consistent in it's erraticness still showing bupkis readings so it seems this was, assuming I got it fixed now, a sum of several things. And the fact that I've gotten absolutely zero responses to my multiple queries about the problem from koso alone is enough for me to steer clear of the company in the future, how can I make a warranty claim about a product if no one answers my emails? So I got nothing to defend or take back about my sayings since the grounding issue was NOT the only, or the main problem with the gauge, only the (hopefully) last of many.

 

Yup, done deal, improving the ground did the trick. Just got back from a nice little evening ride, 154km of trouble free carving through some backwoods twisties, as well as a few patches of motorway. Although I think that my navigator that I brought with me has some signal issues as somehow the top speed memory is currently showing 211km/h, now we wouldn`t dream of doing anything so irresponsible would we?

Anyway starting to get to grips with the bike and more familiar with the fighter style riding position instead of clipons and through that starting to get more speed through the twisties. The bike could really handle tighter sprocket ratio IMO, I got a -1 front with stock rear and I practically never use the sixth gear on the roads I ride, gonna put more aggessive teething on it the next time round and get even more acceleration, top speed it has plenty since no fairings so riding anything past 120km/h feels your head is being torn off.


BTW kudos to RAM mounts, the GPS mount is rock solid in any speed even without the protection of the fairings.

Still gotta re-re-retape the front harness back together though but after that it should be pretty much done.

 

Started a little mini project today as I happened to get a hold of some material for free (and bought a little more)



First off I needed to cut out some bits. The shavings clogged the vacuum port immediately so I managed to make a helluva mess. That white rod I got for free, and the black one I went and bought. The material is called Acetal copolymer, or more commonly known as POM C. Nylon would have been better for the black part but they only had white so I went with that, even though it is much denser and harder so it might split if hit hard enough, but hopefully I`ll never really need these.

Keep in mind that this is just a crude proof-of-concept test, not a finished product.



The super scientific method of finding the center.



The fact that the hole is oval is made on purpose. The fact that it`s off-centered is not. But it doesn`t matter.



Man this stuff really IS hard! Difficult to get a drill to bite. I first made a 20mm hole for the first 15mm or so, and then drilled through with a 10mm bit.



I then sawed a 45 degree cut to the white part with a mitre box...



...to create a crude wedge-anchor, hence the oval hole.







Works like a charm and bites really hard with minimal need to tighten the bolt. The hole is ever so slightly off-centered but I don`t suppose it`ll show that much once I`ve sanded a bevel to the outer edge.



As expected the rear pipe is sitll hitting the ground a little. Realized about half a second late that it would have been a wise idea to put some cartboard in between there and managed to make slight markings on the pipe, I was able to somewhat fade them out with a black marker though...



Still feels strange to tip the bike over on purpose...

 

Got time to finish the crash bungs today. I was actually going for a somewhat rugged look but they did come out a bit more... scrapey than what I had planned so might sill give them a light sanding with water later. Or not...



Finally got round to clean up the garage as well, it was starting to get pertty damn messy again so had to pick myself from the neck and get cleaning. Was ready at around 1am...



Also finally managed to actually build that chemical shelf I`ve been talking about for the last year, also gonna move all the bolts to the pickup boxes under the shelf once I buy six more boxes and three rails for them to get two rows.



Cleared up some room under the socket holders, gonna have to move some stuff around to get more space and logic to the wall. Also gonna go buy some more holders for the ratchets and pliers.

 

Got the seat latch mechanism done last night. I drilled another holes to the bracket legs and filed them to create adjuster slots. Not pretty but works. Also welded a square head socket to the handle hole so it can be opened with a half inch ratchet or if in a pinch basically anything that will turn the socket enough.



I just love this thing. Fully automatic, basically the only things you have to touch are the power button and the twist **** to adjust the material thickness. When you learn what it does with what thickness you don't have to touch the other settings at all, if you don't want to. With my welding skills doesn't make a difference fiddling with them anyway.



Thanks to the cross slide vice I was able to drill seven holes in a slightly overlapping zigzag pattern and one hand filing session from hell later ended up with this. Not bad IMO. I tried milling the hole but I've been told that the morse chuck in the drill cannot take sideways loads and it sure sounded exactly like that so I stopped pretty quickly.



Latch in place. It's not THAT bad... specially since no one can see it with the seat in place.



I adjusted the position so that when I drop the seat in place the angle iron sits on top of the latch...



...and when I push the seat down it bends a little dropping down to it's place. One more push from the rear end locks the seat with a very satisfying *click*
Success!



A little crappy picture but I can now remove the seat by twisting the socket from the undertail. I plugged the old two holes with furniture plugs but the socket sits so close to the undertail that it hits the plug so it doesn't fit, at least without modification. If excessive amounts of crap doesn't fly in probly gonna leave it open.





I can now get the gel seat pad on and off for longer trips. Had to try a few different ways to get the straps on so that the pad doesn't move around.







This is a good example why I love the paintwork so much, the shade changes very radically from light blue in a direct sunlight to almost black in the shade when looked at from an angle. That is also the only angle when you can see that the tail fairing sits very slightly crooked to the left. I don't know has the subframe bent from a crash before me or what it is but if I twist it so that it is straight, none of the bolt holes align. Doesn't really matter though cause you have to know to notice and basically compare the lines to see it.

 

Guys this is not looking good... not good at all...

Long story short some years back my grandmother died and me and my sister inherited the house. It was an old one, built in '48 and never properly renovated so since neither of us wanted to move in (it's in an another city some 150km away) we put it for sale, after ordering a very expensive and thorough inspection. Based on the statement we got we put it up for sale as a habitable house and sold it as such, basically for the price of the lot I might add. Turned out the old portion of the house is rotten through and we are being held legally responsible for a part of the repair costs. How much exactly still lingers but it is heavily starting to look like that to cover my part of the expenses I most probably will have to unwillingly and forcefully sell the Daytona since it is the only non-essential personal property I have that is valuable enough... I trust I don't have to even define my level of disappointmnent, frustration and pissed-offness as I fear no scale or measure will even begin to touch it... I can't, or even if I can, I won't take any more loan since I'm barely coping with the payments as is and as mentioned there is a newcomer arriving at christmas time... been sulking over this for the past week or so trying to come up with a some sort of a plan B but it is looking very grim... dunno if I even can get the bike sold as it is a bit of a specialty, but what I do know is that for under 6k it will not budge, I'll go dig trenches at night time before giving it away... hundreds of manhours and I don't even know how much but probly over 2k to paint and parts down the hatch, thank you have a good day.

 

That's a sad story. Somehow we do get through things of this nature. It takes time however. Best of luck with the house.

 

Bikes as well as other material things can be replaced. It's the last sentence I'm the most ticked off about... I was planning to keep this one for quite a while but apparently someone else had better plans for me... I'll be wiser over the coming weeks but it's more a matter of how much and when than if or not so money has to be made at some point...

 

The initial inspection company has no liability in this?


Having sold and bought a couple of homes, the home inspector is financially responsible for major problems not found in the initial inspection that are material to the home's value.