It was raining lightly when I got it going today, so what to do?
New tires for the dirt bike
I’ve e had new tires for the dirt bike for about a month or so. I put off installing them as my bad back was giving me a bad time but now it’s a bit better so today was the day.
Tire tools
But first I had to find the special tire changing tools. I looked where they should have been more than once and couldn’t find them. I didn’t give up and finally found them in a cardboard box I was going to get rid of eventually, so I now had no excuses not to do them.
Guy on YouTube
About a month ago I was checking out YouTube for how to change these kinds of tires as I haven’t done one of them in years. One guy I watched was really good at it so I saved the address to his video but I had to remember where I put that and finally found it.
I watched it several times and also watched the part I worked on for each step just before I started each step and things went pretty good doing it that way.
Let’s get to it
Now that I had all the tools and the video knowledge I jacked up the bike and took the front tire off as that one was supposed to be the easiest one to do and it was.
All I had to do was get the old front tire off the rim and put the new one on. It did go pretty easy especially watching the guy on YouTube do it first.
Back tire
I put the new front tire back on the bike and took off the back tire. It was supposed to be the harder one to do and it was, but I got it with a bit of effort.
I got the old back tire off without much trouble.
But getting the new back tire on was a bit more of a problem as the rubber is a bit thicker than the front tire, but I got it with a bit of persistence.
Test drive
It started to rain some more just as I got the new back tire on the bike. I got the wheel with the new tire all adjusted and needed to go test it out with a ride, but it was too wet to go far, so I just rode it around the yard a bit.
Clunky sound
There was a clunky sound from the back tire area that took me a bit of time to figure out what was wrong. After a few test rides I determined the tire was hitting the chain once in awhile causing that noise which wasn’t good. I put the bike back up on the jack stand and started the bike and watched the back tire go around. Seems the tire was a bit out of round for some reason which was causing the problem.
The spokes needed to be adjusted but that’s not an easy task and I was too beat to attempt that anyway.
Re-adjust it
I was really too beat to do that too, but it needed to be done so I adjusted the side of the tire away from the chain to hopefully miss the chain and took the bike for another test drive around the yard.
The clunk was gone. I’ll have to give it a good test drive up in the hills soon to really test it out. I only have a little adjustment left so I hope it’s good enough to work ok, otherwise I’ll need to get the wheel aligned to true it up.
When it’s a job like that you did what I would do. Buy the parts and wait for the mood to strike. I’m working myself up to using up some eggs with homemade lemon curd and an angel food cake. The cake takes 12 egg whites so you have to find something to use the egg yolks for. They might go good together. Maybe tomorrow :o)
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Argh. Sounds like you are on the best side of that job.
When it’s a job like that you did what I would do. Buy the parts and wait for the mood to strike. I’m working myself up to using up some eggs with homemade lemon curd and an angel food cake. The cake takes 12 egg whites so you have to find something to use the egg yolks for. They might go good together. Maybe tomorrow :o)