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All Right!! I may be there in 3 years. :-(
Rust-in-Peace's 150K NT, Seagrass from Oz, and Me...
- Thread starter Phil Tarman
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Good Luck! I can't hardly wait to see what the bike looks like now! If you want to just text me the pictures I can probably post them here.
Nice good luck! It's probably going to be 2 or more months before I'm able to ride again.
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why do you say 2 or more months before you can ride????????????????? info, info
I have 2nd degree burns on all of my fingers & some of my palm on my left hand. So I can't use the clutch and I am just taking a guess at a 2 month recovery time. P.S. I don't want to explain how it happened just know it's a long story.
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Ouch! That's gotta' hurt! Take care of yourself.
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There's that hondamatic in Maryville for $900, that might get you through this tough time.
Sorry I haven't been around much, been traveling a lot. Bike is doing great, wife not so much. She broke her foot and won't be riding for a while......
I couldn't figure out how to embed a photo, so I attached it.
I couldn't figure out how to embed a photo, so I attached it.
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At 150K+, that bike looks better than mine does at only 115K. It must not take as many naps. 
Wow!Sorry I haven't been around much, been traveling a lot. Bike is doing great, wife not so much. She broke her foot and won't be riding for a while......
I couldn't figure out how to embed a photo, so I attached it.
That doesn't even hardly look like my NT any more except for the white marks on the side case from when I dropped the bike in the Yukon.It looked like this on that side when I sold it.
What did you end up having to do to get it to look like that? Because it looks like a brand new bike now.
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On Facebook in the Deauville page, somebody posted a picture of a 2007 that had 167K miles on it and said it was the highest mileage Deauville they'd seen. I told them about your 2011 w/ 150K+.
Phil I think I saw that bike posted on ebay today. Was it this bike you are talking about? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142158371623
Ahh, it wasn't that bad. Just a few washes with some good soap and *gasp* a pressure washer.
So- here's what I actually did, really it's just a full bike detail.
1- Take the body work off.
2. soap- I like chemical guys stuff with soap and wax. it's great. Use a foam cannon to spray soap everywhere on the bike
3. pressure wash everything off. Oil, grime, whatever.
4. Do it again
5 Put Body work back on
6. Soap, pressure wash, soap, hand wash, soap pressure wash.
7. Now that it's clean, dry it off.
To detail/clean wheels- muriatic acid sprayed on the wheels dissolves brake dust instantly. Just spray it on, wipe it off. Then wash the wheels with water. Can't leave it on or it will eat through aluminum.
Windshield- plexus, that's it.
All in all, it took about an hour to an hour and a half.
After that, I broke out the cheap carbon fiber wrap from Ebay. It's good for making things look new and changing the look a little bit. wrapped the plastic parts that were faded grey.
Doesn't look too bad huh!
Since the cf wrap stuff is black, you may have to zoom in to see it all. that took a couple of hours because I am really slow at it.
So- here's what I actually did, really it's just a full bike detail.
1- Take the body work off.
2. soap- I like chemical guys stuff with soap and wax. it's great. Use a foam cannon to spray soap everywhere on the bike
3. pressure wash everything off. Oil, grime, whatever.
4. Do it again
5 Put Body work back on
6. Soap, pressure wash, soap, hand wash, soap pressure wash.
7. Now that it's clean, dry it off.
To detail/clean wheels- muriatic acid sprayed on the wheels dissolves brake dust instantly. Just spray it on, wipe it off. Then wash the wheels with water. Can't leave it on or it will eat through aluminum.
Windshield- plexus, that's it.
All in all, it took about an hour to an hour and a half.
After that, I broke out the cheap carbon fiber wrap from Ebay. It's good for making things look new and changing the look a little bit. wrapped the plastic parts that were faded grey.
Doesn't look too bad huh!
Since the cf wrap stuff is black, you may have to zoom in to see it all. that took a couple of hours because I am really slow at it.
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Ok- so how do you embed photos? I have a smug mug account and used the picture thing in the tool bar to no avail.
Pointers?
Pointers?
I use Flikr so there may be some differences... To embed a photo I upload it to Flikr and post it in my Public, as in anyone can view, Album / folder. Then I select the photo and click on the Share Photo icon. Next I select "Use BBCode" for the posting format and select the display size of the photo. Note: If you pick a "supersize" the software here will resize it to our max site limit. I then copy the BBcode displayed on Flikr and just paste / insert it in my text.
NT700Vhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/wecnwise/Let me know if you need any more help and we can go offline and look at your Smug Mug to compare it...
Got it! I wasn't using the BB code. I was using the URL and trying to use the upload button on the tool bar. On other sites that embeds the photo in the post.
Thank you for the help!
Thank you for the help!
when I had my NT I painted the plastic pieces. I really like the look of the carbon fiber wrap on the black bike. Good job.
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That's the one!
That mileage may be kilometers.
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Since the bike's in the UK, I'm guessing it's miles.
One of our guys on the UK forum is a courier and managed 267,000 miles on his original Deauville 650. His second 650 wasn't so good and gave him problems at 167,000 miles and was parted out. He replaced it with a 700, which he prefers, but it's way too early to talk about reliability with only 45k on the clocks. I've always believed, although I don't know if it's true, that the more you ride them, the fewer problems you'll have.