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What did you do in your garage today..?

Swapped my Sena from my snowmobile helmet back to my street helmet. Seeing as my RPHA is now 7yrs old I’m looking at the RPHA 70 ST to replace it this year or next.
 
Dropped a cam retainer down the chain slot.

New trick - rare earth magnet on the cam chain.

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Luckiest day ever. 30 second recovery.
 
When a front T10 parking bulb had burnt out (in less than 10,000km btw) on the BMW I swapped in a set of LED I had sitting in the shop over the winter. First startup of the Spring I get a light error for the stupid canbus crap. Didn’t think about it as my last bikes already came with led lighting. Anywho, $14 on Amazon got me a pack of 10 replacement error-free led’s so back out came the needle nose pliers and swapped a pair in. White headlights, no errors.
 
When a front T10 parking bulb had burnt out (in less than 10,000km btw) on the BMW I swapped in a set of LED I had sitting in the shop over the winter. First startup of the Spring I get a light error for the stupid canbus crap. Didn’t think about it as my last bikes already came with led lighting. Anywho, $14 on Amazon got me a pack of 10 replacement error-free led’s so back out came the needle nose pliers and swapped a pair in. White headlights, no errors.
I don't know if it's the same issue, but there's a thread over on ADV about the S1000XR which I read through when I was considering it as a bike and they were saying that one of the OEM lights (maybe headlight, I can't recall), seem to always go out every 10-20k and didn't matter if it was a newer gen or an older gen.
 
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I don't know if it's the same issue, but there's a thread over on ADV about the S1000XR which I read through when I was considering it as a bike and they were saying that one of the OEM lights (maybe headlight, I can't recall), seem to always go out every 10-20k and didn't matter if it was a newer gen or an older gen.
Yes this is very common. The last two I've owned, 2012 R1200GS and 2019 R1250RT followed that pattern. It doesn't seem to matter the quality of the bulb and replacement is awkward but doable with a few hand and finger wounds. Problem solved with the new models of both GS and RT as they are full LED now.
 
Front wheel bearings and 3 legs fork oil change. Finished one fork leg and started on the second to find my bottle of lighter oil still unopened, errrr!!! so I got to go back in and redo the first as well.
 
Pulled a new tire out of box and got to thinking how my nice new jack is already in use under the project on the lift.
Project is now a roller but lift is not wide enough to use kick stand to free lift.
Getting project off lift onto floor to free jack means moving the sled.
Moving the sled means moving the....and so on.
 
Pulled a new tire out of box and got to thinking how my nice new jack is already in use under the project on the lift.
Project is now a roller but lift is not wide enough to use kick stand to free lift.
Getting project off lift onto floor to free jack means moving the sled.
Moving the sled means moving the....and so on.

Sounds like 6 more weeks of winter.
 
I got high on paint fumes.

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Was unable to start my "new" TL1000S for my brother when he was over on Saturday. After recovering emotionally and scratching my head, I figured out at some point somebody had spliced in a new connector for the starter relay. The connector looks great! The splices though...
 
A buddies late father brought a couple of 40mm Bofor shells back from Korea. I turned up dummy projectiles for them and yesterday they got the first coat of paint.
I'm looking forward to the forthcoming news article about EOD being dispatched from Borden when someone found shells in their dad's basement.
 
Back in when we lived in Scarborough (over 50 years ago) my Dad pulled up some concrete walk at the side of the house and found some kind of old shell/ordanence that had to be removed.
 
Scarborough's "Golden Mile"

Surrounded by farmland until the 1940s this stretch of Eglinton Avenue from Pharmacy Avenue to Birchmount Road became famous in the 1950s as Scarborough's Golden Mile of Industry" - a hub of large -scale manufacturing and a celebrated symbol of post-war prosperity.

The area's transformation began during World War II when the government of Canada acquired a vast tract of farmland for a munitions plant known as GECo (General Engineering Company). After the war the Township of Scarborough purchased the plant and additional surrounding land for proposed development. Some of the munitions plant buildings became municipal offices a Council Chamber and a public library branch while other buildings were leased or sold to small businesses.

In 1950 ball bearings giant Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF) acquired part of the GECo lands and the industrial boom of the Golden Mile began.
 

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