Speed triple Sunday

weather suits motorcycling. But its still freezing cold. 15degrees celcius.

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Bahco 87+7 socket set

This is my main tool set. I have no complains about it. Nothing has failed and everything is great.

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Bahco tools: 1446 knife

The 2444 Bahco ‘tool’ knife has always been my favorite cheap ‘tool’ knife. This model is some new model 1446, it’s similar, but it doesn’t have the rubber parts in the handle. Other than that it seems like the same as 2444. Price approx. 5euros.

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Bahco tools: 1/4 small socket set

here is little series of some of the tools I use. I have noticed I have lot of Bahco tools. So let’s review some of my favorite Bahco tools.

Starting out with 1/4″ small socket set.

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Season begins…

awesome weather.

Go pro and case-mate

What comes out of joining case-mate galaxy s2 cover and old go pro helmet hero mount. It makes one helluva phone mount that can be used to attach the phone to atv or motorcycle. And to use it as a videocamera or as a navigation device. I’m planning to try it with google talk videostream. So i could contact friends when driving atv or motorcycle and show where im rolling.

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Triumph’s new battery

The speed triple 1050 needed a new battery. The old one is not complete waste, but it is not as powerfull i would like. The rest voltage sits at 12.5 and drops to 12.3 in couple of weeks. With power on the voltage goes under 12 almost immediately. It then drops to 11,7 in couple of minutes if lights are on.

The last battery was Varta AGM (absorbted glass matt battery). But this kind of battery needs little higher voltage to reach full charge and speed triple charging voltage is little low to accomplish the full charge. It usually loads with 13,9 volts. AGM battery needs 14.5 or so get full. So after driving 10 hours with 13.9volt charge, the AGM could be still not full.

The new battery is yuasa ytx12bs. I’ve had good results always with Yuasa batteries. They also provide little higher starting current and voltage, so they are good for bikes that are hard starters, like HD’s or Triumphs.

One good tip is to always mark the date to the new battery. This way it’s easy to remember when it was changed. I also mark it to maintenance booklet.

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Atv on snow

Perfect day. Foot of snow,but so hard that is can be driven with atv. Access to all places. Even places that are inaccessable during summer. These kind of days remind me how much value used atv brings. It has amazing value for just playing around and it can also haul logs. And the mass production makes used atv’s so cheap that almost anyone can get one. Without the mass production these things would have to be build and building even half as good vehicle would cost alot.

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