More Balls than Motorcycle Control…
I think you would need more courage than motorcycle control, especially as , should you have a moment of weakness, the whole troupe would come crashing down.
How to keep warm on a motorcycle…
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Hello y’all,
Things have been quiet on the yamyam front for the past week or so due to me starting another artwork. However this one is zipping along nicely so I should be able to get some posts up soon. Anyway, as I was trawling through backlogs of stuff I found this and thought you should see it!
Well…it’s certainly one way of keeping warm. I saw this in Glasgow last year around November.
Brilliant.
Check out www.gordonfraserartwork.co.uk to keep up to date on my artworks.
All the best
Gordon
New Motorcycle Artist – Check it out!
Hi All,
You may or may not have noticed on the right hand side of YamYamBiker.com for a wee while has been a big banner, pixellated for the most part.
Well the day has come where I shall reveal what I have been up to.
And it’s this:
I’ve got a new hobby, and it’s creating ultra realistic artworks. This is not a photograph or indeed a Photoshop alteration of a photograph. This artwork has taken me 3 long months of evening and weekend work (on top of my day job) to finish.
Check out the website here: www.gordonfraserartwork.co.uk for more details on this and other artworks, and how I went about creating it.
I’m really excited about it and have already started my 2nd work – Ben Spies on his Yam R1 winning the World Superbike Championships.
Thanks
Gordon
Yamaha MT-03 Burnt Ass
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Hey folks.
I was just browsing through some old photos there and came across some of the MT-03 seat incident that I had a while back. I wrote briefly about it here, but unfortunately it seemed to skip past without any dedicated post about it. I think that was during my riding only period, where I never bothered to update YY. Shame on me.
So just as a wee updater, my first bike was a Yamaha MT-03, brand new. I rode it for 5,000 miles and then out of the blue, the rear of the bike melted.
It looked something along the lines of this (these photos were taken the same day of the incident) :
It was a good looking bike you know.
So the seat looked like this from the outside. I thought “why’s my stitching burst?”
The carnage that lay underneath. There was a toolkit melted in to this as well!
To the right centre of this image, at the bottom, you can see where the texture of the toolkit has made an imprint on to the plastic. It shows just how hot it is, if fabric can leave a textured imprint on hard plastic.
The frame was in direct view of the hole that I discovered in the exhaust, so was also heated up to whatever temp comes out of an exhaust. Very hot, enough to melt the shrink wrap over the cables.
The hole. It’s amazing how something as small as a weld can create such a big mess. This was about an inch in length. Amazing.
This picture shows how the plastic shield melted as well.
This is the bottom of the pillion grab handle, and you can see the charred carbon residue left on the bottom of it.
A wee arrow showing the location of the failed weld. It’s actually on the other side but I don’t have a photo of it.
So there you go. It still amazes me that we got away with it. I can only imagine the mess that could have resulted had Emma been on the back. And I’m still a bit disappointed with the way Yamaha dealt with it, by saying “Tough.”
Well this problem and the attitude from Yamaha made me decide to leave…and buy a Buell. And what a fantastic decision it was.
I wonder if anyone else has had this issue with regards to failing welds.
Anyway, a tale for the YamYam book anyway.
