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Good morning, Good morning!

- George! - Hello my friend!

- I am here! I made it!

- How are you my friend? -What's going on?

- I brought it here with too many problems!

I am in Moschato, at X-power, this is the place I made the service 2 years ago,

and I am very happy about the work that was done back then, so I brought the bike once more,

and we are going to check EVERYTHING on the Transalp.

The bike is already inside and today I am going to start to strip it down....

We put the bike on the ramp and first thing we need to remove completely the water pump,

because I managed to cut one of the screw-heads while trying to empty the water...

because I was in a harry apparently..

The swing arm is down...

This is moving a lot huh...

What do you think George?

We going to check everything , no worries.

From the first look it looks like it has some wobble on it.

I think is normal after all these kilometres.

This is the fender of the rear wheel which it was broken and I managed to fix it with some glue,

but now it got broken again... This part costs 100 euro...

These things cost 1 euro

It's perfect!

I only need to cut the edges of the Tie-wraps and I am done.

I thing we don't need to remove them.

Last time we removed one of them so we could have more space.

Just remove the bolts, but don't remove any pipes and we see how it goes.

- Take this bolt. - This is the box for the radiator parts.

I just removed the regulator - rectifier and I found out that everything is burned... all the plugs are gone.

This is the most sensitive part of Honda...

I could see that there was a small problem because it was not charging the battery as it should.

I could see it on the voltage meter I have installed on the bike.

So I have to remove all those plugs and put new ones.

So we need to order those parts as well.

We are cleaning the throttle body and it's unbelievable how dirty it is.. there are some pieces coming out of it.

All these are only what we got out of the throttle body.

We need to have the sense that its passing a bit difficult.

Here we have a closed valve and the no15 filler is not even going through.

Maybe it's gone down to 10..

We really need to adjust this one. This is perfect.

So on the front cylinder we need to adjust only one of the valves. The exhaust valves are good as well...

The exhaust valves are both perfect.

We are trying with no20 filler and it's really tight.

if we try no 15 it's really loose.

Your exhaust valves are perfect, and on the intake valves we need only to adjust one of two.

So we need to turn the engine to adjust the rear cylinder valves.

We are looking for a mark that says "RT"

So the chain that was loose is now tensioned again. check it to see how it is.

isn't it too tight now?

No that's how it's supposed to be, check the front one to see that now they are on the same tension.

Your tensioner was stuck... on the rear cylinder.

This is something that might happen again I assume.

It may happen... but don't worry.. it's not something that should scare you.

It was stuck... I put some good amount of strength to unstuck it.

So we should put anything on it for lubrication?

No... that is lubricated from the engine oil.

So we lubricated all the cables and we removed the throttle and lubricated the throttle as well.

I removed the clutch cable, which I will have to change it since it's very close to break.

and let's put it back together.

I had to buy all the parts for the rear calliper, because in it came loose when I was going in Ancona,

and all the parts got scattered on the way there.

I am going to change the wheel rubber bushes as well

These are the original bushes and they have 175000km on them.

So we are installing some brand new bushes.

So all the basic and important jobs of the service are done...

Oil and oil filter change, spark plugs,

we also found the problem that made the engine sound strange which was the tensioner of the rear cylinder.

What else? We serviced the front suspension...

It's time to check the rear brake that gave me a lot of trouble during this last part of the trip,

so we removed and took apart the rear master cylinder and we found out that the piston inside was cracked.

that means it was building some pressure through the crack and that's why the calliper was braking all the time.

So we need to fix that as well and I thing we are almost done with the service.

So, here we are again.

we have 3 regulator - rectifiers and too many cables and nothing works, so we need to find the electric problem.

Mr. Manos, the electrician is here today to help us out with this situation

because the bike is not charging and it has to charge before I take it out of the shop.

So this is the last loading of the bike... Just getting ready to leave Athens, to go to Cyprus.

The unloading will be in Cyprus after this.

This is the last guy I say goodbye... Stratos!

To the rest of the guys I said my goodbyes at home.

I was not ready for video and I am a bit excited.

I had a drop from the bike! Adventure until the last day...

I am not hurt because it was very slippery. I just skied on my ass, but the bike suffers a bit.

For more infomation >> Ep 98 - 175.000km service - Honda Transalp 700 - Duration: 17:20.

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HONDA BEAT YELLOW AEROX "MESRA-MESRAAN" DENGAN VIA RICUH | SAPPORO ULTIMATE - Duration: 5:53.

For more infomation >> HONDA BEAT YELLOW AEROX "MESRA-MESRAAN" DENGAN VIA RICUH | SAPPORO ULTIMATE - Duration: 5:53.

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Lorenzo disputes Crutchlow's Honda/Ducati assessment - Duration: 3:50.

The RC213V made a big step forward in 2018, enabling Honda to sweep the riders', teams' and manufacturers' titles, but Crutchlow – who rode a works Ducati and a satellite Yamaha in the past - insisted that the bike remained the most unwieldy and challenging in MotoGP

Lorenzo, who struggled for stamina aboard his previous Ducati bike before a fuel tank change turned his 2018 campaign around, was left disagreeing with Crutchlow's assessment after sampling the Honda for the first time in post-season testing

"I don't agree about his comment, I don't know, because he's in Honda for several years already, maybe the bike changed or he don't remember how was the other bike," Lorenzo said

"My feeling is that the bike is not as physical as the Ducati, and in that area I will not have so many problems in the future

"In Jerez [testing] I wasn't fit completely and I could ride quite well. So I'm not worried about that area, honestly

" Lorenzo was still recovering from his late-season injuries when he rode the RC213V in Valencia and Jerez last year, but feels he has already made big steps in becoming familiar with the bike

"It's very difficult to get the adaptation to the bike in MotoGP, is very complicated, as I could feel and live with the Ducati," he admitted

"So it's not simple, but the adaptation with the Honda, even if I wasn't fit completely, was quite well in Valencia and Jerez

" Having fractured his left wrist in training ahead of the 2019 season, Lorenzo will skip the opening pre-season test at Malaysia's Sepang track

But despite this, as well as the fact he wasn't fully fit in Valencia and Jerez, the three-time champion is convinced the three-day test in Qatar in late February will make for sufficient preparation

"In Valencia was all about position, ergonomy and try to do as many laps as possible, knowing I wasn't fit on the wrist especially

"Then in Jerez we started testing new parts already, especially the second day, so we could see some new little parts that were better than the previous ones

"In Sepang they will have even more new pieces to test, that I will not be able to test

I will do it in the next test in Qatar - so more or less I will have the same quantity of test that [I had] when I went from Yamaha to Ducati

"Could be worse, could be much worse, [the injury] could happen during the middle of the championship

So knowing the bad luck of the situation, is not so unlucky."