{"id":3095,"date":"2013-09-03T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.14.234.116\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2013-09-03T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T07:46:14","slug":"ceto-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Ceto lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cetorhinus maximus: The greatest of the family of nosed ones?\u00a0 In any case, the big bike finally told me its name. Ceto.\u00a0 Beaker was pretty easy when &#8216;Meee mooo Meeeee!!!!&#8217; was the noise it makes when you wind through the gears.\u00a0 The big monster has been silent.\u00a0 For over 2 years.\u00a0 Well&#8230; I finally got it.<\/p>\n<p>A known minor issue (as opposed to a widespread issue like the Superhawk CCT failures were) on the Concours forums is that the steering head bearings have a tendency to loosen, which is usually exhibited by a distinct &#8216;clicking&#8217; in the front end under hard braking.\u00a0 Having already done custom bearings when I swapped the triples on the Superhawk a couple of years ago, I knew that going with tapered needle bearings from All Balls Racing was the way to go.\u00a0 A quick order and not so quick &#8216;waiting on the slow boat from China&#8217; shipping period, I had replacement bearings in hand.\u00a0 Disassembly wasn&#8217;t too difficult, since the old bearing races came out without too much protest.\u00a0 And then it hit me:<br \/>\n<a href=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3091\" alt=\"wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2.jpg\" src=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3090-20130831-Flying-Bike2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There it was&#8230; A giant basking shark, hanging out in my garage.\u00a0 In looking for the picture I knew I had seen before, mouth agape scooping plankton, I ran across the scientific name of this beast.\u00a0 Cetorhinus Maxiumus.\u00a0 In the same order as the Great White, but not as fast, and mostly harmless. Ceto the large one.\u00a0 The fish devours tiny sea animals, the bike just devours road.\u00a0 And now, following the extremely difficult re-pressing of the bearing races into the top and bottom of the steering stem&#8230; (quite possibly one of the most [expletive deleted] &#8211; [more expletives deleted]&#8230; let&#8217;s say [i]frustrating[\/i] re-assemblies I&#8217;ve ever accomplished), we&#8217;re all buttoned back up.\u00a0 Test ride with some good braking maneuvers, and we&#8217;re back in business!<br \/>\n<a href=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3093\" alt=\"wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647.jpg\" src=\"Https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid3092-20130902-IMG_0647.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also does well set down from &#8216;anti-gravity maneuvers&#8217;&#8230; not that those happen often. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cetorhinus maximus: The greatest of the family of nosed ones?\u00a0 In any case, the big bike finally told me its name. Ceto.\u00a0 Beaker was pretty easy when &#8216;Meee mooo Meeeee!!!!&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}