Pinned So what have you done to your bike today?

No wrenching tonight. Riding. It's a balmy 7*c tonight so I've been going everywhere on the ZXR. For a random ride, to the gym, out on the freeway (it'll do 130kph! Lol) cruising at 9500 RPM in 6th is a trip. I haven't had that since my Ninja 250 days. It'd hold 90mph- looks like I have some tuning to do.

Definitely lean tho. Dead spot hard in second. Won't rev over about 14 in first, 12 in any other gear. Acts like a slipping clutch except for the fact the revs don't climb.

Dyno soon, for sure. For tonight tho? I RIDE!

 

Removed the seized motor from Bruiser last night. Will be doing the same with the good one on Eric next and fitting it onto Bruiser's frame.
Lots of pics taken, updates coming to the build thread soon!

 

Haven't been on here for a while but.......getting the CBR ready for BSFof SPEED. New rad just arrived and just a general tidy up of the fairings ( Kiff can you do me some more numbers)also Ns 500 coming together. Ill post some pics tomorrow.

 

Nice one... anyone else going to the barry sheene? Be good to catch up & meet some new faces

 

Kickstarted Eric and ran him for a while to heat the oil so it drained better.
Confirmed that the headlight works while he's running.
Went to drain oil and discovered a loose sump plug had already done it for me (or possibly I'd never replaced it after I last drained it)
Removed everything from Eric that was in the way of the motor being removed, as well as a few things that weren't.
Removed the working motor from Eric.
Will be fitting it in the good frame that used to be Bruiser and swapping the rest of the good parts over at some stage over the weekend.

 

Are you sure it's lean? Lean seems most likely, I thought lean usually feels like you ran out of fuel, while rich makes a droning kind if noise, right?

 

This week (because it takes all week to do anything worth mentioning) I finally fixed the front brakes on the Honda shadow 200, and I started working on the WR250F. I pulled the carby off to find this:

And the bowl still had stale fuel in it. I say had, because I discovered it when I tilted the carby and poured putrid fuel on myself. I'm now contemplating whether to strip everything and build from the ground up, or just make it go? The budget says I can't afford anything, timeline is saying the race season has already started and uni starts next week, and the shed is laughing at me for thinking I'll have time for anything with the amount of cleaning up to be do. Sigh. First-world problems.

 

Truthfully, dunno which it is. Lean seems way more likely based on everything in this thread.

 

Easiest way to check, get it on the dyno

 

So today, I put about 120km on the bike. Enough to figure out the clutch was toast too. (How does someone do this in 19k miles?!)

So I started searching 2fifty for what it takes to replace a clutch. Looks like I can get the plates here in the US off a KLR, but I found someone's post where they brought up "hey, the clutch can vibrate out of adjustment".

Hmmmmm. Yep. Right about tight enough to always have the clutch slipping. Now it runs hard and solid up to 15k in every gear.

Baby steps. Next, fuel tuning. It's CLOSE. This forum is awesome. I'd be so screwed without y'all.

 

Added a new bike to the stable. NX650

 

Great score Kirk !

 

That's wicked!

 

Have got some plans for this one. There's quite a few nice cafe/tracker conversions out there using the nx650 frame. Not much modification required either.

 

I plan to keep it original for quite some time. The way I'm planning on converting it I'll still be able to take it back to stock, but who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with it the way it is. These plans are way in the future so may never happen.

You can convince me of the merits of leaving it the way it is when we meet up in Drake.

 

murdo has said what i felt.

 

Eh, they're not rare bikes. What's the point of keeping a bike stock if you don't love it?

I mean, to me I can't mod my ZXR- it's 1 of 1 out here. Where you all are? There's no scarcity about them, I feel the same about that Honda. Have fun with it. There'll always be another one.