Maybe if the bike moved as mysteriously as the thread, Chammy would be happy with it.

 

Whoa! Great idea, we recently had a bike with lose of power due to the missing "h" shaped things that hold the soft intake rubber from collapsing.

The question is if they are in place. If they are then the bike may need to have the rubber boots reamed out.

 

A rubber boot reamer? Thats what they call a street walkers book keeper isn't it?

 

If you have floppie rubbers on your bike anywhere, you need to re-read the manual. Dangerous, that is

The only ring ripper we have here is the Tax Man......................hate the bastik !
Favourite phrase of the moment here is
"how much did you earn last year ? "
SEND IT TO ME......

hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him, h.....

 

^^^^^^

As the saying goes Pete. The only things that are certain is death and taxes

He takes a nice big slice of my pie as well

 

If it were not for taxes...I'd be rich!

 

well another week or 2 or whatever it is and just under 2k miles on it.

Done a compression test again, all fine.

Pulled the carbs to check the jets, full size jets, still spotless inside from when I last cleaned them, the float height fine at the slightly richer 9mm opposed to the UK 9.5mm height.

Pulled the clutch for a look, previous owner must have got new steels as they are perfect.

My wee sister had a shot of it, she got 140 out of it before having to slow for traffic, said it was still pulling she quite likes it as cruising at the ton is nicer on that than her VF750F so I think it'll be going to her.

I had a play with a mate who has a Suzi TLR and it pumped him. So it seems that it is ok, just not what I hoped at all.

I was thinking of turboing it but the truth is the Hayabusa has had a lot more R&D on it so everything is cheap and easily bolted on and easy to get 200bhp + from them.

What sort of range do you guys get from a tank? One of my pretty much full throttle jaunts had the tank totally dry just under 100 miles (do the same on the CBX) sitting behind traffic behaving myself 70 mph tops I have yet to get more than 150 miles to a tank (same speed I managed over 200 miles on the CBX which has a 1 litre smaller tank).

 

140 miles if I thrash it, 170-180 miles at a steady 85 MPH until I hit reserve.
If you run at over 90+ MPH all the time, she'll be thirsty.............