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Jveach's new bike project

Old May 3, 2012 | 02:59 PM
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I just ordered an undertail for it to clean up the rear. Should really make the bike look a lot better.
 
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Old May 3, 2012 | 03:03 PM
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Those fairings look expensive!
 
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Old May 3, 2012 | 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by gotcbr
Those fairings look expensive!
that's the funny part, The cheapest I could find them is for 1100 bucks, not including shipping. The guy had just bought them over the winter. Then the guy also changed out the motor and gave me all the warranty info and paper work on the new motor. The motor only has 9000 miles. Everything on the bike is brand new and I got it for about 2500 bucks. I did some trading to the bike, but the stuff I traded was an old gsxr750 that I had running good but It looked horrible I had 1300 in it, and a 89gmc 1500 long bed truck that was beat up and I only had 800 bucks in it.
 
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Old May 4, 2012 | 01:37 AM
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Shes an srad huh? Oil cooled? Ive always wanted an srad gsxr as a second bike ive always thought they were kind of cool. I didnt know they did that with the tl's
 
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Old May 4, 2012 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by jveach
that's the funny part, The cheapest I could find them is for 1100 bucks, not including shipping. The guy had just bought them over the winter. Then the guy also changed out the motor and gave me all the warranty info and paper work on the new motor. The motor only has 9000 miles. Everything on the bike is brand new and I got it for about 2500 bucks. I did some trading to the bike, but the stuff I traded was an old gsxr750 that I had running good but It looked horrible I had 1300 in it, and a 89gmc 1500 long bed truck that was beat up and I only had 800 bucks in it.
You got the better of the deal! ;-)
 
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Old May 4, 2012 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by nickp123
Shes an srad huh? Oil cooled? Ive always wanted an srad gsxr as a second bike ive always thought they were kind of cool. I didnt know they did that with the tl's


SRAD is just Suzuki's fancy way of saying ram air. All the bikes from 93 up are SRAD's lol, Just some people refer to the first gen 600's and 750's as being the true srad's. But yeah all the TL's had the SRAD logo on them also.

The TL has two radiators, It is liquid and oil cooled. These bikes make A LOT of heat. The bore on the twin is huge.
 
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Old May 4, 2012 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jveach
...The TL has two radiators, It is liquid and oil cooled. These bikes make A LOT of heat. The bore on the twin is huge.
Ditto for RC51. I def stay warm on cool winter rides. ;-)
 
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Old May 4, 2012 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by gotcbr
Ditto for RC51. I def stay warm on cool winter rides. ;-)

If it's anything like the Suzuki it gives a whole new meaning to the term crotch rocket. LoL, that rear cylinder sits right under you and keeps the gentlemen area nice and toasty all the time. HAHA
 
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Old May 5, 2012 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by nickp123
Shes an srad huh? Oil cooled? Ive always wanted an srad gsxr as a second bike ive always thought they were kind of cool. I didnt know they did that with the tl's
The old oil cooled gixxers range from 85-92 the first gens(85-87 750, 86-88 1100) are known as slab sides or slabby's and the second gens(88-92 750, 89-92 1100) are slingshots. Anything after that is liquid cooled.
 
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Old May 5, 2012 | 11:27 AM
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Im actually interested in buying one of these myself but disassembled so I maybe asking a few questions. I heard theres a sensor on the frame that cuts the engines power in 1st and 2nd gear so you dont flip the freaking thing over lol.
 
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