New bike..

Discussion in 'Australian Motorcycles' started by Kiva \(fka Damien\), Dec 17, 2003.

  1. Yeah, bloody sucker!

    Hammo
     
    Hamish Alker-Jones, Dec 22, 2003
    #81
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  2. Beats the shit out of me, honestly... I've just had a spin on a '96 ZX-6R
    (the ones Kawasaki were so nervous about that they set the valve clearance
    service interval at 6,000km) that's done 72,000km and feels tight as a drum,
    and there's no shortage of 50-, 60 and 70,000km old R1's, Fireblades and
    ZX9's that still hit just as hard as they ever did.

    And if J5 is listening, I wonder how my old FZR600, almost 15 years old and
    with who-knows-how-many hefty crashes and extended periods of hibernation
    behind it, is going.

    But, since there's also no shortage of late-model sportsbikes with shredded
    gearboxes and buggered valvetrains (a couple of GSX-R1000's I know of have
    started blowing major amounts of smoke with less than 20,000km on their
    clocks), you'd have to say that manufacturing tolerances probably still
    leave something to be desired, and some people score bikes which are put
    together just that little bit more snugly...

    ....it'd also help if people stopped thinking that if bike x puts the front
    wheel up with a dip of the clutch at 9,000rpm in 2nd, it means that it'll
    also do it at 12,000rpm in 3rd and 14,000rpm in 4th, if only they try hard
    enough.
     
    Intact Kneeslider, Dec 22, 2003
    #82
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  3. Kiva \(fka Damien\)

    Theo Bekkers Guest

    I think Pat was at my house today. Left a note in the mailbox saying
    'If you want your parcel, it's at the post office'.

    Theo
     
    Theo Bekkers, Dec 22, 2003
    #83
  4. Kiva \(fka Damien\)

    Theo Bekkers Guest

    "Neil Downe" wrote
    (wistfully) I remember elections.

    Theo
     
    Theo Bekkers, Dec 22, 2003
    #84
  5. Kiva \(fka Damien\)

    Johnnie5 Guest

    what ???

    they actually last that long mechanically
    and/or they actually get to get to that sort of kilomteters without being
    crashed beyoud recognition ??

    hmm Phil sold it to a mate of his and it could be still hiding in his shed
    and some people just **** bikes
    exactly Habib
     
    Johnnie5, Dec 22, 2003
    #85
  6. Off the top of my head:
    -Mark Stenberg the psycho lawyer's first-shipment '98 ZX9. Just passed it on
    to his son with something like 65,000km on it, still going strong.
    -A just-as-fast mate of his is supposed to have more than that on his
    similarly-fit 99 R1, and this is after it's been brough back from a pretty
    big stack at Eastern Creek.
    -One of my mates bought a 20,000km-old R1, and put another ~30,000 on it in
    the past three years, all of them caning the absolute bejesus out of the
    thing (think 3km-long 5th gear balance-point wheelies; I'd be 150m back,
    watching the odo tick over and shaking my head), the only casualty so far, a
    dodgy 2nd gear, replaced without drama. Lunacy as usual resumed immediately.
    -Another mate's '99 R1 is up well over 60,000km as well. This is the one on
    which valves didn't need adjusting after 55,000km.
    ....other than that:
    -First-shipment '00 GSX-R750: 62,000km this past February. Guy marshalls at
    Filco ride days.
    -'99 ZX-9R: ~25,000km in 18 months in the hands of the first
    attention-deficient headbanger owner. Something of the order of 50,000 in
    the hands of the second since. On its second gearbox, rest of the motor
    still solid as.
    -First-shipment '98 R1: **** knows, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was
    pushing even 80,000 by now. Guy raced Xtreme in its inaugural season and
    would ride 99% of people out there into a ditch (the only guy on here to
    dust him out on the track, I imagine, would be Daron). His thing used to be
    to pootle on the straights, then divebomb into corners on better than 50%
    throttle. Hands down one of the top 5 riders I've ever seen.

    There's bloody hundreds of them out there. Hell, at the rate I was going, by
    now, my R1 would be up over the 75,000km mark (and I wouldn't've sold it,
    either; scary how attached I was to that bike)
    But that's just the thing. Of the blokes I listed above, most
    ride_very_fucking_hard._Not just kamikaze speeds through the twisties,
    either but also 90-minute wheelie sessions and the odd burnout to farewell a
    rear tyre, precisely the sort of thing which is supposed to kill a bike.
    Most of them aren't_that_fussy about maintenance (oil at
    manufacturer-prescribed intervals, not the paranoid twice as often, grease
    for the head bearings and the rear shock linkage when they get around to
    it).

    This is why I'm genuinely surprised when I come across 15,000, 20,000km old
    sportsbikes which_are_fucked. What do these people do? Sit in their garages
    and try to play their favourite R&B tune on the revlimiter in neutral?
    Ya-allah.
     
    Intact Kneeslider, Dec 22, 2003
    #86
  7. Kiva \(fka Damien\)

    GB Guest

    Distant past. I got them erection things figured out. Once every
    10 or so years, a bunch of people come from the Erection Board
    or something, and ring ya doorbell.

    I've learned that if you answer the bell with "Hello?" and
    they go "We're from the Erectile Commission", and you go
    "IF YOU RING THAT FUCKIN' DOORBELL ONE MORE TIME I'M CALLIN'
    THE COPS" then you automatically get taken off the erectile
    roll, and you never have to vote again.

    (And before any harsh bastard interjects, yes, erections are
    still perfectly achievable!)

    :)

    G
     
    GB, Dec 22, 2003
    #87
  8. Kiva \(fka Damien\)

    Damien Guest

    I would, but I don't think they'll let me take them on the cruise ship! :)

    Damien (otherwise I'd have a box full!)
    GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600
     
    Damien, Dec 22, 2003
    #88
  9. On 22/12/03 2:42 PM, in article

    Ha, it has contracted the GPz11 gremlin. Pressing and holding the horn was
    a cure. You could google that up if you want!!

    HTH

    Hammo
     
    Hamish Alker-Jones, Dec 22, 2003
    #89
  10. } "Pat Heslewood" wrote
    }
    } > Pat'll be there to pick it up today---he said he'd be there...
    }
    } I think Pat was at my house today. Left a note in the mailbox saying
    } 'If you want your parcel, it's at the post office'.

    Got one of those too, yesterday. No wonder Pat can't ever appear at
    event if he's dashing around the globe like that.

    The parcel was for the upgraded ignition box for the GS, BTW.

    --
    // Rik Steenwinkel '85 R80ST Skippy bike
    // Enschede '91 R100GS/PD The Great Unwashed
    // Netherlands ('76 Honda CB250G Bouwpakketje)
    // "Far away is only far away '90 K75C Kommutabike
    // if you don't go there" '81 MZ TS250/1+LSW Badkuip
     
    Rik Steenwinkel, Dec 24, 2003
    #90
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