The night before the morning after

Twas the night before Christmas
and all was quiet
Nothing was stirring
....not even a fucking mouse.

 

Merry Crustmas everyone,
time for freshly brewed coffe and then a run out to Mt White and THEN all the family shit.
Gotta have priorities ya see.

Mike.S

 

Your priorities seem perfectly in order to me. Just having
that coffee myself. Oh sheesh, lookit the time.

Seeya soon.

G

 

Where's the Brisbane christmas day ride? Come on ..... there has to be more!

Cam

 

Yeah.. I have those.. spending all day at work... but have the ZX12R waiting
out in the carpark so I'll get out and cut a few laps of Mountain Hwy between
Sassafras and The Basin later on... after I've had a snooze... and all on
triple time

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

I don't understand.
Why do you have to shit *with* your family?
You originally tasmanian?

 

sounds good!
mt white done, *WITH* pikkies, now onto the family hoohah after wrapping the pressies.

Mike.S

 

it gets like that, t'was a fun morning, glad you came out for a spin. Do Mt white a few more
times and you'll be able to give the zzr a bit more umph than running it in ;-)

And yeah, so much for the "short cut", wtf was with that?.

Mike.S

 

Shall i even comment?

Mike.S

 

it would definitely br a xmas on the nose

 

Is it the yuletide log?
Clem

 

Yah, 'twas. To be honest, I didn't really enjoy the old road
that much. Dare I say it, I would have been more comfy doing it
sideways in a car. :-/ More experience required.

I dunno about that. That bloody ZZR had better have some more
stick at higher revs, or I'm gonna send the bastard to the
knackers yard. The more I ride it, the more I realise just how
gutless it is! Nearly 400Km on it now, another 600Km before
I can *start* to get up it :-/

It's a *great* shortcut. If it was a crap shortcut, then the
several hundred other people who chose to use it at the same
time as us wouldn't have been there, would they? Sheesh!

G

 

**** off, lurker bitch

 

it gets like that, t'was a fun morning, glad you came out for a spin.

Absolutely, practice & more experience is essential, your just bedding
the bike and yourself in. Give it time and a variety of roads and you'll
feel more confident and know what's what.

Whats the limit for your running the motor in at now? 8k/rpm?
If so, thats just around where the motor just starts to up and boogie.
Once it is run in and when you are getting it to 10k-11k/rpm you'll be
much happier. To be honest when i had the rings redone on my old
EL, i just was gentle the first 600km's and then it was business-as-usual
But i'd do the propper thou as the book says.

I wasn't blaming you, i was 'wtf'-ing all the other cars going on the road
and defeating the purpose entirely ;-).

Mike.S

 

The book says 4Krpm :-( I've been riding around at about 6K
for the most part, and up to 8K today.

There's a distinct change in exhaust note at about 7,500,
so yeah, I gather there's probably some magic somewhere
shortly after that.

You gotta stop taking me seriously - no-one else does.

G

 

GB wrote:

Well, the double fly-buy period will last long enough to let you finish
the running in. ;-)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Yah, you've got a good point there. Took it for a trundle up
Epping Road, Pennant Hills Road, Comenara *sleep*way (What's
all the fuss about, that was *yawn* boring! Maybe it's more
fun with a run-in bike and no double fly-buys?)), Out to
Bobbin Head and through the National Park. Realised that the
road popped out on the freeway, said "**** that", and went
back through the park again. (Now I understand why that 6.1m
U-turn in the MOST is so important!!!)

A NPWS girl came over and said g'day while I took a breather
at the picnic area. Was keen to have a look-see at the ZZR,
since she had last years model. Damn bikers are everywhere,
and you can't pick 'em! (Like just about everybody
else on the planet, she's since upgraded to an blue SV650S.)

She said there's another ride and "a bit of a party" up at
Mt White "tomorrow afternoon". Anyone know more? Anyone wanna
go? (Subject, of course, to SWMBO's approval)


Anyhoo, I contributed about another 85Km to Blue Bear's
running-in fund in the process of this morning's outing.
It's slow work though :-/


G

 

In aus.motorcycles on 26 Dec 2003 09:41:59 +1100

way back when, I had to rebuild my Ducati single.

I was under strict instructions not to exceed 3500 rpm, which is about
50kmh in top.... and as the gearbox was done too, I had to use all the
gears, no running about in just top gear.

So... where can you put 500km on a bike with those restrictions?

In Sydney you'd be stuffed. But I lived a couple of hundred yards from
the start of the Norton Summit road in Adelaide. There are 2 Norton
Summit Roads, the Old and the New. The Old Road is a number of oddish
off camber bumpy corners, of varying degrees of difficulty, the new road
is a sequence of 25kmh switchbacks. There's a couple of km of more open
corners through Norton Summit itself that joins the two. I can't recall
the total distance, about 7 or 8 km maybe?

So for 3 or 4 weekends in a row, I rode up the old road and down the
new, up the old road and down the new. Then turn around and up the new
road, down the old, up the new road and down the old.

The 2nd weekend I came across a collection of pushbikes doing the same
thing - the Australian Institute of Sport cycling team out training.

I think I had the better job, run in limit and all!

Zebee

 

You got that right. I encountered a *lot* of those folks through
the National Park this morning. It was nice cool weather this
morning, but even so, I wouldn't wanna be in their shoes :-/

G

 

Hope your not exceeding the 4 000 Rpm limit for the first 800km on the
ZZR250, that equates to 50 Kph in top gear, if I remember right.
Plus the memory of the hard as a rock seat,made the miles pass real quick.
Rob.