ZX9R First Impressions

The only issue I had was with mine after about 20k miles when I could
easily get a false neutral between 3rd & 4th when giving it beans. It
seemed perfectly OK in all other gears.

ISTR reading that problems with 4th were a fairly common thing, BICBW.

Shortarses like me don't need one - even when using a tankbag.
Although I never tried a DB on the 9R, so it could have been an
improvement over standard anyway, IYSWIM.

 

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A *berm*?
</mode>

 

Ah, that was Mike Edwards, then. I vaguely remember it now. It was a
stock motor, but they had put an Ohlins shock and Ohlins forks (!) in
it, mind.

 

What year was yours? The power jumped quite considerably over the years.


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Krusty
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

I should hope so, if that one was actually as it should be.

 

That's a good 20hp down on Lozzo's then according to the factory
figures, & possibly quite a bit more than that as Triumph's claimed
outputs are generally a work of fantasy.


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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Oh well.

I didn't keep it for long - took an instant dislike to it and that was
that.

Preferred the CBR600 that was bought out of some of the proceeds, so
it must have been pretty bad, eh? ;-)

 

Ah, the old "Commercial food mixer whipping up a pound of assorted
nuts and bolts" noise. Horrific.

 

I've got a nice annodised titanium one by Quill that's no longer being
used. It was a direct slip on replacement for my C1/C2.

 

Interesting, I've never had a false neutral on mine. Maybe I'm too ham-
footed.

 

I'm happy to have cleared that up for you.

 

Mike Edwards was one of the riders and they were on a 9R belonging to
Alf's Kawasaki who'd been running something (I'm not sure if it was an
R1) all summer. I'm pretty sure the same team have done a couple of
World Endurance rounds so they're not exactly novices when it comes to
endurance racing.

 

The box on my Sprint RS is, erm, rather eccentric at times. I think
it's because of the somewhat complicated actuator arm. I am currently
awaiting a later Daytona model gearshift to come up on ebay, which
apparently bolts straight on to the shaft, albeit reversed, thus taking
out the need for the arm and it's associated joints.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


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2002 Triumph Sprint RS 955i (It's big, and it's black)
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr (Gone, but not forgotten)

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7/8)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Mine had the 'direct to the shaft' reversed gear lever, it was fine.
Later ones had the silly linkage fitted. **** only knows why they
changed something that worked well.

 

who was that then? wasn't me!

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Adie
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New (not yet updated) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.info/faq/index.html

YZF-R1 : ZX9R-E1 : GPz 750 turbo
keeper of the FAQ for my sins
MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11

 

You misled me when I came to buy it? I'm gutted.