John
22nd April 2005, 02:25
Send this to pointless drivel..
But anyway, heres my story - some may know I havnt had the best of time with my bike, but with 500$+ worth of servicing and lots of work by me I have got her in a very festive mood - but she is still waiting on her front brake disks (and I already have missed the classics at pukie :angry2: but thats life, shit happens and alot of it to me :niceone:
Today I installed the de-restrictor after ripping (my) old JPN speedo open and checking out how it worked got that all sorted and took the cheap alternative, slapped a new speedo on (NZ new ZXR400 240kmph as if I would go much faster than 20okmph), I will do a writeup if anyone wants it - then I thought well, I cant ride it so lets make this little bugger ready to be ridden.
Went for a smoko and noticed the alarm I got when I bought the bike and thought - why the hell didnt they give decent instructions - then figured FUG it all and went downloaded the electrical layout for my bike, looked at it got the basis of how an electronics system works in cars and such (I'm a EX- computer/electronics geek) I was confused as hell but through oh well if you cant beat em' smash em.
So ripping my bike to billions of random bits of plastic random parts of motor (I got excited with the strip down), then tryed for freaken ages to figure it out 8,9,10o'clock - still had no fucken idea what was to be done, so I figured well maybe if I try to explain to myself how this all works (like show myself how it all works) I might have a chance, and bloody hell an hour of looking and poking (gotta have a poke :niceone: ), I just jumped straight into it (dont ask me how I think I just clicked) managed to hook up the ignition alarm, I was chuffed with myself and was going to leave it at that, but then got interested in this 'engine stop' as per the box (immobilisor (sp)) and then with a few snips (and one fuck up) I got that done (I must say that all the color coding makes it bloody hard for the color blind(me) majority!) anyways got that done.
Was playing with it having more fun than a squirrel at a tea-party then through - screw it I'd love to walk out of a shop jump into the local phone booth and get into my superman suit and start the engine at the same time.
This part was remarkably easy but all the same.
Sorry for random shit that everyone else knows/done/does I just feel all proud of myself :niceone:
hmm 2:30am, bed? Or clean bike... the choice is obvious :shifty:
But anyway, heres my story - some may know I havnt had the best of time with my bike, but with 500$+ worth of servicing and lots of work by me I have got her in a very festive mood - but she is still waiting on her front brake disks (and I already have missed the classics at pukie :angry2: but thats life, shit happens and alot of it to me :niceone:
Today I installed the de-restrictor after ripping (my) old JPN speedo open and checking out how it worked got that all sorted and took the cheap alternative, slapped a new speedo on (NZ new ZXR400 240kmph as if I would go much faster than 20okmph), I will do a writeup if anyone wants it - then I thought well, I cant ride it so lets make this little bugger ready to be ridden.
Went for a smoko and noticed the alarm I got when I bought the bike and thought - why the hell didnt they give decent instructions - then figured FUG it all and went downloaded the electrical layout for my bike, looked at it got the basis of how an electronics system works in cars and such (I'm a EX- computer/electronics geek) I was confused as hell but through oh well if you cant beat em' smash em.
So ripping my bike to billions of random bits of plastic random parts of motor (I got excited with the strip down), then tryed for freaken ages to figure it out 8,9,10o'clock - still had no fucken idea what was to be done, so I figured well maybe if I try to explain to myself how this all works (like show myself how it all works) I might have a chance, and bloody hell an hour of looking and poking (gotta have a poke :niceone: ), I just jumped straight into it (dont ask me how I think I just clicked) managed to hook up the ignition alarm, I was chuffed with myself and was going to leave it at that, but then got interested in this 'engine stop' as per the box (immobilisor (sp)) and then with a few snips (and one fuck up) I got that done (I must say that all the color coding makes it bloody hard for the color blind(me) majority!) anyways got that done.
Was playing with it having more fun than a squirrel at a tea-party then through - screw it I'd love to walk out of a shop jump into the local phone booth and get into my superman suit and start the engine at the same time.
This part was remarkably easy but all the same.
Sorry for random shit that everyone else knows/done/does I just feel all proud of myself :niceone:
hmm 2:30am, bed? Or clean bike... the choice is obvious :shifty: