General Bike Maintenance

Well finished the season by coming off; Finally got the bike to where I am comfortable to ride her, started the last lap... second corner with bike on my arse, rear slick not scrubbed in enough, wet track and sliding we did go - broken rearset and gear changer and dented tank.

I realised tonight I finished in 7th place in my grade. This is the same place I finished in my first year of bucket racing and following year I won the grade. Let's hope it's a good sign.

Mods ...

Yesterday I had the best day riding at Kaitoke, running a second and first in the points races.

I ran a rear slick for the first time, which what I needed to step it up. My gear changer is knackered and I could have run the rear tyre with little more pressure or it's not going to last. I am now really looking forward to seeing what the new engine's performance will be like.

It was also great to see Wanisami (my RG50 bucket) out again. I'm about to swap out it's engine ...

Well friends,
I have another 1985 GSXR400 coming back to life;
The engine's mounted and running, fairings on, accessories work and a couple more things and she can be ridden. She looks like she was raced at some point due to some modifications;

Running a 17 inch instead of an 18 inch rear wheel.

The exhaust is from god knows what with balancing pipes between each of the header pipes and a different muffler.

The air intake has been changed ...

Finished mounting the engine on Ikasu and she's a she's purring like a pussy. I ended up with the bike drained of her life's juices and upside down on a work bench since my last post. As I started welding mounts in place my mig tip decided to become part of the weld.

I also managed to re-run the exhaust as so it now doesn't interfere with the rear break. I'm probably going to change the rear sprocket to much larger one given Kaitohe is apparently quite ...

Got IKasu off the stand and mobile and she's abit wild at the moment. The engine isn't quite lined up with back wheel so he (new) chain is taking abit of a beating at the moment. Hopefully all I'll need to do is move a whole lot of washes around to fix the problem. It was nice to have her out and mobile though.

I took my daughters on the front and back of my bucket last weekend, much to their delight and horror. The older one just about shat her pants to start off the first time she let out the clutch (well with me really operating it) but once she realised she wasn't going to die at 5kph she started to get into it. My younger one is really starting to get into the mind set of a speed demon. For her birthday I got her a pocket trail bike and once it had a set of training wheels she was off. Even got into ...

Fitted a new carb a couple of days ago and my god what a huge difference. i finally got around to finishing a flange I had made so I could fit an AG100 carb onto a 2 seater Rg50 a finally woke up to the fact that this would be a much better thing for racing. i mean talk about a real 'Doh' moment of a Young Einstein. Any way fitted it and now the bike is starting to turn into a little rocket I hope Wanizame would be. Now to find a late model CR125 frame or something similar.

8 days ago I took the bike out for a days racing and it actually ran the whole time. So Wanizame is running, dressed but needs a lot of work still. I finally have the flange for fitting a modified AG100 carb and am toying with the idea of changing the exhaust.
George