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Well, after 6100km of happy riding, Cindi has decided that she needs a new set of shoes and daddy needs to do the shopping for her! The BT015 Battleax she originally had was a good tyre, but obviously being of a soft disposition, it was put to the test and found slightly wanting in terms of life. So ... time to try something else new!

So off to Drury Performance Tyres to see Mike about solving this little dilemma. The good man has a set of Pirelli Angels ST on the shelves ...

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I want one! (the bike, that is)

Does anyone have a good idea of how many k's I should be getting out of a tank of 95octane?

I am just running a DR-Z 250 on the road - tank size 10.5litre.

I've been filling up at around 200km just to be safe but was wondering how much more I should have left in it.

Can anyone tell me of a genuine mechanic etc, I need to get a bike checked over I'm looking at purchasing.

It's in Whangarei.

Around Tuesday I collected my new textile trousers from Quasievil and with the microphone sorted, I was only waiting for my helmet to be finished with the wiring. Mileage on the bike meant it needed almost 2000km put on during the weekend, service was organised for Monday (well, drop off, and they service as soon as they have time). The initial plan therefore called for 2x 1000km over the weekend, service, tyres and everything will be ready for the Grand Challenge (next weekend).

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Imagine that… an electrical install that went according to plan and was easy.

GiJoe insisted on helping me install the wiring for my heated vest… for some reason he doesn’t trust me. I wanted it installed for my weekend riding, he was busy Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, so we met up Saturday morning. I even impressed him by being up early (aka, before midday).

He comes around, xtank and seat come off and some quick discussion about how to put wiring in. Quite ...

Sometimes we are hard to see

Originally Posted by Mad4lyf

I have a Gsxr 250RR if you take the tank off after a while the bike starts, revs up, and idles properly. the moment you put the tank on or take it for a ride about 3km the bike dies down and battles to start if it does start you can full throttle it and it will just about idle?? i have absolutely no clue what could be causing this neither does the bike mechanic ... we have cleaned out the carbs about 3 times changed the plugs, flushed the tank and adjusted something with the valves and changed the

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