General Bike Ravings

11am, Tuesday morning. Amazingly, its not raining. I say this because the last couple of days have been utter shite, storm like rain bringing down trees etc.

It's handy its not raining, as I've popped along to Experience Motorcycles in Kingsland to test ride their 2010 R1200GS demo, as arranged on Saturday, when I had a little Q&A session with them. Of course, no test ride is complete without taking along someone completely insane, to make you appear normal, so I brought along the ...

The clip on handlebars arrived finally. I still need to drill the holes for the controls. I have been surprised that the clip ons aren't going to hit the fairing, much to might delight. I got them from faddybike. While being at the more expensive end of the Thai parts suppliers, the quality so far has been very high.

Oh well back to garage...

I'm still having issues with over heating. I have also installed a PC Autotune so I can see what the AFR is doing and found the bike was running down to 10.3-1, which was way to rich for the bike. By leaning this off should help with over heating issues. I'm also going to replace the coolant with a better mix and try running a synthetic oil.

Well Monday was a good day for me, got up early and dropped my girl off to work on Max ( Big Ol'Hornet 900 ) - she asked me sweetly what I would be up to! With a cavalier wink and a sly smile, I duly announced ... "Riding, riding ... followed with more riding!"

So I pootled off home to gear up and change bikes to Cindi ( Predator ) and after filling up at the local servo, I merrily rode my way to the Coromandel via Kaiaua. The great thing about doing these roads at what ...

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Hey guys

We have our first club ride on Thursday the 16th
Leaving from Hyosung Takapuna, next to cycletreads on barrys point road at 7pm
Try and be there between 6-30 and 7 with the your tank topped up as we will leave as soon as Ferg locks up the shop.

Heading to the Puhoi pub for a quick refreshment and some chips.

all bikes and all rider abilities welcome

contact me if your interested in coming.

El Cohete ...

Hey Guys

Hy Ryder is the Hyosung Owners club

If your interested in becoming a member contact me and I'll set you up with the club card and send you the latest newsletter.

El Cohete
Hy Ryder club president.

Spent today working on the springer forks
These are made from mostly spare bits & pieces of junk
Started with a set of CB400 T teles minus sliders & added another triple clamp mounted backwards to form the spring holder then made a pair of front tubes & triple clamp from a Miele moped mated to a pair of cut off rear shock mounts.
found a spring,spacers & nut & made up a pair of rockers from a cut down swingarm
Sounds horrendous but I reckon looks the part & may even ...

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Found a suitable vintage brass ammeter on TradeMe & spent a little time restoring/polishing it up. Came up nice, its soon to grace the side of my previously made battery box

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