Serious Advice Needed

[cammo]

Do you really want to be getting a faster bike if you havn't got the confidence to lift the front of your ZZR?
I'm not trying to say anything nasty but ummm u only have to sit back a lil and drop the clutch hard then you should be gettin at least a few cms off the ground?!?! I've had the front lifting on my ZZR coming outta a corner in 2nd........and i'm still slow as!!

each to thier own but I'd like to learn how to make my bike perform to its limits before i upgrade....

ive had that problem, nailing it down the paraparas, some of the corners have a bit of a rise at the end (if you get what i mean, like the corner around and up, not flat) and going fast enough around the corner i get the front up regually in 2nd and 3rd gear. but then after the track day i had 10 times more confidence and now im going faster then i ever have and my zzr still has more to offer. ive started going around corners at about double their noted speed (duno if thats fast but it feels it) and more sometimes, like i stretched it to about 100 around a 45 today, hanging on for dear life, sitting on my thigh, knee right out, toe up on peg etc...great fun.

and to be honest im getting bored with my bike in some ways like on straights. i want a cbr or zxr or sumthing soon. but my bike still has so much potential on the corners, i have heaps to learn and my bike can still go faster, i scare my self frequently when riding and i still havnt mastered the power of my bike, im still amature pretending to be pro...LOL

as for wheelies, i can get the front up ok. i did my best one today, got it up and stayed ther for like a second or 2 at most. doesnt sound like much, but it felt good. no stoppies yet, and not for a while.

my next step is to get some leathers and try getting my knee down, and when i can do that ok, then ill look at another bike i think.

well if that made any sence i will be shocked. i tend to ramble a bit and repeat myself, but its all ther some where.

cammo

[Zapf]

ive had that problem, nailing it down the paraparas, some of the corners have a bit of a rise at the end (if you get what i mean, like the corner around and up, not flat) and going fast enough around the corner i get the front up regually in 2nd and 3rd gear. but then after the track day i had 10 times more confidence and now im going faster then i ever have and my zzr still has more to offer. ive started going around corners at about double their noted speed (duno if thats fast but it feels it) and more sometimes, like i stretched it to about 100 around a 45 today, hanging on for dear life, sitting on my thigh, knee right out, toe up on peg etc...great fun.

and to be honest im getting bored with my bike in some ways like on straights. i want a cbr or zxr or sumthing soon. but my bike still has so much potential on the corners, i have heaps to learn and my bike can still go faster, i scare my self frequently when riding and i still havnt mastered the power of my bike, im still amature pretending to be pro...LOL

as for wheelies, i can get the front up ok. i did my best one today, got it up and stayed ther for like a second or 2 at most. doesnt sound like much, but it felt good. no stoppies yet, and not for a while.

my next step is to get some leathers and try getting my knee down, and when i can do that ok, then ill look at another bike i think.

well if that made any sence i will be shocked. i tend to ramble a bit and repeat myself, but its all ther some where.

cammo

u are so lucky to be living so close to the paraparas! damm nice twisties they are...

[Stevo]

EXCUSE ME?????????

Thats the first time I heard about this?? Hmmm, Im nervous about leaving my bike with you now??

Relaaaaaaaaaaax! Leave it with me for a weekend.
You stress too much SnippyCBR. You know you will only crash it again anyway. If I.................................... don't blow it up first that is.

[John]

Relaaaaaaaaaaax! Leave it with me for a weekend.
You stress too much SnippyCBR. You know you will only crash it again anyway. If I.................................... don't blow it up first that is.

Just wondering does the CBR400 engine just slot into the 250, I'm trying to get a cheaper 400cc for my bike (zxr400h2 engine) aparently just slots into the ZXR250c frame.

[Stevo]

Just wondering does the CBR400 engine just slot into the 400, I'm trying to get a cheaper 400cc for my bike (zxr400h2 engine) aparently just slots in.

Pass. Next question. Think with a little effort 600 motors can be squeezed into a 400. Sounds like you may need to look at the brakes first??

[cammo]

i was just thinking too, how hard did you push at tapou the other day? like did you get your feet of pegs to touch down round the hairpin or anything?

[justsomeguy]

i was just thinking too, how hard did you push at tapou the other day? like did you get your feet of pegs to touch down round the hairpin or anything?

No Chicken strips left, and I was scraping pegs a bit on the hairpin

[flyin]

Looks like we're going to have to have a ZZR250 race.... we all sound like nutters

oh and as Paul in NZ pointed out to me last weekend: "there's NO point getting caught speeding in a straight line!"

I like to go with the- Red and white speed signs are LAW you obey them...... yellow and black signs are WARNING they can be doubled!........ white with a black stripe = fun!!

[justsomeguy]

Looks like we're going to have to have a ZZR250 race.... we all sound like nutters

oh and as Paul in NZ pointed out to me last weekend: "there's NO point getting caught speeding in a straight line!"

I like to go with the- Red and white speed signs are LAW you obey them...... yellow and black signs are WARNING they can be doubled!........ white with a black stripe = fun!!

Yup looks like it

A mate of mine here owns a 93 model - identical bike. I'll be getting a new screen and I need to find a mudguard.

Then my bike be as cosmetically mint as it is mechanically mint. Hehehe


I'm off to work on those corner speeds.

Need to buy some warm gloves though

[cammo]

No Chicken strips left, and I was scraping pegs a bit on the hairpin

yeah same, i was getting my peg down on the hairpin, but i cant shake the 4mm of chicken strip on my tyre still so i duno. mind you i have a 130 diablo and you have a 140 dont you? that might have somthing to do with it...

are any of you guys (zzr250 owners, flyin and JSG etc) going to the rally? if so we should go for a ride!!

[Sniper]

Relaaaaaaaaaaax! Leave it with me for a weekend.
You stress too much SnippyCBR. You know you will only crash it again anyway. If I.................................... don't blow it up first that is.

The theme for this project is NO!!

No to modifying, no to destroying and no to squeezing larger motor into small bike!!

[Gremlin]

Look at that, you went and got Stevo all hot and excited, now you've gone and disappointed him.

Think of it as "experimental purposes" or ask him to try it on one of his bikes first.

[flyin]

yeah same, i was getting my peg down on the hairpin, but i cant shake the 4mm of chicken strip on my tyre still so i duno. mind you i have a 130 diablo and you have a 140 dont you? that might have somthing to do with it...

are any of you guys (zzr250 owners, flyin and JSG etc) going to the rally? if so we should go for a ride!!

Sorry I'm too poor and slack to get to the rally this time..... I'm getting my restricted next week so I will be able to ride on the motorway and meet ya for a ride another day.......

yeah I've been thrashing mine and still got that last 2-3mm of silicone...... there are scrapes in it but they are unatainable while riding 2up cos my pipe scrapes first!! and I do around 80% of my riding 2up

[cammo]

Sorry I'm too poor and slack to get to the rally this time..... I'm getting my restricted next week so I will be able to ride on the motorway and meet ya for a ride another day.......

yeah I've been thrashing mine and still got that last 2-3mm of silicone...... there are scrapes in it but they are unatainable while riding 2up cos my pipe scrapes first!! and I do around 80% of my riding 2up

im not sure if ive ever hit my pipes b4. but ive been hitting my peg and i still have chicken strips so..i duno what to do. but then i dont care.

as for a ride, i have family that live in tawa so when i come down next ill let you know and we can head up the takas or sumthing (never been up there yet!!!)

[justsomeguy]

No I;m not coming down to the Rally. Going with MR to manfield then coming home afterwards

Provided I can get a ride back. Otherwise I'll be home for the weekend.