Napier - bike- could someone have a quick look at it for me please!

[Reckless]

haha thanks guys and for the coffee mom!!!

Just got home I had to go for a little tiki tour! I thought you guys would be listening so I gave it a few fist fulls on the way down the hill LOL!!

First impressions? not good to be honest! Bloody thing wanted to fall into corners and to get it to stay down had to counter steer like crazy! Compared to the VTR which I just got on and rode I thought shit this is going to take a bit of getting used to? I didn't like it at all! I knew the front tyre was shagged but not that shagged, so I stopped at the first gas station and as I thought 30 psi in the front. I've always been quite sensitive to tyre pressures I dunno why just me???? OK try 38 and I bumped the rear from 38 to 40. Possibly a bit high but I wanted to test the difference. Mucho better now we are getting there. 100% improvement, the bike still wants you to lean in with your shoulder but that might be still the front tyre being past its best and lets not forget I've only had 40mins mainly on motorways on it after being off a thou for a year or two, so I might need a bit more breaking in as well.
She goes a bit better than the VTR, a bit more nasty in it down low I'd say and thats ok. The VTR you had to try a little to lift the front this thing likes it in the air. Gave it a quick squirt to 2hundy and it got there fast, only few hundred metres and had heaps left, and it does sound glorious, although as you pointed out Mstrs probably a little less blue flame and back firing on deceleration wouldn't be missed.

Overall?
I'd like to look at the sag and have a fiddle with the clickers if I can get hold of a manual to find out where factory settings are, put the new tyre I got with it on and go for a few curvy corners in the daylight to get another hour or two on it, but its not too much of a handful. I think it we will like each other!!

[ynot slow]

Sounds like a good buy,and the prices of these gives money for suspension,brakes etc to be upgraded.

[Reckless]

The minute I get a bike the fucking weather just doesn't turn to shit it really tuns to shit GGrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I know HTFU!

Worked out the tyres Mstrs!
Not going to match the new pilot road I got with the bike for the front with the new Mez3 already on the rear!
From what I have read the Mez3 was a good enough tyre in its day to leave on just have to find a better match than the unfitted Pilot road that I got with it.

Best recommendation I have is to go Sportec m3 in the front to go with the new Mez3 already on.
Cycletreds will do a trade as the sticker is still on the front I got with the bike and supply a new m3.
At least then I will have be able to use up the new rubber I got with the bike and have similar compounds front and rear.
I checked the sag and all clickers and preload etc. The rear was completely factory and the front i set back to factory as a starting point as it was set quite hard.
I need to do something as, as posted earlier its still not handling the best, hopefully due to the shagged front tyre.
Sounds like the best compromise for the money is The m3 then have a better look next time.

The bike still wants to fall in a bit and wants you to counter steer to keep it down. But the front is quite stuffed so I'm blaming the tyre not the bike.
Review from this thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...rtec-M3-review
Seems to say the M3 might not be the best choice as its traits seem to be what the bike is already doing?

Just a bit of research before I decide what do ya reckon anyone had bad/good experiences with the M3 as I have never run Metzlers.