Eddieb's DR build thread.

**White trash** · 5th March 2011, 09:50

Originally Posted by Eddieb

Best I can do there is a hairdryer.

Originally Posted by Crim

Now that is one reply I wouldn't have posted

There's no shame in taking care of ya'self Eddie.........

**Eddieb** · 5th March 2011, 10:03

Originally Posted by Crim

Now that is one reply I wouldn't have posted

Originally Posted by White trash

There's no shame in taking care of ya'self Eddie.........

They're just jealous that I have hair left to take care of.

**Box'a'bits** · 5th March 2011, 10:11

You can borrow mine. Bring the bike round & we can have that out on 5 mins flat

**BMWST?** · 5th March 2011, 10:52

Originally Posted by BMWRSNUT

You can borrow mine. Bring the bike round & we can have that out on 5 mins flat

have you tidied the garage?

**Box'a'bits** · 5th March 2011, 12:40

Originally Posted by BMWST?

have you tidied the garage?

Tidy is a relative term, depending on what I've lost recently & how small it is.

**Eddieb** · 5th March 2011, 14:29

Originally Posted by BMWRSNUT

You can borrow mine. Bring the bike round & we can have that out on 5 mins flat

I might take you up on that in the near future.

**Woodman** · 5th March 2011, 14:33

Originally Posted by Eddieb

Best I can do there is a hairdryer.

**Eddieb** · 5th March 2011, 15:32

As much as you all wanted to see pics of me blowdrying my butch-as, macho-as-fuck Purple and Yellow DR, BMWRSNUT's offer sounds far easier so I decided to leave the rear shock bolt till I can head over to his place and instead look at other things.

The front tyre the bike came with is crap, worn out and harder than a hard thing. Who knows how long it's been on the bike but the rubber was well weathered.
I pulled the front wheel off and wandered down to TSS with a tyre I took off one of the GS's a while back. It's fairly worn but still has a few 000 km's in it. After Jatz's tyre changing lessons when I was in Nelson I was tempted to do it myself till I realised I didn't have a pump.

I'd also decided I didn't really like the black paint on the front guard so bought a can of white paint and set to on that. A bit of sanding to clean up and prep the surface and few costs of white and it looks much better.

The header pipe was also attacked, I'm sure I reduced it's OD by a good 6mm with the amount of caked on dirt I scraped off, it's still discoloured but at least now I can tell there is some metal in there.

**marks** · 5th March 2011, 16:29

Originally Posted by Crim

Now that is one reply I wouldn't have posted

ex bmw riders are very open about that sort of thing

Originally Posted by BMWRSNUT

You can borrow mine. Bring the bike round & we can have that out on 5 mins flat

he has a really really massive hair dryer

**Eddieb** · 5th March 2011, 20:29

Originally Posted by Eddieb

The bashplate is only a couple of mm, 2, maybe 3 at the most.

I measured my bashplate this afternoon also, it's 3mm.

The way I ride I need a good bashplate.

**Box'a'bits** · 5th March 2011, 20:57

Originally Posted by marks

ex bmw riders are very open about that sort of thing.
He has a really really massive hair dryer

Damn, he got me there. Mine says 'Professional Hair Stylst' on the box. Pretty happy I've got hair though..

**Eddieb** · 6th March 2011, 09:07

Not DR related but I've got some bike mags to get rid of.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1130003971

**Pampera** · 6th March 2011, 10:03

Originally Posted by bart

Man, you gotta get rid of that yellow and purple paint job. What were they thinking when they designed the colour schemes on the early DR's.

Being a one very careful owner before me, my 1996 DR350SE is a perfectly preserved example of the Japanese yellow/purple/splotch era. Neil even went to the trouble of covering all the graphics with 3M film so they are (were) perfect.

My plain white Acerebis tank has retired the lurid original to storage. On my ride "with" Howie, Steven and MarkS last weekend, when I was looping around Port Underwood, my panniers moved forward on my rack and pressed the right side cover into the muffler. Result was a ruined sidecover, damaged panniers and underpants only moments from bursting into flames ("what is that smell?"). I waited for help but Mark was in Reefton and Paul/Steve were on Molesworth so I repositioned the panniers and used a Rarangi beach stone to pack out the sidecover away from the exhaust.

To cut a long story short, I now have fresh, plain white sidecover on its way to me.

This leaves only the lurid left one.

Dealer is also looking into a set of 2000 year decals for me - plain and simple by Suzuki standards - so perhaps the left hand graphics will soon be removed.

Michael