Tales from the Emporium

[NordieBoy]

They felt better than the OEM + Intiminators but next are versions at 21 and 26mm giving 10 and 15mm of preload.

The stock spacers are 40mm giving 29mm preload with the Intiminators in there.

The US guys seem to be using anything from 1/8 inch to 1/2 inch (3-13mm) preload.

[NordieBoy]

10mm preload versions got made and tested today.

The front feels much more comfortable and it still rides like the 5mm versions.

15mm preloaders next up...

[Woodman]

i see the $150 special is on for klrs at the moment. Spent too much on tyres and broken bits lately.

[NordieBoy]

Spent too much on tyres and broken bits lately.

You spend money on broken bits?

Doesn't that take the excitement out of it?

[Woodman]

You spend money on broken bits?

Doesn't that take the excitement out of it?

but without the bruises.

[Transalper]

Just got informed by the bike shop yesterday that the parts tally came to.....

$7300

Not including labour...

Got news of mine today.
Whole thing is expected to be $3206.
I hope that's all inclusive.
I'm parting with some cash tomorrow and then the rest of what we need should be on the way, some of it is ex Japan (will take about ten days they reckon, yeah right ).... so not long now.

[NordieBoy]

Got news of mine today.
Whole thing is expected to be $3206.
I hope that's all inclusive.
I'm parting with some cash tomorrow and then the rest of what we need should be on the way, some of it is ex Japan (will take about ten days they reckon, yeah right ).... so not long now.

Wow. What bits broked on yours?

[Transalper]

Pretty much everything below the piston bore.
Hopefully the end receipt thingy will give a bit of detail.
I went and looked over it all when it was first disassembled... bent crank, broken gears and casings etc.
He's repairing what he safely can and replacing what he can't. Scavenged the odd part too.
3rd gear parts are in to their 2nd revision and we are getting the new ones.

[NordieBoy]

My bore and piston were shot and the cases were possibly repairable but the bits that blew out are too mangled to rebuild safely.

The head, clutch, stator, starter, starter torque limiter are sweet. But that's about it.

Going to clean up the ports and valve seats and stick the head on when I replace 3rd gear/s and the selector forks.
Maybe a cam re-grind too. There's a place in ChCh that has a DR650 profile and it's about $130 or so to get done.
Oh and a Hi-Comp piston...

I'll take some days off work and have a go at doing it myself at the bike shop.

[Transalper]

I had a nick out of the bottom of the bore well below the ring line and he reckoned he could clean it up but the rest of the bore was ok. I think we get a new/ another piston, or at least the bit that attaches it to the crank.

[NordieBoy]

http://www.kientech.com/DR650HiComPistonKit.htm

$190us for the piston, pin and metal base gasket etc.

[NordieBoy]

My brother just sent some pics of the boss's fun boat.

They just zipped from St Tropez to Cannes in it.

Basturd...

[pete376403]

I recall reading an article (in an American Mens magazine) yonks ago about power boats and it said of the Cigarette - "If you can't get laid in a Cigarette you'd probably strike out with a Time Square hooker".

Thats a f*cking nice boat.

Named for the boats that were used to smuggle cigarettes in to the US from Bermuda (IIRC)

[Woodman]

2 blowers per engine wow. You'd need a safari tank at least.

[warewolf]

I enjoyed watching Miami Vice as a kid, lately I've been watching it again. Ground-breaking television at the time, and of course they use a few cigarette boats.