RF900 enquiry.

[90s]

LOL, DC3200... I had one of those back in the dark ages as my first digital camera, you have my sympathy! Thinking back now I think "How the hell did that thing warrant a $450 price tag?!" I ended up giving mine away to my partner's father, who'd probably never buy a digital camera anyway. He's happy with it and it gets a bit of use, so it's all good. Not surprised you find it tough to good photos with it!

I used a Sony that took 1.44 floppies and no other in-built memory. Ha! It even took video clips of all of 4 seconds.

But even that had a macro setting.

[Bend-it]

Give me a new job and the piece of string will be infinite !

Woohoo...

This is the string that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my friend...

[yod]

I used a Sony that took 1.44 floppies and no other in-built memory. Ha! It even took video clips of all of 4 seconds.

But even that had a macro setting.

i used to have the slightly older model - didnt do movies, max res was 640x480, cost me $1500 in about 98-99 i think....FARK!

[gav]

The camera only cost me $20, Ok for photo's on Trade Me I suppose.......

[Chocky]

Hi ppl I'm new here, been riding 20 years but only had my RF900r 6 months I got it off Frosty aparantly he shows up here sometimes. Any way can someone point me to the right thread for suspension setup on my '95 I'm a hard core rider who likes the twistys (scenic dr, Piha rd) but I keep riding off the edge of the rear (ie. Im running out of lean angle, it power slides nicely on the bt021's I fitted last week) anyway Im thinking that the susp. cld be set up better and was hoping someone cld point me in the right direction

[Macstar]

Hi ppl I'm new here, been riding 20 years but only had my RF900r 6 months I got it off Frosty aparantly he shows up here sometimes. Any way can someone point me to the right thread for suspension setup on my '95 I'm a hard core rider who likes the twistys (scenic dr, Piha rd) but I keep riding off the edge of the rear (ie. Im running out of lean angle, it power slides nicely on the bt021's I fitted last week) anyway Im thinking that the susp. cld be set up better and was hoping someone cld point me in the right direction

Mine and a few others' RFs rear shocks progressively died after about 40k miles / 60km. luckily this guy can rebuilt it for an awesome price:

Tjebe Bruin
Ph: 480-9408

I'm around 95kgs and got a heavier spring at the same time from Tjebe. The new rebuilt shock is great!

But before you do all that try and do the right set up i.e. pre-load to set the static sag, loaded sag etc. and then you try tampering with the dampner which is located under the seat behind the left side fairing (hard and soft).

If you want a hand (not that I'm a pro or anything) I'll have some time on Sun avo 027-447-6683.

[steveb64]

Oooh yay, the thread got revived! hehe

Thanks 90s, I was actually under the impression that the GSX's were much more expensive than the rf's? I've seen a few GSX's for sale, usually 750's but they're mostly around '88 -> early 90's. Whereas the RF900's i've seen are around 95 - 97. Is it wrong to assume that there would be a significant jump in technology/stability on a bike from those years apart?

I quite like the look of the GSX, and I think 750 would be a good comprimise of power (I too know 900cc is a wide step, but yeah, self restraint = live longer = more riding!)

My wife has had both the RF900, and the GSX750F - her favourite was the GSX! The thing she (we) didn't like about the RF was the riding position - we found that the footpegs were too far forward, which meant the rider had 2 problems:
1/. The riding position meant that the rider is sitting on the bony part of their arse - which got numb real quick (2 - 300 k's) - really noticeable when switching from the Ducati (5 - 800k's)or the TDM850 that was with us.
2/. The footpeg position being so far forward, means that its real difficult to stand up on the pegs from a sitting position - so big bumps couldn't be eased by lifting ones backside in the air a bit.

BTW - we did about 14,000 km's around Europe, the IOM (including the TT) and the UK in 9 weeks - and we didn't do a huge mileage in the two weeks we were at the TT. We did swap bikes from time to time - just for a change - and we all had sheepskins on the seats...

If the footpegs were further back (rearsets?), it would make quite a difference - other than that - not a bad bike. Handled well, was reliable (while we had it), and if you wrung it's neck - could really hustle along!

The pricing thing is because Suzuki discounted the hell out of the RF in NZ - back around mid '96. Thus the wifes RF stayed in the UK, and just the Ducati got shipped back.