pre-load spacers on the top of the springs.... yer will need to play around with the length..Originally Posted by Waipukbiker
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pre-load spacers on the top of the springs.... yer will need to play around with the length..
Pete
90% of all Harleys built are still on the road... The other 10% made it back home...
Ducati... Makeing riders into mechaincs since 1964...
Night rider
Who are my opponents in this looming battle? http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=548606045
Time to ride
Moped rider
Is there anyone in NZ who is making racks for a DR? I am after a rear rack and something to stop my Andy Strapz soft panniers cooking on the exhaust or getting caught in the rear wheel. AUS$370 + P&P for Andy Strapz racks, US$210 + P&P for Wolfman from Procycle etc. Is there an enterprising Kiwi knocking anything up in the shed?
Hardcore Biker
Woohoo, just got my TM40 fitted, seems to be running ok, although sadly I can't test ride it until I've chucked some fresh fuel line on there, as it's leaking a little more fuel than I'm comfortable with. Still, a quick trip to Supercheap in the morning and I should be ready to take it for a quick test ride.
If you don't win that one, I've just bought myself a new black Acerbis tank, and once that arrives I'll have no further use for my old yellow IMS, so I'd be happy to sell it to you for cheaps if you can sort out transport.
On that note, has anyone had a go at painting their DR plastics, and if so, how did it go?
I've got that black Acerbis tank on the way, and I'm going to paint the plastics black as well, I'm just torn over whether to use Krylon Fusion, which I hear is the way to go for painting plastics, or do it in Plastidip so I can peel it off if I screw it up and want to have another go, or sell the bike and want to return it to OEM colours.
Moped rider
[QUOTE=Buyasta;1130460207]Woohoo, just got my TM40 fitted,
May I ask where you got the TM40 from and how much it was to your door including customs if from overseas?
Night rider
I had intended dying it a deep indigo as I know paint won't hold. This is the first I've heard of Plastidip and it looks like it will do nicely. Who stocks it?
Time to ride
Hardcore Biker
I got the one from Kientech.com although you can also get them from Procycle.us. I went with the Kientech one because it's a little cheaper and it comes with an extended choke cable, whereas I'd have had to buy one separately with the Procycle kit.
Shipping, GST and the customs inspection fee they charge you along with GST woulda bumped it up for a fair bit, but fortunately a family friend who lives in San Francisco was coming over for a visit, so I got it shipped to her and she brought it over in her checked luggage, so I just payed the $425 + $15 for shipping to San Francisco.
I haven't actually bought any Plastidip myself, but I'm led to understand both Mitre 10 and Bunnings sometimes stock it, so presumably can order it in for you if they don't have it in stock, or otherwise there's one or two places selling it on Trademe.
It seems like a pretty good solution for everything but the tank - it dissolves when petrol lands on it, so while you could plastidip a tank, you'd be constantly touching up the area around the filler cap.
Moped rider
Ah the friend coming to visit, always an elegant option! Look forward to hearing how it goes.
Armature speller
The ProCycle TM40 comes with an adaptor whereas the Keintech one clamps the air boot down on the slightly smaller than BST carb intake.
Hardcore Biker
The Kientech also comes with adaptor rings installed, both ends are the same size as the BST, the air boot fits on perfectly.
Perhaps he's refined his kit since the earlier versions?
As far as I can tell, the only differences between them are that the Procycle one comes with a knob-type choke, so you need to buy the remote choke kit as well if you've got an aftermarket tank, and it comes with a range of jetting, whereas the Kientech comes with a remote choke cable pre-installed, and doesn't come with any extra jets.
I figured I could probably pick up extra jets from within NZ rather than needing to buy them from the US, and it'd most likely be less expensive than the price difference between the kits + cost of remote choke, so I went with the Kientech one.
Kruger-Dunning Parts n Service
Searched Vinyl overlays after seeing something in a youtube vid... found this place in NZ http://www.sikfx.com/ could be an option for plastics...?
Thinking of using it to display some of my photo work on the GSXR...
Hardcore Biker
I picked up some fresh fuel line this morning and chucked it on there, and just took it for a test ride, seems to be fuelling just fine, although I haven't done the airbox mod yet, and was running without the airbox side panel instead.
It definitely feels a lot nicer to ride now - better throttle response and it pulls much better lower in the rev range. I'm not sure what gearing the previous owner chucked on this, but with the stock carb I couldn't cruise at 100 in 5th gear because the revs were too low, so it'd just chug away, and didn't feel you had enough revs on until you were doing about 115-120, whereas now it cruises at 100 happily in 5th.
Yeah, I imagine that'd work, but it'd also probably be fairly pricy.
I picked up a coupla cans of Plastidip for $30 apiece plus $5.50 shipping on Trademe, so it's a nice cheap option, and being able to just peel the whole thing off like vinyl if you want to remove it for any reason is rather convenient.
Hardcore Biker
Prob all seen this but its interesting reading on DR650 tyres http://dr650.zenseeker.net/Tires.htm
COP, "Ive been waiting to catch you all day"
BIKER "Sorry officer, I got here as fast as I could"
Moped rider
Berg Briggs of BR Moto who developed the Wolfman Luggage racks has Generation One racks on clearance for US$150 as opposed to $224 for the Gen 2. He has quoted US$86 p&p via UPS to Auckland. They are also available for bikes other than a DR.
http://brmoto.com/br-moto-side-racks...earance-1.html
Gettem while they're hot.
Hardcore Biker
The place I bought the PlastiDip from accidentally only sent me one can, and sent off the second one today, but since I had one, I figured I'd chuck a few coats on, and see how it went.
I've got a motard front fender on the way, so I was just doing the side panels and rear guard, and one can got me 1.5 coats - two on the outside and one on the inside.
Things I learned:
a Can Gun is freaking handy
Depending how thick your coats are and how many you're doing, it probably takes 3 cans to do a full set of plastics
I'm thoroughly incompetent when it comes to painting things
It was the first time I'd ever tried painting anything, so it was never going to go particularly well, but I wasn't quite prepared for how badly I managed to screw it up. I think I was laying each coat on quite a bit too heavy, and then I got the can a bit too close a few times, so in a couple of places it started to pool up a little.
As you can see on the side panel that I didn't screw up quite so much though, it looks pretty good when it's laid on fairly evenly.
Since I've already used up one can, I think I'll lay on a couple more coats once the second can arrives and throw them back on, and just wait till they need redoing anyway before I try and do a better job.
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