Dirty weekend with Katie

[6Chris6]

What a weekend!

Just got home now from a solid weekend of working on my new (project) racebike, the mighty TZR 1 "KT".
Spent nine and a half hours on the road on saturday picking her up from Whakatane. (thanks very much MR for the loan of the van)
Then took her straight round to KK's Where we set about putting her back together as she was stripped to a rolling chassis as you can see in the pictures.
We worked through to 12:30 - 1am just trying to work out the YPVS (yammy power-valve system) linkages and set up, cleaning and fitting the motor, neither of us having worked on one of these type of bikes before.
Time to go home for a few hours sleep, and as KK had generously given me the key to his garage back there in the morningish (Sunday) to try to piece some more of her together (KK at work all day) did quite well on my own although really slow, fitting the throttle assembly (4 times ), clutch, airfilter, oil tank, wiring loom etc, etc.
KK then arrives back from work at 9:30pm bearing a box of beer (yes, on his bike!) although we soon realised that this was thirsty work and more refreshments were needed, so we sent his brother down for another box .
Worked till around 3am, although the more the empty's grew around us the slower we seemed to be, strange that eh.
Decided it might be wise to stay the night, and we were both back into it by 10am.
We've pretty much done all we can do at the moment, just need new chain, plugs, battery, oil change and 2 stroke oil I think. But KK's gonna get one of our KB 2 stroke racer legends to come and have a look/ give advice on run in etc.
This has gotta be one of the most satisfying things I've ever done I think, and I've learnt an absolute shit-load and now know my racebike really well (even though I haven't ridden her, or even tried to start her yet).
Big thanks (again) to KK for all his time and enthusiasm.
BTW this bike so far has cost me $810
And yes, I do realise it's probably not going to be competetive, but I'll be out there learning the ropes and it's not gonna be the bike holding me back for the first season, just the prick on top of it!

This morning:-

Me "Whats fer breakfast, bro?

KK "Erm.........Do ya like chicken sausages, dude?

[Hitcher]

A great story, well told. Can't wait for subsequent chapters. That "chicken sausages" concept has real literary potential...

[Sparky Bills]

Top effort dude!
Just one question.....

WHAT THE HELL YOU DRINKING RANFURLY FOR!!!!
YOU SCREWED IN THE HEAD!!!!!
Chicken snags and ranfurly aint a good mix!

[Kwaka-Kid]

Id like to point out that i have shares in Tegal allright!! so im helping the cause *cough*

sheeesh thats my brother so dont read into it too much, im so sick of them.

And secondly it was a wicked weekend! i learnt almost as much as Chris on the bike (haha the admition!) the only difference between me and you chris is i pretend to know what im doing and dive in there with self-confidence!... its worked mostly... kinda, on some of the bikes... uh oh.

And thanks in advanced to Fluffy-Cat (now you have to turn up!) for coming around this thursday and looking over our assembly work... and make sure nothing will go wrong when we start her, and also advise us on the best way to run that sucker in (brand new ProX pistons in).

Cheers Chris, that investment has to date given me as much fun as it has you.

P.S Sparky bills and all others: We were drinking Ranfurly because i cant afford to drink anything that costs more then $1 per beer! and i figured because i could only carry a limited amount down my jacket (1 doz) no backpack, that i didnt have enough to share, so go buy Ranfurly and your sure to drink i tyourself despite offering guests! But no... in true westie style chris was tearing at the box after id informed him it was all we had!

[Blakamin]

good shit!!!!! nothing quite like rebuilding something from bits....
also good to see I'm not the only one with a gargre full of cans!

[6Chris6]

Top effort dude!
Just one question.....

WHAT THE HELL YOU DRINKING RANFURLY FOR!!!!
YOU SCREWED IN THE HEAD!!!!!
Chicken snags and ranfurly aint a good mix!

Oh shit , hoped no one would pick that up
Should have dropped the resolution (sp) on that piccie

[Sparky Bills]

Hey dont get me wrong...
Chicken Sausagers are the biz!!!!!
good to see ya got a beer fridge in the garage anyway!!!

[erik]

Cool Chris and KK, I'll have to come around and have a look at it sometime

Is DB Double Brown any better than Lion Red? It's what I've got at the moment 'cause it's cheap (cheaper than Lion Red even, I think).

[Kickaha]

What a weekend!


We worked through to 12:30 - 1am just trying to work out the YPVS (yammy power-valve system) linkages and set up, cleaning and fitting the motor, neither of us having worked on one of these type of bikes before.

They tend to slog out the powervalve linkage between the cylinders,there shouldn't be any slop in it.

Same model bike K14 made his track Debut on

If you can find a 3.5x17 rear rim off the later TZR or FZR,you can run RS125 slicks on them and they go straight in

[6Chris6]

They tend to slog out the powervalve linkage between the cylinders,there shouldn't be any slop in it.

Same model bike K14 made his track Debut on

If you can find a 3.5x17 rear rim off the later TZR or FZR,you can run RS125 slicks on them and they go straight in

Cheers Kickaha

This is the sort of thing we need to know.
BTW it already has 17's on both ends and a 130 rear tyre (up from 120)

[toads]

awesome effort guys, the cool thing is you will know everything there is to know about this bike cos you have had it stripped right down and built it back up again, so should save you heaps of hours tinkering in future. I hope it does well on the track for you, I guess you are both a bit tired now eh!

[XP@]

awesome effort guys, the cool thing is you will know everything there is to know about this bike cos you have had it stripped right down and built it back up again, so should save you heaps of hours tinkering in future. I hope it does well on the track for you, I guess you are both a bit tired now eh!

Fun isn't it!!!
I've almost finished cleaning my CBR, using the "bucket" method (remove everything and clean the parts individually in a bucket) only have the centre stand to go... then a lick of paint and all will be good

[ajturbo]

hey great story!!... keep us upto date with it.....
makes me want a job even more..... (na...)

[Kickaha]

Cheers Kickaha

This is the sort of thing we need to know.
BTW it already has 17's on both ends and a 130 rear tyre (up from 120)

Front will be a 2.15x17 but the back wheel will be a 2.5x17 which is on the narrow size for fitting any decent rubber and I would have thought a 130 would be a bit on the wide side for that width rim

as a comparison a RS125 runs a 3.5x17 with a 120 wide tyre

I think they have a 54mm bore so you might even be able to run TZ250GP pistons in them,dunno if it'd make much difference apart from wank value though

[k14]

They tend to slog out the powervalve linkage between the cylinders,there shouldn't be any slop in it.

Same model bike K14 made his track Debut on

If you can find a 3.5x17 rear rim off the later TZR or FZR,you can run RS125 slicks on them and they go straight in

damn straight. they are pretty cool bikes, although the ground clearance was pathetic. was scraping the pegs and gear lever on every corner at levels untill it decided to try to buck me off, but i managed to keep it up.

Hope you get it going, will be a cool bike once you get it going.