Damn that's a big fuel tank, i'd be happy with something that would get me 300 -350km
Damn that's a big fuel tank, i'd be happy with something that would get me 300 -350km
only 8K for the E still at colemans ---
I am wondering if people that complain about seat comfort are possibly sitting on the wrong part of the seat.
The "correct" position is 3/4 of the way towards the rear of the seat.
I have seen ex road bike riders, newbies and girls sitting right up on the tank in my time. That is not a comfy position...the seat is very narrow.
An experienced rider uses this position only for tight cornering.
CHUR ! Did I upset you...
balls on tank thats where the bike handles best however --- but nah its no good even on the wider part, the main issue is the vibrations in the seat at highway speed, if you keep it under ~80kph can go all day no worries -- cheap seat pads and stuff made it fine for me however.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
I ran 15/47 or "adv" gearing top speed was ~140kph and would get there almost instantly and hit the limiter --- still a tall first gear for tight single track though but thats another of the achillies of the DRZ the close ratio gearbox with super high 1st and super low 5th --- if they just changed that or even just 5th! the bike would probably sell 20% more -- the engine pulls hard (atleast on the E it does) it could run much higher gearing if you were on road only but then the lightness and flighty front end would become a bit much over 150~
how can you tell the revs? no engine tacho on the things?
From memory my E was geared about the same as that, happy to sit at 100kph (just) but a little bit tall for tight stuff. Not so much of an issue for the SM without the off road use.
I stuck a cheap hour meter/tacho on mine to keep track of oil changes, interval in the book was in hours but that's not on the instruments either, tacho was a bonus.
https://www.torpedo7.co.nz/products/...our-tach-meter
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Nova Racing do a wide ratio gearbox for the 2000-2013 DRZ,
http://www.novaracing.co.uk/ProductS...x20002013.html
The quiet scares me cause it screams the truth.
and apparently it is possible to modify a pair of 3rd gears to provide an overdrive 5th,
which would be my preferred option, with a low 1st to 4th then a fairly high 5th.
Helmet time is the best kind of time.
this is all true, but expensive for a cheap bike ^_@ --- suzuki should just re-ratio the gearbox making it wide as the engine is more than capable of pulling more up top and it needs a crawling gear down bottom -- they might well do this with fuel injection and ABS to try shoehorn it into euro4
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