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Bike Finished

Post by YZF1000R-SPRINT »

Hey Up.
My bike is just about finished now.
Took it for its MOT today but it failed on the front brakes - :crybaby: :crybaby:
Anyway, got them sorted now so i'll take it back monday then its off to whitby I think on the first available weekend sunny day
there is a pic (sorry just over half meg) on my site (think there is a link somewhere in my profile) in the gallery section
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Post by Yoda »

:thumbsup: :nod: :D
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Post by DAZ »

looks very nice :nod: defenatly spot that one around
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Post by Stig »

looks well smart nice one :thumbsup:
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just to make life a little easier ...hope this is OK with you sprint :rolleyes:

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Post by YZF1000R-SPRINT »

Cheers Stig

I didnt know how to do that :retard:
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Post by YZF1000R-SPRINT »

Been out on the bike today, did 72 miles just pottering around Halifax, Bradford.
Has anyone rode bikes with flats on? reason I ask is cos did/do you find it really hard work to ride at 30mph the only times it felt easy to ride was on say dual carraigeways at 60-80mph.
I also need to get used to setting off, kept forgetting to gradually feed fuel in and ended up giving it a fistfull, stalled it a couple of times.
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Post by Stig »

should imagine the flats aren't user friendly....after all they are built to get the best top speed out the motor :nod:

I find it hard work dawdling with traffic with the std setup....better to keep it pinned :unibrow: :evil:
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Post by YZF1000R-SPRINT »

Well, so far I have done 140 miles on the bike.

I have a slight oil leak coming from the top of the engine somewhere, either from the rocker gasket or from the oil feed pipes that bolt onto the back of the head, this seems wosre you stop and put on side stand, I'll have to take the tank off and have a look before next saturday.

I'll also have to sort out the annoying fault thing on the rev counter, because I have used a non std exhaust system and non std carbs the rev counter keeps flicking to zero then to 3000 rpm then a brief second the actual revs you are doing.

The bike seems to take a bit longer to warm up, what I mean by that is that I seem to have to do say 5 miles before it responds as I would expect (unless it is me that is taking 5 miles to get used to it).

Cos It's been 18 months since being on a bike I am still getting a bit of wrist ache as well, but is easing off the more I go on the bike.
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Post by chrisexup »

have you kept the exup servo plugged into the loom, or removed it altogether?
if it's removed that may cause the tacho to do it's fault diagnostic dance?

i've got flatties on my 750sp and it picks up suprisingly well- the only time it bogs down is if i don't rev it when letting the clutch out from a standing start, but that's down to the tall first gear.

Maybe your flatties' response could be improved with tweaking- if it runs better when the motor is hot that would suggest to me that it's running a bit lean?

i'm in South Cheshire if you want to test ride my sp and see what the flatslides on that perform like (the fork seals are shot at the moment, but i'm still using it for short trips)
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Post by YZF1000R-SPRINT »

Cheers chris,

I may take a ride over to get more mileage on it, my sister lives near crewe so I could call in there as well.

I'll let you know, If I do it'll prob be in a fortnight.

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Post by barden »

You going sell me that pipe work mate.
I got 39mm flats running on my thunderace engine in my yzf750r bike.
took a day to set them up. there a night mere to 5k rpm then its take off.
if i gas it to hard and can really bog the engine down. i even stalled the engine on the fcr carbs (putting to much in to quick) but i dont use filter just open trupets.
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Post by nismo »

Very very purdy!!! Can't wait to see it in the flesh out on a run :nod: :nod:
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Post by fzted »

at least he's got a good taste in cans nice one :D
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Post by Thunderacemalc »

great to see you getting some miles in jason ............. at least you'll have a bike for the summer this year :D
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