1400 Owners Life Today ( The 'What did you do today?' thread)

[VladTepes]

when I do get any free time to good roads start at my doorstep.

I'll have to come say hi and test that statement one day

[Tony Nitrous]

when I do get any free time to good roads start at my doorstep.

I'll have to come say hi and test that statement one day

One of the pics is just up the highway if I turn right out of my front gate...

[Nic]

I just want to say, I've had the heavier race tech springs in the front of my K7 for a year or so now and I'm loving them, yesterday when I rode 175 k to get a new battery I couldn't help but wonder over how good the bike is. Mind you, conditions were perfect and that doesn't happen often around here.

[Speedy1959]

One of the pics is just up the highway if I turn right out of my front gate...
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It seems to me that God must be your neighbour Tony..
Some gorgeous areas in Australia for sure..
Look at the colour of that sky..
Beats my local leaden Grey !

[Hooli]

I took my little baby sized winter bike out to Bridlington yesterday for fish n chips.

Was a nice day out until it decided to breakdown on the way home. Damn thing was pretending it was out of fuel when it should have had another fifty or so miles in the tank & switching to reserve didn't help. So I stood under a motorway bridge I'd stopped under until recovery turned up.

Took it apart today assuming it'd be the fuel tap at fault as early this year it'd got blocked with dirt. Turns out that wasn't the fault, the vacuum line to the tap had split. So even though the tap was on, it was off... and there was still a gallon of fuel in the tank which would have done about fifty miles. I fixed the sticky choke mech while I was near the carbs, it didn't always go off so you had to poke it on No4 carb with your finger so it'd pop back in.

Damn ungrateful thing had better behave for a bit now, especially now she's reached 'run in' for half sized engines.

[seth]

So today I finally started sorting the other gsx1400 (the yoshi one) it's been in bits or various stages of thinking about it for nearly 5 years so today was the day to start .
Fitted back wheel and New indicator lenses ,also several engine updated oil lines and also radial caliper brake and clutch master cylinders.
Tomorrow I'm going to rebuild the forks .
By the end if the week I'm hoping to have it as a rolling bike again .
Then I need to fit new brake and clutch lines and also the radial calipers .
Fingers crossed it stays warm(above freezing) and this cold gets better but the rebuild has started .

[grog]

Today got $431 speeding ticket, in Wifes car. She loses 3 points, i offered to take them, reckons i need mine more.

[Irish in Oz]

Today got $431 speeding ticket, in Wifes car. She loses 3 points, i offered to take them, reckons i need mine more.

Isn't that 11 to 20 k's over, last time I got one in NSW about 6 years ago it was $270. Same fine here is about 60 quid and three points.

[Kiwifruit]

That's getting up there Grog how fast were you going. How the hell can your wife get the points if you were driving. Was it a camera ?

[Tony Nitrous]

Today got $431 speeding ticket, in Wifes car. She loses 3 points, i offered to take them, reckons i need mine more.

I hear both UK and AU opinions on it.
Folk I know in the UK tell me how many fixed camera's and vans they have,
folk in AU tell me how pedantic and money hungry Aussie cops are.

I do know I got more tickets and points when I lived in the UK than AU.

At least AU has a huge area to go out and play unmonitored, even if suburbia is a place you need to be real careful.


When was the last one Grog ?
I work on the theory if they are far enough apart it's not a huge drama, although some do seem to be a bit pedantic and set pretty low over the limit.

[steve porter]

The other day I went past 3 side of the road in car speed camera's in less than 10 km, greedy bastards are milking us dry, I don't drive or ride anywhere without the using WAZE, saved my arse heaps of times

[Tony Nitrous]

I got a good deal on my new Busa.  I knew that the very first ones that were pre ordered got a "Gift Pack" but I'd missed that.  Just been back to the dealers and they said there was a pack there with my name on it from Suzuki.

Not complaining.

[Batkwaka]

Went to the new Motorcycle Accessories store that have opened in the last week or so. Bought a cleaning kit with some wash, spray protectant and a brush for about $50. It didn't have a chain brush in the kit so I went back and bought one for $14 today. Too fucking hot outdoors though so I'm inside waffling shit on the internet instead of cleaning.

[grog]

Great pick up Tony. Have loaded WAZE, will use it from now on. Find it funny, bike is faster than my cars but only tickets last years in cars, never got one on bike.

[Tony Nitrous]

Picked up the Busa-Bling pack.  It's OK. Not much I'd have put my own cash on the counter for but still happy to be given.

The Matt and the cover are OK.





The levers are alright, no bad thing they fold up not snap if the bike go's down far from home.



Chain adjuster are nice. I prefer them to the originals as they aren't as fiddly getting a 10mm into as you adjust them with a pin / Allen key in the multiple holes.



Tamperproof oil filler is just a bit of bling (once I'd realised the red / gold / blue trims that came with it fit in to match the bike)



I won't use the front axle guard as it doesn't suit my choice of paddock stand.


All OK as a freebie, I can swap it all back in less than an hour and remove the stuff I don't  end up liking.   I'm a little surprised at Suzuki handing out free gifts though.  I know they had the same pack available to folk who pre-ordered and there was a bit of a wait, maybe they just tagged me onto that list. Stuff like the single seat hump had a quite long waiting list too.

Not had much to do with the "Gilles" brand but the stuff they are supplying seems quite good and well made.