A day at wheelie school!!

[geodude]

np on the indicator - got some brand new ones with no stems if you can get away with that, its only held on with a little screw inside the tube?
drop us a pm and i'll post it today when i get back

Got it today. Thanks mate. The envelope inside, is that your name and address?

Did I mention an upgrade opportunity?
All those scraped bit will need to be replaced with smaller, lighter, carbon fibre, racing parts.
(for safety reasons, if your other half reads this).

It'll never work mate. I told her I had to buy the storm as it would be more fuel efficient than my old CBR400 LOL

Also I just spent a few quid on leathers as the textiles WERE SHITE!!!!

[benny hedges]

yes bud sorry, forgot to peel it off! was just going to put masking over it & reuse it but decided not to be a cheap butt and buy a new jiffy bag!

took it's time getting there lol - if i'd thrown it in the sea you'd have got it quicker!

textiles are great til you fall off!

[geodude]

I got the "red card" yesterday - reason "Too big for letterbox!" lol

[benny hedges]

when my yokes came (or didn't) last week, i heard the postie push a card through so i got up and went looking for him in my car...
couldnt find him so went to the sorting office round the corner and got them to fone him, then met up in the pub carpark!
when i crashed mine he was delivering parcels every day & knew it was for the bike, so i arranged for him to stash stuff round the back in future and leave a card

you got everything you need now??

[geodude]

Yep. Well I just need to replace the R&G bits. Thanks again.

[geodude]

I went back to wheelie school. I had the camera working this time. I must admit, I was cacking myself to start with. When the bike came up though it felt great and wasn't the slightest bit scary. lol I guess thats because of the saftey switch. As they say, its best to get straight back on the horse so to speak.

Still got a lot to learn. As for distance, I was hitting the kill switch quite a bit. Need to get it set higher next time.

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I could have played all day but my ass still ain't recovered (No! Not from op storm) lol

[benny hedges]

i like your spirit get straight back on, just dont fall off on the same butt cheeck
what was that 1st bike? looked like a off road jobby - did they not trust you or sumat

[geodude]

i like your spirit get straight back on, just dont fall off on the same butt cheeck
what was that 1st bike? looked like a off road jobby - did they not trust you or sumat

lol. Its the same bike I used last time. A Suzuki GSF600N Bandit - Standard everything with a few bits removed but added renthrals



The second one was a different bandit. Same model, but totally different handling and everything.

Once I hopefully get a second bike (next year) I'll take the storm up the airfield and have a crack. Hopefully not literally.

[geodude]

As my bike has the common problem of a "grabby" clutch, I cant do drag starts.............it slips till it reaches a certain torque or speed, then it locks solid and up the front end comes..........and it is quite a low speed /torque, so I only ever leave the lights gently, but once the cluth is out then I nail it.
Its been like that for the last 5yrs, and I dont know if I never noticed it for the 5 yrs before that!

So I will only play if we have a rolling start!

But its soundd like you had fun, did you only get 3 runs? was there a big Q?

Hmm. I wonder........ are their any other symptoms. Before my off, when pulling away harshly, it felt like the back wheel was slipping. Still does a bit but as you can image, I am still quite tentative. Could it have been the grabby clutch syndrome?

[AMCQ46]

No other real symptoms mate, it works great at low torque, fully progressive and controlled, then add a bit more throttle, still slipping ithe clutch, and BANG, it stops slipping and locks to full drive.

No rear wheel slipping, it wont let me get that much torque on the road before it grabs.

There is a bit of a squeal noise, I think [it could be me that squeals] when it happens, but thats it.

If you have it you will know. Normally you can feed the torque to the road with slipping the clutch, with it grabs it goes from being analogue to a digital on off.

[geodude]

PM on way

[geodude]

Thanks for that AMCQ64. I'll try what you said "in 2nd"

Yeah, my mate said when he looked in his mirror he though "Ahj, he is doing a wheelie" ...... "Hmm that's an awesome wheelie"...... "Ah wait, there is a bike coming towards me with no-one on it." All the time he was braking. lol

[geodude]

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[sirch345]

Blimey George what have you been up to
Glad too hear you're not too badly injured. As you say the R & G protectors really did their job.

Do R & G sell just the damaged parts (the black bits) I wonder

Chris.

[geodude]

Blimey George what have you been up to
Glad too hear you're not too badly injured. As you say the R & G protectors really did their job.

Do R & G sell just the damaged parts (the black bits) I wonder

Chris.

Hehe. Thanks Yeah they do sell the bits separately. Just waiting till pay day and will order the black bit and the steel end bit that was bent. It probably wont survive another fall so I need to change it really.

Now I'm worried about the clutch too as it does, after posts from AMcQ, seem to be slipping then grabbing a bit. With hard acceleration in 2nd and 3rd, it feels as if the clutch is being held in very very slightly. Probably just paranoia.

Might go for an EBC clutch kit. Anyone else replaced theirs with EBC?