Hi everyone

[Brian 99 firestorm]

Hi everyone.
Very happy to be a new member. I am Brian and own a small motorcycle repair shop in South Africa. I am the PROUD owner of a 99 firestorm with just under 60 000 km on the clock. I've always wanted a storm and was blessed to adopt her about four years ago. Have had no hassles with her except the cct's of coarse, but had manual ones made up a while back and have never looked back since. We had a slight misshapp about two years ago at a trackday involving cold tires and being over eager. She's been rebuilt cosmetically, but never been the same, so in Feb, i stripped her down. she is slowly getting rebuilt. New wavy discs front and rear, new fork tubes, 4 deg advancer, gsxr 1000k1 front calipers, EBC double h pads, braided hoses, etc, etc.
I had previously equiped her with a DNA filter and stage one dynojet kit. Found my TPS to be set on about 1400 ohms, so modified it to the required 500 ohms. Just waiting for the body work to come back. I had purchased a genuine set of honda decals for the R157 color code, but cant paint the clear over it, so having others made. Will post pics when she's done. Anyone interested in the decals, give me a shout and lets see what we can do.
Cheers!!

[shaggy-doo]

hi and welcome mate i at the moment am looking for a good set of graphics for my storm as i am in the middle of respraying my bike black

[Kev L]

Welcome to the club fella. How much for a service? Bare in mind the travel cost from the UK!

[VTRDark]

hi and welcome mate i at the moment am looking for a good set of graphics for my storm as i am in the middle of respraying my bike black

Yes but you will also want to put clearcoat or lacquer as we know it over them.

Welcome to the forum Brian, sounds like you have been through the wars with the Storm.



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[AMCQ46]

welcome to the club, sounds like you have had too much fun already

[Wicky]

hi and welcome mate i at the moment am looking for a good set of graphics for my storm as i am in the middle of respraying my bike black

Take the vector files from the link below to a sign/ vehicle vinyl maker local to you with measurements and colour specs which you need - chrome would look good.

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... or#p221826

[Brian 99 firestorm]

Welcome to the club fella. How much for a service? Bare in mind the travel cost from the UK!

Tell you what.
The Storms are so few and far between over here, if your willing to travel, i'l give her a minor service for free! I would love to get the guys together over here and start a supporters group for the storms. Spares are a pain and most of the guys try and maintain their rides themselves.

[shaggy-doo]

hi and welcome mate i at the moment am looking for a good set of graphics for my storm as i am in the middle of respraying my bike black

Yes but you will also want to put clearcoat or lacquer as we know it over them.

if they are genuine honda then why cant thay be lacquered over

[shaggy-doo]

hi and welcome mate i at the moment am looking for a good set of graphics for my storm as i am in the middle of respraying my bike black

Take the vector files from the link below to a sign/ vehicle vinyl maker local to you with measurements and colour specs which you need - chrome would look good.

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... or#p221826

i have been looking at these and think i might be going that rout mate thanks for that link

[Brian 99 firestorm]

@ cybercarl.
Thanx! Yeah, not so much a war, just me wanting to prove a point. I'm very pasionate about my storm and seeing as i'm already going through so much effort with her, i may as well do as much as time and finances allow. Next step would be pistons and cams from HPower in OZ, but the price is bit steap!

[popkat]

Hi,
GSXR1000K1 calipers if I had a K1 thou i'd rather have firestorm calipers, and they ain't that good

[Flatline]

Welcome aboard buddy

[lloydie]

welcome in and hello

[darkember]

Hi there & welcome

[macdee]

welcome