My gixxer carbs are pretty much sorted out. During the spring I thought I would use some prefilters (made from my son's old tShirt) over the pods to create additional restriction to increase vacuum and increase slide lift. Unfortunately this needed to be removed once the weather warmed up because the bike started to run a bit too rich and I was stalling coming to a stop.
No flat spots. Easy cold starts. Significant performance improvement and I'm still seeing approximately 41mpg. The old girl runs real nice now and the only things I need to address are the windshield angle, fuel line routing, front fork seal leaking (even though I've replaced it 2 times already.)
I replaced the rear wheel bearing a few weeks ago and had trouble doing the swap. The factory service manual states to fully seat the bearings, but for my 750, I discovered that the drum side bearing cannot be fully seated inorder to get everything properly installed on the other side of the wheel. Pictures of the installed bearings *before* removing them will save alot of headache and uneccesary bearing purchases.
After all this work on my bike I have to say she runs pretty well, but I can't help wondering how a nice new bike would feel on the roads I take. The magazines like to say buy one to ride and one to polish but I've got no patience to clean and polish any bike so I'm not sure where this leaves me. the 2011 Ninja 1000, the Triumph Street Triple and the Versys looks pretty cool for new or slightly used bikes.
Fuel injection seems like such a great idea whenever I'm debugging the running issues on my 2 wheeled beast. All the rattles and knocks from my 30 year old bike sometimes takes away from my enjoyment of the ride and even though I've got more power than when the old girl was stock, I think I need more power (and higher MPG).
No flat spots. Easy cold starts. Significant performance improvement and I'm still seeing approximately 41mpg. The old girl runs real nice now and the only things I need to address are the windshield angle, fuel line routing, front fork seal leaking (even though I've replaced it 2 times already.)
I replaced the rear wheel bearing a few weeks ago and had trouble doing the swap. The factory service manual states to fully seat the bearings, but for my 750, I discovered that the drum side bearing cannot be fully seated inorder to get everything properly installed on the other side of the wheel. Pictures of the installed bearings *before* removing them will save alot of headache and uneccesary bearing purchases.
After all this work on my bike I have to say she runs pretty well, but I can't help wondering how a nice new bike would feel on the roads I take. The magazines like to say buy one to ride and one to polish but I've got no patience to clean and polish any bike so I'm not sure where this leaves me. the 2011 Ninja 1000, the Triumph Street Triple and the Versys looks pretty cool for new or slightly used bikes.
Fuel injection seems like such a great idea whenever I'm debugging the running issues on my 2 wheeled beast. All the rattles and knocks from my 30 year old bike sometimes takes away from my enjoyment of the ride and even though I've got more power than when the old girl was stock, I think I need more power (and higher MPG).
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