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That's not old, it's just a Kenworth. Even brand new they look 50 years old.

I agree, that's why I had my fast friend ride it while I rode my R1.

It's pretty cool when your 33 year old bike beats modern machines

That's a peach. Oil cooled Bandit motor with GSXR cams and high compression would be a wicked sleeper

I'm hungry

13 hours ago, Thphantum said:

Is that a c500?

No idea, I'm usually all Scania

On 04/11/2018 at 11:37, MACKAZ said:

Have worked on that. The trailers these guys use are crazy

USD ruins the look as well. Using the right springs and cartridge emulators will well andtruly update the forks.

NZ has a few guys who specialise in MC suspension, but I just import my parts off fleabay usually. Where are you getting the shock from?

New fork legs are often a good option if you can stretch to them. No rust, and straight. Race tech sell them amongst others

Went for a 1300km ride over labour weekend. Oil temp got up to 140c when thrashing it between Napier and Taihape.

I have an 1100 oil cooler from a later model bike, and new valving to control the oil flow through the cooling system.

From this:

To this:

11 rows to 14 rows, much wider and curved. Will make an air guiding duct for the top, and fit foam inside the fairings to guide the air through the cooler.

Also have a set of 36mm flat slides I'm currently rebuilding to fit on because more power is good power. (It has plenty)

Have decided I'm going to go for a full re-wire, use new connectors and make a pattern so that I can sell the looms overseas.
Found, bought and fitted an oil temperature gauge. I don't know how accurate it is, but it was showing up to 110degC on the weekend with the mrs on the back and going slow

I had better results out of Wemoto UK, but AU did come to the party and sort out the mistakes they made. The frieght to get it sent here is not bad, and no GST that way

Wemoto is also a good place to get parts for older bikes

Have changed the gearing and played with jetting last week. Was jetted slightly rich at a 135 main. Went worse with a 140 main, will get a set of 130s to try next.

Went -1 on the front sprocket, and +3 on the rear. The gearing is much better meow.

Had an issue with the headlights not going, traced it to a dud connector. Currently I'm undecided as to whether to fix electrical faults as the arise, or just make a new loom with modern connectors.

Was cool to meet a few of you guys tonight, there happened to be a bunch of tidy old cars parked at a burger joint near work.

Gav (on the motorbike)

4 hours ago, Thphantum said:

Is that a 2 door mk iv in the background?

I'm no Ford expert, but the taillights look wrong, and the film is based in Europe. Possibly a Grenada?

Scania's new TV show: Legends of long haulage

Spec seems wrong, the pins look fairly central in their rollers

Photo dump:

Swingarm had closed up from bracing, Needed a bit of a stretch to get the chain to line up.

8am on Saturday the bikes were in the same room as each other but nowhere near ready to ride to Wellington

Carbs weren't back in time to reassemble so had to make a set that were under a bench fit and work.

None of the exhaust parts I had would line up other than the period Yoshimura full system I had installed on the 750, so that had to go onto the 1200 and had to mix and match to get an exhaust on the 750. Would like to make a new system of similar dimensions to the Yoshi soon.

Purchase price was $1001. Have spent roughly $7k on top of that so far, and still need paint. It would have been cheaper for me to walk into Colemans and buy the K8 GSXR 1000 they have in the showroom.

Have just done the gearing calculations. It was geared for 308km/h. I've dropped that to a slightly more useable 276. It's already a weapon out of the hole, and smokes the 750 in a decent launch

It's been a busy fortnight. Will upload the in-between pics when I can. Didn't get it done in time to ride to Wellington. Got it finished last night, and we took both bikes out for a ride today. It's fast, will be better with jetting and gearing changes. Jets are too lean, and gears are too tall. Small leak from sump plug, and possible fork oil leak too. It has the handling of my '85 750, and the power of my '03 R1. So much fun

Stickers!