RN(S) news archive: July to December 2001

Date Site News
December 27th 7/11 Boulevard Bored to death during christmas holidays? Rip your carbs from the bike and give them a quick check-up to have your bike running and spinning again in springtime! I've written a small article describing how I do it on my Mikuni RS's.
December 21st RN(S)

Suzuki’s early GSX-R750 has always been a popular bike for special builders. French firm Motomate has taken it a mad stage further.
Click here to learn more.

December 19th After-EFEcts All summer long I wanted to convert my buddyseat, lower it a little bit and have it blue upholstered. Before I took it to the upholstery, I prototyped it with PS5. See what it looks like here.
December 18th 7/11 Boulevard Check out Mr.7/11's parts compatibility list if you need some basic info on what fits what....
December 17th 7/11 Boulevard I took some time to present the theoretical side of re-wiring my bike...
you could actually learn something from this!
December 10th 7/11 Boulevard Last weekend it was freezing for the first time so I spent some time in the garage. I was planning to do some minor cleaning but before I knew it there were parts scattered everywhere and now there's only a bare frame and engine left... getting carried away I guess.
Plans this winter are to create the ultimate wiring loom that will produce the fattest spark this side of a nuclear chain reaction!
Inspired by an article written by Tony Foale I think I have created one of the most efficient wiring looms possible with the help of Ludo. Aim was to provide the highest current to the ignition coils with as less resistance = connectors as possible, we did this by feeding the coils directly from the alternator and switching it using a low-resistance relay. The mass of the coils is connected directly to the - pole of the battery. Have a look at the final schematic, the complete article will follow later on. - Mr.7/11
December 7th RN(S) Now here's a good one for the "If you can't beat 'em, fuck 'em up" department, Martin Hillier understood what it's all about.
November 21st RN(S) Here's another DIY article... "How to repair cracked engine covers".
November 16th RN(S)
Updated the event calendar
October 9th After-EFEcts

Finally found some time to make up a page with spec's and pictures of my EFE. Click here to take look.

October 8th RN(S)

Hok14 published picture's of their latest party on their site, check it out to see what you might have missed...........

October 1st RN(S) Another step towards world domination ;-)
This week Jasper will launch the new design of his famous R-House website. He will kill his old advert-infested "Global Gixxer Message Board" and send all his visitors to our brilliant new message board, so expect a lot of new people singing in to plead for our expert advise ;-)
September 18th After-EFEcts Updated the Streetbikes and Stripbikes sections, already 35 pic's of EFE's online now. Keep sending them in boys and girls.
September 16th RN(S)

Team RN(S) went to a great party in Hengelo, organised by Hok14 (thanks boys and girls) where Mr. 7/11 scored the prize for "Best Homemade Bike" and got stonedead drunk afterwards. The prize came as a trophy of which you see a picture here.

Click on the image for the full report of what you (may) have missed, and damn did you miss someting!

(Not sure though if it's the skull on the right or the one on the left which was the trophy)

September 13th RN(S) We have reorganized the various categories of the messageboard, sorted by engine type (air- oil- and watercooled) to make things simple.
Unless you want to fit a GSX-R1100W engine into an old Katana frame, then you'll be hopelessly lost ;-)
I didn't remove messages, just moved them around a bit.
September 12th RN(S)

MCNews has published various dyno runs comparing the GSX1400 with the Bandit 1200, XJR1300 and even a 1500 Vulcan!

And Dave from the Katana Specials website announced that the November issue #93 (on sale from the 4th of October) of StreetFighters Magazine will be a "Katana Special".
Be sure not to miss it!

September 10th RN(S) New addition to the calender... Street or Track part 2 on november 17th and 18th
September 6th HardCore Kats

We now have the GSX1100S Owners Manual and brochure on-line.
And... the WWW Katana picture collection has been updated with our latest findings, now counting 103 images!

September 4th RN(S)

I admit it's a bit crude and not very friendly but we got so sick and tired from the old forum that we killed it in an instant and replaced it with the best forum script we could find. It has all the bells and whistles and even e-mail notification works now! Go give it a try!
Old messages can be found here.

September 3rd After-EFEcts Our staff photographer Fem has made some beautiful pictures at the Drachten Eurofinals last weekend.
August 29th RN(S) We've now got an event-calender to see where Team RN(S) is hanging out next weekend.
August 27th HardCore Kats We've got an exclusive picture of the new 2002 model GSX1400S Katana! (yes, it uses the all new GSX1400 engine!)
August 20th After-EFEcts Bral® added some rear-tyre advice to learn more about how to handle rubber. (And kids, don't do this @ home !)
Forgot to take pic's of the "new" USD frontend but they will follow shortly after.
August 17th HardCore Kats I've added two more pictures to the YoshiKat 1135R page... two bigger pictures from the Tokyo Motor Show.
August 17th RN(S) Robby says "Keep away from Yamaha R6's"!
There have been many reports of R6's with bent shift forks.
Yamaha's official response is "If you wheelie a R6 it will break down!"
Bring on the SRAD's!
August 17th 7/11 Boulevard Martijn has sent us a wallpaper of the most wanted heart-transplant donor, the GSX1400.
Come to think of it, as my GSX1100F engine spits out at least 40 horses more at the rear wheel I might just be able to tempt a fresh GSX1400 owner into a swap... maybe ;-)
August 16th 7/11 Boulevard
Jasper, webmaster of R-House has decided to scare himself shitless once in a while and bought a water-cooled 7/11!
The bike is tuned by dutch firm Ten Kate (well known for their SuperSport H*nda CBR's, engine is of 1994, full race Yosh with carbon end-can, 2x2 K&Ns, Dynojet kit, beefed-up clutch, 6-speed gearbox and a cable-operated clutch. Max. power is claimed to be 164hp at the crank.
Welcome to the club, Jas!
August 14th HardCore Kats We have collected some info about the 1135R here... with the specifications translated from japanese!
And while we're at it I've also translated the specs of the Katana Final Edition. Boy, my japanese is getting better and better ;-)
August 13th After-EFEcts Web news: Arnout has updated his GSX1100 pages and the GS-Resources website has had a face-lift.
August 13th HardCore Kats Airhead has produced a lovely 1024x786 Yoshimura Katana 1135R wallpaper
August 10th HardCore Kats
<< Click on the bike and make
sure you've got some Kleenex
tissues ready!
August 10th 7/11 Boulevard Back to the future... Suzuki GS1200SS
August 7th RN(S)

Performance Bikes Magazine isn't imported into Holland anymore!
I've been trying to get my hands on the August issue after Roel van Maarseveen stopped his agency but to no avail.
Some bookstore owners tell me it isn't imported anymore!?!

August 3rd RN(S) News behind the scenes...
Just before celebrating his 30th birthday Robby sold his 'Blade and now is looking for a crash-damaged R6 to be given the UST*-treatment. So if you know of one send him an e-mail.
* Ultimate Stunt Tool
July 30th 7/11 Boulevard Mr.7/11 is back from his 4 week holiday and celebrated his 33th birthday yesterday! Finally did some work on the Gixxerday report, only needs a few more lines of text and then it will be up.
July 24th
After-EFEcts

Due to the fact that the entire Team RN(S) took a well earned holiday there's not a lot goin' on here at the moment but....at least Bral® managed to get back in one piece and so here we go again.

I purchased a '93 750 USD frontend which will be in place within a few dayz, also bought a set of 6 pot Tokico calipers to go with it..............it's getting better already........

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