Madb
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Such sad news. Rest In Peace, Pete.
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1100w/c. hmmmm. what ya doing with that then?
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35mm static sag.
boing boing.
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Silly me. looked at the head and assumed! i should have noticed no clutch cable. haha.
i need that factory pro kit. carbs are worn but having said that it does run smooth enough with no flat spots. idle tho is blaaa. Do you get new needle tubes with them kits?
i have got a head to port at sometime tho. one day,eh.
have you had yours on dyno yet?
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Lush! @Legotoyloving that front end! how you get on with the jetting with them fliters? I ended up using 150 mains tho still in need of some tweaking tho I am using the rf900 engine with 750 head. I also notice you have the speedo pick up on the right hand side. is that electronic speedo?
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8 hours ago, Dezza said:
An xr69 has an aircooled engine though doesn't it? So it's an xr69 looky-likely, with a gsxr (??) engine........
@dezza yes and yes. It's within the spirit of the rules. supposingly output of 180bhp+. Nice,(read on the net somewhere) but i stand corrected if it's way out.
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them pipes look like aftermarket srad ones. you would need to move #2 and #3 pipes further apart to fit as the cam chain moved from the inside to the offside of the engine on later w/c engines. spacing would also be different between #1 and#2 and #3 and #4 so need to heat them up to fit proper. but do-able ish.
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lovely. first rode one in 1977. sooo smooth compared to the brit bikes i were used too! changed my ideas how a bike should be.
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guessing from experience? @KATANAMANGLER
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11.3 is not to be sniffed at.
cool pic. love it.
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hi Joe, found these on Eblag. don't know if they would suit yer needs. located in belgium i think. 89-90 model
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Bloody Big dog, then! detention after skool hours, sir and write 100 times "I will finish my bike this year" in Latin of coarse!.
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i was 5'11 at the time tho i have shrunk over the years and funny enough lost a couple of stone too. i'd be much faster now!
don't think it were yer height or weight really.
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Knock knock, hows it going, @El Gringo? any progress?
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err, nope. not feeling that rear seat/unit. fits nicely tho.
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white ones were quicker!
cause i had one! hahahaha. oooh the memories and smell. ported and spannies. ran it on bel-ray oil, wheeled everywhere and always started first or second kick. loved new plugs every other week. never missed a beat. So wished i kept-ed that one! Me envy you all. 
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had a looky see at my arm and i defo have the seals in must have used the braced arms or the srad ones i had in the workshop. you do need a bit sticking out for the bearings or otherwise the arm won't move when you torque the adjuster up. have you a pic of your arm @Legotoy?
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13 hours ago, Legotoy said:
I have done this myself just recently and I feel the need to jump in and point out a few details I don't think have been covered yet. The pivot bearing sleeves from braced arm do indeed slip inside the earlier banana arm bearings, but that is where the easy stuff ends...
You will find the spacer tube between the bearings is different between the two arms. The banana arm spacer has to be used otherwise your sleeves will not be kept in place. And the banana spacer DOES NOT slip inside the braced arm spacer. I had to trim 2mm from the overall length too as the are not the same width either - meaning your bearing sleeves sit proud and don't allow full tightening of the spindle. On a dry build the arm floated side to side by about 2mm.
I would love to hear how MadB got around this? Also which dust seals to use? I used braced arm ones with banana spacers left proud by the corresponding amount. They have thrust washers inside and so need to be part of the overall solution.
Basically it was all done in a day but involved a great deal of trial fitting, very careful measuring and consideration of which combo of parts to use. And finally stuff did need modification, wasn't a bolt in job.
The arms are the same weight (checked on scales) but the braced looks a million times better which makes it worthwhile IMO.
don't know which arm you may be using @Legotoy? Mine fits straight in and as for the weight, my braced arm is nearly half the weight of the banana arm. the sleeves slide straight in and had no problems with the width either. maybe i am a lucky sod,eh. didn't have to trim anything. as for the inner spacer sleeve, maybe someone already swapped mine before i got it. don't know but inner sleeve didn't move inwards as i tried pushing them in further but just stopped.
floated? you have an adjuster on the left side to take out any play and you also have shims/seals either side aswell.
Don't know if anyone else has had your problems with fitting this arm but everyone i've read about has been fairly simple.
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just found this. explains a lot. bloody manufacture's. can't keep anything standard.
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i haven't looked on my bike, just had the manual to hand. guessing spadge needs to get the mutli meter out.
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Suzuki's wire diagram shows B/w wire is in the middle. maybe then spadge has the high and low beam wires wrong way round or his dip beam is blown?
MotoMartin spine frame GsxR1127cc engine
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Awesome! Nice style.