Solcambs

I used to have one of those ... but just use http://www.gearingcommander.com/ now. The site takes a few mins to get your head around, but you can have a standard, current, and new set up showing for the same bike, including changes to wheel size, chain pitch and it does it all for you. You can see shift points, and speed in each gear at redline. Load a bikes standard set up, then mess with the settings to see the impact.

Correct .. IIRC 17 is about as high as you can go before the chain will saw through the clutch push rod.

I was looking last night. There is possibly space - and there's just enough meat to turn down the bandit one. But it rotates the opposit direction to the Kat - so I'd need to turn the wheel around (or maybe I have the wheels in backwards already!! I shall go look at some Internet photos and see if I can work it out. If that that doesn't work - Mito or Ducati one will be ordered if I can confirm threads for the cable can fit.

25mm I think you are right. Looks like Ducati do speedo drives on a 25mm spindle also!

According to http://www.gearingcommander.com/ GSX1100F 88-94 has a Primary drive ratio of 1.522 and final drive gearing of 15-52 The GSXR1100 86-87 is 1.622 and 14-47, the 88 14-46, the 89, 90, 91 & 92 was 1.5652 15-48 The Bandit 1200 00-02 is 1.566 15-45

Yup that's what I thought - another Eblag seller who doesn't know what he's selling!

I just spotted an advert on that site for a mechanical speedo drive for the '97 TL1000S. ISTR the TL1000 I had, back in the day, had a digital speedo with a sensor pickup arrangement? Did the early TL's have a mechanical speedo? This could solve me an issue on my Katana with bandit wheels, and TLS forks. I had assumed I could use a bandit or GSXR750 drive ... but of course the spindle diameter is too large. Before I start measuring the GSXR750 drive and deciding whether I can take it out to the TL1000 spindle, can anyone confirm whether there was TL1000s mechanical drive?

I'm with nlovien. If the jets are those recommended .. they shouldn't be causing a seriously rich issue - which is what it sound like .I'd be tempted to first check the air jets. They may be some blockage in one or more of them that is causing the richness at 0-1/4 throttle on the idle circuit.. Likewise you could take the pumper out of the equation by adjusting it for further up the throttle opening.

I had a set of those blue and white ones. I thought they were the bees kness!

Yup - saw that - and discounted it as a styling exercise. It's brown for fecks sake!

Can you remind me why a swop to a B12 sump on a GSXR1100 engine is useful?

They work OK on a dyno I'd imagine - but that kinda defeats the object of them doesn't it!

Robert appears have got a job lot of stickers recently .... I do like it though - I do like a silver & black colour scheme bike!

Bloody hell .... that'll be sucking in small children as they pass by!

IIRC there are basically two push rod lengths shown on Suzuki microfiche's for the GSF and GSXR series. If you have a longer one and need a shorter one it will be immediately apparent as you try to put it back together.If you have a shorter one and need a longer one it's not immediately obvious unti8l the clutch doesn't disengage. I know I had issues with the GSXR1100M motor ... but that turned out that the old rod had snapped inside - so when trying to fit the correct part numbered rod it wouldn't! Soon sorted but had me thinking we'd ordered the wrong one for a few minutes! When mixing and matching certain combinations add a ball bearing to aid clutch action IIRC. The GSF600 is a cable clutch isn't it?

For one moment when i saw that photo I thought I was reading a chopper project!

It's not just function is it - or we'd all be riding MZeds! I look at @MeanBean49's bike and see form that follows function - but the point simply is bikes are beautiful in their own right without being "made" beautiful. They are there to be used ;o) I prefer a bike that looks used (and abused even).

No idea ... but they look pretty and well made!

Here's one .. not exactly what you need .. but good quality and the one I used to decipher my 1100

Sell - or stockpile for the next one! Suzuki stuff is very often bike swoppable isn't it ... so who knows what you may need it for.

LOL .. in fairness I didn't check - I just remembered the "fork chart" bit!

http://oldskoolsuzuki.info/archives/391

Just so we don't have to keep cocking our heads

Holy shitting Mother of God! That's some crack!