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My Suzuki 750 was the same. I'm not sure I've had a bent rotor on any other bike in my life. Those ones bent all of the time. 

Don't listen to him. Zip ties are just as sexy as duct tape...

A creative solution. 25mm/spline seems like a lot. I never measured any of mine. 

Yesterday, but I took about 90 minutes to do 30 minutes worth of work, wiping a few things down (I got mocked for a filthy bike the other day!) and performing an oil change. 

That's great for you guys. I love the Staintune on my '98, but it ins't loud at all. I wear the ear plugs for the wind. 

You likely know this, but fuel with ethanol starts to degrade after ~2 weeks...assuming it was fresh when it was added. I stopped using it in everything. 

I have been getting errors on the unread posts link and have to refresh a few times to get it to load. Just started in the last day or three. 

I think that I'm the slacker in the group. 

I put about 10k miles on my '99 over 4 years and sold it with 27.5k on it to make room for a '98 w/3,772 miles on it. 

The '98 now has 25,750 on it after nearly 9 years. 

And the '00 I picked up last year w/3k miles on it has only 4.7k as I'm still getting it sorted...on the cheap. 

I do have one Subaru with over 200k on it. I love that car!

I'm not sure why reading a ruler is so difficult, but I can't seem to find someone who can do it accurately consistently. My gal helped last night while the bike was warm. She paid close attention. It is absolutely much better than it was prior. No way to adjust fork damping easily, but the rear shock needs some damping tweaking. Currently rebound set to 1.5 turns out from full in...but I think that the non adjustable compression is the real bugger. 

Finally got out for a local ride yesterday to test the Belarus risers. They are a lovely product and comfort was surely improved, and for a lot less $ than other options. I'm content. 

While the bike was warm, it gave me a chance to make some sag setting changes front and back, albeit sans gear...so they may need to be even tigher.

Rear shock 31mm rider, 10mm bike (from 48/26)

Front forks 35mm rider, 25mm bike (from 43/29)

Short local ride coming up!

We see a lot of funny things drawn on the lights at track days! We usually suggest numbers. lol

That's really something for the UK! 

High of 98F here in Charlotte, NC on Saturday. May try to escape to elevation, but the slog down to sea level to the car is tough after!

I've coasted into more than one gas station. Sounds like a new thread. Out of fuel. Broken chains. Brake pads not good for that one last ride...

Right. You'll want your eyes on the steels. They won't wear, but they may look terrible. 

Is that what they do? Wouldn't it be easier to sell you a gallon of fuel and get you on your way? 

1 hour ago, Stray said:

Again, what do you think?  

I think that you must be retired! I barely have time to get fuel...

"Nether give up, nether surrender!"

Unwilling to spend the dosh on Helibars, which are a mediocre solution anyway, I ordered a set of extenders from Russia's friend Belarus. I can't believe that they actually made it, and that there were no made up fees. 

Tidy packaging. Quality parts, although deburring could have been better. Reused stock O-rings and the safety clips aren't needed (there's no space for them, but they could have machined it in...)

Easy adjustment with 10mm socket/wrench, so better than stock in that regard. I set them up with the same intended sag as the stockers. I need to check that before riding. 

It would not be difficult to raise them a tad more, if the cables/hoses would allow, with washers/shims keeping the alignment pins engaged (less than fully). 

Comfort shouldn't be worse! $106 delivered. Helibars are now a completely stupid $359 delivered. Surely worth a go!

A few shots of the difference on the bench and installed:

Finally got the "last" extenders from Belarus yesterday and installed them. I need to reset sag and then test them. Quality is good. More pics/details in the 1998 to 2000 conversion (not so much happening now!) thread. 

Looks fast even sitting still...

Legos? 

Another beautiful local ride (five actually!) over the long weekend. There's so much to explore near Charlotte without ever being in the city or traffic. 

On 5/1/2022 at 3:57 PM, bmart said:

I did bump into this, which I hadn't seen before. 

 

I think that rising only would just make the levers even higher than stock. 

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284690254630

I just can't bring myself to buy new bars at the current pricing, and reviews fornearly all are mediocre. I ordered the last of the ones in the link above and, fingers crossed, will get them in my hot little hands in a few weeks. I rode yellow bike for a few hours straight today and it really needs the bars higher!

On 5/22/2022 at 4:59 PM, VFR750F3 said:

Th zip tie method works.  I do it every year on all my bikes.

Absolutely. My FJ needed this done 1-2 times a year also. Theory was that the bubbles were made small enough to more easily move around/up. Nothing else was done, adn after, they were magic. 

Some should sell kits for monkeys like me...