Heresy!
Heresy!
Well, not posted for a while as have been having something of a nightmare with my GSXR 1000. It all started with some unwelcome blue smoke a few weeks ago. Thinking valve stem seals I dropped the engine and pulled the head off. The bike is old and not well looked after, so after snapping no fewer than three exhaust studs, I started about getting them out. Alas my drill is a bit too good and it went all the way through into an oil chamber sooooo, new head. A good mate sorted me out with a polished and ported one though, so all was not lost!
Anyway, got it all back together and ran it up with no dramas. Fast forward a week and blue smoke starts again.....FFS.... Dropped the engine again, full strip down to component parts and replace all the piston rings and some of the bearings. Not quick and not easy!
Still, in the middle of all this an opportunity presented itself to get hold of one of the most beautiful bikes of all time. It's a short term investment but it keeps me smiling while the GSXR gets mended. As if it was all going too well though, I dropped the GSXR engine whilst reinstalling it and cracked a case! More swearing....
Hope all is well with you all and I do keep checking in every few days just to see how old Kev L has got in my absence!
Anyway, got it all back together and ran it up with no dramas. Fast forward a week and blue smoke starts again.....FFS.... Dropped the engine again, full strip down to component parts and replace all the piston rings and some of the bearings. Not quick and not easy!
Still, in the middle of all this an opportunity presented itself to get hold of one of the most beautiful bikes of all time. It's a short term investment but it keeps me smiling while the GSXR gets mended. As if it was all going too well though, I dropped the GSXR engine whilst reinstalling it and cracked a case! More swearing....
Hope all is well with you all and I do keep checking in every few days just to see how old Kev L has got in my absence!
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Feck orf ya wee numpty, ya.
Fed up blowing up Canada you decided to blow up a few Japanese products instead! Don't hold out too much hope for that pretty Duke in the hands of the British Armies finest(sic).
Fed up blowing up Canada you decided to blow up a few Japanese products instead! Don't hold out too much hope for that pretty Duke in the hands of the British Armies finest(sic).
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
F3, 954 USD front, K Tech springs, Braced swinger, Penske shock, Six spoke Mockesini wheels, Harris rearsets, QaT, Flywheel diet!, A&L stacks, stick coils, K&N, FP Ti jets, lashings of Ti & CF
F3, 954 USD front, K Tech springs, Braced swinger, Penske shock, Six spoke Mockesini wheels, Harris rearsets, QaT, Flywheel diet!, A&L stacks, stick coils, K&N, FP Ti jets, lashings of Ti & CF
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He's getting older by the minute.
You've had your work cut out with the Suzie. Now that Duke is lovely. Amazing how good they look even after so many years, the style hasn't tired. That's one bike I would give up my Storm for.
You've had your work cut out with the Suzie. Now that Duke is lovely. Amazing how good they look even after so many years, the style hasn't tired. That's one bike I would give up my Storm for.
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One of the most, if not The most, beautiful bikes ever created.
I'm so unlucky that if there is such a thing as re-incarnation I'll come back as me!
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That's real bad luck about the GSXR Mark. Hopefully the rings will sort it.
I love the ducs but my paranoia would have it in pieces every weekend with the range of noises they make.
I love the ducs but my paranoia would have it in pieces every weekend with the range of noises they make.
If it aint broke, get your bloody hands off it!
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That's one bike I'd give up the wife and kids forcybercarl wrote:He's getting older by the minute.
You've had your work cut out with the Suzie. Now that Duke is lovely. Amazing how good they look even after so many years, the style hasn't tired. That's one bike I would give up my Storm for.
SH#T HAPPENS!!!!!!!!
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that's a sexy bike make no mistake, if money was no object i'd have one in my living room as art work....
good luck with the gixxer buddy
I think kev aged another month whilst I type this out.....
good luck with the gixxer buddy
I think kev aged another month whilst I type this out.....
HEY YOU GUYS!!!!!!
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There is no better looking bike than this from this angle
As a sunny Saturday afternoon ride nothing else comes close. I'm not saying it's the fastest, or the best handling, but the theatre is out of this world. Fact
As a sunny Saturday afternoon ride nothing else comes close. I'm not saying it's the fastest, or the best handling, but the theatre is out of this world. Fact
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There's a splodge of mac fluid on the number plateSeeker 77 wrote:There is no better looking bike than this from this angle
As a sunny Saturday afternoon ride nothing else comes close. I'm not saying it's the fastest, or the best handling, but the theatre is out of this world. Fact
SH#T HAPPENS!!!!!!!!
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Yes. Yes there is
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Me too if I had any.That's one bike I'd give up the wife and kids for
The Dukes noises would take some getting used to, but I guess that's part of their character. Like any bike you get to know what it's supposed to sound like so can listen for any noticeable changes. Now where's my Tambourine.
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cybercarl wrote:Me too if I had any.That's one bike I'd give up the wife and kids for
The Dukes noises would take some getting used to, but I guess that's part of their character. Like any bike you get to know what it's supposed to sound like so can listen for any noticeable changes. Now where's my Tambourine.
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.....and the price of those parts just went up by a pony!agentpineapple wrote:that's a sexy bike make no mistake, if money was no object i'd have one in my living room as art work....
good luck with the gixxer buddy
I think kev aged another month whilst I type this out.....
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
F3, 954 USD front, K Tech springs, Braced swinger, Penske shock, Six spoke Mockesini wheels, Harris rearsets, QaT, Flywheel diet!, A&L stacks, stick coils, K&N, FP Ti jets, lashings of Ti & CF
F3, 954 USD front, K Tech springs, Braced swinger, Penske shock, Six spoke Mockesini wheels, Harris rearsets, QaT, Flywheel diet!, A&L stacks, stick coils, K&N, FP Ti jets, lashings of Ti & CF
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hahahahahahahahaha.......Kev L wrote:.....and the price of those parts just went up by a pony!agentpineapple wrote:that's a sexy bike make no mistake, if money was no object i'd have one in my living room as art work....
good luck with the gixxer buddy
I think kev aged another month whilst I type this out.....
HEY YOU GUYS!!!!!!
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Gta admit. She is a lovely Duc.