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lilredmachine World Chat Champion
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Posted: 00:15 - 04 May 2020 Post subject: 150 quid super barge. |
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Given a recent run of luck, mainly related to finding good bikes at bugger all cash, such as this 16,500 mile ZZR1100 for 500 queenheads:
https://i.postimg.cc/KcLbYCDf/IMG-20200322-135703884-HDR.jpg
Notice the standard post respray 'KAWASAK' moniker on the tank. The 'I' always falls off.
It was topped off with my recent perloining of a 49k mile GSX1100F, which featured a remus 4-1 system, full Krauser luggage and acres of mould having lived under a cover outside with someone who was obviously allergic to water. Hence it appears to never have been washed.
Known issues are the SPS don't work [like most of them TBH], it has a blown fork seal, stopped starting on the button and the ignition is a screwdriver jobby after some scrotes tried to nick it a year ago. However it has MOT till september, runs great and is rideable.
I handed over the asking price and then went to see it. Why would I hand over the asking and then go to see it? This motherfucker only set me back 150 quid. 150 greenqueens. That's less than a decent pre-covid night out, and this big girl likes to party all-the-time.
https://i.postimg.cc/yddSCcgJ/IMG-20200502-134451709-HDR.jpg
I bump started it in front of the bloke, however when I got to the ferry terminal I had a spare few minutes so I pulled the sidestand switch wires out and wound them together so it started on the button.
Getting it back home [cracking ride, brakes are covered in oil so it didn't stop, but the standard one doesn't anyway] I had the face off straight away. The SPS [suzuki power screen] had to work. According to the bloke selling it it hadn't worked for about 12 years [he'd owned it ten and his old man sold it to him cheap, it didn't work then] so regardless of what stopped the screen working in the first place the mechanism was proper seized. like 4hrs of painstakingly removing the motor, gear drive, working lube into tight spaces[ ], tweaking the screen, rinse, repeat 4 hrs seized.
https://i.postimg.cc/8CmDTYQc/IMG-20200503-123731190-HDR.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/c4tvddDJ/IMG-20200503-123740074-HDR.jpg
Motor looks in great nick, hardly used, so I just cleaned the comm and brushes and shoved it back in.
https://i.postimg.cc/GtdnVJSY/IMG-20200503-124042106.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/QNf89C4b/IMG-20200503-131645124-HDR.jpg
With a set of molegrips clamped on the drive spigot I was able to lift and lower the screen 1mm at a time until I'd covered the whole travel.
https://i.postimg.cc/QxRwzZY5/IMG-20200503-131637364-HDR.jpg
Once it had travelled the whole range of moevement smoothly with little resistance I reassembled the gear drive and motor, pulled the motor connector and manually jumped it with wires off the battery.
https://youtu.be/lq-j4HTTRLA
Poggers.
The original failure was on the part of the relay that controls the screen. the wiring pings fine, as does the handlebar switch. The mechanism now works perfectly, we are left with the relay, that rattles when you shake it. I have ordered another so hopefully that will get us a screen moving on the button.
https://i.postimg.cc/SQfq0Rb4/IMG-20200503-161016033.jpg
Next things are to get the fork seal sorted, a new ignition, then look into getting some modern rubber under this beast. ____________________ Bikes: too many, too much for one man to maintain anyway. |
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Both bargains. The zzr was once the fastest bike on the road s in gorgeous nick and the Suzuki oil boiler has one of the most stonkingly tunable engines. Drag racers used to love them.
Both classics, both getting rare now. Keep them. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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MarJay But it's British!
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You should totally tell people you got an SPS for £150. Allow people to believe it's a 916 SPS for a requisite amount of time, then go "Nah, it's a Suzuki Power Screen."
____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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wr6133 wrote: | The zed for £500 had me jealous, if those are new Chinese fairings they are almost worth that. The Seized Power Screen for £150, bloody hell.... where did you find that? |
The fairings are original kawasaki and have essentially no physical damage to them, standard foam/inserts still in place. The previous owner is a friend of mine who had bought it when it was three years old, so had owned it 23 years. He never reset the trip in all the time he owned it, so the 8300 miles that showed on it where all the miles he'd ever done on it. It was already black when he bought it, so I can only imagine it had a slide or something and maybe someone hadn't been able to afford to insure it fully comp, so had repaired it on the cheap with oem but different coloured panels and got someone to spray it jet black.
It was red originally I think, from what I can see along some edges where paint has worn back slightly. The paint is nowhere near perfect, it's got microblisters in it in places, and the nosecone flat out needs to be redone, but we're talking about a possibly older than 23yr old aftermarket black job, so it isn't that surprising. Nor is not a beautiful bike
The SPS came from Southampton, the uncle of a friend. My mate just turned around one day and said did I want his uncle's powerscreen for 150 quid.
If his flys had been open I'd have shoved the money straight in there. ____________________ Bikes: too many, too much for one man to maintain anyway. |
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Little update on this, the front brakes are rebuilt with fresh pads, and I have big news on the power screen...
https://youtu.be/vsScn6ZjbHc
On the button baby!
This is in excellent service as my hack about everyday at the moment. Went out on it last Sunday and scared the bejesus out of meself hammering about on me 16 inch muscle car tyres and rear calipers for front brakes. ____________________ Bikes: too many, too much for one man to maintain anyway. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 321 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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