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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #25 on: 10 March 2015, 09:21:13 pm »
Some of you blokes have alot of bikes!
I have:
1997 KTM 250 EXC, my first bike, bought for $500 with a cracked barrel, rebuilt the motor, bought new plastics, made new stickers etc etc.  Had it for years, great fun :).
199X Husky TE610, bought this for $2500 years ago with the intent to fix it up, had collapsed wheel bearings, but ran well, just rough around the edges.  Behr motard wheels and big Brembo brake etc on it....like 5 years later it's still sitting in the shed.  I've rewired it, put on a dash, made new spacers for the wheel bearings, new timing chain, new oil reed (no pump), new clutch basket (old one was cracking!) etc
Doesn't start now, look at it like once every few years but should get the motivation to make it go sometime in the distant future haha!


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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #26 on: 10 March 2015, 10:49:00 pm »
as well as my scratcher Fazer... I have a Ninja 12R and a Harley 48










A couple of very tidy bikes you have there, possibly the only Kwak that I'd try and always had a soft spot for a Harley D.  :)

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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #27 on: 10 March 2015, 10:55:27 pm »
cheers mate... both great bikes, in very different ways...  :rollin




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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #28 on: 11 March 2015, 12:13:06 am »
Not a fan of Harleys.. Yet to find one that i would be interested in :\ . Love the zx12r tho.. :)
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #29 on: 11 March 2015, 10:55:51 am »
There's some great looking bikes on here so far  8)

Only one at the moment for me  ;) I was looking at a Blackbird but the insurance quote was a joke. I'm sure I'll end up with another one or two by the end of the year....


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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #30 on: 11 March 2015, 12:40:04 pm »
There's some great looking bikes on here so far  8)

Only one at the moment for me  ;) I was looking at a Blackbird but the insurance quote was a joke. I'm sure I'll end up with another one or two by the end of the year....





Shop around mate - go compare is pretty good. I'm 22 and had quotes for a blackbird for a few hundred quid!

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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #31 on: 11 March 2015, 01:03:15 pm »
sadly only one at the moment normally run two  :'(


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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #32 on: 11 March 2015, 04:38:47 pm »
Fzr600
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #33 on: 11 March 2015, 08:02:19 pm »
Piccys another time (when I've taken them!!!)

1 x FZS1000
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #34 on: 11 March 2015, 11:08:26 pm »
The gs 650 gt is the shaft version? Pics would be good when you have them :)
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #35 on: 11 March 2015, 11:16:16 pm »
The gs 650 gt is the shaft version? Pics would be good when you have them :)

+1 I used to have a GS550 and GSX550 many many years ago, great bikes the pair of them.

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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #36 on: 11 March 2015, 11:41:09 pm »
My bro had a Gs 550 and it was very reliable. I remember when i was a kid they were regarded as very strong engines as they had a roller bearing crankshaft. In those days plain bearings weren't as good. I seem to recall the gsx 550 has a soft top end and electrical issues.. Also was it not a 16" front wheel?
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #37 on: 12 March 2015, 08:20:44 am »
Yamaha FJ1200 x3
Yamaha FZS600 x2
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Honda Hornet 600
Kawasaki Z550 Trike
Kawasaki Z500 Hardtail Chop
Kawasaki Zephyr 550
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #38 on: 12 March 2015, 03:19:50 pm »
Yamaha FJ1200 x3
Yamaha FZS600 x2
Yamaha FZ750
Honda Hornet 600
Kawasaki Z550 Trike
Kawasaki Z500 Hardtail Chop
Kawasaki Zephyr 550
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #39 on: 12 March 2015, 08:29:56 pm »

VN800 nearly finished, just need to put the new back shocker on and scrub up the rear whitewall, then its MOT time.








CBF1000 (yawn) up for sale very soon, a very capable machine for moving you and your luggage/wife from where you are to where you want to go and back again.







The Fazer, going to try to fix the headlight/clock/faring bracket tomorrow, then its MOT time.


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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #40 on: 12 March 2015, 11:09:28 pm »
The kwak will be a drifter then? I thought cbf's were supposed to be really good all round touring bikes? Whats up with the fairing bracket?
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #41 on: 13 March 2015, 12:23:57 am »
Nope, its a VN800 Classic.

The CBF is a wonderful machine for touring, there's nothing at all wrong with it. It will get you and whatever you want to wherever you want to go and back, it handles perfectly, its comfy, the seat-footpeg-handlebar set up is nigh on perfect, the engine is a peach, tourquey, powerful, responsive and economical. But you never get off it after a ride and think "I love that bike", you get off it and think "We are here!".

As for the Fazer, it looks like its gone over onto something soft and bent the faring bracket without marking the faring, I think that this is a common thing to happen during a bit of a spill due to the complete lack of good second hand spares, the FZS600 and the Gen 2 Fazer 1000 obviously don't suffer from this problem as Ebay is full of the bloody things. Well, ive found one, new, at nearly £200!!
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #42 on: 13 March 2015, 12:29:03 am »
I had a fairing bracket that was slightly squint. The local bike shop straightened it and i repainted it and sold it. The buyer said it was perfect. Why dont you take it to bike shop and get it heated and straightened?
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #43 on: 13 March 2015, 12:32:41 am »

That's what we are doing tomorrow.

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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #44 on: 13 March 2015, 12:46:58 am »
 :thumbup
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #45 on: 13 March 2015, 06:09:09 pm »

Sorted out the fairing bracket with help from Hazel my favourite crowbar (see the Italian Job film).

Removed the faring, mirrors, lights etc and found that I need 2 new fairing infill panels, both have the tabs that bolt through to the side of the fairing snapped off and the holes are broken with large repair washers doing their job.

That'll be more stuff to add to the list then!

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« Reply #46 on: 13 March 2015, 10:58:57 pm »
My bro had a Gs 550 and it was very reliable. I remember when i was a kid they were regarded as very strong engines as they had a roller bearing crankshaft. In those days plain bearings weren't as good. I seem to recall the gsx 550 has a soft top end and electrical issues.. Also was it not a 16" front wheel?

I never had it long enough to find out, some bastard nicked it.
I did have a moment on the GSX that's stayed with me, I was once out riding it and everything must have been just perfect for 2/3 minutes it was like riding in a bubble everything went silky smooth and silent, a very strange experience one that I've never had since, weird!!

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« Reply #47 on: 13 March 2015, 11:35:04 pm »
Just as well they stole it... They would have had to deal with all the electrical issues they had! :lol
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« Reply #48 on: 13 March 2015, 11:42:31 pm »
Here is a versys i just bought...... Everything was working fine, but hands were cold, so i fitted heated grips.. Went for a run and the bike started behaving oddly :\  I managed to get it home to find the battery had 9v :(  Charged the battery and fired it up and it read 12v across the battery terminals while it was running, so there was obviously something wrong. The headlights also stopped working :thumbdown . I unplugged the reg/rect and one of the terminals came out with the plug along with some water. I replaced the reg/rect and it is charging, but headlight still aint working :'( Here is a pic of said beast -
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Re: What bikes do you have in your garage?
« Reply #49 on: 13 March 2015, 11:50:53 pm »
nebuchernezzzer, whats the car in the background?