Rocket
29-08-2011, 08:57 PM
Some will remember when I put this bike together last year.
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20555&whichpage=1
The plan was to leave it in QLD at a super secret hideout (ie: Si's place) so I could use whenever I went to QLD and could take off for a few days into the hills.
So I shipped it to Adelaide from Perth and did this trip to the Goldy.
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21139&whichpage=1&SearchTerms=gold,coast
Unfortunately, since then, I haven't made it back to the Gold Coast a single time since, so that was a waste of effort !
But now, with the Orange K1 bike getting a turbo fitted and becoming a strip bike, I am gunna need a road bike so I arranged for a friend of a friend to collect it from Si and bring it back here for me.
With Si's help, he loaded up Friday morning and dropped it off this arvo !! Talk about quick delivery!
So, massive thanks to Si for putting up with it in his shed and helping me out to get it back home, I owe you a few beers mate !
I already got a new battery through Morry so I chucked that in, limped around to the servo for some air in the tyres and took off for a fang around the streets, what a fkn great bike to ride !
So here's how it looks now.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/blowngsxr11/100_0086.jpg
Now that the bike is back here, I won't be so concerned with getting a defect notice 5000k's away from home so I have ordered a Power Commander 5, a TRE and a Yoshi stainless slip on for it for starters.
While they're coming in, it needs two new tyres, an oil and filter change, the clutch needs a strip and clean and then I'll probably leave it as it is for a while.
I'll get a new headlight for it and then think about gathering up some bits for a winter strip down when I'm in the new house.
I'm fukn stoked to have it back !
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20555&whichpage=1
The plan was to leave it in QLD at a super secret hideout (ie: Si's place) so I could use whenever I went to QLD and could take off for a few days into the hills.
So I shipped it to Adelaide from Perth and did this trip to the Goldy.
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21139&whichpage=1&SearchTerms=gold,coast
Unfortunately, since then, I haven't made it back to the Gold Coast a single time since, so that was a waste of effort !
But now, with the Orange K1 bike getting a turbo fitted and becoming a strip bike, I am gunna need a road bike so I arranged for a friend of a friend to collect it from Si and bring it back here for me.
With Si's help, he loaded up Friday morning and dropped it off this arvo !! Talk about quick delivery!
So, massive thanks to Si for putting up with it in his shed and helping me out to get it back home, I owe you a few beers mate !
I already got a new battery through Morry so I chucked that in, limped around to the servo for some air in the tyres and took off for a fang around the streets, what a fkn great bike to ride !
So here's how it looks now.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/blowngsxr11/100_0086.jpg
Now that the bike is back here, I won't be so concerned with getting a defect notice 5000k's away from home so I have ordered a Power Commander 5, a TRE and a Yoshi stainless slip on for it for starters.
While they're coming in, it needs two new tyres, an oil and filter change, the clutch needs a strip and clean and then I'll probably leave it as it is for a while.
I'll get a new headlight for it and then think about gathering up some bits for a winter strip down when I'm in the new house.
I'm fukn stoked to have it back !