Gix11's Degenerate Gix - For Ben to check

[Gix11]

Alright guys, and especially Ben, this is long overdue. Here's what the triples and discs look like mate. Took it for it's first real run today and nearly lost it! Front wheel slide. Luckily, slow speed let me kick it back up, and the best part is I was trying to keep up with Cath! She joined a few weeks back and lives here on the coast. She said she'd come out on the next run we do around this way. Geez, she can ride! The old Gix had a hard time in the corners compared to her ZXR. (No, that isn't a kwaka comment opportunity Rexie, or Turbo come to think of it....). Anyway, back to the subject. here's some photos when i got back about half an hour ago. Cheers Ben, they look a treat mate and bloody hell, do they pull you up or what! Best braking this bike has ever seen I can tell you.:

http://streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/Gix11/degenerate1.jpg

http://streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/Gix11/degenerate3.jpg

http://streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/Gix11/degenerate4.jpg

http://streetfighters.com.au/images/gallery/suz/Gix11/degenerate2.jpg

[Iceman]

Looks pretty neat Si, those buzzsaw disc really top it off.

[fimpBIKES]

nice nice NICE!!!

i'll take 2 ;)

[Large]

you left your lights on

[cammy9r]

discs and triples look the biz. Think thats the 1st time i have seen your bike very nice.

[willow]

Looks great, mate. Triples and buzz rotors definately set the whole bike off. I Like the look. But if you had clip ons instead of the girly sit-up-an'-beg handle bars, you wouldn't have nearly lost it :D :D

(oh boy am i gunna get hammered now)

[pesh]

Very nice m8 .... those rotors are awesome ... what a machine

that front tyre doesnt look like its built for being pushed to hard mate. all its missing now is the oil cooler. but anyway the new gear is tric. Thort about selling your old forx???

[BOHEMION]

Good shit Gix thats the stuff right there mate, Nice work!

[chadams]

Gix, the bike looks great mate...

[oldskool]

Nice fighter very nice disc's

[oldskool]

Splash some cash on an oil cooler if ya can would top it off ;)

[TurboKat]

Lookin good Gix,
I like the light better that way & them triples look nice & beefy.
Couple of suggestions - turn your front brakelines around 180 deg, put a little arrow above the Degenerate sticker that points backwards & up, get some sexy braided oil cooler lines, then sell it & get a Kawasaki [:0]


quote:Originally posted by Gix11

I was trying to keep up with Cath! She joined a few weeks back and lives here on the coast. She said she'd come out on the next run we do around this way. Geez, she can ride!

The old Gix had a hard time in the corners compared to her ZXR. (No, that isn't a kwaka comment opportunity Rexie, or Turbo come to think of it....).

If it was Cath Thompson of 125 GP fame, you're lucky you even saw which way she went. :)

Party Pooper, [V] I was going to say, every Gixer 1100 has a hard time keeping up with a ZXR 250 but I won't now. ;)

[deafwish]

Trick lookin bike, Gix.
Should've got the Suzuki 'S' shape, lazer cut into that undertray.
Would look olright i reckon.

[03gixxerpilot]

lookin good Si, the disks look great, would look even better if you could get one on the rear to match, and the tripple clamps................................ awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gix11]

Cheers lads, in response:

Large: Shit mate, is that what it is? I was wondering why there is a light coming from under the garage door every night....

Davo: This is the first time I've pushed it with this configuration and I'm not comfortable with it. I've been using these tyres for a few years (including the Fools Runs) and had no problems until today. The oil cooler is on the list. As for the old forks, do you want them?

Turbo: That is obviously just the centre of that crappy light unit I already had and it's only on there to put out some kind of light until my new unit arrives from Germany soon. The brake lines got put on, but I had a shit fight with the new disc conversion which took a few weeks and in the hassle of doing that I forgot all about the brake lines. You have just reminded me I was going to do exactly that!

Pilot: Yea mate. looks like I'll be in for a rear disc next as well, kinda looks shit without it to balance the front. (yea Ben, call up your mate).

I have just been studying it again and I really don't like those bars. Anyone know of any fat bars that are straight? Just flat across like drag bars? Those bars curve in too much at that rotation and any more means leaning out forward and upwards too far, and apart from that they make the front look too high.

Willow: Clip-ons? Go and wash your mouth out.

Now you might find this amazing coming from me, but I'm also over the plain satin black already. Gloss is too simple and I'm actually thinking of something a bit louder, even a burnt orange. Anyone seen some interesting paint jobs that are kinda in between if you know what i mean? Cammy, this is your fault mate!

[EXBEN]

Finally some pix, looks good mate,but it needs a rear disk, what size you running currently 220mm or 240mm ?

[Large]

Ramset Orange?
Cadbury Purple?
Blue Vein Blue?
Mundy and Davo Blue?
Hammertone Copper?
English Moontan Cream?


And everyone knows the light's coming from your 3000 plant hydro setup :)

[Gix11]

240mm mate.

[Gix11]

Ah yes, English Moontan Cream, that sounds like just the ticket old chap. How about beige even?

[EXBEN]

I'll sort it out.

[cammy9r]

quote:
Now you might find this amazing coming from me, but I'm also over the plain satin black already. Gloss is too simple and I'm actually thinking of something a bit louder, even a burnt orange. Anyone seen some interesting paint jobs that are kinda in between if you know what i mean? Cammy, this is your fault mate!


Sorry Gix, I like black on a bike too, be it matt through to gloss but sometimes you need a little colour [8D].
16,000,000 colours.

Choose 1.

[:0]

It's got color, all them chromy bits, and those headlights definitely have an orange tinge to'em, That's enough. :).

I'll take them old forks instead of the shirt.Give me a run down on what ya USD's are doing mate,chances are they have more preload than your old 1's in which ya rear push's ya front,might be as simple as increasing ya rear ride height or decreasing ya front compression dampening.But really need to know what its doing before i can try an help diagnose.
as for paint,my neighbour is just a paint guru and loves Gixxers,so if ya lookin for a special finish and a special price just gimme a buzz and i'll let him know.he works on a barter basis too,cost me 2 windows repairs to have my tank,seat unit,front hugger and wheels to be painted.he also loves cash.

[willow]

If you had clip-ons, you'd be able to bring the forks through a couple cm's, put more weight on the front and stop those slides. I got a set, mate. You can have 'em if ya want. :D

[ozkat]

Trying to give Gix11 some clipons..... now thats funny.

[Gix11]

Willow. See those clip ons? Stick 'em up your arse. I'd rather slide than do clip ons. Why do you think i don't want a proddy bike? Chers anyway bloke. The slides slow me down. Thanks to modified bikes I'm still alive.

[Gix11]

Davo.Why do you want the forks mate? $25 for a set of forks isn't my best offer, but if you really want them, I'll do it for you. You've helped blokes out here so I'll do the same back, just curious why you want them mate?

[Large]

because he's an abo and he wants a couple of new spears?

na sell em to someone else mate,$25 would be robbery.My left fork has a nic(from stones being thrown) but i'll polish it out if i need to.got a set of 96 model tripples so i'm goin for USD's too.Thanks anyway mate.

[Frankie]

Nice and tidy bike, mate! Now I can understand that you where after a new "headlight set up", though.
Appart from the suspension set up- I am wondering whether you changed the geometry at all. Are the forks the same lenghts (the fork legs stick out a fair bit already), the offset changed with the yokes, or something?

[willow]

quote:Originally posted by Gix11

Willow. See those clip ons? Stick 'em up your arse. I'd rather slide than do clip ons. Why do you think i don't want a proddy bike? Chers anyway bloke. The slides slow me down. Thanks to modified bikes I'm still alive.


Righto mate, stickin' 'em there as i type. [:0]

Go the drag bars Gix, they speak 'serious intent' [}:)]. Standard width ones are good, what I was using on the Fool's run, but the extensions give them a whole new feel (plus dropping the risers an additional 3 centimeters). Something almost thuggish in the feel.[8D]



Good for the soul ;)

[Gix11]

Willow, only one at a time mate.
Chalky, yea, ran drags before but risers are made to fat bar size and wanted to find something to fit them rather than change them.

Try the Harley place in Sydney (Natli's), they were going to do a set of fat bars for me a couple of months ago, pressed down for my 7/8 mountings where necessary.

quote:Originally posted by Gix11

, ran drags before but risers are made to fat bar size and wanted to find something to fit them rather than change them.
ditto,i been lookin but cant find wot im after

[hooligan]

Ben made a spacer for my risers (a tube that fits around the bars to fatten them), fat bar looks, but more choice to get the right bars.

[willow]

quote:Originally posted by Gix11

Willow, only one at a time mate.
Chalky, yea, ran drags before but risers are made to fat bar size and wanted to find something to fit them rather than change them.


Righto

And make sure you only use 'natural' lubricants.;)

The petro chemical stuff burns, so I'm told. [:I]

I can help if you want, used to give 'suppositories' in a previous career. Whether they willing or not [}:)]


[8D]

[Razorback]

They look great mate!

quote:Originally posted by Large

because he's an abo and he wants a couple of new spears?


Didge's ya daft bugger.[}:)]

This is Davo we're talking about, more noise, less action :D







Not that I wish to be critical of another site member [8)]

quote:Originally posted by Gix11


Now you might find this amazing coming from me, but I'm also over the plain satin black already. Gloss is too simple and I'm actually thinking of something a bit louder, even a burnt orange. Anyone seen some interesting paint jobs that are kinda in between if you know what i mean? Cammy, this is your fault mate!


Ooooh Ooooh, I got one for ya.:)


Saw this loverly, bright, attention getting color on a bike the other day, stood out like dog's balls.[:p]





I was a really loverly shade of KAWASAKI GREEN. You can even get fake K stickers to enhance it with. :D:D

Work's reeeeeally boring today.[|)]

[devo]

Well Gix I gotta say that's one mean fighter very stealth in appearance
a credit mate.
Did you get my PM,
Street fighter project will be started once the race bike is finished
although colours for the fighter are going to be a prob I can't decide.
But the black frames a goer with black rims polished edges and think'n
maybe that green on the new holdens or fords iffen you know what I mean
with gold pro tapers whatta ya think

[clairebear]

we have summat to aspire to.
even us kwaka owners :-)

[gibbo]

Hey Gix, House of Kolor paints from the US make some fantastic colours in candy, pearl, solids & even fleuros, I don't know who sells it up your way but well worth checking out. You mentioned orange, have a look at Tangelo pearl,I have a full litre sitting here looking for a home. By the way the earlier offer still stands.

[Gix11]

Cheers Gibbo. I'll check it out mate. Tangelo Pearl you say? I'll find it......

[BillyWhizz888]

Nice Gix
go the burnt orange I reckon....
have you tried changing the paint colour with photoshop?
saves doing the real thing, if you want a copy let me know

[BillyWhizz888]

one more...

ever tried these http://www.robbosmotorcycles.com.au/index3D.html