well the old girl had its first real 'trip' over the weekend - trailered down to Golden Beach (Vic) - then ridden from there down to the Island Classic on Sat morning and home Sunday arvo.
I thought a trip down via Yarram / Welshpool would be worth checking out.........it was mind-numbing !
except for the nice twisties near Fish Creek ?? the rest was boring as batshit and I won't be going this way again.....
Fitted the Airhawk II, due to the harsh rear suspension. Laurie (SuspensionSmith) has already started work on the replacement shock, a modified S1000RR unit - it should be about 10000 times better
. Even with the harsh current shock, the trip was not too bad - the bike handles OK and has enough grunt to belt past anything and sit on 140-odd without raising a sweat
Did the trip to the circuit without stopping - pretty happy with the fuel range.
The only issue which raised its head is a simple one - the starter solenoid has carboned-up pretty badly, so it is not kicking the starter motor over. Needs a clean and that will fix it
- easy enough to bump start though
Had a great ride home from the Island on Sunday arvo - weather was perfect, I decided to do the run up through Mirboo North and Morwell instead of the coast .....heaps better, even with a spot of rain near Mirboo.
Here is the 1100 down at Golden Beach.....prior to the trip
and here it is sitting outside Billy's pit at Phillip Island. Ask Stace how many punters stopped and took photos !!
The motor comes out tomorrow so it can be used in the track bike at Wakefield Park this weekend. This will also give me a good opportunity to do a trial fit of the new shock - which will also require a new (smaller) battery box. I think a z750 battery will do the trick - this will allow room for the remote reservoir on the BMW shock.
