Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

i've done levels 1, 2, and 3. The school is great, level 1 will teach u heaps... :D

i say go for it ASAP, but having said that, try leave it till the last few days (depending on vacancies) when booking so you know the weather forecast and don't get a day that rains.... still the same theory i guess ...

I come from Coburg so that's why I preferred the city or Fairfield. Close to home but if the job is shite then it's worth going a bit further I guess... and will from now on, loaner bike is handy as the prob with some of these places is that I drop the bike off then have to walk a mile for a bus ...

wow.... thats a nice and clean rear rim, wish i could keep mine as clean as that

i can download the file but cant seem to open it with my acrobat reader??
anyone else get this problem? "cannot decrypt this document"

If you get a new tyre and it punctures, patch the thing from the inside, don't plug it. Will cost you around $40 - $50 but IMO i think thats the way to go. Just make sure you havn't sprayed any of that shit that comes in a can to stop the tyre deflating.... or you cant patch it

yeah i know a couple of people who owned a zx2r, the petrol tank key is different to the ignition key.... now thats annoying. They had to make things hard didnt they

Well, the bike had an appointment with the mechanic today and you guessed it....after the test ride he said everything was fine and nothing he did could get the gear to jump out... mind you, I couldn't either

so anyway its just getting a minor service done...

i'm not sure if this is a good ...

Ok. So in short you have a bike and its giving you some internal mechanical grief which isn't noticeable on appearance and cant always be picked up on when ridden.

Rather than spend big $$$ on a repair bill, would you try to palm it off to a dealership on the sly without letting them know of the ...

awesome
3:45 is noice where the power just eats up the other bike on the straight

well yeah i could prolly get away with that even if they did a test ride cos the thing doesnt' jump out much.. only rarely
infact thats how i got conned into buying it privately...when i test rode it, everything was sweet

hmmmz....maybe i'll start a poll

argh...... it's just so wierd because i can accelerate all day long in 1st gear with some decent throttle and then all of a sudden i take off in first...and it will just bounce out and then slam back into gear.. and that can happen under very LIGHT acceleration...

is it possible that only SOME of ...

Ok i'll admit, i've been riding around with the bike in this condition for 18,000 k's. So i've done 3 oil changes

Hi all, found out about this forum after some bloke stuck his head out the car window at a set of lights and handed over some forum stickers.. Not bad!

So i'm piping up now cos i'd like some advice. Basically the bike i'm on (a '99' zx6r) has developed 1st gear issues as in it likes to jump out ...