Blowout On The ZX9R

[Mikey84]

Had an awesome day riding through the barossa yesterday with Seiko, zx899r and his missus.

started off like any other ride, just enjoying the scenery taking pic's and enjoying the open road, until 5kms away from williamstown i start to feel the ass end of the 9 start to get a bit loose and wobbly, then i gets worse! unable to turn corners properly and the ass end really shaking around! The meztler M3's Were Fucked!!
ive backed right off while Seiko and zx899r kept cruising for around 2kms until realising im not in their rear view ive eventually come hobbling up to where seiko and zx899r had pulled over, and after a few laughs and pics we rang up to get a tow back to mt pleasent to get a new tyre. zx899r had left to cruise home with his missus and seiko came with me back to the mechanic.

After arriving, seiko and i walked over to the bakery a couple of shops down to get a feed, when the mechanic came in and said that my brakes were well and trully fucked! metal on metal, piston half hanging out, and the dustcover rooted! so had them fixed and decided to get a new front put on as well

Was a bloody ripper of a day, ended up getting some PR2's at a bloody awesome price!
Lees Spot On Motorcycles - Mt Plesant
$267 rear
$186 Front
$40 to fix the rear brake


Cheers to Daniel (zx899r) and Seiko for all your help

[seiko1]

I am going to kill you..........
Grease everywhere FFS, on the hose even
I think the missus is going to pop a cap in yo ass MF

[Mikey84]

...............wasn't me
Bike looks good now though

[DaveGPz]

Guess you'll check the tyres and brakes on the next workshop day, hey Mike? I made a similar mistake on the GPz1100 over the Great Alpine Road and ended up buying a rear in Myrtleford. I don't try to get "one last trip" out of tyres anymore .

[GPZ_Jim]

yer I fell into that "one more" trap .. got about 1000km on the rear that came with my gpz after I bought it (prolly shoulda put a new one on straight away).. on the way home from a PITS run it went pop about 50KM from home.. next time it was new tyre time I didn't prolong the inevitable

[zx899r]

next time will do the same run but in reverse,some awsome roads.......












hey mikey that bike is blew....

[Mikey84]

next time will do the same run but in reverse,some awsome roads.......












hey mikey that bike is blew....

look forward to it buddy, they were great roads! the only problem was restraining myself to really open the throttle


@ blew

[Mikey84]

[quote="DaveGPz"]Guess you'll check the tyres and brakes on the next workshop day, hey Mike? [quote]

definatly not gonna over look it this time dave
although they didnt look too bad before we left, but looks can be decieving

[mick_dundee]

Nesflash, tubeless tyre kit for around $70 or so sits easily under the pillion seat and be a shitload cheaper than a tow No surpise those tires were ratshit by now, you've done a few k's since you bought the bike from me and those are the tires I sold it with

[Mikey84]

Nesflash, tubeless tyre kit for around $70 or so sits easily under the pillion seat and be a shitload cheaper than a tow No surpise those tires were ratshit by now, you've done a few k's since you bought the bike from me and those are the tires I sold it with

tubeless tyre wasnt gonna fix these mick! they were well and trully fucked!!!
i did manage to get 12k out of them, which was a bloody good effort

[swearbear9r]

HOLLY FUGG now i see why u said u wont make it down here lol............. well your 4given ..........