Just Venting

[marksesh]

HA! well the promise is for tonight, which means tomorrow or oh crap i give up whenever either way not holding my breath, i hope he can hold his breath if I dont get it,as ill drown him in my toilet .......
Vent over

[Strika]

I am assuming this ZX10 your getting is the old pre-curser to the ZZR1100, which was much the same shape.

A good mate of mine owned one for over 200,000klms.

Some tips.

Rear wheel is 18". You will need to hunt around to find tyres.

Flip the eccentric adjusters at the rear so the axle is in it's lower position.

The valves while rarely going out, are easily adjusted yourself. Same setup as the ZRX, with a spring loaded cam follower which slides across allowing easy shimmering removal.

Watch steering head bearings and swingarm bushes as they wear. Standard exhaust hanger brackets fail regularly (its most likely got an A/M pipe by now anyway), plastics are brittle from new and you will find lots of broken plastic tabs when you pull it apart.

There was something else too that used to happen a bit which I have forgotten. I will text him and ask.

[marksesh]

Strika, yes the above is true, and guess what no bike this weekend pissing me off!

[Strika]

He replied to my email. The clocks are on stalks, the stalks fracture over time. He replaced his clocks 3 times in his ownership period.

Here it is word for word.

hem was they fixed all the problems that the GPz900s had. So it had a wrap around aluminium space frame, they got rid of the multiple subframes holding up the front fairing which always used to fatigue crack, it was 6 kg lighter than the 900, they put better breaks on and went to a 17 in ch front wheel, they fixed the diaphram rotating business by putting a tang and locating lug -just like the Yamahas had done years earlier, they kept the clever chain adjuster mechanism, the motor was megapowerful and became the ZZR1100, I think the clocks were still on stalks that used to fatigue crack was about the only mongrel problem. Very economical, heavy by todasy standards but easy to ride, slow steering but flip the rear axle adjusters.