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Hello again,
Some may remember me and that ages ago i had a MT03 as my first proper bike at 17 well 3 years on and im now 20 and have been bike less for 7 months and having serious withdrawal symptoms after selling my Su*uki sv650 street fighter and buying a gas guzzling car (for sale if any one's interested in an abarth) .
so after getting qualified as a Motorsport tech and then getting a job as a damper tech for no other than Ohlins (BG motorsport silverstone) i will be buying a 2007+ FZ1 once i have sold the car, and got my other car working again
Just though i would drop in and say hello as more than likely i will be frequenting the forum and picking brains as i cant leave things alone for 5 min lol
and just for the sake of it, hears my old sv now gracing the race track in the thunder bike class
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cheers both
and dont worry OG got my self some of these to help
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after having read through your posts that is the third low speed off you have had on your bikes and non of them your fault?i think i have to agree with oldgit its about time you stopped making excuses and took some of the blame,perhaps you need to take some more training just because you have passed your test does not mean you are a competent rider.
you list an immpresive list of mods you have done to your bike but no mention of a restrictor kit,as your on a restricted licence at your age have you had one fitted on this bike or did you just not bother the same as with your other bike or maybe you feel you just dont need to as your such a good rider.
only just seen this, and ill bite,
1) so it was my fault there was a large (disco) 4x4 slap band in the middle of the road, when i came off on the MT was it? i had two options, 1 hit brakes 2 hit said car head on as it was in the entrance to a car park straddling both lanes, i could not see the car. i took option 1 hit brakes and front washed out and i hit the deck.
2) it was last year in the bad ice, was leaving collage to go shop 20m from where i parked theres a pedestrian crossing so i stop as some one walked across, directly after there is a sharp 90o corner i pull off 5mph or less i get to the corner back slides right to the side left hand side (right hand bend) bike goes down, my fault ?
3) tight narrow road road, following car on a damp road, car trailing brakes as its down hill in to a corner im rolling under engine braking, camper van on coming, car in front hits the brakes as both car and camper have miss judged the gap (house one side concrete wall other) i dont see whats happening until i see the car suddenly slow down i hit the brakes harder and harder front locks, i slide in to the back of car i go over roof and down the side of the car, was traveling at 40mph ish in a 50
so
1) if i had not hit the bakes i would have hit car. i dont see this as been my fault or bad what i did, would have been more of a mess if i had hit the car would it not?
2) could have happened to any one
3)i think i could have stopped if it was dry but it wasn't so couldn't/didn't, i could have possibly let off and reapplied brakes but when in the actual situation shock sets in. police didn't think it was my fault nether did the camper driver weather you do or not whats happened has happened and we learn by our experience if it was or wasn't our fault
ohh and to answer your other query yes i do have a 33bhp ECU and yes it is in the bike at the moment, it wasn't on the mod list because its not a mod.
and back on to the original topic
finished
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i deed i did but lane was not even narrow until this one point where there was a concreat block on one side and a house and curb on the other my dad even though that he could get through until he got very close so did the camper driver, and we were going less than the speed limit by about 10mph, and i was within safe distance but my delayed reaction because the brake were already on because he was already braking made matters worce
im not making excuses, but thats what we can peace to geather from what happend, i blacked out and dont remeber going over the bars just falling down the side of the car but it was obvious that i went over the bars
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yup your missing a big part of the story lmao, it was my dads car that i hit,we were going down a hill and he was draging his brakes i was costing he slamed the brakes on and skided to a dead stop because of a oncomming camper and a narrow road in devon, so i wrenched on the brakes locked up cut the bike out slid a few Metres then the front griped fliped over the front of the bike and hit the roof of the car and the bike carried on into the car, so was nothing i could do and nothing my dad could do so was just one of those things, the police just asked who was at fault and we sead no one and because we are family and we agreed that no one was to blame thats it as far as the police were concerned .
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Ehh ? lol
not with it today -
Hi well i crashed the sv in the back of a car ooops not my fault but ohh well any way the forks and most of the front end was smashed so this is where im at,
all panels on (need new seat cowl the other one was smashed)
My make shift head bearing tool, lol old race cut so i can hammer the new tapered race in the cutting of the old race took ages must be hardened steal
new race pressed in
new bearings in
tided the mess of cables up at the front, moved to behind the head stock, had to cut the air box snorkel to make sure it could breath enough with the cables there
New (to me) can, stubbied ART but has been sealed as it was leaking
erm well the front end is off a 2000 aprilia RSV mille
the brembo callipers for the new front end, they were in a right state
cleaned
and mounted up on the forks (also cleaned and polished up)
Rotors, these are pretty hefty and very thick compared to the stock ones on my bike
the forks have a custom axle made to centre a triumph t599 wheel that i have, the problem is the calipers are to far in so i need to get 2mm machined off of the caliper body but my dads work can do that, also waiting for the yokes to arrive as i have had the sv stem pressed in to the RSV yoke, then i need to get brake lines and a trail tech vapor speedo so thats what i need to order next
so thats where i am with the sv at this moment in time
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^ cheers
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Outstanding, dude!!!!!!!!
Good to have you back with us, too!
Cheers
, still not quite where i want it but getting there and its been hard trying to keep track of all these forums lol, im part of about 6 or 7 forums
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well been a while since i posted an update to this
well a fair bit has changed on the bike, mostly because of a crash i had in December in the ice came off going about 5mph as the back spun and caught the front up cost £300+ worth of damage EG bars,pegs,brake levers (all of them), rear sets, almost lost the radiator and £100 recovery fee :|
its been back up and running for a fair while now and have been turning it into the machine i want it to be
so mods are as followed
renthal street fighter bars
renthal bar ends
R&G crash bungs
gsxr 1000 k3 rear shock
30mm jack up plates (dog bones)
renegade high level can (race only version)
ermax under tray with integrated indicators
smoked rear light
mini indicators
dominator head lights
easter beaver head light wiring loom
velocity stacks 30mm/70mm
16mm tank risers
cobra braided race lines
seat cowl
polished rear wheel
titanium brake pad pins
GB moto rear sets
lowered clocks (now with modded bracket not in pic)
Beowulf radiator grills
carbon fiber front mud guard
stomp tank grips
carbon tax disk holder
K-tech linear fork springs .9kg with 10w fork oil
sprayed rear pillion pegs
HH sintered pads all round
KOSO mirrors
tasty nuts front rez cap
the bike now sits a lot higher at the back and drops in to corners way faster than it used to, the gsxr 1000 shock is very good for the huge sum of £50 lol, and the fork spring as almost double the spring rate of the standard one's and the fork oil is twice as heavy looking at the viscosity chart we on the sv650.org found, also produces a bit more HP that a standard (70ish bhp) sv at about 73bhp and about +5bhp through the mid range with the unrestricted ecu in, mainly down the the raised tank (cold air instead of hot air to the air box) and the velocity stacks the exhaust ads a bit of hp but not much (maybe +1bhp all over) and other things
my MT looked better but the mt-03 just cant compete with the sv for flexibility and sheer fun (sv really does push you to be better)
although as standard the sv is defiantly a bit of a turd, slow to turn in, pegs are to low on both the sport and naked modles, the brakes are under powered and the suspension is diabolical it sprung for some 6 stone 5ft Japanese man not a 6ft over weight British lad
but the bike is cheep so all in all i cant complain as with all the extras the bike still cost less than the MT-03 did Ohh and might be buying a second sv this week crash damaged for £500
its a fared version this time though, need about £500 worth of repairs then will sell for about £1500 £500 profit i could bump the price to about £1700 but not worth it and the £500 made will go towards my next bike (gsxr 750 or a 2004 r1 i want to fighter both) -
Sounds like a dream opportunity to me Barwell
As well as the chance to take a bike round silverstone, lucky is an understatement
. Closest I've had is a taking my dads an old sherpa van around a closed Oultan Park when i was 15 (the 2 weeks fixing the blown engine was worth it). Will get back there on a bike one day.Now excuse me while i go and turn green with envy in a corner somewhere.
haha yup just need to get the place now
just hope i still have the bike by that time .... selling up after the summer as im getting somthing more versatile for the winter as a bike is usless in the snow
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Man, Barwell time flies with the restrictors on. You will have a HUGE smile on your last day
Its like your riding a new bike.And funny about the R6 with restrictors, I wouldnt have minded one myself but bit too expensive and out my price range. I will upload a picture of my bike and the £300 restrictors that were inside.... my face dropped when I saw them! such a rip off!
Lol Paulwhite, I have to agree with you about the car/bike but like barwell said, once you take your test which you should as soon as possible, your options go up :)plus the restricted bikes still pull good, look the part and have a fairly good top end for 33bhp! well I thought that on my FZR600R when that was restricted
Richard
yeh it does, and mehh the sv's ok without the restricter (ECU) done a track day with the full power in and even thogh the bikes more than twice the power felt fine
my MT-03 befor was not restricted (naughty i know...) but it produced 45bhp and only did 105mph (sv does 115 at 33bhp lol)
but seriously dont bother staying on the cbt just get ure full license and enjoy ohh and my insurance aint to bad at £500 a year tptf legal and personal injury cover with 1years ncb
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boo to that idea! think its crazy that someone at 17 can get somethin like a 1.8 twin turbo audi a4 car but cant get any bike over 125cc!!!!! surely a twit on a bike is going to cause less problems than a twit in a car?
not true im 17 and have a sv650 and have had a mt-03 660cc just take you full test and they "restrict" you to 33bhp (still good for over a tone and pull to 60mph faster than most cars)
i have 1 year to go and my restriction is off
PS the restriction is stupid as a r6 restricted is still faster than my sv650 unrestricted ......
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Edit: barwell you lucky sod, sounds like a real good opportunity there. If you mean a college placement interview, then good luck fella
. (if not, your still a lucky sod, always wanted to go to Silverstone. )cheers
and its a interview for tresham collage of motorsport, its a 1 year corce that leads on to a 1 year aprentiship skeem then another 1 year after that, both aprentiships are in actual race teams, and participate in classes like the ginetta cup , also go into to and have been offerd a place in level 3 motor sport at the trident center i wawickshire apparently me doing IT for the last 2 years (collage) (IT pratisiners) will help a lot, as we have to do CAD drawings of car parts, so all in all it should be a good year
also hoping to take the SV for a spin around siverstone if i get the chance and can aford it (befor i sell it and ger a yfz 450 or 700, havent decided yet)
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ohh dear hear we go again
i tell you what i will ask some of the lads at silverstone when i next go (have a interview for the motor sport collage there
April 29th) and see if any of them have seen the 125's crack much over 100mph and these are the fully race striped ones that produce 25+bhp, not road going bikes -
reminded me of MINTY's from the MTOC forum
hears a pic
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nice, i had me a mt-03 befor my sv
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Hiya Dan
Mine will do 60 if you thrash it
But that would be 55 on a GPS
Anyhow, what u doin 120 for?
Hi
i was on the M6 toll, no real reason just wanted to see how fast it could go in a straight line, but it does corners better than it does flat out speed lol so will stick to the twisties
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ignore this guy , he may have a nice bike but he doesnt know about dt's . its more than possible to get 90 from a dt . i ride a dtx im 6 ft 6 and wiegh 14st and mine does 85 mph without a problem . the speedo de-restriction is the easiest to fix . coming out of the speedo there are 3 wires going into a connecting block and 4 wires on the other side . find the black wire on the side with 4 wires with a green stripe , snip it , add an extended piece of wire to it ( long enough to earth it to the frame ) this will stop the engine retarding at 8,000 rpm and will rev freely up to 10,000 rpm . next step is to get a new exhaust , DEP exhausts are the easiest to find and is what i have on mine but , an arrow exhaust will work just aswell . the bike will do 85 easily now , if you want more you have to start getting techy . look at possibly getting your CDI unit chipped or upgraded and then look at changing sprockets , cams , jets and carb . hope this is a lil more helpful than negative nancy's offer =D
haha you do realise your speedo is usually out by about 5-10mph .... or even more
i no longer have the MT-03 and now have a SV650 street fighter with 81bhp at the rear wheel it will do 135mph tops 9500rpm in 6th the speedo is out by 7mph (using gps to gain accurate speed) so my bike can do 128mph so some how i still dont think a DT can do any where near 90-100mph maybe with the speedo been off you may reach 90mph but your more than likely doing 80mph (speedometers are never correct) PS i have had RS250's drop off at 112mph and they are a lot faster than a DT
i wont back down until some one with a gps (accurate speed) and a video camera proves there DT can do 90mph+
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hi thats a strange size well the 140 bit, you may want to have a look at some pireli diablo corser's (or somthing like that) my dad had them on his super moto and i think his may have been 140's
ok just checked and they dont do it in that size :/ hmm strange one
ok hears some tires that will fit
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just so u know if its emobilised from the yamaha key (yam tend to do it but not sure from what date they fitted them) basicly it will be a bit costly, and if you have a standard key cut without it been programed it wont turn the bike on, and they are nion imposible to hot wire
ohh and some car people carnt do you a imobilised key without at least one key to program off (coppy the dater from the imobiliser chip)
were buying a mazda rx8 (car) with no key and they couldent do it and mazda wated £800 for 2 keys so that how i know
but find out if it has a imobiliser first befor discharging the idea of geting it
Dan
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or it will have a PAIR system (not to sure on ure bike may not have one or may be named diforently) basicly it pumps air in to the exhast to decrece imisions as the air then creats the unburnt (u will allways get some) fuel in the exhast to combust with the air as it hits the hot exhausts (backfire/pop) thus making the popping noise, its nothing to worry about realy. if it is a air leak in the exhast (if they have slip/clamp) over joints then just use some normal house hold sealent its mutch better than exhast sealent and cheeper to.
on my sv650 i still have the PAIR system in place, so did my MT-03 and both of them poped, the sv aspecialy since it has a race can and air filter, if i were to remove the system it would stop the poping, but carnt be botherd as i like fire
this may be totaly wrong for you bike but my MT-03 has it my gilera dn50cc moped had it and my sv650 twin has it so most likley ures will to, in some shape or form
just a quick rundown of how it work (most of the time) there will be a small out let on the topend of the engine basicly the negative presure of the up or down stroke (i foreget) of piston sucks air through a small tube from the air filter box (or has its own mini filter)through some other valves (maybe electric) in to the exhast and then does what i explaned above
Dan
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lol i pmsl at the comment of drop it 40mm and add 18's you wont fir 16's on it with it droped that low also you need to get some proper shocks if ure droping it, ohh and you wont get insured on a 4x4 at 17 or any thing over a 1.8 they just wont do it :/ Was £5000 a year for me on my mums mini cooper S (1.6 supercharged) and 10,000 for me on her new rx8
not with it today 
but the bike is cheep so all in all i cant complain 
. (if not, your still a lucky sod, always wanted to go to Silverstone. 
Hello again, i might be back
in The Bar
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Hi
, no nothing wrong with sv's i just fancied a fast car, then got bored of it lol now want a bike again