Cynic

Pr3's are great. Stick well enough for me and steer quick too. Wet doesent seem to upset them either. Only a minor niggle but they do need a few miles to warm up on the tdr. Wont be uncontrolable but it does sharpen the mind. That may be down to the tdr weight though.

Dunno, its a big fat fkr for getting through traffic. Is it not technically a trike too?

No, this bike is eat your dinner off it clean, and the price was nothing much compared to bikes of similar age and miles. Genuinely, under the engine is as clean as the top of the tank, well was.

Just thought i'd pop this up. Guy at work has just picked up a mint, never seen rain 15000 mile 2003 gsxr 750. It is in truly stunning condition. Good value buy, not overpriced. around 2k I think he paid for it. Power commander, pipe, usual trinkets. Arm fulls of receipts, notes on when services are due and done. Receipts back years. Recommendations on the high quality oil he used etc. The polish even. Guy had to sell for financial reasons, washed it more than rode it by the sounds of it. The kicker, I have mentioned john before as the guy rides year round whatever the weather on the 400, that's a 65000 mile gsxr 400 and uses mother natures heavy rain in april as an annual cleaner..... Yep, that mint one careful etc is now heading into its first winter as a 40 mile a day (all country back roads) over 50 using motorway, year round commuter with weekend trackday use in the summer. It will never see soap again.

Im with Drewps. Got the michelin PR3 on the tdr. Not gold plated either.

Tried the bulb!

Trouble is those impatient fuckers get people hurt. Not that road but the same thing caused a driver in our village to crash, he had to swerve violently in a flour tanker. Which if you didn't know acts the same as a liquid in bulk but the tanks aren't baffled. Once the movement goes too far your a passenger. The truck ended up on its side collecting a couple of cars into the bargain. The person causing it drove off into the never never after saving himself 2 minutes. Personally I think cars should be limited like trucks, 80mph. And that's it. Unless your on a track. Its what they do in Japan.

A brand new pump, and have you had said pump pumping fuel into a pot before connecting the carbs or did you just assume it was ok.

You must be able to shift the xs with a daylight mot and get good money as a classic track bike, even one of the period race series. As for the TY, brings back memories, I had the dt50m which is basically a TY with lights and a twin seat. Loved it, that has one monster of a rear sprocket on it though. Def trials bike. If you had found the ty earlier I would have taken it off you for the daughter no sweat. Mine and my mate wayne pulled em apart (he had one too, common as snot in 1986) so often, no manuals or f all, all in the name of speed. To be 16 , "I am invincible".

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It has 7 friction plates. That will mean 5 plain. Are the spacers behind the basket correct.

Reposting the same thing in different threads just gets confusing. ESPECIALLY as i answerd this question on Wednesday. Locked.

Ouch. Nasty. Silver lining. Not so long ago you were miles from anybody in the mountains. GWS

Well brown is live, black is negative and the grey is the feed from the cdi. Which connection is which on the taco I cannot say as there are no pictures in my old manual of the FII and the ones that are there for the FI are black and white. I'm guessing its the 350 FII as the F has a blue signal line.

If yours is a 75 the barrel fins are a different shape. The exhaust may fit differently too as the 75 had a different exhaust. There was quite a lot of changes to the dt in 77. From 5 to 6 speed. Cosmetics. Cantilever monoshock. I think i would wait. If as you say the 78 kit has 6 studs. That will be a 175 top end.

Damn, its 5 years old. He only made 3 posts so a reply is long past coming.

I was telling a girl I met in a bar last night about my uncanny ability to guess the day a woman was born on just by feeling her t1ts. "Really?" she said. "Go on then... Try." After about 30 seconds of fondling she began to lose patience. "Come on," she demanded, "What day was I born on?" "Yesterday?" I replied.

Sorry, so you think the date from the engine/chassis number is bad and your basing the date on the age of parts that are easily changed. Why not post a photo and the chassis number to give us a chance of giving you a date.

Just use a copper washer under the nipple. Personally I'm still going with the m/c.

Could be the m/c, did have the same thing on my daughters bike. Still don't think its the hose.

Nope, wont be the hose. You say it works perfectly when you just put it on the disk but nothing when you bolt it up. Are you allowing the caliper to locate properly. When you refit that caliper the piston may well be sitting against the pad, against the disk. The caliper its self is holding the rear pad and that will take the pressure of several complete movements of the brake pedal to take up the slack and give a proper pedal pressure.

On a low volume, under the radar bike like yours. Your not! Nobody will recondition those on a regular basis, a lot of people nowadays wont even know yam did a 4stroke v twin other than the drags/virago's. parts could be tricky too, not impossible but you may well have to be patient and persistent on the lower volume parts. I would guess there will be bike garages that may well take it on but brace yourself, the problem being 'a knock' leaves you wide open to a long list of bullshit, em, detailed mechanical items that may or may not need changing. Do you not have any DIY ability or know someone who does?

Have you checked the sliders are free (I'm thinking not) as that is one ugly ass design of caliper, everything out there to corrode and stick. If you say they are perfect too, (something isn't because its not working) what happens if you put the caliper on the disk in whatever way you suggest it works perfectly and then just move it to line up with the bolts and tighten up.

Many years. What, 6 maybe... Welcome.

Um.... Tells the cdi what the throttle position is, what did you think it did?