Today (and yesterday, and I guess last weekend) I cleaned the carbs (thanks ziptech), painted my radiator guard, installed LED tail lights, new LED tag light, 636 shock, modified my battery tray, installed a new clutch cable, installed an R6 throttle tube with new D3 grips, removed my wheels to get powdercoated, painted my rear brake caliper, took off the old chain and sprockets, and cleaned anything I could get to, mostly with carb cleaner, god I love that stuff.

Saturday I get to install my pretty new wheels, hook up the chain, paint the handlebars then re-install them with the other new grip, toss in my new air filter and put the tail and exhaust back on. Might even paint the front calipers if I get ambitious...

 

I rode sunday..., had a lots of fun...took the snorkle out, but didnt like it , so put it back... battery went dead again... guess time for new batt maybe....

 

I walked past it in the garage. The closest thing I get to a ride is starting it in the driveway and letting it idle for a while.

 

Sat staring at it for about 30 minutes trying to decide what to do next (after I get the new shock on)

 

Sat on it while it warmed up and idled for 15min or so. Revved it a couple of times. Then walked it back into the shop...

 

Brought it out in the driveway today, gave it a good wash for fun. took some pics,

slipped on some snow gettting off and layed it down on the asphalt:BangHead:

At least I got to test my motosliders I installed 3 days agon ;D

 

Wondered why my rear LED sigs where not working.Swicthed the wires around and now they work

 

I took my first ride!! I am actually having trouble typing with all of the adrenaline. Not to mention it's about 35 degrees outside, even geared up my hands are shot. I just took it around the neighborhood, I may have gotten up to 30mph or so. What a rush. The bike sounds awesome, feels awesome, I was a little rusty at first but got back into the swing of things. I am going to stay in the neighborhood and out of traffic for a while, at least until after the MSF course on April 7th, but man what a great start!

 

I've been on a spending spree since a blizzard gave me a day off from work and all I thought about was riding all day. New Gel Grips arrived, mirror extenders are in the mail and I have some other goodies on the shelf waiting for install, unfortunately she's parked 30 minutes away at the brother-in-laws for the winter. City Living in the northeast... won't keep her outside in the winter and can't afford my own garage in the city just for the SV.

May have to plan a family dinner this weekend and ignore everyone but my baby.

 

went for a ride!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was gonna get gas too but apparently i havent used as much as i thought i did since last fillup, so there was no point. i coulda sworn i needed to get gas too... college memory FTL

 

Been riding nonstop. Eat it! ;D

seriously though..
replaced my progrips with rizoma black-anodized aluminum grips, and some very nice, matching Graves barends. Looks great, feels great, rotation to full throttle is shorter because I used the larger throttle disk. I thought it would be more unruly, but it's actually easier to ride like that. I still need to take pics. they'll be up in my build thread.

removed the Puig windscreen I had on there, replaced it with the factory short screen. I think it looks better with a short front end. I'm thinking about removing the headlight surround and windscreen altogether.

I have an 06-07 zx10r rear shock (I actually have three) that I'll be installing after I receive the plasti-dip that I ordered to coat the spring yellow (or possibly metallic brilliant copper).

I have a gaggle of other random parts that are sitting around, or they are soon to arrive. black-anodized windscreen spikes, undertail with integrated turn/stop LED's, a bunch of 1-watt 70-lumen and 3-watt 90-lumen LED's to replace the dim LED's that came in ALL my aftermarket lights plus the correct resistors (I decided the 250-lumen LED's that I found were probably, ya know, WAY too bright), techspec snakeskin tank grips, etc, etc...

 

I put a rust neutralizer/polymer coating on the bolts for my swingarm spools. The steel bolts are not doing well in the aluminum swingarm. If I can find Stainless I'll replace them.

 

I installed a Delkevic pipe on my bike. Took less than an hour from UPS delivery to all the tools put away. I got the long, oval version.

This pipe replaced the PO gutted stocker. All of the outlet part was removed and the deepest baffle plate was torn/drilled/mangled.

I replaced the modded stocker to get something quieter, but I was shocked to find that my bike is noticeably faster with the Delkevic running the baffle! The power is more crisp and the entire power band is fatter. The motor revs better, too. My guess was that the bike was too lean with the exhaust opened up.

I'm really happy with this mod. Less noise, more power!

 

I replaced the modded stocker to get something quieter, but I was shocked to find that my bike is noticeably faster with the Delkevic running the baffle! The power is more crisp and the entire power band is fatter. The motor revs better, too. My guess was that the bike was too lean with the exhaust opened up.

I'm really happy with this mod. Less noise, more power!

I recently installed a stock exhaust to replace my mufflerectomied-exhaust. The bike definitely feels snappier down low and generally more powerful everywhere. If only I could have a quiet, light, aftermarket can.

 

Shock is scheduled to be here tomorrow. Today it's snowing

 

Installed a FIAMM Freeway Blaster Horn

 

Just one? Do yourself a favor and get the other one and a relay. The total is greater than the sum of the parts! :thumbsup:

 

Installed Custom Triple Clamp, Marchesini Wheels, Brembo Rotors, Powdercoated Black Slip On Bracket and Blue Brake Fluid. Big Thanks to scoobyvroom and Graeme for all the help.
Before

After

Rear Wheel

Front Wheel

New Triple Clamp

New Triple Installed

Lower Side View

 

blah, Marchesini Wheels, blah

Oh my sweet jeebus....nothing like aftermarket wheels to sex up any bike.

Swapped out some .85 kg Sonic Springs for some .95's, tuned the emulators, and put in new 20w fork oil to compensate for me being ~100lb more than my bike's previous owner.

That bike looks familiar....

 

Rear Wheel

Front Wheel

New Triple Clamp

So how much did the Marchesini's set you back? And why a new top triple?

 

I think this might have to get into the Sv of the month!

 

I can only hope.

 

I've been getting an intermittent vibration that seems to me to be one of the cylinders firing funny. It only happens once in a while.

So I thought I would do the basics first and check nuts and bolts that might have loosened. None were loose. I'm due for a plug change, so I'll do that this weekend.

I guess I'll have to ride it some more and figure out what's going on.

 

Tried jumping my bike, but it wouldn't turn over. Jumping cables started burning, so I stopped. Took the battery out, waiting for new one to get here.

 

Sounds like reversed polarity.

 

Swapped out some .85 kg Sonic Springs for some .95's, tuned the emulators, and put in new 20w fork oil to compensate for me being ~100lb more than my bike's previous owner.

Much more solid front end now, but I can't test it out for a couple days. It's F-ing snowing outside in March.

 

I thought emulators used lighter weight oil than 20, like 10 max...

 

Putting in a brand new double clicker Elka on Thursday! It arrived at my door a couple days ago just haven't had the time to put it in yet. Im hoping its a smooth job, Im not the most mechanically inclined person but im going to give it a shot. Thanks to Blair for hooking it up! It will go great with the new sonic springs and emulators that Robert "racinteach" put in for me! Its been an expensive month, but im happy!

 

Set her down on her swingarm spools, reversed the pegs and took off the broken left turn signal.

Mounted my new bar end mirrors, don't know how it will look till i put all the plastic back on.

Suck angle because of all the other stuff blocking the good ones..

 

Not necessarily today, but I bought oil and a filter to do an oil change and officially kick off the riding season this weekend (hopefully)!. Supposed to get to mid-hi 50's Sat, Sun, and Mon.

 

Well crap. I'll ride it and see how it does, but at least fork oil is cheap enough to experiment with.

 

Yeah. It won't be too bad, just a bit stiff. It'll be a little stiffer in cooler weather at the beginning of rides too.

dan@traxxion.com

This guy will get back to you pretty quick too. He'll probably tell you to try 10W or 15W with 3 turns on the emulators.

 

The wheels set me back a few about 1k plus stock wheels but I am happy with them. A new triple because the one I had did not line up with the ignition switch, steering lock, so I had one made to fit perfectly with a cool anodized finish.

 

The wheels set me back a few about 1k plus stock wheels but I am happy with them. A new triple because the one I had did not line up with the ignition switch, steering lock, so I had one made to fit perfectly with a cool anodized finish.

I'll bet that cost a few bucks!