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VNSVLE
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 Posted - 03 Dec 2007 : 9:57:24 PM
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A sad day it was yesterday as i took the last ride i would ever take on the old TLR. Poor old girl gave up the ghost!! I was riding along at a rather brisk pace (wont mention how fast) doing about 7000 rpm when.....BANG!! First thought damn blew a tyre, then oh crap i cant stop!!
When i finally came to screeching stop i look behind and my heart dropped........100 meter's of oil, coolent and rubber. A few choice words were followed by my helmet ending up in the paddock across the road(now when you throw a $1000 helmet something is afoot). While i sit there waiting for a trailer watching the rest of the oil and coolent spew forth from somewhere behind the fairings i say a quiet prayer for the old girl.
I get her home and strip the fairings off to find not one but both of the conrods protruding from their corresponding cylinder barrels. This is about the time I spat my pills and started getting nasty with anything I could find........
Good news is they told me I could get $5000-$6000 trade on the old girl and am going to pick up a brand new 2007 model Suzuki GSX1300R (or hayabusa as some may know them as) on saturday 
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What's the difference between understeer and oversteer?
Understeer is when the driver is scared.
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nodg
National Driver
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Posted - 04 Dec 2007 : 07:01:29 AM
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| you seem to have my luck lately, now i dont feel so bad.sorry bout the bike aswell |
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chris
Learner
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Posted - 04 Dec 2007 : 09:22:09 AM
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Small world, ive stuffed a conrod in the left bank yesterday (VN/V6)S1
Its still running though but im limping off to just commy spares today to see what i can muster.
Such is life.
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nodg
National Driver
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Posted - 04 Dec 2007 : 09:26:19 AM
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| if the conrod was stuffed then it wouldnt run, its most likely a gudgeon pin or bearings. |
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chris
Learner
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Posted - 04 Dec 2007 : 09:51:49 AM
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| yeah big clatter when i start it then it settles to a horrible grinding noise. its not broken (yet) but its not long. |
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nodg
National Driver
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Posted - 04 Dec 2007 : 10:24:00 AM
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| was about to say if its snapped then youd have a hard time turning it over, anyway welcome to the forums, make a thread in the members cars sectin and update us on your car! |
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Nodg. |
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