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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/15/2005 8:45:59 AM

Trips

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Hey Red Baron you have some nice bits on yer bike.

Where do you buy the V&H advanceer from. They sell bugger all CBR parts in Australia. :(

BTW is that a fork brace you have on the bike?

My mods are small but growing.

Barnett heavy duty clutch plates & springs.
Custom front fork valving with progressive springs.
Eibach Spring & custom valving on the rear.
V&H 4-2-1 with K&N
Custom re-foamed & reshaped seat.
NGK Iridum plugs.

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/16/2005 9:19:18 AM

Red Baron

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Trips, I got the Advancing V&H sprocket from www.denniskirk.com many years ago and don't know if it's still available.
Can't hurt calling them.
The fork brace is TELEFIX, can't remember who I got it from, but at the time (1998) there was also another one called SUPERBRACE.
I went with Telefix, because of the German quality construction and the look of it.
I remember it was in an add, in the advertising section of Motorcyclist magazine.

How is the Barnett clutch???
Is it harder on your hand???

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/16/2005 11:21:00 AM

Trips

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The barnett is good.

I fried the original trying to drag a Busa. :(

Buch better take off and powering out of corners etc.

but also a bit more "sudden"

Hand operation wasn't much different at all.

How much difference did the fork brace make to the bikes handling on the front?

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/17/2005 12:27:10 AM

Red Baron

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My bike since new had a little steering shake, when I took my hands were off the handle bars.
(I know, who want's to take their hands off the bars)
Anyways, this took care of the problem.
I just feel it is more solid, only in my imagination since no more shakes.

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/17/2005 1:13:07 AM

Trips

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You may want to get rid of the stock steering head bearings.

From the factory they came out with very little grease.

Also they are a ball bearing design in a race wich doesn't last long.

I changed to tapered and the difference was great.

But having said that the CBR's do get a bit of headshake on sidewinds or buffeting from behind other viechles. But I've taken mine to 265kph and have hit decent sized bumps at those speeds and its never turned into a slapper :)

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/17/2005 9:32:34 AM

Red Baron

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265kph WOW!!!!!!
I have only taken mine up to 135mph = 216kph.
Thanks for the info on the tappered bearings.

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/17/2005 6:20:52 PM

rEdLyNeR

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Nice list of add-ons. I too have the V&H SS2R 4 into 1 exhaust on my bike. I just did a -1 front and a +2 rear sprocket, talk about a bike that pulls all the way through the powerband!!! K&N handles all the air coming in and I rebuilt my forks with heavier springs to force that front end down in the corners. I also recently installed kevlar brake pads and a D.I.D. gold x-ring chain. Things are feeling ALOT tighter now than before.

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/18/2005 6:10:38 AM

cbroar

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Just thought i'd let you all know its been pissing rain all weekend over here, no wonder we're called the Emerald Isle so its great to read your stories of sunshine and long stetches of sticky tarmac, NOT!

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/18/2005 8:57:21 AM

Trips

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I used to live in the Northern Territory in Australia. Its a state 3 times the size of California, but with only 170,000 people and NO SPEED LIMITS once outside of the metro area. One of the few places in the world you can legally open up the taps :)

I've riden the 1400km trips from Darwin to Alice Springs and the slowest I went was 220kph :) :) :)

But you can almost see the Fuel Guage needle heading over to E :(

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/18/2005 2:45:17 PM

Red Baron

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Is this the area that Mad Max was filmed????
Long straights and barely anyone around???

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/19/2005 6:15:09 AM

Trips

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Red Baron

Is this the area that Mad Max was filmed????
Long straights and barely anyone around???

Nah that was actually filmed in Victoria on closed roads.

People don't film in the N.T unless they have to. The Year round 30-40DegC heats puts em off. :)

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 8/4/2006 3:01:26 PM

YIGAL

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Hi
can any one tell me wether a 1992 model carbs would fit a 1990 model
Tx

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 8/4/2006 4:59:16 PM

karlo

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My genmar risers made a big difference!

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/24/2008 10:58:54 PM

Red Baron

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I'm still around and just stop to say hi to everyone after 2 years of MIA.
I was one of the first members inthis section with "greymustang".
We PM the administrator to get us our own Hurricane section, since there was none back in 02/2005.
I still have my Hurricane, but just added a GSXR 1000 Matt Mlading edition.
It is nice to see how much this section has grown since then.
Keep it up guys.

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RE: My add on/upgrades evaluation - 4/24/2008 11:21:10 PM

Noe

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Hey Red Baron. Nice to hear from you again
Yes the forum is steady growing, but some of the old members are missing. Old diehards like R1000, Trips, MarkR, dad and others are still in the game though