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My replacment for the trusty PJ bike
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:40 am
by sbutler
Now I know the PJ bike is off to a new loving home & will be loved & cared for as it deserves. I have now pulled the deal together for next year. Im off to Suzuki & can only hope this will be as fast as the mighty FZR...
I wont be leaving team EXUP. I will be posting up race reports if you are still interested. Hope you will be? This bike give me a little more scope for racing outside the PCRA, which my wife & I decided would be the way to go for 2010. After that? who knows. I know I will miss the FZR it made a splash when ever it came out to play & wish [Mike ss] the new owner all the sucsess in the world. I know the bike is plenty fast enough to cause a stir in it new surroundings.
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:32 am
by sickle44
Isn't that the year that power came on at 10,000rpm Steve? Not that I like the choice oppossed to a Yamaha machine, but I certainly do understand and would likely do something similar were I racing also. There just seems to be so many more parts in the aftermarket and wreckers for anything Suzuki it seems oppossed to anything else. It's almost as if Suzukis have that same Chev 350 small block cult following. Not to mention, because the parts are so much more available they aren't nearly as expensive. For grafting on to my Franken Fizzer project I actually bought a set of Gixxer forks as the YZF's were so much more costly and only few and far between.
Best of luck to you Steve, I'm sure you'll do well on the good old LS bike as well. I certainly like the colours.
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:49 am
by sbutler
Thanks buddy.
Ive had a couple of [road]rides on the gixxa & because of the flat slides the Yoshi airbox & snorkles the Wiseco 12.5 to 1 pistons the power comes on at around 7500 & goes to 13000 so its a good spread. Nothing like the wonderfull torque of the FZRs 3000 to 11000. But I was spoiled on that bike. It was so easy to ride, with that torque.
As for the GSXR parts. Your so right. You can get pretty much anything from the corner shop. The move was mostly because it opens up a couple of doors in other race clubs, & now Sydney only having 1 track.
:bfg [dick head goverment]
We dont have a lot of choice of were we race.
The 750 will give me more options..
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:32 am
by Mike_SS
Nice Steve. What is it with you and cigarette brands?
Look forward to hearing the race reports..will they be on gixxer.com now ?
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:32 am
by sbutler
No mate, reports will be here, if you'll still have me.
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:22 pm
by sickle44
Nice that your power comes on earlier, am I right though in thinging that was the year they had the real tweeky power bands?
Nice changes btw, to give it some bigger kahunas. I just love the lines of your new ride, it's almost like the front of a refined FZR with a realy nice bum job. I wish they would have stayed with that seating geometry also instead of being so head down ass up nowadays.
I was mentioning that about the torque spread in another thread, although my FZR still had a good bump @ 7grand. That's when things got real interesting if you weren't holdin' on properly.
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:14 pm
by spook
Looks like a nicely cared for bike Steve. I love the those fat old Suzuki arses
It should be a little kinder on tyres too... ha.
Looking forward to hearing about your exploits, the place wouldn't be the same without your race reports
I'm glad you haven't given up the habit. I'm sure you'll have a smoking year
I've run out of crap puns.
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:14 pm
by hotcam
Looks great! Suzukis are certainly great at track and good fun being
a madman on the street, they always inspire me to ride like
a complete twat. I bought the Yamaha because I found the
Yamaha could do that and be a (semi-)civilised street bike as well.
I hope you have great racing on this one, and I hope the parts are
easier for you to find too. Now we need a PJ vs Lucky battle!
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:35 am
by sbutler
hotcam wrote:Looks great! Now we need a PJ vs Lucky battle!
Looks like that will be on the cards at the Barry Sheene weekend at Easter. The team EXUP southern chapter should get a run together for that weekend. Mikes bringing the PJ bike down from QLD with some backup, so it'll be a battle of the lung busters!!
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:49 am
by JasonL
Should do mine in Marlboro colours then!
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:58 am
by sbutler
Yeah do it!!!! We can have the east coast battle of the fags!!
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:45 am
by Mike_SS
east coast battle of the fags!!
Speak for yourself Steve...(not that there is anything wrong with that)
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:34 pm
by spook
Well.... that was a conversation killer if there ever was one :ha
Cough... as Stan would say...
and suddenly, it all went quiet!!
Cough... Ordered some main bearings today... (deep voice)
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:36 am
by sbutler
Mike_SS wrote:east coast battle of the fags!!
Speak for yourself Steve...(not that there is anything wrong with that)
:ha
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:57 am
by Mike_SS
The pressure is on not to repaint the PJ!
Not that there is anything wrong with the paint scheme. I'll wait to I actually have it before makng that call.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:33 pm
by sickle44
No No No, you can't repaint PJ, that'd be wrong man, unless of course you have issues with your masculinity and don't like knowing you have a 'fag' bike.
LOL
Just had to get that one in there as I didn't want to see it all go quiet.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:16 pm
by Mike_SS
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:51 am
by spook
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:37 pm
by spook
Bad Habits.
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:57 pm
by Mike_SS
