Recent content by peteGSX

Look out it's Frankie, welcome along to DTT, that's a pretty clean CB!

The local Katana riders katch up for Kristmas here in Brisbane, Australia.

Some things with GS' that can cause issues here... Are your valve clearances in spec? Have you balanced the carbs? (Do that after valve clearances not before) Looks like pods and potentially a free flowing exhaust, which is likely going to need richening up possibly significantly. On my...

Mate that's fantastic, awesome result! I hear ya' on the seat pain too, there's a guy here who does an awesome job but tends to over promise and under deliver on time. My Kat seat took four or five months instead of the two weeks, and the 450 seat took a couple of months instead of a week or...

Yeah +1 on the wider tyre comments, and from my experience trying a 100/90-18 on the front of the 450 it just made cornering horrible with a weird tip in experience which is no fun at all!

Nice progress! Gotta love skinny tyres too! Mind you I thought my GS450's were skinny but the 90/90-18 on the front makes your 2.75 front look even skinnier :D

Keen to follow along here, being a bit of a Suzuki nut and all :) I gotta say one thing I love with your previous builds is how you integrate the seat and tank. Too many builds I've seen over the years that haven't done that and either just don't look right with gaps or (worse still) leave...

I finally got some time to work on a mounting bracket for the speedo and tacho yesterday. I'm liking the non-symmetrical layout, and the speedo positioning means no interference between the clutch and speedo drive cables. The big gap between them will also allow me to put a different ignition...

Nice work! My two cents is offset tips and definitely closer together... and make sure you have plenty of room to be able to check the oil level with the dipstick! Regarding the cafe comments above, yeah, this is your bike, do what you want. Go back in the day where the cafe was born and there...

I got the service done yesterday, standard oil/filter change and check valve clearances and so forth. The only shim needing changing was number 2 inlet as last time I'm guessing I got the clearance a bit wrong as it was way out of spec (over 0.10mm) and had to go up a shim to bring the...

Yeah these are definitely good bikes! When it was running well I had no issues having fun with the "big boys" on their 1100+ Kats in the tight twisty stuff on our favourite roads, although of course as soon as horsepower comes into play things change :D I find it a fun little bike to ride, even...

I'd say warm rather than hot, was about 3 hours after I got home from work, so should be good enough temperature for testing. Held the throttle at WOT to test also. As for the valves, definitely something I need to check which will be during the next service in a couple of weeks. I've been...

I decided to check the compression last night given the lack of top end and the results weren't good. Number one has 120 PSI, number two only 100 PSI. Going by the manual 100 PSI is the service limit, but they should be 130 - 170 PSI, and if both cylinders measure under 130 PSI it's time for an...

Well I finally got it out for a decent ride yesterday after the changes so far. Definitely more enjoyable to ride again and I had a blast, although encountered a couple of issues. First one's a simple fix... my rear number plate had started to crack from vibration likely due to the weight of...

Well a bit of shuffling, a bit of filing, and the switch is back in action again, yay! Now on to figuring out what to do about mounting the GS500 tacho...