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Nathlaad wrote:

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Not mine but i can ride it whenever i want. The gixxer 4 is no more i blew that up, doing about 130 on a airfield supervised by health and safety officers i.e the M54

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 Aww 

 

You getting it rebuilt? Or not worth it? 

 

Isn't the DRZ remarably slower than 130MPH? There's quicker supermotos out there, lol. Like the Husaberg 650 supermoto. Unreliable, but quicker than a DRZ.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pba4-wyU3NU

So, I was riding around trying to get up as much miles as I could, about four-five miles away from home, and I was thinking to myself "I really need a piss, I should head home." Luckily I did, because I was about to put myself at least 20 miles away from home, with no phone.

Anyway, I cut it short, I'm riding home, about a mile (or under a mile) away now, coming to some red lights, pull the clutch in, I felt a little pop under my left hand, yeah, the clutch cable snapped!

The mechanic said it needed a new one, stupid me didn't order it, so now more waiting. Ten miles off of 250 miles.

Props to the bus driver who offered to take my bike on his bus, and take me half way home.

Anyway, I managed to have my piss near a Lexus dealership.

Walked it for about ten minutes, during that which I was fiddling around with the clutch, aimlessly seeing if I could fix it myself, by adjusting it, I couldn't.

Then a while later, right near a steep hill, this video popped into my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRk0nJaRCTM

So I put my lid back on, ran forward with it, then jumped on it, whacked it in first, and off I went, shifted into second and stayed in second. Then at the top of the hill, Einstein Luke, forgot to turn the fuel tap on! So again I had to repeat the process.

If any of you have a clutch cable snap in the future, you can do this, but don't go into high gears, stay in second, and once you're home, don't ride it again, shifting without the clutch wears the gears out quicker. And you should NEVER go down in gears with no clutch.

You dont really want to be going down hill without a clutch on a two stroke mate. The oil runs off the throttle. When going down hill you're suppose to pull the clutch in a blip the throttle!

Otherwise you starve the engine of oil!

sux when cable breaks but screw pushing bump in second and tickle it hime in 3rd just a fcker if you see traffic lights .

I have in the past pull off the outer cable cover make a loop in the end and thread round the frame so you can pull the cable by hand not easy and you have to ride one hand on the bars but gets ya home ...

i think my exhaust baffles are fubar becuase mines struggling to do anwhere about 7k revs and i loosend the exhaust off a little and it made a really good improvement but the sounds was horrible lol

Danny0112 wrote:

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i think my exhaust baffles are fubar becuase mines struggling to do anwhere about 7k revs and i loosend the exhaust off a little and it made a really good improvement but the sounds was horrible lol

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 Undo the two bolts on the exhaust at the silencer, unscrew the exhaust rubber thing, then pull the silencer off. 

 

Take the screws out from the end tip, then pour some petrol through it and clean with tissue, probably need a stick to get it from the bottom. But the exhaust back on, put the screw and end on, ride without the sound wadding and baffle, see what happens. You can clean the baffle and sound wadding in petrol, then put it back on. But it might be too far gone and break again.

 

IIRC, the sound wadding stuff is £8 from eBay.

 

Make sure you put some petrol down the silencer, it'll clean it. And I just used a six pint milk bottle, cut up the side of it, and clean the exhaust there.

There is a proper way of 'flushing ' out all the carbon and crap, and that's to use Caustic Soda overnight, but it's pretty nasty stuff to be using.

oh and boxing when you had this prbolem did it feel like the redline was at 7k ? and the revs would like bounce off it