Thanks rudolph i appreciate the information and also your humour. Interested to know what tyre pressures people are running on their gt's.A couple of months ago it was'nt uncommon to be riding in 40c plus heat so was running 40 rear and 36 front so the bike flicked and steered very good.A slight loss now as it's only 25c so i'm down to 35 rear and 32 front. On a funny note i was whizzing thru the hills this morning and stopped at a great spot called the jarrahdale general store and cafe.Shared a mocha with a guy who is 72 years old and rides a red hot new cbr 1000 with arrow exhaust.He is getting a bit gaunt looking like lurch out of the adams family 'scrawny old bastard' was how he put it and bright as a button.Asked me which way i was going and we take off on cold tyres me following.He's snaking down the road with me thinking he must be an ex speedway rider and then we start down hill through a series of long sweepers signposted at 80kmh,out of the corner of my eye i can see we are doing more than 160.It occurred to me that if some keen gummint employee has erected a two way speed camera and we are doing double the limit we would run foul of our so called 'hoon laws' primarily intended to slow the young fellas down,when they break the law it's sometimes front page news here...what would they say if they caught two 'geriatric hoons' he 72 and me 60.They are very anal about speed here and if you get caught doing more than 30 k's over the limit it can be really depressing.On a brighter note when we got to the bottom of the hill my eyes were like saucers,can't be that bad then. Ps i've always liked the feedback michilen radials give but you have to watch white lines for the first 10 k's or so.When they come up to temp and pressure all is right in the world. Cheers Peter
Sounds like you were having fun Peter . I run 2.4 bar in the front tyre & 2.6 bar in the rear tyre. This seems to suit the bike well & keeps handling/turn-in acceptably quick. I've no delusions of being the next Mike Hailwood & I need my licence to be able to do my job, so I try to be aware of my own limitations. An Australian friend who now lives near London, told me about the regulation of speed limits over there. The authorities do take it very seriously. We do have some great roads round here, but some of the bends on the country roads have been known to catch out the unwary who roll into them with too much speed. The older I get, the more I like to be able to see where I'm planning to ride & what else might be on the road ahead before I get there. Besides, there are quite a few parts that are now difficult to source for the Sport Classics. Several of the Ducati Performance accessories are now classed as 'unobtanium'. It's probably best for me & my wallet to keep the black round things on the road, and the bike shiny side up.
I could'nt agree more rudolph.Which parts are you saying are hard to get now? Most of our roads up in the hills east of here have forest growing to near the edges so sometimes you get the odd kangaroo or bush chook (emu) roaring across at right angles and occasionally the roo's will prop in the middle before either going ahead or turning round and going back..the bush chooks are always going flat knacker..all very interesting. As you know it's easter and the weather is awesome so we are out riding and making the most of it.
My eldest daughter & her partner spent a year working in research at the University of Melbourne. They both had incidents when driving to the university, due to kangaroos jumping straight in front of their car. Tough blighters roos aren't they? No wonder some riders wear roo skin leathers! Parts such as the Termignoni silencers with DP ECU & airbox lid are no longer available, although I believe a trader in the US may still be able to supply the Termi pipes without the ECU/airbox parts. Not an issue for you, though as you have the Staintunes. The GT1000 centre stand was made unavailable just after I ordered one in 2009 - so I don't have one. I also understand the Ducati rack & the flyscreen are no longer sold. You may find someone with stock though, you may need to trawl the internet to find stuff.
They sure are.We get big boomers,very large red kangaroos with a head that looks like an old fashioned letter box and an attitude to match.The more common western grey kangaroo is much smaller and weighs about as much as an large dog,still hurts if you bounce off one.Years back i met a guy in a country pub who had hit a big boomer in his stationwagon and it came thru the windscreen,ended up sitting right next to him in the passengers seat still kicking.Broke his left arm and slashed his left leg up a bit.Absolutely trashed the interior trim in the front as well.After he got fixed up at hospital he went back out bush to have a look at his car and ended up staying there and working at the only pub in town.He showed me his car still parked out the back,had'nt got round to fixing it at that time.Told me he'd sent the old 900ss by rail cause he thought it would be safer to drive the car plus he had some personal stuff to carry.Nice guy so we sat down out back had a few beers and a choof while we mulled over his predicament..
I've just been reading thru the technical help forum and can't find a gt1000 mentioned anywhere,why is that?
At a guess I'd say it's because nobody has posted anything requesting technical help for a GT1000!! Being slightly less silly, I dunno. Is it because Sport Classic owners don't tend to do many miles if the bikes that have been advertised recently in the UK are anything to go by? I only cover around 2,500 - 3,000 miles per annum & my bike only has 14,500 miles on the odometer.
Yes the sport classics i've seen for sale here are all low k's too. Yes mine has 22,000 k's and still feels like new.Thinking of buying one of those magnetic laser light thingies you stick on the outside face of the rear sprocket and look for the dot on your chain,takes the guess work out of it for me.In a previous life i used to straighten a lot of bike frames in a special hydraulic frame jig.It was rare to see the swingarm marks align with true wheel alignment plus the little laser gadget only costs about 75 bucks.Bit dearer than a long piece of string tho
