What have you done today, Zephyr-wise?

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Richard
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Must have been a great ride despite the lengthy days, nice pics too! Thanks for sharing :)
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wish I had roads like that round here ... :cry: still, at least the 750 got through the MoT inspection this morning, and with it being a very sunny 80degF outside, I'm sure you can guess what I'm going to be doing this afternoon .. :D
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you're just being mean now!! :D - seriously though, thats a cracking piece of road any way you look at it - here's what I can offer you as my local version of the same thing. Swap?? ;)
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The dark cloud broke today, 18C and sunny, took the ZR out for a spin. Took a wrong turn and got on a bridge to go over the mighty Fraser River. The bridge used to be tolled, so it was rarely used. Now the government took the toll away, traffic has increased. There is a huge area on that side of the river I seldom visit. Today is the day, I followed the roads toward a provincial park. Swiping curves on a nicely paved road, then some twisty throught the forest, I arrived at the side of a quiet lake. The view was magnificent. I couldn't believe it is only 50km from my house. Sat and relaxed, rode home satisfied.
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Must have been a wonderful ride, beautiful picture too by the way. Must be the mountains, we don't have any in flat Holland ;)

By the way I installed a new battery as the previous one died during winter storage. Obviously the bike now starts without any problem but since I'm on sick leave no riding for me :cry:
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Richard, we have lots of little gem spots like this through out BC, Canada; specially on the Ski to Sea highway.You say you are on sick leave, hope nothing too serious. Get well soon.
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Well it is serious but not too serious, some sort of inflammation for which I got hospitalized for a few days. Recovery expected to be 4 to 6 weeks...

Thanks Kenny!
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Get well soon Kenny ...

Yesterday I went for a test ride through the local National Park after doing quite a few things following the recent Snowy ride. While its a police magnet on weekends due to being a very popular ride road, late afternoon midweek hardly a sole around. Great motorcycle road right on the city edge (I'm about 20 minutes ride away).

I'd been putting off doing a few jobs till after the recent big ride, just to keep Murphy at bay (broke the upper yoke previously a few days before a big ride changing the fork oil). Things done .....

converted the spoke D1 wheels to tubeless
New chain and sprockets
changed the main jets to all #88 (previously #88 outside cylinders, #90 inside ones)
fitted new right side outer front fork tube (did do the left one before the trip)
Had the rear shocks rebuilt, lengthened 5mm to improve ground clearance, softened up the rebound damping

Bike went well. Front fork oil needs to be a lower weight. So that's today's job. There was so much wear in the old outer fork tubes where the lower bushs run a quite heavy oil mix (23W) was necessary to get any sort of rebound damping. I'd reassembled the forks using this again on the expectation it might be too heavy, and it is. I'll chuck some 15W in today, and work up from that if needed.

A picture of what a lot of the 'Natho' looks like as you're riding through it, very pretty sub-tropical rain forest ....

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Freddy, sounds like alot of work is being done to the suspension. The foliage in Australia is completely from here. It reminds me of Hawaii. I see brown leafs on the side of the road. I suppose you are heading into your fall and winter season.
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ZR468 wrote:Freddy, sounds like alot of work is being done to the suspension. The foliage in Australia is completely from here. It reminds me of Hawaii. I see brown leafs on the side of the road. I suppose you are heading into your fall and winter season.
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Yea, lots of work on the suspension. Rear shocks, having just been rebuilt, are going back to the suspension specialists, AGAIN. Long story but first crew stuffed them up (came back after a rebuild with one shock 7 mm longer than the other). Discovered this anomaly when I went to refit them. So found another place to fix that issue (no way was I sending em back to the original crew). So really had to put them back together, so I could reassess current state. Compression damping needs attention. Given the money I'm going to spend on the front, what's another couple hundred dollars to get the back right. It's only money!

Don't worry I'm not foolish with my money. I just re-tiled the bathroom myself instead of paying a professional tradesman. With the money I saved doing that I figure I can spend some of it on the bike.

Very few native deciduous trees in Australia (probably count the various species on one hand). The leaves on the side of the road are there year round. It's the one thing you need to be careful riding these roads. After a storm or just a strong wind the road will be covered in leaf litter and twigs. It really takes a bit of vehicular traffic to' blow' the road clean. If you're one of the first through the road after a big blow that night it can be quite challenging with the bike slipping and sliding all over the place. Good skill development!

Winter is probably our best time of year for riding. A little cold at first light but warms up as soon as the sun is well up. Just need a jumper under your leathers. July can be gray and overcast but other Autumn/Winter months are clear sunny blue skies 18-20C. Much nicer that sweating like a pig in Summer.
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