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motardina
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125SMash
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welcome to the board
looking good 
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phlat65
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 12:05 am Post subject: |
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welcome guys!!!
Brian and I try to ride every weekend, parking lot racing is great fun 
make sure we hook up soon 
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cat-tard
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: parking-lot racing? |
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...I never raced a parking-lot before!
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Brian
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: parking-lot racing? |
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| cat-tard wrote: | ...I never raced a parking-lot before!
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WARNING...................WARNING...................CHECK ALL BOLTS AND NUTS ON THOSE MACHINES THAT CAME FROM VINCE"S
ESPECIALLY THE FRONT END !!!!!
I did a header off my bike because Vince and his crew did not tighten my front rotor bolts and one fell out, caliper spun back on my rotor locking up the front end causing me to fly over at 30 mph's about the 6th or 8th time I used the front brake, had 11 KM's on the machine at a time.........
pm me with a good daytime number and I will give you the whole deal !!!
Is the red one the one he had in stock ?????
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cat-tard
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Well, the red one does have something funky going on with the rotor - but it looks like shipping-damage to me - the rotor buttons are bent and it allows the rotor part to "float" on the carrier and it's not *supposed* to be a full-floating rotor! Vince seemed nice enough when we went down there for a test-ride - hopefully he will take care of her.
...we got mine from "L&D racetech" in Astoria... and those guys seemed pretty OK too - until I noticed how hard it was to startmy bike after it got hot... turns out, it was over-filled with oil by about 1/2 quart. Some of the fasteners on my bike seemed a little loose as well - but after reading this thread, I went back and checked the front and rear rotor-bolts and all is well there.
ANYway - thanks for the heads-up!
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phlat65
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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I think any rotor with buttons is full floating.....
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cat-tard
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| phlat65 wrote: | | I think any rotor with buttons is full floating..... |
Yeah - I thought so too... but that's not how it works. The kind like come on the Baghira as OEM are called "semi floating" and the idea is to allow the rotor part to expand and contract seperately from the carrier-part (that's usually made of aluminum) so that you don't get the cone-effect like the early Jap "superbikes" used to suffer from. They aren't "full floating" because they are not designed to have any travel/play in them... if you grab a set of EBC full-floating rotors you can see what I'm saying... ANYway - the full-blown full-floating rotors hafta be regularly inspected and the buttons hafta be replaced quite frequently as well... the OEM-style "semi floating" rotors are not designed nor intended to allow for replacement of those buttons.
...at least that's my understanding of the whole thing - I could well be wrong.
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Brian
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| cat-tard wrote: | Well, the red one does have something funky going on with the rotor - but it looks like shipping-damage to me - the rotor buttons are bent and it allows the rotor part to "float" on the carrier and it's not *supposed* to be a full-floating rotor! Vince seemed nice enough when we went down there for a test-ride - hopefully he will take care of her.
...we got mine from "L&D racetech" in Astoria... and those guys seemed pretty OK too - until I noticed how hard it was to startmy bike after it got hot... turns out, it was over-filled with oil by about 1/2 quart. Some of the fasteners on my bike seemed a little loose as well - but after reading this thread, I went back and checked the front and rear rotor-bolts and all is well there.
ANYway - thanks for the heads-up! |
Mine was overfilled too, I have left it that way thinking its no big deal.... those bikes do not like any throttle starting..... hot or cold.... my is easy to start 
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Kinda brings out the 
My first comment after getting off after the ride back from the dealership in Olympia WA (Vince's) was "This bike is going to get me into sooooo much trouble!" hehe!
