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@novocaine

 

[LondonClassic]

I'm in NW Kent. I've no reason to think that with fresh petrol and a new battery the Suzuki shouldn't start, but it's been 10 years.

I adminre your optomism....but feel even if it started its going to run like a bag of spanners till you do a carb strip/clean.

 

[novocaine]

I adminre your optomism....but feel even if it started its going to run like a bag of spanners till you do a carb strip/clean.

Last of the good carbed bike the sv. It will run in 1 pot happy as Larry too. I suspect with a squirt of cleaner though the intake it'll be right. They are massively understressed and overbuilt.

Mines FI though, so not as reliable. The curvy I had before it though fired up few weeks ago after 6 years sat and ran like it had never been stopped.

I like my SV.

 

[GLB]

I adminre your optomism....but feel even if it started its going to run like a bag of spanners till you do a carb strip/clean.

When I brought it back down to Kent it had been idle for a couple of years and certainly needed good service (inc carb strip and clean to get rid of those spanners.) Which was done and I used it for a couple of months before I stopped. Yes I should have drained the tank etc, but I was hopeful that I'd be riding it again.

 

[gregor]

Peak 90s paintjob here on the little KDX.

 

[gregor]

Current commuting ride.

Fairing on for the winter and off for the summer.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Current commuting ride.

Fairing on for the winter and off for the summer.

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I had 2x k75s, absolutely brilliant below zero with the RT fairing and heated grips, incredibly inexpensive and ok fuel economy for a large bike, although crap in any objective sense, only 50-60 mpg
And they can develop baffling poor-running faults

 

[gregor]

I had 2x k75s, absolutely brilliant below zero with the RT fairing and heated grips, incredibly inexpensive and ok fuel economy for a large bike, although crap in any objective sense, only 50-60 mpg
And they can develop baffling poor-running faults

Not tried the 75 but I’ve heard the triple is a really smooth engine, looks better proportioned too compared to the 100.

I’ve had a few bikes but the K is the most planted at speed of all of them and that fairing makes a big difference, naked the bike really doesn’t like 50mph+ speeds but that big old oddly mounted lump needs to be on show!

 

[bikeworkshop]

Not tried the 75 but I’ve heard the triple is a really smooth engine, looks better proportioned too compared to the 100.

I’ve had a few bikes but the K is the most planted at speed of all of them and that fairing makes a big difference, naked the bike really doesn’t like 50mph+ speeds but that big old oddly mounted lump needs to be on show!

I "imagine" that flying home along the M4 at 100mph behind that police RTIC fairing was extremely comfortable.

Back in the days of front facing speed cameras...