Gen 5 first ride...
Posted: July 1st, 2012, 3:05 am
Hi Dudes!
As expected, I went for my first ride yesterday. And as promised, here's my first impression about this Gen 5.
First of all, I'm on break in period. We did bore the cylinder and the piston has only 6/100th clearance, which is very very tight. So I had to ride smoothly... you all know what breaking in means
The general feeling is pretty much the same as with the Gen 4. Only the bike feels with a low front end and a high rear end. A bit like the kawasaki's from 80's - 90's.
I knew that the bike had an overtendancy to shake from the fron end, so I overtightened the steering stem, this coupled with the steering damper, it was OK, although I was not riding as hard as I usually ride, so maybe I will feel different later on.
The engine is very nice running, no vibrations, just perfect...
Anyway, I experienced horrible jetting issue. At Low RPM, the engine stopped like if I had no more ignition.
I can't tune the carb to idle and the overflow hose at the very bottom of the carb is constently running drop by drop.
I knocked on the carb's bottom and open the air screw by a half turn. The overflow stopped dropping, but the jetting issue went on and on.
As I had to deal with a huge double jump and a massive step up, I had no full confidence in the engine response and the worst thing is to have a jetting issue just when you face the jumps.
So I rode twice 20 minutes and went back home.
This first ride was much more a try to find tune the solve some issues than a real ride.
I will re build a new jetting setup and the issue will be fixed.
Anyway, here are a few pics...
My wife had an problem with the memory card on the first run, so no picture of a clean bike .... However...
Let's start for the second ride (my 7 yo daughter at the background is begging for a PW... should I?? )
Le's twist the throttle.... just a bit.
Hey... from here, I can see you
Finally, on a 20 minutes run, I had to kick start 15 times. It was more than enough.
Next time will be better.
As expected, I went for my first ride yesterday. And as promised, here's my first impression about this Gen 5.
First of all, I'm on break in period. We did bore the cylinder and the piston has only 6/100th clearance, which is very very tight. So I had to ride smoothly... you all know what breaking in means
The general feeling is pretty much the same as with the Gen 4. Only the bike feels with a low front end and a high rear end. A bit like the kawasaki's from 80's - 90's.
I knew that the bike had an overtendancy to shake from the fron end, so I overtightened the steering stem, this coupled with the steering damper, it was OK, although I was not riding as hard as I usually ride, so maybe I will feel different later on.
The engine is very nice running, no vibrations, just perfect...
Anyway, I experienced horrible jetting issue. At Low RPM, the engine stopped like if I had no more ignition.
I can't tune the carb to idle and the overflow hose at the very bottom of the carb is constently running drop by drop.
I knocked on the carb's bottom and open the air screw by a half turn. The overflow stopped dropping, but the jetting issue went on and on.
As I had to deal with a huge double jump and a massive step up, I had no full confidence in the engine response and the worst thing is to have a jetting issue just when you face the jumps.
So I rode twice 20 minutes and went back home.
This first ride was much more a try to find tune the solve some issues than a real ride.
I will re build a new jetting setup and the issue will be fixed.
Anyway, here are a few pics...
My wife had an problem with the memory card on the first run, so no picture of a clean bike .... However...
Let's start for the second ride (my 7 yo daughter at the background is begging for a PW... should I?? )
Le's twist the throttle.... just a bit.
Hey... from here, I can see you
Finally, on a 20 minutes run, I had to kick start 15 times. It was more than enough.
Next time will be better.