DRZ Rebuild

Motorcycling
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The DRZ has seen some pretty hard abuse over the winter, being my every-day hack to use in the conditions I wouldn’t want to use the Gixxer in, so it’s had a hard time, compounded by the fact I’ve learnt to stunt on it. So the time has come for me to give her some tender-loving-care. Tasha and I set about stripping her, replacing worn components and starting a cleaning process.

Once the plastics and tank were off, we could see what needed doing, and this is how it stands:

  • Replace the clutch cable (wheelies have killed it)
  • Replace front brake hose with a braided line (first step towards supermoto)
  • Replace spark plug
  • Replace air-filter
  • Replace oil & oil-filter
  • Install new rear indicators (for mot)
  • Fix tail-light (for mot)
  • Thorough clean of all components
  • Repaint side-stand black
  • Fit smaller Renthal front sprocket & engine-guard
  • Buff the hand-guards

I’ll also fit some new bits to it over the end of the summer, bringing it towards supermoto form, i.e. new Renthal bars, new plastics, sm wheels, bigger front disc, caliper adapter and new chain & sprockets.

Man, I love this bike so much, it’s been wonderful to me, never let me down and proven to be ultra-fun through town, especially in the wet when powersliding around the streets.

Here are some snaps of us starting the work. At the end of the weekend she’s had the clutch line changed, indicators fixed, tail light half fixed and all components thoroughally cleaned. The braided hose that I’ve had laying around for months caused a lot of hassle though, it turns out it has a leak near the banjo bolt, and I only found this out after an hour of ****ing about wondering why I couldn’t draw any fluid through, so blasted some fluid up from the caliper using a syringe, only to have it splurt out all over me… argh…

As you can see, we made good use of the new enclosure I’ve had built this month for my bikes. It’s taken a BIG weight off my mind, as I no longer have to worry about my **** of a neighbour and his jealousy towards my bikes. Security has been increased as well, with a water-hose in place for the jet-wash. Motion-activated flood light to come.

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looking good and er so are the bikes

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Very nice. Looks like you’ve built a bamboo hut! What’s the deal with your neighbours then?

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Ah Silver, this is a long story, one which I haven’t got time to go into, in any great length, but it goes a little like this:

  • Neighbour is friendly
  • Neighbour likes my bike and talks of wishes that he could get one
  • Neighbour goes loopy
  • Neighbour scratches nice and shiny K4 750 with building materials whilst hauling it through the shared alley-way.
  • Neighbour denies this flatly and gets in a huff that I confronted him over it. Refuses to pay £1000 bill.
  • Neighbour gets in big strop over the coming year
  • Neighbour threatens Jay with a shovel after mis-reading a confrontation he initiated.
  • Neighbour heavily dents DRZ exhaust
  • Jay gets enclosure built.

You just can’t do anything with people like this, I have far more to lose than him, so can’t do anything which one would normally consider peoples-justice. I hope this will be the end of it, and that I’ll never have to talk to the **** again. I have been nothing but polite and helpful where possible, but now I will happily smash his face in if he initiates something first.

I have since told his (nice) wife about the way he goes outside most evenings and drinks his liqour in the back of his big old ****ty van, where he thinks his wife doesn’t know. He’s a muslim and thus, shouldn’t be drinking if he’s made the decision. Twat should just go to a pub like everyone else and be done with it. His wife was pissed, but knew he was a twat already. She then wrecked their car and he had to buy a new one, now there’s one smashed up car outside, one extra-long wheelbase van and one MPV parked in the road. This is too much for one house, on a normal semi-datached house type road! I have no space!

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Unfortunately neighbours can be a real pain in the arse (but you don’t need me to tell you that!). I’ve had a few ****ty ones in the past, nothing that bad though. Thankfully I’ve got a garage (and fairly decent neighbours). I guess you have to spend quite a bit of money to get a garage in London?

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It’s nigh-on impossible, unless you’re either very lucky, or very wealthy. What I have is probably the best I can get, though there’s still room for improvement with security, weather protection and facilities, but it’s a huge improvement on the previous setup. This is a very common situation when you live right on top of your neighbours!

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I used to get on really well with one of my neighbours, out chatting in the back garden during the summer, having barbecues… getting on really well, right up until the point I came home with a brand new GSX-R 750 K4 with a full race Yoshi on the back !!

I don’t think he liked being woken up early Sunday mornings !!

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Jay, you are more than welcome to leave that bike of yours (K5) on my garage! I even clean it for you time to time… oh, keys and insurance, please !!!

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Hehehe, jokers. Thanks Cezar, but I’m happy enough with it where it is!

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What are friends for? If you need to get rid of anything just tell me! The drz, k5, that box of tools and the g/f …

hihihihi !

Don’t forget the ground anchor! On 3 of them! lol

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Cezar… You are a total joker… Love it!!!

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Jocke? Who was jocking???

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Is that a horse jockey, or a disc-jockey?

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