#100 PostAuthor: steve452 » Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:30 pm
Took the Z1-B for a run to the Hampshire Biker Bastards Bike Night tonight, its first proper run (about 60 miles all told).
I managed to get 80mph out of it on the M3 on the way home. It also chuntered along happily at 60mph on the A33/A30 into Basingstoke from Winchester. It still seems sluggish on acceleration but having ridden a 400bhp Ninja H2 for the last 5 years and expecting it to pull instantly I may be demanding too much. I can't remember what it was like when I last rode it 43 years ago. Anyway, it no longer seems to be pissing fuel out of the #2 overflow, so hopefully the ride has settled that down.
On restarting to leave the bike night the oil light failed to go out again so I'll replace the switch with a new genuine and see what happens. Having already had this situation twice now and the oil pressure checking out OK whilst the oil light was actually on I'm not overly concerned. I might be if the new switch doesn't resolve it!
Heading for home via an Esso garage (for some luvverly Esso Supreme "Shit Free" fuel) I noticed the revs had dropped to zero according to the tacho, but the engine was definitely still making vroom-vroom noises. Funny, I thought...funny. Pulling up to the fuel pump I discovered the outer of the tacho cable hanging loose, having detached itself from the head, and the inner cable hanging loose, having detached itself from the outer, but still attached to the head! I re-fed the inner into the outer and screwed up the gnurled nut onto the head and it worked! I noticed the tacho had failed over half a mile from the garage so considered myself more than lucky the inner cable hadn't fallen out. Reminded myself to definitely do the lottery this week.
There's always a downside though. So as I didn't burn myself on the headers whilst screwing in the tacho cable nut, I used a micro-fibre cloth to turn it. Doh! Forgot they're made of bloody plastic! Now have a lovely six inch dark orange coating on #3 header. Anybody know the best way to remove it without damaging the chrome?
Z1-B, 400bhp ZX1000NGF
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