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Unsprung weight is the enemy for either road of track, marginal gains. Titanium is lighter and light sprinkling is good for pub talk. Stainless...
I've just re read the full Thread. Very impressive amount of work and patience. Did you ride the finished bike much before you sold it?
That's a great way to keep the mileage down. :upyeah:
Have you tried slackening the union on the master cylinder? This might just help prime the master cylinder? As for shi7e rear brake on the 99x...
Yep Looks like an early attempt at security marking :astonished: Bit odd though as datatag started in the early 1990s? maybe not early enough...
That's very much what I did. A lot less faff. Took the innards out and fitted some bridge connectors.
That link is to a cover for one of those ugly 999 bikes:astonished::D
Yep, The Factory WSBK superbikes were given an "F0" nomeclature the 2002 998r racebikes were sometimes named as 998 F02
Sorry about the dodgy link, now removed.:worried:. The link has been quoted so I can't remove it from the post where quoted. It was the best...
Bought at 1700 miles, now nearly 20 years later on 29k miles, many of which are treasured memories. Didn't buy the 998 as an investment at the...
Hmm..... a minter low mileage (sub 2k miles) are asking around the 30k mark, so if you can get the bits to mint this one up it won't be that far...
I've always understood that the silver/grey stand to be a "transport stand" used inside the crate when the bikes were shipped. The dealers often...
I ran my bike on a dyno many, many years ago. It was pretty much stock apart from the inlet gold mesh being removed, pipercross in tube air...
The original carbon on the bike looks very poorly finished, if indeed they are the carbon parts the bike left the factory with. The original...
It was brilliant to see racing legend Frankie Chili in a short meet up piece with James Toseland as part of the Eurosport Misano WSBK race meet...
Thanks for the thoughts above. Still enjoy riding the bike from time to time, BUT, sometimes it feels like the wrong bike for a nice cruise...
No not a highway code question:) What’s the market like for the 996r & 998r models with higher mileage? You rarely if ever see bikes with...
AFAIK the 996r came with the standard ally cans and the carbon one came with the bikes and an "open pipe" ECU. I can't recall ever seeing one out...
A mate has 2002 st4 and reckons the body panels are really fragile. He says the panel have brittled with age. Seems a bit odd to me, i would have...
Been a monster fan since 2006 when I got ride round Cadwell on a DUK Monster S4RS. So much fun and so easy to change direction compared to my 998....