I saw a novice rider on a bike today, had his girl on the back. He was
swerving all over the place, then he starts doing wheelies. I thought they
were both dead. Anyhow, I should have my GSX-R 600 by the end of the month.
How long have you been riding????
Chris DeCrease
97 V6 Sport 4x4
2000 Pontiac TA
2001 Suzuki GSX-R 600 (on the way)
www.angelfire.com/extreme2/chrisnlisa00
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuong Nguyen <dester223@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 1:59 AM
Subject: DML: mishap on motorcycle (no one's hurt)
Anyways. it was the warmest night here (78) since a LONG time and I just got
my bike so a couple friends and I were cruising and I had a passenger.
I have a 92 katana 600 w/23k miles
we're just cruising the side streets and the smaller streets, and they
wanted to get on the highway and just BLAST down it. We get on the highway
and I'm just cruising (actual speed won't be released) and my friends just
go FLYING by me but there's a passenger so I just kinda keep my speed and
eventually caught up.
I catch up and start slowing down to their speed and all of a sudden I feel
HOT STREAM down my left pants and I thought it was the bike getting rid of
the heat built up. keep rolling and it gets HOTTER... so I pulled my hand
down and felt the pants and there was oil ALL over it. Signaled my buddies
and we pulled to the side. there's just a trail of oil from WAY back on the
highway to the shoulder of the road and it's still dripping oil once the
bike was stopped.
After an hour and an interesting talk with the highway patrol (appearantly
someone called in and they said "a bunch of bikes just flipped on the
highway) so there were cops all over the place. My buddy shows up in his
truck and we load the bike and go home.
NOW... after the fairings are off, oil is just everywhere. It's
appearantly not the oil filter which is up front, but there's one place that
strikes me as "odd" there's an line that goes into the top of the valve
cover and the gasket inbetween doesn't appear to be existant and the
contact points don't look very close and tight. This is on the back side of
the motor.
MY question is... if this line blew, could oil have been sucked forward
towards the front of the motor? I'm thinking that somehow the fairings are
setup, it COULD pull oil dripping out like a @!#$#@$ to the front of the
header/pipes somewhat. I know this is a vague description but It's 12:30
and no bike sucks :(
anyone know of a good shop in kansas/missouri border to take it to fairly
cheaply? spent all my $$$ buying it and don't have much headroom for
adjustments to it.
-Chuong
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