Who Rode Today?

c10 said:
My dentist, and I met up for dinner . Wednesday night pasta night. I took the dealers Katana.
FYI the Katana logo mean knife in Japanese Kanji. I learned from Alex Japan uses Chinese symbols for words .View attachment 1642940View attachment 1642941View attachment 1642942
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I really like the new katana, just got done test riding an 04 600 katana I've been working on. It obviously far from the busa but I did enjoy the lightness and the seating position. Now working on it has been a little different story because these carbs have been giving me issue after issue. Even now I can't get it to come to a happy idle when it's just warmed up without it causing them to raise to around 3k after a few mile ride :banghead: :banghead:
 
Bumblebee said:
It certainly is....I used to be a Katana die hard at one time....both the sword and the bike...

Suzuki was using Kanjis before the rest were....no Kanji on this Katana though

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I F**kin knew it
This is you Bumblebee isn't it!

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Dopey said:
I really like the new katana, just got done test riding an 04 600 katana I've been working on. It obviously far from the busa but I did enjoy the lightness and the seating position. Now working on it has been a little different story because these carbs have been giving me issue after issue. Even now I can't get it to come to a happy idle when it's just warmed up without it causing them to raise to around 3k after a few mile ride :banghead: :banghead:
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My son has an '006 750 and I agree, those carbs are a real PITA to get at, so much so they often get neglected.

If you haven't done this already, I suggest getting them stripped, cleaned and rebuilt. The idle adjustment cable seizes up quickly as well.

What I have my son do is take off his tank at the end of each season and plug the vacuum line going into the petcock and running them dry. So far and 3 seasons later, he has had better luck.

The whole sad part of this whole thing is I offered him my 1200 Bandit a couple years ago but he didn't think he could handle it-it was a lot easier to maintain than this bike he has now.
 
Bumblebee said:
My son has an '006 750 and I agree, those carbs are a real PITA to get at, so much so they often get neglected.

If you haven't done this already, I suggest getting them stripped, cleaned and rebuilt. The idle adjustment cable seizes up quickly as well.

What I have my son do is take off his tank at the end of each season and plug the vacuum line going into the petcock and running them dry. So far and 3 seasons later, he has had better luck.

The whole sad part of this whole thing is I offered him my 1200 Bandit a couple years ago but he didn't think he could handle it-it was a lot easier to maintain than this bike he has now.
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Rebuilding the carbs is what it came in for and they were nasty. The pilot screw is such a pain to get at even with my specialty screwdriver that it's hard to adjust like I would on most bikes. Factory setting is 2.5 turns and when I pulled them off they were all 4 to 4.25 turns out and I found the main jets in the wrong carbs on 2 of them :banghead:. Now when it's cold it wants to idle real low like 1k or lower but once warm it comes up to around 1300 and I've got the screws set at 2.25 turns. It seems to run great now otherwise so I think I'm gonna let him take it and see how it does. I was gonna attach some pics of the carb but my phone is broken and waiting on another one so I can't right now.
 
I rode my DRZ to town yesterday (Saturday) and went with a few mates to the Voices For Freedom rally in Cranmer Square, central city.
The Rally was a gathering of around 5000 people who are fed up with current Socialist regime we have here in NZ (branded as 'Labour Party' but in reality, far from it) hitting the country with ridiculous mandates re Covid vaccination certificates and strangling the local economies with on going lockdowns.
It was an awesome event with a few different speakers, a real show of courage and solidarity, and on the 9th November they are headed to Parliament Buildings with thousands of people to let the Prime M/Sinister and her cronies know that WE THE PEOPLE have had ENOUGH!!
There's my DRZ (yellow front guard) half way along the group.
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There was a ride with around 50 bikes into the central city, people moved aside and welcomed us in as Freedom Fighters.
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Bumblebee said:
Those new Katanas aren't a bad looking bike and a Katana is a medium sword not a knife.
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That new Katana sure looks better in black , but still think Suzuki missed the mark with this bike . The old school Katanas were fast and top of the line at the time early 80's , the adverts for the original bike featured a Samurai wielding a Katana sword . Still one of my favorite Suzuki motorcycles .
 
ROADTOAD1340 said:
That new Katana sure looks better in black , but still think Suzuki missed the mark with this bike . The old school Katanas were fast and top of the line at the time early 80's , the adverts for the original bike featured a Samurai wielding a Katana sword . Still one of my favorite Suzuki motorcycles .
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Even the original was a "gussied" up GS1100...this bike is much closer to the original than all the other ones in between (in my opinion).

Suzuki could have done better with this bike in my opinion as well.
 
ROADTOAD1340 said:
That new Katana sure looks better in black , but still think Suzuki missed the mark with this bike . The old school Katanas were fast and top of the line at the time early 80's , the adverts for the original bike featured a Samurai wielding a Katana sword . Still one of my favorite Suzuki motorcycles .
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Could’ve at least put effort in for the dash/ handlebar set up. Retro gauges in LED would’ve looked mint
 
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