What did you do to your bike today ??

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Picked up the RSV, clean bill of health from the mot , just a warning about the rear tyre wear. Not bad for an 11 year old bike.

Also got the tyres fitted to the track bike. That's done bad things to me and I really want to do a track day now..
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Got the bazzaz just about fitted put the fuel tank and airbox on and connected to the unit through the laptop. Chucked a generic map on it and It ran so just need to sort the quick shifter out could not install it as need a bit of threaded bar.
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Sounds good Rocket. Very much looking forward to how you rate the kit.

Can you down load maps for specific exhaust with the bazzaz like you can with the power commander rocket ?
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Gave it the Spudda clean and juiced up ready for tomorrows Ride 4 Life Charity Gig
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I m sure it will stand out then Spudda, yiur cleaning skills are legendary (rock)


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Blade wrote:Sounds good Rocket. Very much looking forward to how you rate the kit.

Can you down load maps for specific exhaust with the bazzaz like you can with the power commander rocket ?
When I looked on the bazzaz site there are some generic maps that the company has created then a few maps that people have uploaded. There were not as many maps as I was expecting. The software is very easy to use so far but only had a quick play.

There is there auto tune kit which basically is a wide O2 band sensor and a box you plug it in and set it in mapping mode it then maps the bike for you as you ride around. You can then set the new map go out and do it again and again. This box is extra but I have found a guy that loans these out for £30.

When I first was looking at the bazzaz my mate said he did not rate the self mapper as he had had a customer which lost power using one. The bike was a Ducati. But over on gixerboz they rate them. I'm going to have more in depth chat with my mate and see why he was not impressed.

However it can be mapped on a dyno just like any other fuel mapping box
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Cleaned it, now deciding if I should go out for a blast :?
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I bought the Battalax BT023 (apparently a downgrade from what I had on previously which where T30s) and took them for an all day style ride yesterday.

Started off in the wet - roads were soaked so I rode as steady as I could... but then the roads dried off and by the time I reached H cafe from Reading I'd covered 20miles... so then I did another 50miles steady and then another 70miles after that pushing it a bit more into the bends.... BLOODY FANTASTIC!!!! Thanks for the advice :)
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Had a really nice ride out this morning. I planned to go to Tutbury to the cafe Perkles recommends so took the back roads there but when i got to Tutbury it was heaving with traffic and people so decided to ride back via Uttoxeter and stop at the cafe there.

When i got to the cafe there was a 996 there. So got a coffee and started to chat with the owner.

Turns out this guy is now retired and lives in Aldridge but used to work with Mike Hailwood and was instrumental in the JPS Norton Rotary race team and mechaniced for Trevor Nation at his TT win and also for Robert Dunlop. He still owns one of the JPS racebikes and brings it to Classic race meetings. Gave me an invite to come and see his bike at the Mallory festival in July. Really nice bloke who obviously has many great racing stories to tell.

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Sounds a top bloke Duke and a very interesting story, I bet your glad the other cafe was busy and changed your route in the end.
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Rocket. The sled mapper loaned out for £30 sounds good and at that price got to be worth a try.
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Blade wrote:Rocket. The sled mapper loaned out for £30 sounds good and at that price got to be worth a try.
I aggree
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So the Mrs took Harry and my niece to Cleethorpes so I did some bits in the morning and rode the blackbird down to meet them. Was a good laugh and that bike is so easy to ride. When i arrived it started missing below 4K got home ok but seemed to get worse.
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Cleaned the Tiger. Well, my boy did...

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Teach 'em young :D
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Ha ha, good man... Nothing like a bit of child labour, mind you I wouldn't let my boy anywhere near my bikes with a sponge !! I can see him now dropping it in a pile of gravel and then just carrying on without washing the sponge out.. (shocked)
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Even 4 year olds have to earn their keep.
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bought some front fork protectors. Second hand. £20 posted. Bargain.
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Haha good way to earn his pocket money
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rocket wrote:So the Mrs took Harry and my niece to Cleethorpes so I did some bits in the morning and rode the blackbird down to meet them. Was a good laugh and that bike is so easy to ride. When i arrived it started missing below 4K got home ok but seemed to get worse.
Sorry officer I had to keep her wound up in the red zone or she wouldn't run very well (giggle)
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