discussion GSXR750 K1

[Ancientmariner]

So another bike with issues.

So far was told by a garage the bake brake wasn't working when they MOTd it and it needed "extensive work". I bled it and changed fluid and it's fine.

Speedo next issue, reading but not right (I'd estimate about 10th of actual speed). Did some logical thinking, pull of front sprocket cover and bits rained out. Problem identified. Pick up shattered. Seems it has somehow hit the sensor at some stage.

After a new one is fitted, short of a good clean it should be A1, or as much as it ever will be.

 

[Waspie]

TBH, I was only looking at the top pic and the map!!
How things have changed!!! This is my map of the same area which had to be made up by hand from lats and longs from a nice big blue book!!!
As for bike with issues - been there. I managed to get the only Honda with a knackered F1 system!!! Whole thing had to be stripped out and sent back to Japan. (Luckily under warranty) Two wheels are fun but can be infuriating!! Good luck with yours!

My map!!!

 

[Nicko]

Nice looking Gixxer....

Nick

 

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting map…..my house is somewhere inside the black circle LOL….

 

[Ancientmariner]

Interesting map…..my house is somewhere inside the black circle LOL….

I think in that case Tim I must have gone right over you last time I went to Henstridge...

 

[Ancientmariner]

Nice looking Gixxer....

Nick

Look nicer if it wasn't in bits

 

[Ancientmariner]

TBH, I was only looking at the top pic and the map!!
How things have changed!!! This is my map of the same area which had to be made up by hand from lats and longs from a nice big blue book!!!
As for bike with issues - been there. I managed to get the only Honda with a knackered F1 system!!! Whole thing had to be stripped out and sent back to Japan. (Luckily under warranty) Two wheels are fun but can be infuriating!! Good luck with yours!

My map!!!

How old is you map? Doesn't look too dissimilar to the current CAA half mil chart what were you flying?

 

[Tim Marlow]

I think in that case Tim I must have gone right over you last time I went to Henstridge...

Not quite James, assuming the blue line is your route I’m just to the left of King Alfred’s tower…..the brown icon between Bruton and the glider icon. I could have seen you out of the model room window though, I can see the tower about two miles away across the fields….what were you flying.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Oh, and my band practice in the pub at Stalbridge, near Henstridge, so you could have given me a lift LOL….

 

[Waspie]

How old is you map? Doesn't look too dissimilar to the current CAA half mil chart what were you flying?

Westland Wasp Mk1 and only 1!!!
It would be circa late 80's. I had these ¼ mil maps made up for the whole of the UK. Took forever!!! Only have two left, the one surrounding Portland - North, and Devon and Cornwall. Religiously covered in fablon so as to be able to be reused many times. Low fly areas, controlled airspaces and avoidance areas + many many more details, power lines, masts blah blah blah!!!!!

 

[Tim Marlow]

Westland Wasp Mk1 and only 1!!!
It would be circa late 80's. I had these ¼ mil maps made up for the whole of the UK. Took forever!!! Only have two left, the one surrounding Portland - North, and Devon and Cornwall. Religiously covered in fables so as to be able to be re0used many times. Low fly areas, controlled airspaces and avoidance areas + many many more details, power lines, masts blah blah blah!!!!!

Ah, there we have a problem then……that’s about thirty years before I moved here LOL….probably why our road isn’t shown, it was closer to a field track in those days apparently. It’s an interesting coincidence though :thumb2:
I think I’d be tempted to have them framed, they are very interesting to look at and obviously have personal history.

 

[Ancientmariner]

Not quite James, assuming the blue line is your route I’m just to the left of King Alfred’s tower…..the brown icon between Bruton and the glider icon. I could have seen you out of the model room window though, I can see the tower about two miles away across the fields….what were you flying.

Flying a PA28 then but currently fly an Arrow II and just started on a super cub

 

[Waspie]

Ah, there we have a problem then……that’s about thirty years before I moved here LOL….probably why our road isn’t shown, it was closer to a field track in those days apparently. It’s an interesting coincidence though :thumb2:
I think I’d be tempted to have them framed, they are very interesting to look at and obviously have personal history.

I was talking to Terry Martin, the owner/pilot of one of the flying Wasps currently doing displays and he suggested maybe a museum. However!! I have also drafted a book, (probably never to be printed - more for family), regards my life in the RN. 15 years flying, so quite a few experiences!!! So I was thinking they may accompany the master copy!! But who knows, still have all my navigation kit too. It wasn't all push button in the 'good ole days!!! :smiling5: :smiling5:

 

[Ancientmariner]

I was talking to Terry Martin, the owner/pilot of one of the flying Wasps currently doing displays and he suggested maybe a museum. However!! I have also drafted a book, (probably never to be printed - more for family), regards my life in the RN. 15 years flying, so quite a few experiences!!! So I was thinking they may accompany the master copy!! But who knows, still have all my navigation kit too. It wasn't all push button in the 'good ole days!!! :smiling5: :smiling5:

Be interested to read that. Are you not flying anymore then? I see the historic flight wasp go over my house ever so often

 

[Ancientmariner]

Oh, and my band practice in the pub at Stalbridge, near Henstridge, so you could have given me a lift LOL….

I will drop you a line if I fly down again anytime soon, I'd like to have had a wander round but was a bit pushed for time and weather wasn't great

 

[Waspie]

Be interested to read that. Are you not flying anymore then? I see the historic flight wasp go over my house ever so often

It's a bit of a tome!! TBH, it's more for the kids, (HA - they're 49 and 46 now - kids!!!). I spent a long time away from home and hardly spoke about what I did when away, partly because ASW would take too long to explain to youngsters!!. The other side could be unpleasant, (SAR).

Edited bit. If you ever read a book called 'Wasp an operational and retirement history' By Terry Martin and Larry Jeram Croft, an ex RN Lynx pilot and author of several books of an aviation bias. I contributed quite a few pages of my Wasping experiences both as a maintainer and as aircrew.

Terry Martin is just one owner/pilot, A good friend JB or John Beattie owns one of the other flying Wasps, both under the umbrella of the RN's historic aircraft now!!

As for flying now, no, last time I flew was over 30 years ago now. Some good and some bad memories. Fifteen years in military aviation kicks up some 'events' that some folk would find unbelievable!!!!

 

[Mini Me]

You can say that again.....and I'll add to it, after 47 years in aviation, 30+ in commercial aviation, I wouldn't cross the street to board a commercial airliner these days......and I get FREE passes for life.

 

[Waspie]

You can say that again.....and I'll add to it, after 47 years in aviation, 30+ in commercial aviation, I wouldn't cross the street to board a commercial airliner these days......and I get FREE passes for life.

I often chat with another ex aircrewman who trained as a pilot after the Navy. He would tell me of the training and 6 monthly checks, never at home. (Although he did say the trolley dolly's could be a nice perk at times!!!! So staying away from aviation was a neat move for me!!! He nearly lost one flying job as he walked down the aisle on one flight with his sports para chute on his back!!!! Many complaints from the pax nearly cost him dearly!! Weird sense of humour. Came from being a diver as well as a aviator I reckoned!!!!

 

[Guest]

I have also drafted a book, (probably never to be printed - more for family)

You can get books printed in very small runs (a single copy if you want) these days, at reasonable prices. The more you buy, the cheaper they get per copy, but if you want to have a proper book printed of your memoires for your family to put on a shelf rather than only have as computer files or home-made print-outs, you can.

 

[Waspie]

This thread gave me some feelings of nostalgia today. I had to go up to the loft to store a few bits this morning. Opened the storage box with my old nav kit, found the second ¼ mil map and all my navigation kit, Dalton nav computer, (that's a circular slide rule for TDS calculations), dividers, specialised measuring stick, (rule in miles, nautical miles and kilometres of differing scales), A circular nav grid for navigating at sea when you have no landmarks to use! Then finally my Douglas protractor. No buttons or Sat Nav then!!!! TANS or tactical navigation system never appeared until the mid 80's for me!!! (When I transferred to Sea Kings).
Strange thing is the nav computer is a scaled down version of what they used in WW2. Confirmed by an old gent who lived in the next street. He was a Lanc navigator during the war years. We were chatting one day and the subject came up and he just disappeared!!! Reappeared a few moment later with this wooden box and his Nav Computer. Mine was plastic and aluminium and ⅛ the size!!!
OK, back to ground level!! Nostalgia over!!!