What I did today...

[Turbo]

Rearsets on buuuuuut got too excited buying new parts and forgot the shorter shift rod hahaha.... What a rookie!!!

These look rather good fitted up, great job mate!
Reckon you need a wee dab of paint pen for that frame scratch tho...

[Turbo]

Bike stuff!

Be honest, that's why you bought it, no??
Quite right too! Can't wait to hear it!

[Turbo]

dat stitching tho....

[Leezx10r]

Be honest, that's why you bought it, no??
Quite right too! Can't wait to hear it!

Erm it could have pushed me over the line sounds sweet btw! never had a titanium exhaust system on a car lol

dat stitching tho....

You love it

[Turbo]

You love it

I totally do!! I've red stitching on my seats and door trim too.
Wish my dash looked like that!

[Craig]

These look rather good fitted up, great job mate!
Reckon you need a wee dab of paint pen for that frame scratch tho...

Cheers 🏻

True, it's an old battle scar. I found the rearsets marked real easy though. Slight misalignment while loosely fitted and scratched

There's no helping the other side of the bike... Gravel rash


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[Penko]

Took this out for ride for an upcoming review - one of the best electronic packages I have felt on a motorcycle


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[Turbo]

Took this out for ride for an upcoming review - one of the best electronic packages I have felt on a motorcycle

Droooooool!! I've heard great things about it!!
How was the slide control? that's the only thing I've heard mixed feedback from.

[Penko]

Droooooool!! I've heard great things about it!!
How was the slide control? that's the only thing I've heard mixed feedback from.

I haven't tested it enough on the road to give a full verdict. I have had it kick in, but only when I was trying to get it too (aggressive throttle openings).

Wheelie control is hands down the best one out there and the quickshifter is super smooth.

I wasn't sold on the looks when I first saw photos, but in the flesh it is awesome.

[Turbo]

Interesting, I reckon it's gorgeous too! Great to hear the QS is good, I've heard the auto-blipping is ace too.
Where's the review going and when can we read??

[Marshy]

I've heard the auto-blipping is ace too.

That's the Beemer. Don't think the R1 has auto-blipping, which is prolly the only oversight from Yammie on this one.

[Turbo]

Ahhh, too many Superbikes this year!!

[Penko]

That's the Beemer. Don't think the R1 has auto-blipping, which is prolly the only oversight from Yammie on this one.

Completely agree, the S1000RR and new Panigale get auto-blippers. Yamaha really should of fitted one.

[Penko]

Interesting, I reckon it's gorgeous too! Great to hear the QS is good, I've heard the auto-blipping is ace too.
Where's the review going and when can we read??

Can read all my reviews on bikesales.com.au. Have done around 30 this year for them. Should be up up in a week or two (had it on the dyno as well). Just finishing off one for the updated Super Ténéré.

[Turbo]

If only someone could retro a blipper...

Wun't this you, Marshy??

[Turbo]

Can read all my reviews on bikesales.com.au. Have done around 30 this year for them. Should be up up in a week or two (had it on the dyno as well). Just finishing off one for the updated Super Ténéré.

Fantastic, what a gig!!
If you ever need a second opinion... I'd be happy to oblige

[Marshy]

to all of the above!!

[Kris]

The engine is getting close. SBK team says somewhere in the region of 200 to 205BHP is expected. We will see..

These are the Superbike 1 ring DLC coated pistons, too nice to place in a combustion engine!
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Factory gearbox oil jet system
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[Marshy]

Wow!! Looking good!

[Leezx10r]

top job!

[Kris]

top job!

Love it when your engine builder sends you updates through the day - its like christmas! Engine goes in Saturday.

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[stevem]

Awesome Kris.

[Turbo]

OMG, this looks sooo good.
Can't wait to se it fitted up. When's the first outing?

[Mr.Ed]

I reckon you and Jamie should have a build off

[Kris]

Sicko, Im aiming just for a session or two at the ASC Round 3 practice, but Ill be racing the other bike.

Few more, cyro treated and undercut gearbox.

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ported cylinder head

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[dan]

HESUS!


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[Marshy]

[Kris]

Looking like a bike now..20150530_120714.jpg

[Marshy]

Looking like a bike now..

Whoa! What's that big lumpy metal thing hanging down from the frame?? It's never had one of those before

[Kris]

Yep it's got an engine hehehe!

[Leezx10r]

Bike porn!

[Turbo]

This is looking so damn good!!
I love how the APX2 & reg/rec etc are all mounted in the nose. Very neat
I sort of assumed the APX would go in the tail.

[Kris]

Yep its rather neat. Tail houses the battery, gps and starter/relay. They use all the subframe room for fuel

[zoidberg]

Got to love the RSV4, one day when I'm a grown up, I'll have one... I can't wait to see the final product!

[Marshy]

Soooooo, when's the dyno run??? There are thousands of people all around the world waiting on a graph

[Metal-Man]

Looking like a bike now..20150530_120714.jpg

such a tidy an organised lookin man cave, complete opposite of mine

[danga]

Beautiful!


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[Kris]

Soooooo, when's the dyno run??? There are thousands of people all around the world waiting on a graph

haha ! this i doubt

dyno later this month, few things to yet go on. Exhaust/Tank/Radiator - the tank needs slightly massaging because this tank is from the CRT bike when they ran the carbon airbox , the carbon airbox is of course different to the OEM airbox WSBK runs so its being modified to fit. I hope to get it on the dyno in the next 2-3 weeks

Thanks to some trick internals - we can run some pretty neat cam timing Interesting times....

[Kimbo]

Spent the day putting the old fairings back on big 95. Waiting for the call to get new big 95

[Marshy]

Waiting for the call to get new big 95

Exciting!! Pics absolutely required

[Kimbo]

Hopefully in the next day or two, Or I will go to another dealer

[Penko]

Hopefully in the next day or two, Or I will go to another dealer

Saw the new V4 models at the Aussie unveiling last night, can't wait to hear your thoughts on it.

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[Marshy]

Droooooooool.......

[Linden]

Look just like the old one ... ?????

[Kimbo]

Oh Linden, nothing like the old one , ha

[Marshy]

Actually, I'm with Linden on this one

They've replaced the steering head angle inserts with very different offsets to the previous model (which you could do in 5 minutes to an older one) which makes the front end look very different whilst not actually being any different at all, and added some more horsepowers internally, but I'm not sure anything else has really changed, except colours.

But seeing as the old one just needed a couple of extra ponies to be the bestestest bike ever made, they might have just nailed it with this one

I am interested to hear just how much extra power it actually makes, real world.

[Linden]

Oh I see ... closer look its an RSV4RF I guess that means special ... Not saying it doesn't look pretty just its as pretty as the previous models

[Marshy]

Oh I see ... closer look its an RSV4RF I guess that means special ... Not saying it doesn't look pretty just its as pretty as the previous models

I'm thinking that the RF actually means it's an R model, upspecced with some of the good bits of the Factory, rather than being a full-blown Factory. Could be wrong though.

[Robbiano]

The engine is getting close. SBK team says somewhere in the region of 200 to 205BHP is expected. We will see..

It will be making as much as the new model RSV4 does as standard.

[Marshy]

Actually, looking at the specs of the different models, I am wrong. So there's no frame difference now between the RR and the RF. Previously, the R got a non-adjustable frame (which was absolutely spot-on, geometry-wise, anyway), and only the Factory got the adjustment for steering head angle, rake, engine height and swingarm pivot position. It now looks like all models get the adjustable frame. The only differences, therefore, are the Sachs versus Ohlins bouncy bits. Previously it was Sachs and non-adjustable frame versus Ohlins and adjustable frame. But the price difference between the two models has closed too, as it used to be nearly $10k difference, and now it's $6k. Which makes sense, because a replacement R frame was ~A$1.5k and an adjustable Factory frame was ~$5k. Although if you were skilled with metalwork, it wouldn't be a big job to nibble out the filled-in bits on the R frame to convert it to a Fatory frame. The geometry was all the same, just the spacers/inserts were different.