Moving on - Its MINE!! - Pics added

[Grainbelt]

Kawasaki Ninja 650R. Canadian version, Silver on a champagne frame.  Picking it up
tomorrow.   

I'm at work today, going nuts just thinking about it.  I'll post side-by-side pics and whatnot over the weekend. Here's a teaser:



also, in closing,  caburetors.

[pandy]

  re: Carbs!

Congrats on your new bike!! Hot, Hot, HOT!!!!! 

[Grainbelt]

Yes, 5000 miles, one carb rebuild and lots of frustration later, its that time.

Also, in case anyone is curious:

Rolled 01 Accord  = 98 Pathfinder  + 06 Ninja 650 

[Caffeine]

Purty!   

[vengeful]

Nice bike!!!

Don't be so down on the Pathfinder!  I've got a 99 and love it!

[annguyen1981]

I love your setup on the pathfinder.  Especially the mud accents.  I'm so proud of you.  You're actually using an SUV like you're supposed to.  When I had my Blazers, I used to go mudding too.  I miss 4x4's.

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

I hate you. Hate you. Oh.. err.. I mean.. Congrats on the gorgeous new bike! 

[CirclesCenter]

Kawasaki Ninja 650R. Canadian version, Silver on a champagne frame.  Picking it up
tomorrow.   

I'm at work today, going nuts just thinking about it.  I'll post side-by-side pics and whatnot over the weekend. Here's a teaser:



also, in closing,  caburetors.

I love the exposed rear suspension. Makes me hawt.

I like carbs, so much fun to tinker with when you're in Auto III (To finance the class we restored cars and sold them.)

I actually really like Quadrajets, sure they're a compromise, but I love them. It's like having a ~300cfm two barrel and having a ~650cfm four barrel. I tuned my V-8 Camaro for power, and then mileage, and was getting ~22mpg combined mileage.

Sure you starve the front cylinders a bit and you get all kinds of weird flows up top, and the back cylinders can't take all the air, but once you play with the Weiand stealth manifold you learn to deal with it. As far as I'm concerned that was the best "Daily Hotrod" carb you could get, especially when modified and smoothed out. Sure you'd have trouble feeding 500 ponies, but really, if you want 500hp, you aren't thinking about gas mileage.

Ahh I loved my Quad. Until the whole car took a simulatneous shaZam! on me.

Mikunis are simple beasts comparitively (and much easier to tune methinks, I remember the first time with my Camaro, I got it running great, and then the f%$king secondaries kicked in at throttle and blew everything all to hell.... I loved it.) Heck I like porking around with carbs, I remember the Maserati i got to work on. Thing was a freaking gosh darned nightmare. 12 cylinders, the most beautiful tuned (and picky as shaZam!) manifold ever, and on top of that manifold........ 6 two barrel carbs, which were absolutely the most hell bent little creatures man had EVER made. They played off eachother.

But I'm telling you, when we (called in help on that evil little monster) got it all together (took FOREVER) Italian supercar took on a whole new meaning to me. That meaning was....

Symphony.

Sorry I love carbs. (Even when they don't work.)

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Anyways, sweet bike, like I said before, exposed suspension makes me wet, but I have a weird fetish for carbs. 

[roguegeek]

caburetors.

[roguegeek]

booo yaaaah. damn 45 second thingamabobbobbb

[fodder650]

What no AJ 72 point SQUID comment?

[Jeppy]

Nice bike...

[ajaxgs]

 

[TadMC]

x

[Yankee Punker]

 Yeah dont feel bad about the Pathfinder, my buddies got a 95' I think, and has been beating the crap out of it for like 10 or 11 years now! It just keep going and going.

[ajgs500]

AJ bite Tad in the ass.

[Grainbelt]

Picked up the 650R today. Break-in periods suck.

That being said, this bike is exactly what wanted. Light, narrow, fuel injected, reasonable power, luggage friendly. have 200km on it, loving every minute. I'll post up some pics after I have them resized and uploaded.

I might be the happiest man in the world. 

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

AJ bite Tad in the ass.

I'd want to be put down after that too.. you'd NEVER be able to get the taste out of your mouth...

[Grainbelt]

The GS is jealous

[CirclesCenter]

How's the suspension?