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just in case anyone actually cares. my winter bike work is complete, just some carb tunning and set up work left.
well despite not having the carb jets i need yet, i decided to finish throwing the NSR back together with the parts i did have. what can i say i'm impatiant and i'm running out of test and tune time before the first race weekend. all i needed was to figure out how to get it out of the basement..... thanks neighbor!
anyways. once i got it fueled and ready to go, all it took was a 20 foot roll down my convinantly inclined street....two pops of the cluch and it sputtered, coughed than cleared it's throat, cackling into a low but sustainable idle. once up to temp i gave it afew revs....HOLY FUCK!!!.... i forgot how loud it was. well seeing as i live about half a block from the local police station i figured if i was going to do a quick blast down the street and back i'd better be quick about it. as i slowly chuffed along to the bottom of the street i did a quick preflight, brakes, clucth action, and shifting....everything worked great. once turned around i went ahead and let her rip through first and second back up the street. i'm sure the neighbors appreciated the ear splitting racket from my race pipes at about 12,000 RPMs.... after all it's not everyday a 250cc GP bike rockets by your front yard..... just in case though i made haste back to the garage and shut the doors. leaving everyone to wonder what the hell that noise was, and why the whole block now smells like race gas and castor oil
unfourtunatly as much fun as my little test run was it did highlight afew problems. mostly that i need to adjust the idle and figure out where my mid range went??? the bike pulls surprisingly strong from idle to about 6K, than it pretty much shuts off from 6-8k....sounds like it's loading up real bad. once past 8k though it's off to the races. the surge from there to redline is insane....almost lofted the front wheel and launched me up the street like i was fired out of a cannon.....it never did that before. hopefully some rejetting will clear that up. plugs looked alittle rich but i wasn't really running long enough to get a good reading.