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Done
The moment almost didn’t happen. Hooking up the battery should have been the simplest task in the whole project. One red wire to the plus, one black wire to the negative, right? Yeah but what about...
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Not done
Well. Eighteen months is a long time, particularly when that time includes COVID-19, a change in jobs and a whole lot of change in the bike space, including the realisation that Project FZR is indeed...
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I finally bought a GoPro after many years of avoiding it. I figured that if I’m going to try and get better on the track then it was time to have a look at myself from the outside, and what better...
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Done. No, really this time.
Well, the saga of the 1989/90 FZR600 is over. Like, I’m seriously done with it. Countless hours, far more dollars than I’ll ever see again, many tears of frustration spilled on the shed floor, but...
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FZR600 budget track bike mods
It was a few months back that I wrote a post about Billy-Ray, the barn find 1992 FZR600 that I converted to a track bike and took out to the smaller of our three South Australian road courses –...
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Taking it to the track
First track day, Mallala, May 2020, 1994 YZF600 A work colleague who has just got his motorbike license asked me the other day how to get into track riding, and even though there are plenty of other...
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Metamorphosis
It’s hard to know where to start in explaining the eleven months since my last post. For now I think I’ll leave it as saying I’ve had a career change, and I’m now working where I probably should have...
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Project 865
Royal Enfield have undergone quite a stunning renaissance in the past few years. As the oldest continuously operating motorcycle brand in the world (one year older than Harley Davidson, just for the...
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Project 865 – the end result
In my last post I went over the goals of the 865cc conversion on my 2022 Royal Enfield Continental GT and how the project should ‘in theory’ happen. I’m very happy to say that things went more or less...
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Project 865 – the final result, really this time…
Well, my last post was meant to be the final one for Project 865 – all that was needed was some final dyno tuning and a before and after HP chart… …until I got the call from the tuner, which went...
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Project 865 – summing it up
Ok, I realise the last few posts have been a bit of a rambling storyline, so I thought I’d put together one post that summed up just what was done as part of the Royal Enfield 865 conversion for all...
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