new to the site, thanks for changing my mind

[tim]

hey, i'm tim :rawk:

Bought my gz a few months back cuz i got it for a steal. Never thought i'd go to a bike so small, but it's a nice lookin ride so i went for it. It's run great, but i thought it was going to get crazy expensive to do any mods since i couldn't find any aftermarket parts designed for it, then ifound this site, you've opened my eyes to great possibilities.

:??: Has anyone done a big bore kit?
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8789/61925677.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/)

[music man]

Has anyone done a big bore kit?


Use the search feature on here and you will get all the answers to that question that you will ever need. Oh and welcome to the site.

[Water Warrior 2]

Welcome Tim. Glad to have you join us. There are a lot of helpful hints and experience here to make life with the GZ a lot more fun. In the pic there is a Vstrom parked in front of you, anybody you know ??

[Easy Rider]

Has anyone done a big bore kit?


Use the search feature on here and you will get all the answers to that question that you will ever need.

And the short answer is: No, there is no "kit" and doing it at all borders on impossible.
If you want/need more speed, get a bigger bike.

Several of us on here have migrated up to 500-800 cc........and a couple have even gotten REALLY carried away. :roll:

[Water Warrior 2]

Easy, are you poking at Alan again ? :lol:

[Easy Rider]

Easy, are you poking at Alan again ? :lol:

Never! :retard:

[alantf]

I'm truly amazed when I hear about bikes with 1900cc engines. My Citroen C3 (as advertised on English t.v. by The Fonz!) is only 1400cc (& it hasn't even got 16 valve twin cam) but it can comfortably go at 90 mph with 4 up plus luggage. Imagine a bike with an engine that's as big as a Kawasaki 500 ltd (that can comfortably go at 90 mph) PLUS my car! Amazing! :??:

[alanmcorcoran]

Jealous?

(you should be!)

[alantf]

Naw ........ It's the Kawasaki Vulcan 500 LTD that I want, & the damned Japs stopped making the European version last year. It'd burkbuilds I'm jealous of! :)

[burkbuilds]

Alan,
I wish there was some way you could get one, I think you'd really like it. I just finished wiring up a harness for my heated vest and gloves for the upcoming Winter. I also installed some LED indirect lighting "underneath" for a little more night visibility. I'm not sure if it will make any real difference but my wife asked me to get it and she feels better so it makes a difference in that important area! I'll have to admit that it looks pretty neat and when I drove to breakfast early Friday morning a bunch of kids at a bus stop were pointing at me as I went by and they don't usually seem to notice me. I got some that you can change the colors with the push of a button on the remote. Basically 15 color choices although the literature says something like 3 million if you set it to cycle through automatically. It also has a feature where they flash or pulse and change colors but you can only do that legally if you aren't on the road.

[Water Warrior 2]

BB, what kind of heated gear do you have ?

[burkbuilds]

It's "Venture", I hope it's good because it certainly wasn't cheap. I've just got a heated liner for my jacket and heated gloves that plug in at the sleeves. Last Winter when I tried to ride to school anything below 18 degrees F. was very painful to my fingertips after a few minutes. I was warm enough everywhere else but the fingertips were just more than I was willing to bear. We don't have cold like you do in Squamish but we do get relatively cold for the South and it's almost always a relatively high humidity level to go along with it which just seems to make a lot of insulation less effective. I'm not going to have a choice about changing to my truck this Winter since I'm going to school out of town and my bike will be my only means of transportation. If you've got any good cold weather riding tips you'd like to pass along I'd love to hear them!

[burkbuilds]

My apologies to Tim, I think I've kinda high jacked his thread, didn't mean to do that. Maybe I'll start a thread called Winter Riding Tips and ask for advice there. Sorry Tim, but welcome to the Forum!

[Water Warrior 2]

BB. Not really a high jack. And it is a good example to our new member Tim to show him how well we can stray from a subject at a moment's notice. So here goes. BB, do you know what the power draw for the heated gear is in watts and how much excess the bike will put out ?