This morning I got up and decided to tackle the brakes. I had bought some Stainless steel brake lines of eBay and have been dying to install them. Today was the day. After careful removal of the brake calipers and the lever I had the whole thing off the bike. Now the manual only talks about disassembling this stuff while on the bike so I had to improvise. I figured if I pumped the brakes without the pads in then all the fluid will just run out where the cylinders go into the calipers and with the cylinders out I can inspect them properly to make sure the seals are all good. After the second or was it the third pump the cylinders shot out of the calipers and sprayed brake fluid all over everything. Took me 3 hours to clean up and remove the dent from the tank that was made by the flying cylinder, live and learn. So I replaced the old lines with the new lines using the new fresh washers as prescribed by the manufacturer and torque’d everything to specifications. (my definition of “torque to spec” is to tighten the bolt until it strips and then go one quarter turn back)
The other night while watching some drag racing on TV I got this really wild idea to increase the horsepower on my bike even more. I was watching all these cars with these turbo chargers or super charger and NOS and all that stuff when I had a brilliant idea. Why not use an electric motor to force air into your carbs like a turbo charger. How come no one has ever thought about this before. Immediately my brain started working in overdrive and the next thing you know both my wife and daughter were looking for their blow driers which had been smuggled downstairs into the basement. I carefully looked them over and noticed that both worked with little transformers that convert the power down to 12v, bingo just what I needed. Now if you remember previously I made this really sweet damn fine looking RAM air intake system for my bike. Now if I could mount the blow driers one on each side of the intake tubes with a Y junction and then run some wiring to the driers from the battery plus add an “on and off” switch I could have the potential for a damn fine electric powered Turbo system. Man am I excited, how come no one has thought of this before, as they say in the Guinness commercials “brilliant”.
So folks to wrap up I only have to do an oil and oil filter change and I am ready for my first track day of the year. Keep a look out for me pit side, I will be the guy with the very trick looking Mad Max style VTR1000 that has the highly custom ram air through the frame system on it. Oh and I will also be wearing my new trick leathers with, get this, a wing on the back. I figured if you can have a hump that helps airflow over you that is all nice and dandy, but why not take it to the next logical level, by adding some down force, so I added a wing on my hump to push me and the bike down for added cornering ability and straight line stability.
