Fantastic workshop day at Matts place this a.m. I am not sure of the official collective noun - but a Koterie, Kollection, Kabal or Klutch of K Forum members from Brisbane gathered for a morning of instruction from master Martin on the use of vacuum gauges, exhaust gas analyser and fuel/air mixture adjustment .
Martin, Paul, Vic (beautiful café racer), Dan (StandardK) and I met up northside and made our way to the Dark (south) side of town to Matts place. Our fearless road captain for the last part of the ride set a record for the most number of cancelled left turns in a row - 4 indicate lefts and cancel at last minute. We were joined by Charlie99 Gary (GB777) and a couple more whose names elude me popped in during the morning. About 10 all up.
Matt put on a bbq bacon and eggs, coffee and drinks and then we got stuck in. My bike was the lucky recipient of the tune up work. First Martin demonstrated the use of the vacuum gauges and balancing technique - was a fair way out but now all in sync. Then on to exhaust gas analysis - was a bit worried about Martin's enthusiasm with the probe, and subsequent adjustment to mixture at MAF via top of airbox. Bit fiddly getting at top of airbox, but Martins mighty midget hands saved the day. Bike is now idling nicely just under 1k RPM and much smoother.
The boys then fitted a battery isolator switch to Pauls LT and we hit the road for a test ride. We got separated by traffic lights/heavy traffic and we lost the leading group. I decided to follow Charlie as I assumed he knew where we were going. I think we were getting close to Coomera before I twigged that Charlie was heading south home to the New England. So I pulled off and turned around. Apparently we were supposed to meet at the Mt Gravatt lookout, and the lead boys waited a while for us and eventually wrote us off as a lost cause. I'm not sure what happened to Vic behind me...if you see a beautiful Lime green and leather trimmed K100 café racer heading south...tell him to turn around!!
Great to see another well attended K Forum event in SE QLD and looking forward to many more. Again many thanks to Martin, Matt and the rest of the forum for being so generous in sharing their time and experience.
See you on the next!!
Cheers
Mick