newbie

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:46 pm

Hello all

Recently acquired a 2001 R1. It may or may not replace the ZX7R I've owned for 9 years. Or they may co-exist, as both are beautiful bikes.

I post this out of respect for the forum (I think that is expected?). Always seems to me like newbie posts are pointless.

Post by **hash29** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:02 pm

Hello paul, far from pointless fella. welcome to the forum.
Zx7r is a great toy but be prepared to see it slip to the far end of the garage as once the r1 has your soul it will devour it

Post by **pod** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:08 pm

Hi paul. Welcome to the forum. I hope you get on with the r1 (pretty sure you will

)

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:42 pm

hash29 wrote:Hello paul, far from pointless fella. welcome to the forum.
Zx7r is a great toy but be prepared to see it slip to the far end of the garage as once the r1 has your soul it will devour it

Thanks hash

or it devour me? We'll see

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:44 pm

pod wrote:Hi paul. Welcome to the forum. I hope you get on with the r1 (pretty sure you will )

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

Thanks pod. I hope so

Post by **Petroladdict** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:48 pm

Welcome in Paul, It's good to intro yourself as a newbie now get some piccy's up we like piccy's

Post by **Chinny** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:00 pm

Welcome to the forum Paul

Sent from my iPhone

Post by **jompy** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:15 pm

Welcome in Paul
If there ever was a forum that a newbie post wasn't pointless its gotta be this forum .
YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE your R1 , theyre an amazing beast . first good reason for joining this forum is the fact that i'm here , no i won't be able to solve many ( infact probably few ) of your problems because i'm crap like that but i am here , 2nd reason is Luke03R1's sarcasum & whit . . . . . . welll maybe not his whit but he's deff sarcastic & 3rd is there are links for all the models of R1's parts & service manuals which is pretty handy !
This forum is a caring sharing forum , ok we piss each other off from time to time but you wont find another like it !
now post some pic's of your bike

Post by **Steve R1** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:53 pm

Welcome to the forum Paul, I think you will fall in love with your r1 as most of us on here have, that's our R1 not yours.

The guys n gals on here are a great bunch, loads of banter, whit, laughing, joking and general p!ss taking, but always good humoured, and always willing to help out a fellow rider. No question is a stupid question, someone will always know the answer and help.

Enjoy your new toy.

Post by **2002r1jon** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:09 pm

Welcome in Paul

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:23 pm

Thanks for the welcome!

Pics this weekend. Although it will be work-in-progress, the good and the bad of a cheap 5jj

Post by **Luke03R1** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:31 pm

jompy wrote:Welcome in Paul
If there ever was a forum that a newbie post wasn't pointless its gotta be this forum .
YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE your R1 , theyre an amazing beast . first good reason for joining this forum is the fact that i'm here , no i won't be able to solve many ( infact probably few ) of your problems because i'm crap like that but i am here , 2nd reason is Luke03R1's sarcasum & whit . . . . . . welll maybe not his whit but he's deff sarcastic & 3rd is there are links for all the models of R1's parts & service manuals which is pretty handy !
This forum is a caring sharing forum , ok we piss each other off from time to time but you wont find another like it !
now post some pic's of your bike

Post by **Luke03R1** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:33 pm

Welcome in Paul be careful with Jompy his bikes half missing so he may try and steal some from you

Post by **PJC** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:47 am

Alreet Paul, I had a ZX7R and to be fair I thought it was a better bike than the R1, however once I re-calibrated my brain and understood the more you put in the more you get back, I would not go back to the seminal Kwak.

This is a great forum, we take the pi55 and treat fools as fools, all are welcome there are no daft questions unless Luke Pod or me ask them

There is a translation service available as well.

Have fun with your R1, please post some pics, get involved and do have a laugh at our expense

Post by **hash29** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:05 pm

PJC wrote:Alreet Paul, I had a ZX7R and to be fair I thought it was a better bike than the R1, however once I re-calibrated my brain and understood the more you put in the more you get back, I would not go back to the seminal Kwak.

This is a great forum, we take the pi55 and treat fools as fools, all are welcome there are no daft questions unless Luke Pod or me ask them There is a translation service available as well.

Have fun with your R1, please post some pics, get involved and do have a laugh at our expense

Same here ive had 2 zx7rs , great track tool with a front end that puts most to shame until you get to grips with a fettled r1

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:42 pm

PJC wrote:Alreet Paul, I had a ZX7R and to be fair I thought it was a better bike than the R1, however once I re-calibrated my brain and understood the more you put in the more you get back, I would not go back to the seminal Kwak.

This is a great forum, we take the pi55 and treat fools as fools, all are welcome there are no daft questions unless Luke Pod or me ask them There is a translation service available as well.

Have fun with your R1, please post some pics, get involved and do have a laugh at our expense

I thought I recognised PJC from redmonkey ? TBH, not sure I'm capable of recalibrating my brain to that extent, as in too "slow", whatever. We'll give it a punt.It's an interesting project whatever the outcome

Post by **LOCKE** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:25 pm

Welcome in mate. Enjoy your new bike.

Colin

Post by **Madturk999** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:17 am

Hi mate welcome

JackJabba · Post by **JackJabba** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:46 am

Hi M8 and welcome

Post by **Bub** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:29 am

Welcome in mate

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:21 pm

aggregate age 30 years, age difference 4 years, design age difference ... 10 years ?

it's not all good

Still work in progress. The exup valve is seized. Idle speed is too high and hunts about. Apparently it has been dynojetted, but the Harris pipe postdates the dynojetting, so bit of an archaeological dig required there.
The battery wasn't correct for the model. It came with a Meta alarm (grrrr, no one was going to steal it, they would have to be a genius) now on EBay. Next steps are sort the idle hunting, then the exup. Then hopefully just the routine stuff, valve clearances, brake piston movement. I enjoy all this stuff. But eventually, it will be time to ride it, and grow some balls

Post by **hash29** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:50 pm

looks like you have a clean example, wont take to much to get her sorted and in tip top flying condition

www.YamahaR.co.uk

newbie

newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie

Re: newbie