Kawasaki ZR 1200 handling woes solved

The drama with the kawasaki's handling has finally been solved. Its been
handling like a pig for a while now - felt like the front end wanted to
slip out from under me all the time.

Dont trust your tyre gauge, even if it is an expensive one, compare it
with others and the servo electronic ones now and then.

Ive been constantly overpressure (ie the gauge has been under reading)
by around 9 psi cold - so a nice 14 - 15 psi increase on hot tyres...no
wonder the fucking thing wore through tyres fast, wanted to lowside all
the time and broke traction very easily.

Running yokohama shinko's front and rear as an experiment, ditched the
tyre gauge 36 front, 40 rear - cold. BLOODY FANTASTIC. Only 150km on
them, just scrubbed in. They seem good so far.

I can still light up the rear in second though could have something
to do with the smaller front sprocket that found its way onto the bike
last week. Theres also an Ivans jet kit skulking around the garage
somewhere so Id better keep an eye on it since I dont want to get a rude
surprise when opening the throttle (apparently they are good for another
10 ps).

 

last week. Theres also an Ivans jet kit skulking around the garage

The thing is carburetted!!?? What the?

Jules