2003 K1! No mods Changed choke cable - lessons learned.

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

Viney, pretty sure he is refering to a Morgan Carbtune which is indeed used for carb balancing ect....but you knew that



Ben

Yes Ben I was referring to Carb Tune - just working up the spirit to lash out another 50 bucks
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[northwind]

Originally Posted by ejohnh

For 140% mark up? Of course I can expect them to stock semi-consumables. Surely that is why the mark up is so high. When they get no business they will surely wonder why as well duh! One of each cheap item is not gonna tie up al that much anyway.

1 of each cheap item for every popular bike of their main brand? You think? Particularily for a bike that's been out of production for 5 years... A really big dealer might shift a few in a year, or then again, they might not. But bike sales is a chancy market, you get big shifts in demand and fashion and profits tend not to be huge at the best of times.

140% markup isn't right either, you're talking pattern vs OEM.

Pack the splitter box with some fairly thick grease. Seems to help the corrotion problem on my rear carb plunger. That and not driving in the rain.....

Originally Posted by northwind

1 of each cheap item for every popular bike of their main brand? You think? Particularily for a bike that's been out of production for 5 years... A really big dealer might shift a few in a year, or then again, they might not. But bike sales is a chancy market, you get big shifts in demand and fashion and profits tend not to be huge at the best of times.

140% markup isn't right either, you're talking pattern vs OEM.

I give in Norfie - you seem to know what you are talking about.

Do you have a linky for the pattern part? cause I need one too!!

Originally Posted by BILLY

Do you have a linky for the pattern part? cause I need one too!!

www.wemoto.com (or .co.uk)...... last time I looked though they were only doing the Suzuki part at £22.50 - somebody else told me that so I checked. There was another one I found but they wanted +£6 for a low money order. I googled on choke+cable+suzuki to get the list of possible suppliers.
Good luck
John

Thanks

[northwind]

Originally Posted by ejohnh

I give in Norfie - you seem to know what you are talking about.

Don't get me wrong, it honks me off as much as you I still buy all my bits from my local dealers, just to keep in touch with them in case I need their help with something, but I'd sooner just get them for what they cost not what they sell for