Refurbishing the Ace.

Originally Posted by Spank86

I wouldn't go naked. It's bad enough on the speed four at top speed let alone going faster.

I have owned naked bikes in the past, nothing a manly set of shoulder and neck muscles can't cope with!

Just wish I had some!

My neck muscles are a lot stronger than they used to be but it doesn't stop me getting cramp all the time.


Besides, who was talking about the bike? I would be more worried about the impact of flys on your (not so) private regions if you rode naked.

[NTECUK]

Go naked . Fit a fly screen .
Motorway just lay on the tank and use the rear pegs if you get fed up .
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-R1-...item2579ebda4a

[Fallout]

Weldage! Put a watch on ebay for ThunderAces being broken, or wait for Spank to crash and pray his front fairings survive.

Thats a lot of money relative to the value of the bike. Why not have a go at repairing and respraying it yourself?

[Wideboy]

matt black, stealthace

Originally Posted by The Idle Biker

Thats a lot of money relative to the value of the bike. Why not have a go at repairing and respraying it yourself?

Ha! I resprayed my old NTV a few years ago and discovered I can't paint for ****! Think I might just stick with the cable ties and gaffer tape as I have no idea how to repair my plastics.

BTW Laurie I agree £300 spent on a bike worth £800 is throwing good money after bad!

@Simon - Ace plastics are surprisingly rare on fleabay, unless you want the back half of the bike, which I don't!

Try and repair I'd say, great looking bike for its year.. excuse the OT but are they that good? Never ridden one but they come up cheap often.

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Thunderace

@Simon - Ace plastics are surprisingly rare on fleabay, unless you want the back half of the bike, which I don't!

Yeah, doesn't surprise me, but if you do just stick with the tape you can save the search terms and ebay will email you if they appear in the coming months.

Originally Posted by rb8989

Try and repair I'd say, great looking bike for its year.. excuse the OT but are they that good? Never ridden one but they come up cheap often.

Comedy Bike mate! Big lumpy engine, not great in the twisty bits! The gearbox although a bit notchy is tremendous, the gears go on forever, also the standard callipers, serviced properly are pretty good.

It will hang with the new boys up to 100 or so, and once you get the suspension right and learn it's rather unique attitude towards corners, you can keep with all but the swiftest in the windy bits!

The fairing is awesome though! I'm only 5"9'-5"10' so that may help but no wind gets to you no matter how fast you want to go!