I’m strongly considering adjusting the valve clearance, it has been about 16,500 kilometers since I bought this bike in May this year, and I haven’t done a valve clearance adjustment yet. The engine runs like crap at the moment and the carburettor synchronization is near perfect. It also seems that I’ve lost a great deal of performance.

I Hope I’ll get to it tomorrow, but I have to order a couple of new o-ring gaskets for the valve cover as well.

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So, I decided to take the bike out for a spin to get some new pictures, and as I’m posting I might as well bring a little update of the last post about my plans for this bike. I’ve found out that it might be a little too hard to get a CB1100F engine without buying a complete new bike, so I’ve decided that I might just as well stick to the CB900F engine if a good 1100 doesn’t come up.

As I’m going for the mean looking style I still want a new upside down front fork, I’ve been looking at some forks from a CBR900RR ‘04, they look like they would do the trick. I’ve also been checking out tuning parts, yesterday I found a big bore kit by Wiseco, instead of the default volume 902cc this one has 985cc and a compression ratio of 10.25:1, it would go great with a new set of Keihin FCR carburettors. The big bore kit is $ 477.40, the Keihin FCR carburettors are about $ 1,100. Both excluding shipping to Denmark and 25 percent taxes. The new rims, brakes and fork will also run up at least $ 1,000.

I’m not really completely sure wether I want to throw this much money in a project like this, but then again, I’d much rather have a nice old bike with state-of-the-art additions in tuning, suspension and braking, in perfect condition, than a standard 10 year old sport/touring bike, which is the price-range alternative! Taking an example as the CBR600 F2 or F3, I can spend about $ 7,000.00 more before this bikes price reaches the second-hand sales price of a CBR in Denmark! But again, the resell price of the CB-F is not nearly as high as the CBR. The insurance price of the CBR is also higher. The CBR is a great bike though - I wouldn’t mind having one if I could affort it.

I’ll also have to wait for about two months till my bank account is ballanced again before I make any purchases. For once I’m really looking forward to the Winter!

For the last couple of days, I’ve been thinking a lot about changes I’m going to make to my bike when the winter season comes.
First of all, I’m going to fix the nervous steering i’m experiencing at speeds past 80 km/h, perhaps a steering damper would do, but i’m also considering getting an up side down (USD) front fork with new bridges, to do that I also need a new original steering stem for the CB 750/900/1100 F. By changing the front fork, I will get some other advantages than just in the steering compartment. First I will be able to mount double six-piston brake calipers and larger brake disc rotors. Second I will be able to get a much better suspension, on the more modern forks you are able to adjust both preload and return rate on the fork in a varity of different settings. My current fork only supports changing the preload. It also looks way more cool with an USD fork, I’m sure I’ll be able to fetch one from eBay in Germany pretty cheap.

I have also been thinking about a new rear end, I wan’t a wider rear wheel, the current rim is 4.5 inches, I need at least a 5 or 5.5 to fit a 180mm wheel. In order to accomplish that, I need a new rear swingarm and new rear suspension. When I’m at it, I might as well switch to a mono damper instead of twin. Switching to mono damping requires a bracket for the damper in the middle of the frame, so I need to find someone who can weld a suspenion bracket, and some enforcements to the frame as well, after that I can finally get the frame powder coated in gloss black.

My CB900F engine also needs a rebuild soon, the cam chains are getting a bit noisy and the oil consumption aren’t really acceptable. Regarding the oil consumption, I’ve heard that it’s normal for this model to burn a lot of oil but a rebore really would do the trick.
So I’ve been thinking of buying a CB1100F engine and rebuild that instead of just rebuilding the CB900F. So, the plan is to buy a CB1100F, do a complete rebuild including a tuning of the engine, depending on what kind of tuning parts is available. At this point I’ve heard about big bore kits to 1200cc, 35mm Keihin FCR flat slides, racing cam-shafts, DYNA ignition and Yoshimura exhaust kits. I can’t afford it all, but dreaming about it is free

As time is also limited as I want to be ready next summer I’m not really sure if I can make it all, but within the next couple of weeks/months I’ll make a battle-plan of what to do, anticipated price lists and so on. One thing is sure, I want a CB1100F engine!

It’s Sunday, the weather is great, perfect for taking a ride, and so I did. First I went to a somewhat remote location to take some macro pictures of my bike, as you can see to the left. This picture was taken with my Tamron 70-300mm lens. After taking a couple of pictures, I decided to take her out for a real spin again, I went to a place called Hoersholm, north to Copenhagen. On my way back, I decided to stop by Langelinie again at the Copenhagen harbor. On my way to Langelinie I saw a bunch of people standing out on the street, and an ambulance with blue lights. I slowed down when I passed, to see what had happend. It seemed that a Motorbike had hit a bicycle that had tried to pass the road I hope nobody got any permanent damages in the accident.

As I explained in my last entry I’ve gotten a new set of Michelin Pilot Road tires. The plan was to find a shop this saturday that would be able to mount my new tires and mission accomplished. I found a shop on an isle called Amager, just next to the Copenhagen harbor, in a shop called Stevens MC shop, they were able to mount the new tires in only 10-15 minutes! that includes getting the wheels ballanced!

For this post I’ve only got some pictures of the old tires, and “prais the lord” I got them changed. The new set of tires solved some wobling that I experienced at 60 km/h when removing my hands from the handlebar. The road grib is excellent now and I kind of regret that I didn’t get a new pair earlier. Damn it feels almost like a whole new machine, just smooth roaming above the road.

Wooah! the new tires has arrived today, too bad the shops are closed so I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to try them out if I can find a shop that has open on saturdays! I’ll also have to find a day with dry roads where I can get the tires a little worn before I take them out in the rain, new tires are pretty slippy.

The weather forecast doesn’t look too promising though, it has been raining almost everyday for about 2-3 weeks now. You can’t really trust the forecast provided by DMI, I always find them changing out the forecast completely the next day I check.

Yesterday I just made an order of a new set of tires for my bike. I’ve chosen Michelin: Pilot Road, as far as I could tell from a couple of tyre tests, the Pilot Road was the best overall tyre for sport/touring, getting nothing but 1 and 2 places in the tests. I bought it at a german web shop, so they were not quite as expensive as it would have been for me if I bought at a bike shop here in Copenhagen. I’m really looking forward to receiving it, I’ll bring an update after the first test ride.

I finally got home from my motorcycle road trip with Michael.
We didn’t go as far as we first decided, but it was a very nice experience, I won’t hessitate to go for another ride next summer.

We got all the way to Bayeux/Caen France, where we were going to see the D-Day scenery. We never found the fameous bunkers, though we followed the signs down to the beach and then away from the beach, still following the “D-Day” signs, till we had been riding about 100 km in the “wrong direction” away from the beach, very strange indeed.

You can see pictures i took on the trip on this extern gallery I’ve set up.

Stay tuned, more writing coming up on this subject!

I just got a new o-ring gasket for the rocker cover and tachometer drive, it has been pooring out with oil until now.
I’ve only been riding about 100 kilometers since i changed it, and I haven’t been able to spot any oil from the top yet!
Before I went on the road trip, I had some problems with the starter solenoid after riding in the rain. Unfortunatly I didn’t receive the package from David Silver Spares before I left, thank god I had no trouble with it while I was gone. Yesterday I mounted the new starter solenoid and now I kind of wonder if it was really necessary - but who cares, didn’t cost much.