New Muffler

Now you can hear the bike!

I've finally got my old Promuff muffler fitted to the new bike. The muffler had done approx 30,000 k's on the old K2 so Brendan (who made the muffler originally) took it apart and repacked it. Because the K6 muffler was not a slip on like on the K2 it meant that Brendan had to modify the inlet side of the muffler and then weld it to the pipe coming from the collector under the motor.

As you can see from the picture he has made a really good job of it and it looks like it's been there from the factory.

The bike sounds great - just like the old one. Haven't had a chance to go for a decent ride yet (windy as hell still) but have got a toy run to do next weekend - a good chance to see how the bike goes with the new muffler.

Kneeslider.com

You can find some interesting things on the net. Check out this site, here's a few links to some articles that caught my eye:

Kawasaki Concours 14

Looks interesting - should be a good mile muncher.

Hayabusa
V8

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/10/27/hayabusa-v8-powered-car-sets-record/

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/11/01/hayabusa-v8-for-the-dp1/

Yeah Baby!

Yamaha V-Max prototype

BMW V-12

Goldwing Tow-truck!

Burt Munro Challenge

Had an update (over a bad cell phone connection) from Invercargill last night. The old man had made it down after battling some extremely high winds and some rain. He reckons that at one stage when he was heading into the wind the Beemer wouldn't pull top gear at 100k's (pretty tall 6th gear). Must be time he got another big Suzi.

The weather forecast for today wasn't that flash either but he and his mates were going to head off to the beach racing anyway. Not really the sort of weather for sitting on a beach - hope the weather improves.

Burt Munro Challenge

I had a house guest on Tuesday night - my old man on his way south for the Burt Munro Challenge - lucky sod. This is a bike rally being held in Burt Munro's home town of Invercargil to celebrate Burt Munroe's achievements and the movie 'The Fastest Indian'.

There's going to be beach racing, street racing, endurance racing and speedway along with a bike rally and a special showing of 'The Fastest Indian'

Find out more here:

http://www.burtmunrochallenge.southlandnz.com/

And more abour Burt Munro here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro

http://www.indianmotorbikes.com/features/munro/munro.htm

Rossi's Rally

Valentino Rossi had a great 2nd Rally in the Rally of New Zealand. He finished in 11th place - far better than the DNF in his first rally. More info at the links below:

http://www.rossifiles.com/2006/rossi-impresses-wrc-with-10th-place/

http://www.wrc.com/page/News/BreakingNewsDetail/0,,10111~930397,00.html