Ti§h's Busa

Goodbye my babe.....

2008-11-23T00:34:00.010+08:00

The day I post my bike for sale and there were almost 10 responds. I sold to the 2nd viewer within a week.

I remembered the day I brought Jean to Loois to choose b/w BlackBird and Busa, after we mount on both bikes, we both had the same answer: BUSA!

I meet Johnsen and took over babe, she was a beautiful Limited edition full mid-night black Hayabusa with black chassis, only 2 yrs and 4 mths old then. From that day on, where ever I want to go, babe brought me there. She is a heavy bird but handling her daily gives me confident to bring her easily into corners and squeeze thru tight gaps. She performs the best when we went touring, easily maintain her cool as the dial spins up to 300 mark.

When ever I rode her, she would obidently respond to my control on the throttle grip. Never once she disappoint me when I want the push her, I could push her more, push her even more, and fully abuse her ability to thrust ahead, and she would always agree with me.

She was my estasy....

Goodbye babe, u were my good companion for these 3 whole years, and Jean loves u too....

This is the last entry for this blog.

PG

Penang

KL

Genting

This is the time....... SALE!

2008-11-13T18:41:00.002+08:00

Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300RK3 Black Limited edition.
Registered Mid 2003
Rod Tax Due Mid January

Accessories/stock parts:

1) Additional Radiator Fan (Suzuki 1000 K5)
2) Power Bronze windshield
3) Electronic Horns
4) Brembo 19x20 masterpump
5) Bagster Tankbra
6) HEL brakelines
7) clear cover Front n Rear signals
8) Shorter Linkage(Rear Cushion Lever/Dog bone)
9) Rear Set Adapters (High foot rest adapter)
10) Speed Bleeders Brake/clutch caliper valve
11) Headlight protector
12) M3 tyres
13) EBC x 2 front brakepads
14) TRE Installed
15) Wave Rear rotor (disc brake)
16) Single Seater Hump
17) Grab Rail(pillon handle bar)

I did alot of servicing this year 2008, so bascially the bike is in good condition.
Please mind the cosmatic outlook condition giving it a 7/10

Servicing always done on schedule
Seat Just rewraped
Spark plug changed
Tyre replaced
Oil pan replaced
Chain replaced
Front chain sprocket replaced
Rear wheel/sprocket bearings replaced
Clutch reservoir seal replaced
Valve Clearance (tappet clearance) done
Timing chain tensioner replaced
Cam cover oil rig replaced
Lower Linkage Bearings replaced
Waterpump seal Replaced

Asking Price With accessories and stock parts included $13,000

Bike was paid full cash so no more loan.
Buyer have to pay full cash, can get your own reloan (Hitachi capital). Will assist if the loan is too not enough.
Buyer who wish to confirm to deposite with $50.
Viewing bike at Sengkang area

Transfer Fee to be paid by buyer. approx $150(not sure)
Transfer of bike only when full payment is done.
Road tax approx $500/yr
My 2nd party Insurance with NTUC 20% NCD age 29 : $450+

Do call/PM me for more details and arrange of viewing of bike at Sengkang area.
I am not in a hurry to sell of my bike, so take ur time to consider.
Please keep unconstructive, unreasonable or unethical comments to yourselves.
Thank you.

Self shifting "Biting point"

2008-11-04T20:46:00.003+08:00

For è pass 2 days. I rode my bike n felt the biting point came nearer when clutched in.

This morning , it shifted nearer. Ytd, I had suspected a leakage somewhere n wanted to bring it to my mech today during lunch time, but the biting point was almost gone and i had to ride to my bike shop in the morning be4 work fearing that The clutch wont work anymore......

Mech called n told me the rubber seal below is gone.

Is it time?

2008-10-26T00:58:00.000+08:00

..... or awhile more....

Kl Trip/Sepang Moto GP (17-19 oct 08) Day 1

2008-10-21T21:23:00.011+08:00

Date : 17 Oct 2008 - 19 Oct 2008
Venue : KL shopping, Sepang MotoGP 08

Distant travel frm GP Petronas to KL Hotel Nova 333.3km
Distant travel frm KL to Sepang to GP Petronas 431.1km
Total distant travelled 764km

Duration (To) 6.50am - 11.00am
GP Petronas
1st stop Pagoh
2nd stop Ayer Keroh
3rd stop SG Besi
4th stop KL Hotel Nova

Riders:
Ti§h & bLuRz : Busa
Charlie & Avril : Busa
Andrew & Amy : Busa
Alan & Carine : Busa
Johnny : Fazer
Bryant : Honda SP2
Damien, Sarah & Cynthia : 4 wheeler
Darren & Rachel : 4 wheeler

Duration (Fro) 8.30am - 9.05pm
KL Hotel Nova
1st stop Sepang (left approx 2-3pm)
2nd stop Ayer Keroh
3rd stop Machap
4th stop GP Petronas

Photos were from me and some snatch from Xgrin's photo album.

Jean and I couldn't sleep the night before the trip, however we still got up in time to get ready our stuff and took some pics before we left our car park to meet up with our buddies at GP Petronas.

Warming up bike...

Upon reaching as the first, Darren n Rachel came second followed by the others but the funny thing is the organiser came late asking everyone to come early, he was very smart because he know we cannot leave without his direction...... bish!

Meeting up at GP Petronas

Once we moved off, it was weird as our convoy stretch too far behind one another, after we realise someone was actually taking nice pic of the nice scenery along the way.....

A pic grabbed from Johnny, so u know how was lagging behind ?

The first route to Pagoh was kinda messy as everyone was trying to get used to each other's riding style and also figuring why some were too far behind or some were blasting ahead like there is no tomorrow.....

Johnny was either too far behind or too far in front, but that was because he was nice to blast to the front so he could take some pics of us reaching the first stop Pagoh for some BF.....

Another Pic from Johnny, he got a shot of us entering Pagoh R&R

We meet up with the 4 wheelers at Pagoh, had breakfast and took some pics together. Everyone were very cheerful this morning and looking ahead to KL !!

A lot of pics of everyone....

We keep taking pics but someone was miss.....
ohh Charlie was in the toilet .....
Jean was trying to live up the my nick (stupidboy's wife)
Avril wants her fingers in our pics( Johnny & I)

After filling our tummy, we pump our machine to max and left for Ayer Keroh for Bryant and Johnny to top up once more before riding none stop to SG Besi.

Ayer Keroh, Busas waiting for the smaller cc Class 2 bikes to top-up for a non-stop blasting.

Reaching SG Besi Petronas, everyone was taking a good rest as the trip here wasn't smooth due to the slower traffic along the way.

Everyone pumped and took a break before heading to Hotel Nova.

The next stop was Hotel Nova at KL, the traffic is going to be mush worst so everyone rode slowly together. Upon reaching, we were glad we could parked our bikes right in front of the hotel, we unpacked and left our stuff in the locker room coz we couldnt check in until 2pm.

We walked to a near-by coffee shop to have our an early lunch and took our time to walk to a near-by shopping centre to pass our time.

Having a meal at a near-by coffee shop.

After our breakfast, everyone took a walk to a near-by shopping centre to pass time. But eventually we bought alot of stuff.... I guess Jean really missed shopping in M'ysia, she was happily walking around even when we were so tired. When it was about time to leave, we even came to a herbal stall to have "Gui ling gao" Damn it was so much cheaper than in SG and much thicker!!

While walking to the shopping centre, we walked pass an apartment with lotsa balloons cartoon characters, it looked as if the restaurant below is trying to advertise itself.

We also walked passed a 24Hr 3 stored KFC, WOW!! anytime hungry also can eat!!!

Once reached the shopping centre, Jean immediately started her shopping spree....

We came pass a shop that looked like S'pore's "condom shop" and came across imported condom out a popular condom brand.

Andrew learnt about my condom and showed it to Amy, they got into a discussion and Andrew attempted to hide my condom away from me.... I caught him and snatch it back...

This was a what we had last year, and this time round, we got the same stuff again, it was nice to eat.....

See how much everyone was enjoying it.....

This weird guy keep pestering me with his shit paper bag, I have no idea who is he or what he wants from me, except he keep looking at me thru the hole of his shit paper bag....

Weird person looking at me thru the hole of his shit paper bag.....

Jean and I came across an accessories shop and bought a pair of Mickey Mouse Earrings.

Jean in another shop..... Looking at everything......

It was about time to leave and check into out Hotel,
We decided to take a rest at this herbal shop and had some "Guai ling gao"

While walking back to our hotel, a big stall selling "ba gua" and various dried stuff.

walking pass alot of food stall that only open for business at night.

Jean and I checked into the hotel room with Johnny, we were sharing rooms because Jean and I only decided to come along for this trip after our wedding. Johnny was nice to offer his room for sharing. Thank you Johnny. BTW, while writing this mail, I realise I havent transfer the hotel bills to u yet haha

Everyone took a bath, we need water so we all left to pick up some from the stalls below, Alan & Carine wanted to join us but took too long till it started raining, I msg Alan that we are going ahead first and we bought some necessities and food stuff as well as water. It was raining heavily already, even the umbrellas we bough didnt shelter us well from the rain.

Returned back to the hotel rooms and a few guys came over to join us with the snacks that we bought, Alan & Carine being very tired but jump up from their beds when hearing the word "tidbits"

sharing snacks together.... Alan very fast with picking up the stuff...

It was getting late and we were all getting ready to return to our Restaurant that we din in last year same time. Dressed up for the occasion and left together.

Dressed up!

We had a real hard time getting cab as it was super peak hour and traffic were very crazy in KL.
We resort to taking trains.

At dunno what train station

Taking a pic at the station

Taking pics in the train

After reaching out destination, we still couldn't get to our restaurant, with problems getting cab again, we resort to Andrew's GPS, he was real useful this time round.

Kl Trip/Sepang Moto GP (17-19 oct 08) Night 1

2008-10-21T21:05:00.008+08:00

Night 1...... This first day need to be split into 2 parts coz its abit too long.

From after we took a train, cab and still cannot reach the place, we finally depend on Andrew's expertise : GPS map guide. It sure was useful when it told us that we had to walk 1km++

Upon reaching "Telawi Street Bistro", we seated comfortably into 2 groups. Ordered the food we tot was best for us and chat the night away....

Table 1

Table 2

While waiting for the food being served, this particular restaurant always serve a unique appetizer.

This particular appetizer was unique and u dont see these commonly served in Singapore. Olive oil vinegar with bread and preserved olives.

Finding ways to eat the appetizer while waiting for food!!

Ordered beers and wines and eating appetizer while waiting for food!!!!!

Girls posing while waiting for food!!!!

Jean and I Posing while waiting for food!!!!!!!!!

Guys posing with alcoholics while waiting for food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally food come, the brown's Mushroom and green's asparagus,
the mushroom soup taste was abit off compared to last year same time.

I didnt know which main course to order so I ordered 2 side dish, Srooms & Lamb pizza pocket, and Anchovy bread.

Jean ordered this cheesy beef

After the whole meal we had some volka neat, this place is famous for its very special of wide varity vodka: mango,peach,coffee,onion,strawberry,apple,lychee,chilli padi, wasabi, anything u name, they should have it!!

Charlie holding 1 card of 5s. Was he going to "Tar" ?

The new comers for KL trip who came to this place will be offered "????? vodka" This usually happen when everyone first stepped in, however since all were so hungry, we had this little event last.

Amy being the youngest, latest to join the group and first time here took her "?????"

No idea why Johnny was treated like a first timer, maybe he tio sabo ?

Jean and I had our "not so power" Vodka (peach and lychee)

After Johnny foot the bill for our table "谢谢老板" We all took cabs to KL's Zouk! It was a must coz we missed this one out last year.

The entrance drink is damn "POWER" They even have "neat"

Girls enjoying~~~~

We were having some fun......

This shall end day 1 and stay tune for day 2.........

Kl Trip/Sepang Moto GP (17-19 oct 08) Day 2

2008-10-21T20:51:00.010+08:00

Day 2

Woke up early in the morning and meet the guys at the hotel entrance, Bryant and his GF was missing, so was his bike, we tot: Wah lao so early bring GF go riding...... Suddenly he came down and only then we realise his bike was stolen. Sarah and both of them went to the police while we locked our bikes up and walked to China town to have BF.

Breakfast at Charlie's preferred kopitiam

Breakfast~~

Jean eating her favorite "char siew bao"

Rachel n Darren enjoying noodles

Alan and Charlie love the coffee here, we will try to buy some after the meal.

I had this curry bun

Its about the same as S'pore's "golden pillow"
The curry is nice!

Later, we give ourselves 2 hours to shop around China Town, its like a mini "Pasar Malam" Jean and I went from shop to shop looking thru the cheap items.

We did buy some stuff!!

The food snacks were good!! Tested n proven.

Herbal drink, a must !!

We resort to buy coffee powder from this stall outside the coffee shop because they were too busy to packet n weight for us.

2 hours later, we meet up and took a slow walk back to the hotel, everyone had a good rest and a few of us meet up to take a short walk to Time Square so we could do some more shoppings!! Upon reaching, Jean and I had some drinks from Starbucks before we start roaming freely ourselves.....

Frap Caramel

We came to the Theme park but decide against it coz we only had 2 hours to roam but the coz per pax is RM$45 for whole day... not so worth.

Entrance of Theme park

A small view of theme park (indoor)

After Jean bought some stuff, we came back to Starbucks to have a short rest before meeting up with the rest to return back to hotel.

Again, everyone had a short rest and meet up below to have dinner. The streets along Hotel Nova is famous for the night makan, entire street is light up with food stall's sign board!

Here's the store we decided to have our dinner

Various food

He eat too much until his mouth is cramp

Everyone waiting for the dishes

He haven't get to eat yet.... so his mouth is like that

We really enjoy the meals as the style were cooked differently from Singapore. Although some were similar cooking methods, the price is extremely cheap including beers~~

At night, we look thur the stuff....... A pair of shoes for Jean

Pineapple tarts and some nice biscuits

Coffee powder, Alan claim its VERY good!!!!

BUM Pouch, Another item for Jean

That night, before we turn in, we gather at some guy's rooms to chat, we even walked to 7-11 to get some stuff......

Left overs on our tables.........

Jean's favourite!!!

Everyone on our bed.........

After the chats, we turn in to rest early for tomorrow's ride to Sepang......

Stay tune for the final post on KL Trip/Sepang Moto GP

Kl Trip/Sepang Moto GP (17-19 oct 08) Day 3

2008-10-21T19:00:00.012+08:00

The last day of our trip, which is also the MOTO GP 08.

Work up with droopy eyes as there wasn't enough sleep. After washing up and packing the stuff, there was litle time left for breakfast, luckily we bought the instant noodles last night, went over to Alan & Carine's to have our instant breakfast.

Some morning scene from the hotel window

Another scene

Our instant food stuff......

We quickly finished up with eatting and brought our luggage down to check our and get ready to move off. Since Bryant's bike was stolen, he and Cynthia join Damien and Sarah in their car.

We got ready to move off.....

Johnny

Alan & Carine

We took a short ride of approx 100km to Sepang, it was VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY HOT there!!! Once parked and locked, we walked towards the seats. Along the way, various stations of bikes and accessories were set up by their brandings. There were many races queen look alike girls attacting customers to their stations. The whole places were crowded and lively, but I was feeling a slight heat exhaustion.

Park n lock.

$2 per entry and "PARK AT UR OWN RISK!" NBCB!!!

The Car Park, 30% filled

Sepang Map

Johnny and Andrew taking shots of the girls...
Wow they so desprate!!

Look at them

Jean getting excited on a small scooter.

Girls selling cigarettes, in front of the no smoking sign some more!!

Charlie and Johnny got themselves 1 each

Johnny's excited with the Ducati bag in the package.

When we reached the seats, I immediately strip till I left with shorts.... It was so damn bloody hot and I was suffering a slight heat exhausation. I just sit there and stone the whole entire time, for a while, I went to buy some food and drinks, and a beer to cool the man down!

During the race, I didnt know what is happening at all. All I know is I was hot and tired and just want to sit there by myself trying to cool down.

These were what was happening when I was resting....

I have no idea what CC race was this.

and I have no idea who the hell r these

neither do i know why these people were there

nor do i know why the stupid car were racing with the bikes?

and is there a photo taking session, why so many people there?

Wow! these 2 looked cool, but is the race going to be over, I'm so bored.

Trying to eat something.

Getting bored and played PSP when they said Valentino just over took as no. 1

When I heard the race is over, I was so happy I quickly packed and was very ready to leave this oven stadium. we packed up real quick by there were dark clouds reaching us. We were worried and put on our rain gears despite the "FUCKING HOT ATMOSPHERE". Left Sepang in sweats and squeeze our way thru the tight traffic to Ayer Keroh for a good meal.

We learnt that Darren's car had a hit and run accident, and the stupid bike ran away. %$#@^%^#^%^ rider!! N'mind. After leaving Ayer Keroh, the storm met us half way and we had to stop to put on our rain gears again. Half the time we were trying to keep together, some other time, we were chasing or waiting for frends. But the most important, we found each other and got back safe together!!

GP Petronas......

kL DIN

2008-10-17T21:12:00.006+08:00

Here we are again. Having a gd meal at telawi street birtro.

KL counting down........ 97200 seconds more to tick

2008-10-16T03:19:00.004+08:00

Approx 27 hours more before leave for KL trip at GP. I was eager for this relax trip...... backside itchy for some long dist. blasting.........
Jean was also looking forward too....

I just hope the entire trip will turn out safely and enjoyable for everyone......

FA188HH For KL Trip....

2008-10-11T18:54:00.002+08:00

With new tyres comes with new Pads.... Old one has worn out pretty much, its safer to put in some new ones and let them bed in before the trip.....

Nurse glove, for tending wounds and preventing ur hands getting dirty...

More servicing, getting to "ABUSA" mode.

2008-10-09T15:21:00.007+08:00

HKL @ Alxendra 081008
Michelin Pilot Power 2CT $430
Wheel Balancing Free
Tyre Gauge Free
HKL RainCoat Free

Planet @ UBI 091009
Tighten Chassis via slider Free
Rear Wheel Sprocket bearings 1 set + labour $45
Mileage : 123,657km
All for the KL long distance trip.

YTD morning, went to HKL early in the morning to get my tyres replaced, The rear can last for another 2k but since I'm going up to KL and now its raining season, replacing the tyre will be a safer choice. The other reason is Jean will be following me so safety comes first.

Ah san replaced for me both rear anf front, balancing not done for rear coz he suspect wheel bearing is slightly worn, but he doesnt have the japan bearing that I wanted, so bo bian loh. Called Raymond if he want my used tyre for Eddie, left it there for him to collect.

Front still good, but change anyway since different compound from different brand

Rear, rode for 12k ++ and decided to change since its been abused in a few long distance....

New 2CT, end 07 for rear and early 08 for front. 120/190 55
Opps slightly higher feel.

Went to planet this morning to get my bearing changed since the ah lao say he can find me KOYO. I give up on him because I hunted a few places but just couldn't find KOYO. All others had were NIS...... typical china brand..... Well, $45 for a quick fix compared to stock $75 excluding labour.... the ah lao also tighten the chassis screw and that totally solve the loosen parts sound when ever i go thru bumpy surface.... "live safer man!"

Koyo... and the used....

Pre MOTO Gp trip servicing..... Late Sept 08

2008-10-08T11:48:00.005+08:00

MotorFactor @ Ubi
Valve Clearance $280
All Shim Replacement FREE
Timing chain tensioner replacement n Adjustment $130
Engine Oil OWS 5w-60 X3 $72.00
Cam cover oil rig set $38
Lower Linkage Bearings $195
NGK IRIDIUM CR9EIX 3SET from LAB $48
Mileage : 123,603
Pushed my bike to Alex on 29 Sept and collected on 4 oct, 1 day before my wedding. This is a must-do servicing for my babe as she was physically abused during the few trips to long distance places especially twice up to Hatyai. Almost hitting 24K since the last tappet clearace

I told Alex I wan all the all the shims and my tensioner replaced and he couldn't agree more to it. He introduced me some new EO, I decided to give it a try since he say it was good for long distant.

Went back to collect my bike ok Wed monring and was told that he suspect the linkage bearing is wearing off. Let it there for him to replace the bearing and finally collect it back on Sat morning.....

Busa, part of my wedding

2008-10-07T01:46:00.005+08:00

Riding busa for 3yrs ++, Jean and I just love the bike so much. We always wanted busa to be part of our lives and now we had 3 of them for our wedding...... Enjoy the videos.....

5th OCT 08 Tampines

Motoooo motooo motoooo MOTO GP 2008!!!

2008-10-02T11:36:00.001+08:00

Finally got my hands on these crazy machine race tix......

More action please.....

2008-09-25T12:05:00.000+08:00

Finally decided to join my buddies up to KL and MOTO GP 08. I was thinking after hatyai in july, I'ts been rather quiet for me and my babe, babe's not exercising much, muscles getting soft. So to get her ready for some action, she needs to be conditioned.....
123,603

Tappet clearance.....

Another nice handling bike

2008-09-22T18:11:00.006+08:00

Aprilia ETV 1000 CapoNord

I road it home today for about 15km thru our local streets, it sailing home along traffics and bumpy surfaces....

I like the low range pickup, super torquey and power, but 1 must endure the clinking "machine gun" like sound bursting from the root of the engine.....

3 simple words on the first ride " I LIKE IT"

8 in singapore!

Should I go with my buddies or not .... end oct

2008-09-18T14:13:00.000+08:00

Since hatyai, its been some lonely pump and go trips, didn't even touch kulai or perlin. Just pump, maybe some coffee at GP R&R and go home..... toooooo bored, tooooo short.......

Should I fork out $1k to service my bike and join my buddies this end oct???

Peeling off...

2008-09-13T21:47:00.003+08:00

Yap, The license sticker is peeling off by itself..... and Mr Man in White will slap me $70 if he catch up with me on this....

Luckily I had replacement readily made but it wont be on the same place.....

There, u will go.....

& That's where you'll stay!

Corpse of a froggie

2008-09-06T19:30:00.002+08:00

As I reach and park my bike in my sengkang carpark. I did a walk around check and happen to chance upon the corpse of froggie at the bottom of my left fork...........

It was slimy when i use a cig butt to remove it off..... now how did he happen to get there?

No petrol run this week...... RSAF OPEN HOUSE 08'

2008-08-29T20:51:00.005+08:00

I was invited to take part in this event 2 yrs ago, and yet again, this year I was invited to take part again. So as the dates advertised. I wont be available for petrol run at all......

Including the preview, its 4 day in a row(28 aug - 31 aug)

Chain getting noisy.....Opps... yellow bottle dry...

2008-08-22T23:58:00.003+08:00

It was getting noisy whenever i push my bike out of the bike lot. Then today is my last paper and had enough confident to studying anymore, I brought my tools down to service my chain and notice my scottoiler bottle was empty......

Did a good cleaning on the chain, sprocket and rims, then filled up the scottoiler bottle and notice the oil wasn't dripping. So poke poke abit hopping to clear some choke at the drip opening and at the same time notice air gaps in the drip tube. Well i guess it will take some riding to fill up the gaps......

I guess its almost 3 months since i last touch babe....

Going overdue.....

2008-08-05T23:56:00.003+08:00

Going thru' a super busy time right now.

Not only tired from shifting house, setting up my new house, spending lotsa $$$ on furniture and reno. I'm super dried up, not to mention squeezing dry from the bike week.

My stuff are slowing going to due and some r getting over due.

Tyres are slowly worning, engine getting nosier, hinting me to push my bike into the workshop. Brake pads seems to reach its limit and not to mention I could count the layers of dust on the surface.......

Please bear with me a while longer and I'll promise to bring u back to a shine!

Hatyai Bike week 2008 Part 1of 2

2008-07-06T21:42:00.024+08:00

Date : 03 July 2008 - 06 July 2008
Venue : Thailand (Hatyai Bike Week 2008)

Distant travel frm GP Petronas to Thai Border 821km
Distant travel frm Thai Border to GP Shell 841km
Total distant travelled 1,833km

Duration (To) 11.45pm - 7.15am (7hr 30m)
GP Petronas 11.45
1st stop 04 Jul 01:14 (Ayer Keroh)
2nd stop 04 Jul 02:46 (RaWang)
3rd stop 04 Jul 04:17 (SG Perak)
4th stop 04 Jul 06:12 (Gurun)
Thai border 04 Jul 07:15

Riders:
Ti§h & bLuRz : Busa
Raymond & Kris : 08 Busa
Andrew : Busa
Mark : Busa
Bunny : BlackBird
Hock : CBR900
Ang : Suzuki 1000

Duration (Fro) 11.15m - 7.15pm (8hrs)
Thai Border BHP Petrol station 11.15m
1st stop 06 Jul 13:02 (Bukit Merah - Semanggul)
2nd stop 06 Jul 15:13 (Ulu Berman)
3rd stop 06 Jul 17:38 (Ayer Keroh)
GP Shell 06 Jul 19:13

Riders:
Ti§h & bLuRz : Busa
Freddy : ZX12R
Raymond & Kris : 08 Busa
Maverick : Busa
Mark : Busa
Andrew : Busa
Augustin : Busa
Songkee : Suzuki 1000
Ah Biao & Wife : Suzuki 1000
Kent : CBR 900
Hock : CBR 900
Bunny : BlackBird
a Mechanic : Blackbird

This is my second time to Hatyai, but it was a first for Jean. The event was Hatyai bike week but other than that, most of the trip were about our friends, Jean and I enjoying ourselves.

I will start with the event first before going into the trip from the beginning.

The Stage of Hatyai bike week 2008, held at MUNICIPLE PARK

Most of the time were bands singing some oldies, country rocks and pops. Other than that u will be hearing some event VIPs talking about event is to bring Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia bikers or the nation closer in one way or another.

Hatyai bike week 2008 stickers

At Municiple Park, foreign bikes were the VIPS, we were allowed to park designated areas that show our importance. Along the with the parked bikes, were stalls of various bike accessories and apparels.

Entrance passes, white for female and black for male

Directly below the stage were tables for us to fill. Liquors were sold as well as free food and fruits serves. Other than that, we spend the rest of our time either looking at various stalls or chit chatting away. It was a 2 day event, more or less, u will see the same thing for the 2 days.

Now I shall start my story, as usual, we gathered at 1 of the petrol station at GP. arriving about 11pm, we got ready and left for 4 stops like the last time. My first time riding to Hatyai was rather exciting exploring at the 3/4 part of the trip into new lands. But this time wasn't much of an excitment byut more of bring my Wife to see what I've seen. I always want to share my experiences with her, this is the right time, especially with some friends we were close to.

The last petrol station at malaysia before entering Thai border, we arrived at sun rise and the view was very comforting especially after riding for hours and hours.

Everyone's taking a good rest before crossing the borders.

1 VERY unfortunate incident happened, a first time long distant rider known to me as ANG, had lost his passport during the ride, he left his passport in his rear pocket of his super baggy jeans and it was missing when we all did a recheck before heading into Thailand. After much discussion, he went back Singapore alone.

Jean and I at Thai Border

Finally reaching Thai border, I was very happy to had brought Jean here, it was a truly 1 of a kind experience for us to cross 1 country to join an event on a bike none stop.

The 2 cheeky girls......

We had a stop at dunok as there was an advance team we came here yesterday, I call them Freddy's team coz he was the only 1 I'm familar with. They must have too much fun the night before coz we waited quite a while before they appear to have breakfast with us.

Jean was posting a "what now" sign.... after waiting for a while....

Well, breakfast was done and we left for Hatyai in a bigger group, Daichi hotel was our destination. Once reached, we head up to take a quick wash n refreshment, it was time for some relaxation, thats OLIVA MESSAGE PALOR!

Happily waiting for the rest so we could go massage.

It was Jean's first time in a "tuk tuk" with me even when it was our 2nd time in Thailand

Freddy and his gang in another "tuk tuk", they were saying, see we're faster, "Suck this"
haha, just joking....

We were so hungry we bought fried chicks to eat!! Wow Thai's chick r more muscular!! haha

We had some relaxing massage and once rejuvnated, we decided to head for Sizzler to fill out groaning stomach. I remembered the first time Jean and I went to Bangkok, we also had Sizzler, it was a resturant that server good yummy food!

Look at the smiles on our faces and u know how yummy the food taste!
Jean was crazy over the salad Bar!

I have no idea why, he say the food was nice but his face was saying otherwise!

My this dear couple was also rather confusing, they said the food was nice,
but the faces were showing otherwise???

Now the ladies love the salad bar..... but what the hell are the doing with 2 carrots?

Ohh... it was for the MOUTH!

After the fullfilling meal, Raymond took us for some sight seeing at the top of the building.
Hatyai from bird's eye view was like the old Singapore, alot of flat building and some high rise buildings.

Say cheese!!

Before going back to the hotel for a rest, I decided we should go visit the bird nest stall as I would really like Jean to try it out! She love it of coz, who dont like good tonic. It was cheaper compared to SG too. So guess what?? We bought 3 bottles of "Xue Yan"

The different types of bird nest in bottled form.
Dont think it taste weird, it was good too!

She really love it!

After all the tonic, we headed back to the hotel for a short rest, gathered at the bikes and left for the bike event. Upon arriving at the event area, we were directed to designated parking lots. The foreign bikes were really treated like VIPS compared to their local bikes. The moment our busas and some other bikes parked, people started taking photos.

Freddy went to collect the event goodies and distribute to everyone. There is a T- shirt, a 2 day pass with 1 free jug of bear and 2 event stickers, the rest of the package is to enjoy the event which most of the time were people singing on the stage, more like a public KTV session.

All busas? Look again....

A chop on ur hands upon entry to mark we had the appropriate
pass and permission to enter the event.

Personal public concert? It really seems like 1 to me.

Here we are, the trip to Hatyai for the event!

Boarding pass...

After getting sick of the singings, Raymond, Kris, Andrew, Jean and I decided to visit the night market "Tao Rai". It was the night market that I came from the last trip where I did Jean's shopping for her. This time, she shall do the shopping herself.

Getting busy.....

Getting hungry!!!

Please! Dont get those Mickey!!

Jean trying out the Jeans....

She did managed to buy some stuff..... I cant remember what were they coz I only remember taking out my wallet and removing those cash from it..... After those shopping, it was really getting late and the market was closing up. We all left for the hotel to call it a day.....

Since the story is getting long........ I will split into 2 post....

Hatyai Bike week 2008 Part 2of 2

2008-07-06T21:41:00.003+08:00

The very next morning 5th of July 2008, w got a call from Raymond asking to have breakfast together, we were going back to the usual porridge stall and I tot Jean would like it since she love eating porridge.

Some snaps in the morning while waitng for Weis

Hmm, this is a nicer view.... hehe

Looking good here too.... ohh ohh, I saw an 08 busa's ass....

Well, arriving at tyhe porridge stall, we had mix pig porridge and some half boiled eggs, the half boiled egg standard in Hatyai is surprisingly good, its always the same standard which ever coffee shop I went to, unlike Singapore, either they are too cooked or too raw...... sigh....

Fresh porridge in the morning.... thats y we are looking fresh!

She is trying to smile with eggs in her mouth i guess??

After having the wonderful breakfast, we took a slow walk back to pur hotel, on the way, we stopped by 7-11 and bought yakut!! Not those regular small bottles u see in Singapore, this one is chao chao 5-8 times bigger!!

Her favorite! She was going to finish it all until I snatched it back!

Well, after breakfast must go back hotel bomb the bowl...... And then we gathered again to have a second round of massage at Oliva's again!! Boy! how I'd wish they had Oliva at every petrol station along the way we come from Singapore. HAHA

The only girls in this tuk tuk!

The super refreshing look after the WONDEFUL Massage!!
ohh did i mention someone farted? Not us... so u guess!

Well, we decided to head over to the market place coz Raymond brought his worn NIKE shoes from singapore to mend in Hatyai. I must say, the result was surprising good as we sit thru the while process, it was dirt CHEAP too!!

One of the other reason is to get our bike licence number in thai. Since we're in thai, we should let the locals know our licence plate number in their own language hehe....

The bad news is, 2 times I came to hatyai and this stupid shop didnt open!! The good news is, Freddy went to another place and did it for us!

I swear it was the pig trotter that lure us in for a second round!

I swear I saw the chicken moving and to prove it, we sit in the kopi tiam to moniter it!

She had noodles, but they keep giving her the wrong type!

I was enjoying the pig trotter, super soft and delicious!

I swear I was just testing if the special Flat Fried banana was crispy!

U cannot believe how long we waited for Raymond's shoe to be mended and how long the guys had their amulet rewraped and redo! Probably 2 hours...... We got so bored and were feeling very down, its bad for health!!

So the moment we were ready to leave, we decided to get some healthy food!

The bird nest shop again, this time, we had Shark's Fin.....
Ohhh Big n yummy!!! That is a whole piece in Jean's bowl!!

After makan, we walked around taking it as exercise, the girls un-noticely walked into shops that sell women's clothings..... Someone bought something!

Some mannequin......

While the ladies were busy glancing at clothings. Raymond got bored....

Well, time to go back hotel for a rest again.
We gathered again to travel to the bike event for the second time. I wasn't so keen on the event and it was really nothing much, so I decided I wont be staying long there....

Some Custom bike....... blocking out bikes...

another one blocking our bikes....

Some pics.... while waiting for others...

More pics....

?

We arrived earlier than the day before, the photos turned out nicer with more lightnings.....
This time, upon arriving, we were directed close to the main stage.... off road.

A photos of us!

We parked at the right side of the stage.....

a mini roadshow of honda bikes, this pink is rather suitable for Jean.

If she buys it, she will be riding me!

Well after viewing all the stalls and bikes, we got hungry and its time to queue for the free food.
The food taste rather weird, was it the way the thais cook it or was the cooking really bad?

There were Tom Yam sea food soup, Fried rice, BBQ fish, Egg omelette, Weird chick soup, and some thai salad. The most eddiable was the egg omelette...... and peanuts that were meant to go along with the drinks......

Queuing for the eggs

EGGS!!

Like I was saying, there wasn't much of anythink at the event, I decided to leave after we had our meals..... This time, only Andrew, Jean and I went. We road our bikes back to hotel and took a tuk tuk to "Tao Rai". Andrew didnt want to follow........
His precious bike need some touching....

Getting busy again....

She was choosing the shoes and decided not to buy any after looking at the quality...

This is one stall I bought alot of Mickey accessories for her the last time,
and she did bought more this time!

The lady who inisist her ice cream stick is nice!
Ok loh, we try..... ok nice....

Well, she got herself somemore stuff and it was getting late, my wallet was getting thinner too... We halt a tuk tuk and went back to the hotel to do some packing as we were leaving for SG tomorrow in the morning.

Some stuff from the event....
a discount card from the bird nest shop.....

short and long sleeve event shirts, we bought some for our friends too!

The very next morning, we had "Ba Kut Teh" at a near by stall for breakfast before getting ready our stuff to leave. Jean was happy coz she finally came to Thailand on bike and she bought some stuff.

I wont talk about the trip back home as there wasn't anything unusal, except that ah hock was not feeling well and bunny accompanied him thru out the journey. Ohh my arse was getting stiffer as we travelled and Jean was getting aches from the long ride.....

First petrol station after we left Thai border,
we had to fill our tanks full for the ride!

All in all, the ride was fun but the long ride wasn't comfortable. Well u gain something u loose some....

Thats all folks....

Water pump seal worn

2008-06-23T01:50:00.006+08:00

Motor Factor @ Ubi
Pump Seals $40 (3)
Oil Filter $16
Labour $70
Royal Purple X3
Water Wetter
Mileage : 116,972 km

These happend a few weeks ago and I only got it done last week.
Since the last servicing on the oil pan, I never tot I would see EO leaking at the bottom so soon. I spent the past 2 weeks trying to figure out where the leak came from. I was glad the leak didnt came from the same place as the last time.

Alex removed my left faring and cleaned the bottom before asking me to ride around without my fairing on so we could monitor the leak more conveniently. I road about 5 km, spotted a minor leak somewhere and went back to Alex, both of us didnt find the source of the leak and I had to get back to work.

The very next day I went to Bike123 to check, Kenny said he was very sure its from the Water Pump and he point to me beads of EO appearing from it. I was kinda shock when I saw it. To make sure, we cleaned it and rode with 1 side less fairing, when I returned, the EO leak appeared from directly below the water pump, problem rectified.

The very next day, went back to Factor to replace the pump seals since it was super near my work place, I could get my colleague to sent me out to collect my bike too.....
2 days later, I check for leaks again, dry as "hungry hippo"

1 less thing to worry before my Hatyai bike week.......................

Will be getting the pics up on the seals....

Hatyai bike week 2008 agenda

2008-06-19T02:54:00.002+08:00

Quoted from SBF hayabusa thread
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For those going for the HBW.

HATYAI BIKE WEEK 2008
AT HATYAI MUNICIPAL PARK
ON
4TH & 5TH JULY, 2008

BIKE WEEK THEME IS TO PROMOTE CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING IN
SOUTHERN THAILAND.

BIKE WEEK ADMISSION: BT500 (RM50.00)

2 NIGHTS BUFFET DINNER (HALAL FOOD)
2 NIGHTS OF LIVE MUSIC ( STARTS EACH DAY AT 5.30 PM )
1 SHORT SLEEVED T-SHIRT
1 JUG OR BEER OR SOFT DRINKS
* LONG-SLEEVED T-SHIRTS WILL BE FOR SALE FOR BT500
* PINS AND PATCHES FOR BT100-200

4TH JULY 2008

9.00 AM to 4.00 PM: THE ROYAL THAI CONSULATE AND THE HATYAI BIKE WEEK COMMITTEE WILL BE STATIONED AT MALAYSIA AND THAI ( DANOK )
IMMIGRATION & CUSTOMS CHECKPOINT TO WELCOME AND ASSIST ALL BIKERS WITH IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS CLEARANCE.
HATYAI HOTEL ASSOCIATION WILL ALSO BE THERE TO ASSIST BIKERS TO MAKE THEIR ROOM RESERVATIONS AT THE BORDER.

5.30PM : WELCOME PARTY AT THE HATYAI MUNICIPAL PARK WITH FREE FOOD AND LIVE MUSIC

5TH JULY 2008

1.00 PM : BIKE CONVOY WILL LEAVE THE MUNICIPLE PARK AND RIDE THROUGH HATYAI TO KOH YOH (SONGKLHA). THERE WILL BE A STOP FOR SOME FREE REFRESHMENTS HOSTED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

5.00PM : BACK TO THE PARK AND PEOPLE CAN THEN GO TO SHOWER OR STAY AT THE PARTY.

8.00PM : THE GRAND OPENING AND LIVE MUSIC.

SECURITY OF BIKES AT THE PARTY IS BEING OVERSEEN BY THE POLICE AND THE ARMY.

EVENT SPONSORED BY : HATYAI BIKERS ASSOCIATIONS, SONGKHLA PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM AND TRADE, ROYAL THAI POLICE, ROYAL THAI ARMY AND THE ROYAL THAI CONSULATE – LANGKAWI.

The hotel information link http://www.hatyaihotel.com

FD ROD

2008-06-12T22:53:00.002+08:00

Seeing 2 people using this magic rod and without a proper name, I named it after the creater/maker. FD Rod. I wont mention his name coz he looks as if he want to be low profile. But most should have guessed who he is.

This magic FD rod replaces a jack, could lift the rear wheel in 2-3 simple steps. It could be use for lubbing the chain and servicing puncture. Its useful in everyway u could think of and it could be placed under the seat.

Finding this rod extreme useful, I decide to do a MO for this, so if anyone wants it, could contact me via SBF.

Pics tells a thousand tale.

Hatyai Bike week postponed.

2008-06-10T12:20:00.002+08:00

Hatyai bike week had postponed from june to july 4th-5th.
Jean was disappointed at first but she was ok after that. I only tot my leave was a little waste but at least I could stay back to attend classes and take my test.

My babe is getting naughty again, she started leaking some EO but this time is not around the bottom. I'm monitoring it coz I guess a 5 yr bike should be having some harden seal here n there.
Wont be doing anything to my bike for the time being coz of studies, renovation and preparations for my wedding is draining me off here n there.

Now I only awaits the second trip to Hatyai, but this time with Jean being her first.

Thats all folks.....

Badly worn gloves.

2008-05-23T21:59:00.003+08:00

Since the last time I posted on these glove Jean had bought for me. LINK

It slowly worn further thru the months, and now, its in no condition to protect my hands any more. I really love the glove, been wearing it all the time whenever I rode my bike, even if its just for short trips, I'll have them on. Coz my wife bought them just so that it could protect me.

The last time I posted these pics were in Aug last year, they were already worn then.

Since the last time I washed them, it became so brittle that I dare not wash anymore fearing the material will give way anytime. But this afternoon, they just wont hold anymore they expose themselves, stretched and let themselves loose.......

Sadly! A "Burst"
& a torn velco that had been sew back many times...

Tiny holes here and there.

Now, I would have to put on those full gloves while I look for another set of short glove.

RIP Hui Ting!

2008-05-19T01:36:00.003+08:00

I was browsing a friend's blog and was so shocked to learn that she has passed away while riding, I called Desmond to confirm as it was so hard to believe.

The last time when everybody had so much fun.....

RIP Ger! You will be Missed!

2 way Switch for a 3 way fan system.

2008-05-18T01:26:00.002+08:00

I'm at Mac again, accompanying Jean while she study for her Exam.

As usual, making use of the free internet. With nothing to do, I started thinking what if I were to add a switch to the Dual fan system, how would I wanted it to work.

I drew here and drew there and came out with a way that I would most likely want it to function.
Using a 2 way switch for a 3 way function.

Swtich 1 will turn on Both fan.
Switch 0 will activate only the stock fan when the Temp. sensor trigger.
Switch 2 will activate both fan when the Temp. sensor trigger.

If there were a switch 3, most likely its to activate the 2nd fan alone manually.
The method would be : 2nd fan will have its return point connected to a common ground and a direct current from battery. But more than 1 connection point is needed to use this function along with the other function.

Wiring up the fan. Why the 2nd fan keep running.

2008-05-17T21:19:00.008+08:00

I want to fix up the second fan myself but the header/extractor is blocking my clearance to mount up the fan. Since I was going to get Kenny to replace my oil pan. Might as well get him to fix up the fan.

This is a pic of a suzuki 1000 k3/4 fan as 2nd fan,
taken from hayabusa.org.
The bottom left is sharing the same point with the stock fan,
The bottom right needs a bracket coz its too short,
The top is sharing with the radiator mounting point.
In general, get the wire mesh facing down.

My purpose was to have the 2nd fan dependent on the stock fan to turn on. Which means when the stock fan turns on, it will trigger the relay for 2nd fan to turn on. Kenny seems to have a problem, he told me that the stock fan has a constant 12volt supplying and he did not understand why.
Following my method will keep the 2nd fan running all the time. After half a day of attempt, he gave up and add a switch point so I could turn it off whenever I wanted to.

Circuit diagram of the fan.
Kept going over and over but nothing seems wrong.

After 1 week of monitoring my house renovation. I've finally had the time today to reroute the fan's wire. I tried my method, 2nd fan's relay dependent on the first fan's current, 2nd fan current directly from battery. However, the 2nd fan still run immediately when the relay was connected to the first fan. I can't believe that my method was wrong but I finally gave up and ask some guys for advise.

In the end the answer was, The positive wire for the stock fan was a constant supply however why it did not run was because the grounding wire was not "close". No ground = no return path = OFF mode. Why the 2nd fan was turned on was because the return path was connected to a common ground, that grounding path was "close" all the time!!

After thinking the whole thing for a while, nothing would have gone wrong if I didn't add a relay. Without the relay, I would have tap the current and grounddirectly from the stock fan.

Messy wires for the fan.
I had a 10A fuse there directly from the battery to the 2nd fan.

Top of fan sharing mounting point with radiator.

Inner mounting point sharing with stock fan.

Outer mounting point need a bracket.

Before

And after.

Tested for overheat, when both fan first trigger, heat was brought down in 10 seconds when fans stops, 2nd time, 16 seconds.

The Three "J"s of my Hayabusa.

2008-05-14T01:59:00.004+08:00

Jack, Johnsen and Jason.

These were the 3 owners of my GSX1300R K3 Limited Edition Mid Night Black Hayabusa.

Met Jeffery today at 123 Bike and his friend told me he knew the owner of my bike. His name was Jack. While on my way home the same night. I went to AMK Mobil to pump some air pressure to my tyres and a Malay guy was doing the same to his Scram.

He was mumbling something with his full face helmet on, I asked him to repeat again and he said: "This used to be my bike" OMG, I asked him if his name was Jack and he said yes.

It was such a coincident to learn the first owner's name and see him in real person in the same day. We chat a little and learn that my babe had been to and beat a fierce R1 in SEPANG!! Attempting the track and corners in Sepang was one my goal!! Was so evny that the first owner of my bike actually did it already!!

Replacing the Oil Pan

2008-05-14T00:34:00.003+08:00

123 Bike Trading @ Lavender Street
Mileage: 115,000KM
Oil Pan Cover $150
Drain bolt $5 (ks)
Esso Gold Full Syn 10w40 3 X $16 (LAB, Testing to see if bolt will drip)
Gasket $10
Labour $80 (inclusive removing headers/extractor,installing fan, troubleshooting wiring, EO change, installing oil pan and gasket)

Once kenny showed me the worn out thread, the next thing was to change the oil pan loh... Ordered and left my bike there on Monday.

Removed, he one with the worn out thread.

A closer look from the inside

From the outside.

Brand new one!!! (*Upset!)

Obey Torque loading.......... (Drain Oil Nut)

2008-05-10T17:07:00.002+08:00

When I started doing my own EO change. I tot I could save some money in the long run on buying EO from dealers and saving on labour. Little did I realise I had to spend a bomb due to a silly mistake...........

Since I was an Aircraft Technician, I tot torque loading applies to aircraft since its such a critical piece of kite...... (Read somewhere: taking off speed for F5 Fighter plane is close to 290km/hr) My Busa can run faster.....

I started changing my EO last year, always tightening the bolt as tight as I could, coz I was always afraid of it loosening during those insane speed...... Little did I know I was damaging the thread more. My last EO change was the trial "Royal Purple" that I wanted to gives some reviews.

A week after that"Royal Purple" EO change, oil started dripping from the drain bolt. It was always wet whenever I wipe it and tighten somemore(big mistake), after 2 attempts, I knew something was very wrong and I brought it to the bike shop. The mechanic told me either the bolt thread is gone, or the oil pan drain sum thread is gone. We discussed and decided to drain it out to take a look at the bolt's thread ............................................ removed and inspect .................................... it was 'OK' Which means I have to replace the more expensive one . Itchy backside me.....

Gsx1300R 99-00 Hayabusa Servicing Manual, Page 8-43, Last row.
Torque loading for Oil drain plug 23N-m / 2.3 kgf-m / 16.5 lb-ft.
For those who can't affort a torque wrench/limiting driver/(whatever u call it),
How tight? (Hand tighten and 1/4 more turn)

Gsx1000R K5 Fan arrived on 08 May 2008

2008-05-09T10:53:00.003+08:00

I managed to get hold of another good deal from ebay thanks to Andrew. The seller agreed to my offer and I paid USD$15 for the fan. Within a week, the fan I bought from eBay had arrived. Now I need to find some time to get relay, fuse and maybe a switch before I get it fixed up.

Back

Front

Dual fan system for busa

2008-05-01T23:47:00.008+08:00

Since riding in Haytai. I came to know how near my balls were becoming BBQed by the heat from my bike. The fan was like running none stop the moment it started. The same thing happened when I was riding in Penang and the worst was queueing up on an up-slope at woodlands check point.

I knew this mod had to be done sooner or later, I was asking and hunting around for a secondary fan. I was told most of the GSXR series fan could be used, like the 650,700,1000 and last but not least, 1300 hayabusa.

I had been looking for a good deal from Ebay and the best one was "USD$9.50 startbid" "USD$23 buy now" GSX1000R 07-08 fan, but my luck ran out when the seller WON'T ship it to Singapore. My next best deal was a "USD$32.99 buy now" GSX1300R fan. Right now I'm still waiting for some replies from sellers.

Hopefully my dual fan mod will be complete before the next Hatyai trip in early June. BBQ balls aren't funny

Quick Throttle for stock busa grips

2008-04-28T13:54:00.005+08:00

Been browsing around different forum and came upon a cheap mod on quick throttle for busa.

Busa's throttle can be replaced by another bike's throttle grip at a very low cost.

Yamaha Throttle tube with grips:
R1 : 4yr-26240-02-00 Faster Pick-up
R6 : 5SL-26240-01-00 Insane Pick-up

R6's not recommended for touring as the throttle turn is very sensitive.

Saw this video along....
Improve your track skills!

Fixing the broken and Replacing the Old

2008-04-26T23:02:00.007+08:00

Scottoiler Vacuum tube $4
Scottoiler Tube $25 ($18)
Brand new front clear signals lenses $60
Used rear clear signal lenses $10
Electric horn from before $17
Rear Cushion Lever (Dog Bone) $35 Seng kwang
Workmanship Motor Factor $30

Just last week. I notice a few time that my chain were getting dry. After checking a bit, I found the scotoiler tube torn and was leaking from the tear. It was in the right time coz I was thinking of shifting my scottoiler from under the tank to the rear. It was too hot and the oil were leaking too fast.

Just $4. Got a new set of vacuum tube so I can shift the scottoiler.

Scottoiler Tube, didn't know this could be 6 times the price of the vacuum tube.

Replacing the older model lenses

I didn't have any electrical wires at home and decided to get the horns fitted at the bike shop since I was going to do other stuff. I requested the Simon the mechanic to get the horns fitted at the sides in the "head" cowl. He seems to have some problem getting things done and took a long time to complete this job while more and more bikes came in.

Upgrading the horn system.

Its mounted just above the air intake duct, sharing meters' bracket.

While getting orange bulbs for my clear lenses. I was hunting high and low from all the bike shop for the yellow bulbs. Every bike shop had problem understanding what I was asking and what I said didnt seems to match the item I was holding.

I only realise when I called Maverick for advise. He told me my signals were not using original socket.Then, I remember when I first got my busa, the signals were different from others, it was always on until I disabled it......... now I got some plans for the signals.....

Mr Simon was alone today, Alex was in M'ysia. He had a hard time coz he had to servicing 4-6 bikes. I didnt want him to rush my stuff so I decided to let him do the rest of the stuff another time. I want to reroute some wires after noticing my front signal sockets were a different from the normal ones, so I told Simon that I will do the "Dog Bone" next time and he can use the time to reroute wires for me, but he request to do it everything other thing the next time. Ok loh........

Stock Dog bone

Custom made Dog Bone almost 1 inch shorter.
These will be fitted next time.

Throttle body butterfly valves.
Got them cleaned at the openings.
Full of carbons...

I've also notice during the servicing, many people I know came. There were Raymond & Kris, Weiz, Freddy, Maverick and Joey. Raymond were suppose to meet me here to do servicing with me. The rest kaypo maybe? hehehhe.

After fitting the horn, I waited for Raymond 's bike, he want his dog bone fit. I took the time to remove my airbox so I could change the vacuum tube. After that we all left and I went home to continue doing stuff on my bike.

While riding home, I've notice a wire dangling beside the right fork. It was the horn's wire. I came home not very satisfy with it. Decided to get it fixed and get the scottoiler fit.

New Signal Lenses, K3 or K7?

Another pic of the horn and relay fitted in the cowling.

Did some tracing and rerouting of wires and solve then horn's dangling wire problem.
Simon gave me a bundle of wires so I could reroute myself.

Finally, the last and most dirty part, refitting back the scottoiler. I could roughly guess what happen the last time when the cable was torn. Some rock must have hit it, or chaffing took place along with the bike's vibration. So what I did was to add a protection layer.

Protection layer for the scottoiler tube.

This is where I shifted the scottoiler to. Not under the tank where temperature was extremely hot and not under the seat where precious space will be wasted. In the rear cowl!!

Actually, since the first time I fit scotty, I had always been eyeing this place for scotty, also dunno why that time didnt put scotty there.

There might be some problem topping up the oil, but there will be months later.........

EO change, trying out Royal Purple

2008-04-25T18:12:00.001+08:00

Royal Purple x 3 $17.50 each
Mileage : 114,256k Mileage
It just click pass 5000k and being to Thailand once. I guess its time to change EO.
Will be trying out this Royal Purple. Many good comments on it and trying it out.

Getting some stuff over the weekend

2008-04-21T19:14:00.005+08:00

Meet quite a number of people over the weekend to gather some stuff for my bike.

Meet Raymond & Kris, Maverick, Mark, Alan & Carine, Mark & Vanessa, NewOldGuy, Solowing, Freddy, Avril, Damian & Sarah, Johnny, Rachael and Kenny the Mechanic.

Bike's EO was going to due for another change, got my self new oils before I really need them. Been hearing good and bad review on this "Royal Purple". Decide to try them out for next change to see for myself.

$17.50 each.

These intake mesh were dislodge while removing head cowl for spraying, forgot to glue them back and they kept coming off, after so long, removed, resprayed them and await to be fitted.

Scottoiler Vacuum hose, going to replace them.

Electrical horns, these were a must get for touring.
Stock horns sounds sissy at high speed.

Got myself some clear rear indicator/signal lense.
Awaiting for front's to arrive.

Rear set adapter/Kick plates. Move stock rearsets approx. 1.65" back and 1.5" up.
Made with 6061 aluminum. $60 for a set. Limited

Maverick was asking if I want a set of these and told me to try his bike on the spot.
Try the new dimension and felt it gave me the angel I wanted where everytime I corner.
Bought on the spot.

Stock, without adapters

With adapters

Stock, without adapters

With adapters and extension gear rod.

Its been a long time since Jean followed me into Mysia for pump.
She really enjoy herself.

My Virgin ride to Thailand (Hatyai) 11-15 April 2008 Part 2 of 2

2008-04-18T01:23:00.001+08:00

Day 4, 14 April 2008.
Thailand Hatyai and Danok
Again I'll keep the story brief and short.

The 3rd morning at Hatyai, We received morning calls to have breakfast at a near-by coffee shop. Raymond said the mix pig organ porridge were good, we also had cuppa-egg. After breakfast, we went to a market place to get some bike accessories, we wanted Thai license plate sticker, but the owner wasn't around to convert English to Thai. Proceed to see see look look at some neckless and walked around the market place visiting some bike accessories shops.

Breakfast

Licence sticker making shop.

Many Neckless being sold in this area

More Pics

Amulet casement and neckless

Wet market

Saw Mickey & Minnie licence plate screws

Si pei Chio Fino.
Fino were commonly seen along the roads

Bike accessories shop

After we got what we wanted, we left the market area. Next, we couldn't help stopping at the bird nest shop once more. Today we brought Stan and Mark along to enjoy this wonderful dish :)

BirdNest!!

As part of the plan, we were to ride to Danok to stay for 1 night coz its nearer to the Thai border and has night life activity in the area. Getting ready our bikes to leave Hatyai, we were going to visit a temple and then head to our hotel in Danok. Pay my respect at the temple and left for Danok.

Hotel to temple.

At Danok's street.

Parked our bikes at the hotel's carpark and brought our stuff to our rooms. Took a quick bath, make ourselves cozy and had a good rest. Later, Raymond, Kris and I had a simple dinner in one of the stall along the main road. The food were too good for being just a simple stall. We walked along the street of Danok, it was pretty lively, many stalls were set-up along the main roads, passed by several pubs and night clubs.

Many of these fried chicken stall were observed along the road

Simple but yummy food, the best was "Tom Yum Pig trottle"

After our meals, we walked along their "pasar malam" before have another massage. By the time we finished and head back to our hotel rooms, it was close to mid-night, I gave Jean usual good night call before turning in.

Donuts!!

"Pasar Malam"

The last morning of our trip.

Woke up by a phone call asking for breakfast again, we gathered and came to a near-by coffee shop. Everyone had "Ba Kut Teh" and eggs. I notice the half-boiled in Thailand were all serve in cups unlike Singapore serving in small plates.

Our Breakfast!

Walked pass 7-11 and saw a rare Kawazaki Concourse

After our meals, we return to our rooms to packed our stuff, we were heading back to Singapore. I wanted to bring back the water guns for my nephew and nieces and managed to duct taped it to my side box racks. Everyone were excited and at the same time disappointed that funs' over.

Getting ready at the hotel

Our group photo.

At Semanggol R&R, directing others to stop here.

Finally at GP Shell after almost 9 hours of ride from Thailand.

While riding home, I was rather excited to see Jean. She must be very excited while waiting for me to return home. I remember when reaching Lornie road, I sped up so I could reach home faster as I cant wait to see and hug her, and also to show her all the presents that I've gotten for her.

This was a very wonderful ride for me, no serious accident and everyone travel safely to and fro with us. I was glad I went with this group of riders/buddies and they took good care of everyone and help those in need of help.

Thank you everyone, you all play a big part in one way or another,
Looking forward for more rides like these.......

June Hatyai bike week and October's 3NCR......With Jean this time!

My Virgin ride to Thailand (Hatyai) 11-15 April 2008 Part 1of 2

2008-04-17T11:19:00.014+08:00

Date : 11 April 2008 - 15 April 2008
Venue : Thailand (Hatyai)
Mileage frm GP Esso - Thai Border 820km
Total distant travel frm GP Esso to GP Shell 1,835.3km

Duration (To) 11pm - 7.30am (8.5hr)
1st stop 12 Apr 00:56 (Ayer Keroh)
2nd stop 12 Apr 02:15 (RaWang)
3rd stop 12 Apr 04:21 (SG Perak)
4th stop 12 Apr 05:57 (Gurun)
Thaiborder 12 Apr 07:33

Riders:
Ti§h : Busa
Freddy : ZX12R
Raymond & Kris : 08 Busa
Maverick : Busa
Mark : Busa
Bunny : BlackBird
Stan : VFR 800
Songkee : Suzuki 1000
"Sor kai" Suzuki 1000

Duration (Fro) 12.30pm - 9pm
1st stop 15 Apr 14:42 (Bukit Merah - Semanggol)
2nd stop 15 Apr 16:48 (Ulu Berman)
3rd stop 15 Apr 19:02 (Ayer Keroh)
GP Shell 15 Apr 21:06

Riders:
Ti§h : Busa
Freddy : ZX12R
Raymond & Kris : 08 Busa
Maverick : Busa
Mark : Busa
Bunny : BlackBird
Stan : VFR 800
Songkee : Suzuki 1000
Kent : CBR 900
Uncle Huat : CBR 900

It was my virgin ride to Thailand, a ride of my dream and one of my goal for touring - a non-stop ride from Singapore to Thailand border,(Except for petrol stops). I felt I had accomplished what most tourer's would love to when they first found love in touring.

Will try to keep my bore stories short.

Never expect a slight jam at Tuas Singapore custom at 10pm on this Friday night, the Phuket bike week event participaters should have already left a few days ago. Anyway, reached GP Esso and 9 bikes of us left for Thailand, most stops were for petrol and short breaks. Road conditions were ok, some normal traffic and most of the time clear. Occasionally, careless drivers of 4 wheelers & big truck will overtake while we were coming very fast from behind forcing us to hard brake. Despite the condition and some road bullies, we've reach the Thai border in approx. 9 hours.

One of the petrol stop, everyone's taking a short break:
Cig break, pee break, stretching break, shoulders aching break, bones breaking break.....

At the Thai border was another story, I never tot that the queue to get pass the custom was another head ache. But I was told by a BlackBird Malay rider, Bunny, that it was because tomorrow is the Thai's New Year, Songkran, that causes the big crowd. When everyone was getting bored waiting for their passport to clear, a small ceremony at the border with girls doing their traditional Thai dancing took place.

Dancing Ceremony

Songkran:
Sprinkle water to pay respect, most people splash or shoot water.
Apply powdery water on opposite sex to ward off evil, most people use it on other's face/neck.

My bike in between Malaysia and Thailand Custom.

Thailand Border, custom.

During the Thai New Year, Songkran.
Powder were smear on our bikes by the Thais.
A sign to ward off evil.

After the long queue to get our passport clear, we headed off another 60km to Hatyai, to our hotel. There, everyone had a good clean up and rest. Later, we gather and head off to Oliver, a massage parlor where they do good Thai massage. The massage were very comfortable, easing off the aches and pain on everyone's muscles and joints. Others felt so comfy and doze off snoring away.....

Our hotel.

Massage Parlor, a place that only does massaging.

With our bodies fully rejuvenated, stomaches started groaning in its hollow bowl. Freddy brought us to the 2nd floor of a building somewhere. I was surprise to be on a hill top on the 2nd floor. The building was built against a hill, probably preventing land slides? Anyway the food was superb!! Other than some spicy and sour Thai sauce, the variety and cooking method was something new to me! Dont ask me what, I have no idea!

A forest on top of a building.

Is this the "Wa-yang Show" stage??

Some very very very YUMMY food!!!

Emptied the dishes and drown ourselves with beers, we left the restaurant to walk along a busy street with plenty of side stalls set up for the mid night count down. There were many various food and accessories displayed for sale.

Some weird food....

More weird food.....

With too much food in the stomach, blood starts to flow down from the brain to the tummy to start/support digesting process. Thus, getting sleepy. Went back hotel to end the day... Outside, the countdown was starting and getting very noisy..... I made a call back to Jean before turning off the lights..... I missed her so much then.

The very next morning:
Woke up from a call. It was Freddy asking to have breakfast. Got myself ready and while looking out of the window, saw 2 pickups with family members all geared up for the water war.

This is nothing compared to what I seen on the main road later in the day.

Was suppose to have "Dim Sum" for breakfast but it was super crowded, we then picked a Muslim stall so Bunny could join us. There was nothing much to order except for rice with Muslim dishes and prata. Guess what, almost everyone had prata. The choice of variety were almost the same except for the cooking style and the taste of another country's food.

"Dim Sum!! Dim Sum!! Dim Sum!!"

A different onion Prata!
Prata with curry chicken was surprisingly yummy!

I behaved like a kid bothering the others if they wanted to start a war with water guns. Most ignored me, I guess I was going to miss all the fun. So we took a stroll back to the Hotel. While walking back, some of us were constantly "shot/hit" Finally Mark Aka Mercenary said "THATS IT!! BUY THE GUNS AND SHOOT THEM BACK". There, my fun's coming, haha!!

We brave into the war zone to the stall selling our weapons, 3 of us took the biggest and most powerful guns(300baht), from there on, it was a never ending war.................

Blindly walked into this mess which later, made us "Mercenaries"

the Warriors!!

After realising that the COUNTRY's War isn't going to end at all, we decided to end our war. On the way back to hotel, water bullets and bomb were still aimed at us. Sadly, we were low on ammos..... while walking, passed a Bird Nest Stall and Raymond asked me along for some goodies.....

Wanted the "1st class Xue Yan" but out of stock
So I had "1st class Gold Bird nest" and we shared a big bowl of Shark's Fin.

Head back to hotel to wash up, while everyone were recovering from the " wounds of war", some came over to our rooms to have a game of "dai ti", passing time away towards dinner.

Nice ass.... 500baht can?

Some suggested to ride out to have dinner, so we gear up partially and rode off to dunno what restaurant sitting on another hill. Parked out bikes infront of the the building as usual and walked in..... The view was wonderful, there was a view of "Golden Buddah" on aother hill and the "streets of Haiyat" We had some simple dishes and a good chat before heading back hotel.

We're the boss!

View of the Golden Buddah

View of Haiyat.
At that time, I wanted so much for Jean to be there with me.

Almost everyone....

Some simple dishes...

Night time, the time for activities.... Raymond asked if I would like to join him at the night bazaar. I immediately agreed and left with him, not knowing where the others were heading.... I need to be at the bazaar so I could buy some presents for my Wife. Shopping for her, on her behalf. "Searching for Mickey! Searching for Mickey!"

Bought her some earrings, hand phone cover, neckless, shorts, pants, belts, slippers, door mats, nail stickers... I guess thats' all ?

The story is getting too long and needed another part...........

Stay tune............

Rear Brake Rotor replacement

2008-04-11T12:10:00.003+08:00

It was raining Cats & Dogs in the morning when I was suppose to replace my rear rotor. The idea was to replace as early as possible and come home to take plenty of rest!

So wait wait wait... and wait wait and wait and wait and wait...... but rain didnt stop, until finally it became a drizzle. went down to factor around 11am and finally had it replaced.

Worn-out disc brake

Nicely fit and ready to roll!!

With new disc brake in place, braking still not very effective, shall hold lightly on the lever till the pads are fully bedded in and disc had roughen out....

Thailand Blues....

2008-04-10T22:50:00.003+08:00

When I first got my very own bike(TA200), Stanley brought me to Malaysia for makans, that is where I started loving Touring with bike. Since then were just short trips to nearby Johor towns. It was only when I rode my babe (GSX1300R) before I went further to places like Genting, Malacca, KL, Penang, Port Dickson.

One of my goal was to ride up to Thailand from Singapore thru Malaysia. I've missed out one last year (2007) when Freddy invited. This year, I'll told myself I'm going to ride at least 1 time to Thailand and in future if there is more chances, I'll travel more to Thailand with Jean and tour around it.

This Thailand trip, we were suppose to join the Phuket Bike Week 2008 event. Due to Sokrang festival, there wasn't anymore cheap hotel rooms. Unlike the others and Neo who were going for the bike week. We're just going to enjoy the Sokrang festival in Hatyai. Leaving on 11th April 2230hrs and coming back on 15 April.

For the past few weeks, Jean's been getting reckless, she cant go with me due to her exams, and she very worried coz since Dec last year till now, there were many reports of bike accident along NSHW and Thailand. Jean kept asking me to take care, ride cautiously and safely. I promise myself that I will call her whenever I could, and ride safe.

Even myself, I started feeling reckless and moody. Coz I was going on a long trip without Jean. I felt her concern and I was worried about her.

Another reason of mu blues where, most of my closer friends were not coming along, they give reasons/excuses like :
Mindef related exercises
Just change job, not nice to take leave
Bike not fierce enough
Gf dont allow, scare Gf scold

However, this is 1 trip that I have been waiting for along time.......... Thailand, here I come!!!!

Rear Brake Rotor (After Market)

2008-04-10T14:26:00.009+08:00

Rear Brake Rotor, £14.99(SG$42.10) Start Bid price, £25(SG$70.20) buy now price
Shipment £10 (SG$28.08)
Got a good deal from the same guy at £23.99 ($67.37) inclusive shipment.

The story was, My rear rotor(disc brake) had been wear since day 1 I took over the bike from Johnsen. Other riders seldom use the rear brake, but not me. It became worst each day till today and now, it was so worn out that I've decide to look into ebay for a cheap after market deal.

Spotted on ebay. There were many sellers selling it.

I had my drive chain and sprocket replace in the morning, when I got home, my rotor was lying on my table. It was delivered to me while I was at the bike shop.

On my table when i got home from replacing chain.

Assuming that the rotor will reach my doorstep only when I'm in Thailand, I could have had the rotor installed together with the drive chain! Damn!!! Now I'm desperate to get the rotor installed, because its lying uselessly on my table!!!!

So nice, its ready to install,
but why of all time when I just got back from bike shop!!

Chain replacement for Thailand trip.

2008-04-10T14:10:00.007+08:00

DID X-Ring 50VM(530VM) 120ZB approx $170
Front Sprocket approx $80
Mileage approx : 111,770km

About a month ago, While cleaning my chain, I notice some *tok *tok sound while rotating the rear wheel slowly. Was it time for my chain or sprocket to go? My drive chain had been running in all sort of condition, hard, fast, gently, slow, sudden, wet, dry, sandy, clean, etc et.... The chain clocked approx. 40,000 KM. I guess its really time to replace them.

D.I.D, My prefered brand.
X-Ring, My prefered choice.

New set of Chain & Sprocket

It was for the best coz I'm going up thailand on friday and cannot affort to have a chain snap(unlikely but super dangerous). I need to travel with a safe and peace mind and to come home to see my worried wife

This is 1 Area I always wanted to open up for cleaning.

Tools that are required to open up the sprocket cover and remove the sprocket.
Not forgetting a Jack.

Order from Motor Factor the same set of chain as my current, and a stock front sprocket. Told them to alter to the shortest my wheel could hold. Was comparing my old and new sprocket because it ran almost half the mileage of the drive chain. It did wear enough for me to decide a change.

Comparing the Old and New Sprocket, the (teeth) are
slightly tilted and sharper, a sign of wear.

Old Chain

New Drive Chain, the *tok sound went away.

ZeeVinCeZ teach you how to save petrol

2008-04-08T17:50:00.002+08:00

Quoted from ZeeVinCeZ:

Tips For Filling Up Gasoline

This is an advice from the expert on How not to lose money at the petrol stations especially when petrol prices are sky rocketing!

Read it and take action to start saving the next time you go to the petrol station:

I've been in the petroleum pipeline business for about 31 years, currently working for the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline here in San Jose, CA. We deliver about 4 million gallons in a 24-hour period from the pipe line; one day it's diesel, the next day it's jet fuel and gasoline. We have 34 storage tanks here with a total capacity of 16,800,000 gallons. Here are some tricks to help you get your money's worth.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapours created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapour recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapour, which is being sucked back into the underground tank so you're getting less gas for your money.

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'.

Bearing for rear Wheel set.

2008-04-02T18:02:00.003+08:00

SLS Bearings
KOYO Sprocket 62/32 : $12+ (price increased from $8+)
NIS Wheel 60/32 2 set : $6+ each
Labor @ Planet motor $20
Mileage : Approx 111,500km

After changing only the front wheel bearings at HKL last sat, I had been thinking that I should get the rear's change as well for a 1 time change thingy. I didnt change the rear at HKL coz they didnt have stock and I do not want to wait for them to bring in.

I was told of getting alternative from SLS Bearings near Lavender S11 Food Court. I would like to get the whole set KOYO coz they were made in Japan, however there were no stock for wheels so I got NIS from China instead. I was assure the standard and material were same quality. But if given a choice, I would get all KOYO or Nachi.

Jean got bored while at HKL servicing.

2008-03-30T23:06:00.002+08:00

Jean was getting bored while I was having my tyres replaced.

HKL Servicing and Metzeler M3 for thailand trip.

2008-03-30T01:24:00.001+08:00

HKL @ Alexandra
Mileage : 111,188 km
Nachi Front Wheel bearing x 2 : $10 each
Metzeler Sportec M3 Sport tech 120/190 tyre change package: $400 for both tyre
Ariete Tyre Valve : $45 1 set

My tyre change plan was after the 3rd Falcon ride to Ayer Hitam. Although I couldn't make it due to my puncture, I still go ahead to had them changed. My current Pilot Power 2CT served me a good 14,028 km . I had rode on almost all kind of road condition in S'pore and frequent M'ysia 's Highway, probably once or twice on Pasir Gudang's Track.

Front tyre hasn't really worn out, but it wont last a next rear tyre's life and I would like to change 1 pair, especially of the same brand and same type. I dont like 1 front 2 rear rule.

The Rear is not in the condition to ride anymore.

View of a "Worm" just patched from the inside

My new set of M3, very good manufacture date, these are dual compound.

Week 21 2007

Week 35 2007

Nachi 6205 bearing for front wheel, these old bearings gotta
go for safety reasons as a long trip's coming up

The new bearing were dual seal too, but the seals were not
rubber and I dont want to wait for stock to come.

This next itemI;ve got out of itchy backside were the L-shape tyre valve. My current L-shaped valve had a torn rubber seal on the outside of the rim and these new ones from Ariete had their seals on the inside of the rims.

Aeiete's Tyre Valves

Rubber seal is inside, but blocked by the nut which had lock tight applied too.

Front Wheel

Rear wheel

March 2008 Falcon Ride

2008-03-29T22:20:00.007+08:00

It was the falcon riders monthly ride to Ayer Hitam for some coffee. I had

already missed the first 2 ride so I dont want to miss this one.
I was to meet up with my usual group at lavender and set off for the meeting
point at GP Petronas where the main group is. They were leaving at 11pm sharp
for Ayer Hitam.

We arrive at GP Esso around 11:15pm, but the main group had left.
When we were about to leave to catch up with some guys at the next
toll. My bike felt weird when moving off, the rear was fish-tailing
on both sides, I suspect my rear tyre had deflated and I was right
when i got off the bike to check.


Just a few of us at GP ESSO, the main group had left.


This stupid thing was in my tyre that cause me to miss the ride

While trying to inflate the tyre, we found a sharp thin piece of metal
sheet that look like a broken piece of penknife had pierced my tyre.
But no worries as I always had a tyre repair in my bike.

It was easy to get the "worm" into the hole. However there was a problem
getting air into the tyre. It took a very long time to get the pressure up
to around 8 psi. I decided to make a U-ture at exit 312C and continue
inflating the tyre at a newer petrol station "Shell" on the other side.
I bid the rest farewell and thank them for staying to help before heading
to shell with Andrew.


Worm in the tyre.

With those brighter lightnings, I spotted a piece of rubber in the tyre
valve. That was what's slowing down the air from getting in. Once removed,
getting it to 42PSI only took 1 minute. Took and short rest, and head
home..... slowly.....

I was very lucky to find my tyre deflated at the petrol station, I cannot
imagine moving off and stuck in the middle of no where on the NSHW with
a deflated tyre with only "worms" and no pump to inflate. Nasty things
could have happen.

Options for these kinda situation on the highway:
* Push the bike to the nearest station
* Get a friend to buy a pump and repair kit from the nearest station.
* Phone call for help
* Wait for highway tow truck to petrol pass and seek help from them.
* Wave to a SG Vehicle and hope they honestly help
* Wait for highway police for assistance
* Wait to get robbed while waiting for any of the aboved.

Therefor always prepare emergency kits when traveling in NSHW. At
least there is a chance for you to rectify the problem rather than waiting
to get robbed, being alone or with just your GF is going to put you in a
very disadvantage situation!

Suggest for tyre puncture situation:
* Torch light
* Tyre repair kit
* Air pressure canister/Air pump
* Communication device (hp)
* Standard bike tools
* Some knowledge on how to repair and SA and "A LOT OF LUCK"

Finally got the rear tyre in place. Damn, I've missed this round too!

Thanks Andrew and the rest who help/assisted.

Freddy, Maverik, Mark & Vanessa, Geraki, Mr Seng and Denson, sorry for delaying the ride.

An impromptu outing to Pasir Gudang 22 Mar 08

2008-03-23T15:57:00.006+08:00

Alan called on thur night to asked if I was interested to go PG for a session, I told him fri morning is out for me as I had plans meeting contractors and sourcing for furniture and electric appliance for my new apartment. I told him Sat morn is fine.

We met 8am at GP Petronas. Alan didnt want to meet at JB shell as he was afraid of the jam due to the recent "Happy Mat" case. I brought breakfast along coz I need to have my meals at least an hour be4 a track session, else the whole circuit will stink with my vomits hehe...

I meet Victor for the first time today, he was riding an XR SM, Alan & with their Fazer, Cavin with his 954 and Me with my usual "babe"

When reaching PG, the gate was closed. We were about to leave when someone called out from behind the gate to say "opens at 9AM" Thank god! We left for breakfast.

After BF, we came back to PG and book the 10am session. The photographer, videographer, lap timer were all Carine, standing directly under the hot sun, haha.

Once geared up, off we went. Nothing much to talk about the experience except I felt my boots scrape the ground a few time during some bends.

Victor and his XR

Seriously, Alan should change to a sports-tourer or a sports bike.
He just love the tracks.

Cavin with his 954.

Me and my babe. As usual, I came with only jeans and guards.
Whats the point of getting a suit when I only come here twice a year?

Cheese!! Cheers!! Cheekos!!!

Rear Before n After.

Didnt realise my farings substain some scars while doing the bends...

Boots where I felt it scraping....

Guards were scraped too.....

Foot rest pegs.... Scrape....

SOME VIDEOS COMPILED

Finishing up the general stuff!! Part 2/2 (8 Mar 2008)

2008-03-14T20:52:00.014+08:00

It was a lazy sat morning, Charlie and I was suppose to meet up with Andrew so we could touch up our falcons. Charlie was suppose to meet up with Andrew at 10am but looks like he got problem getting up haha. In the end we all reached around 1pm and Andrew was like

Looking for the best spot with water supply, and was happily removing my fairins when a loud horn came from behind, we were in the way of the stupid dust bin truck that has a friendly froggie smile painted on the side.

Nmind about that, I was rather positive and wont let any small obstacles get in my way, I had to finish the rest of the stuff today!!

Charlie wants his speed bleeders in and honey comb out. I want my honey comb out and water wetter in and maybe re-bleed my brake system. Andrew only want his sponge on the air filter, later Charlie also want. U want, I want, he also want, everybody also want.

The best spot! Got kerb to sit, got space to do bike, got water near by.

But dustbin truck wants the space too!!

Charlie was in a horrible state. Red watery eyes, drooling nostrils, watery mouth. I think he got rabies. When i saw him sucking a lightless cig , i realise it was a white stick with some chemical inside, he was on drugs!!!! hehehe.

We did our stuff seriously and quietly... except every now and then,
someone would burst out sneezing.
HHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooo

Andrew assisting Charlie with his calipers nipple replacement.

I was ready to flush my radiator.

The easiest way to let the coolant out was to open up the hose at the bottom and let it drain. Removing the coolant container, i had a hard time flushing out the sticky chemical sticking on the surface inside the container.

I had plenty of distill water at Andrew's, almost 15 liters. I wanted to flush the system with distill water. But the design seems impossible to do so. Unless there is pressure to force distill water into all angles of the system. In the end, i used tap water with a hose and some pressure to flush the system for 5 minutes.

Draining out the coolant

Water wetter, getting the right amount.

Premixed with demineralize/distill water.
3 Liters for busa.

There is only 1 honey comb structure in the mid pipe on the right exhaust. Had to remove the mid pipe to knock it out silly. I heard it was quite easy, simply find a hard rod, place in the center of the honey comb and know it silly hard and it should pop out. Balls its not!

The structure is harder then I tot. The easiest way is to drill 5-6 holes on the outer circular edge of the circle and knock it out. The alternative is to use a Phillip head(cross) screw driver and knock 5-6 holes on the outer circular area to weaken it and knock the on the center and hope it comes out.

Following this theory, even before completing the circular weakening holes, it was out when half done!

The inside of busa's exhaust.

Honey comb structure. The small twig sticking out is a sensor.

It looks kinda weak and brittle, but the real thing is damn bloody strong when it was in place.
The blood stain on the rag? Dont tell u!!

Now its hollow, better air flow.

Now, its Charlie's turn, following the same theory, he knock his fingers a few time with the hammer keke. STUUPPIIIDDDD BOY!!!

Damn bloody serious!

Cool without the pipe right!!
Took a pic while waiting for Charlie's hammer. So slow sia!

The other honey comb structure where its easily access was at the bottom of the extractor. That was on the left side. It wasn't as deep as the right mid pipe. It came out only a few knocks using the same theory. The negative part is, the honey comb might break off and stuck inside. Start the engine and blow a few time, if it comes out, good! Else put back the exhaust, ride ur bike until 1 day u can hear the honey comb jingling at the mid pipe hehe.

Honey comb. So nice n beautiful!

Now its gone! Was knocked out silly! Mine got stuck but came
out when I blow the engine a few time.
Too bad for charlie, his was jingling all the way home hehe!!

When I mount back everything and start my engine to make sure everything was alright. The FI light appear and kept blinking, turning off the engine to check if i forgotten to plug back any plugs. Nothing was unplugged. But the damn FI light keep coming out. Almost gettign desprate that the FI had gone faulty, I looked into Andrew's set of servicing manual and realise a sensor was not detected and so the FI light blink every 2 seconds.

Did a final check and saw the sensor on my mid pipe was broken. OMG I must have knocked it silly!!

Broken sensor!!

Directly under the bike collecting layers of oil and dust. I had to scrap it off and clean it.

Took a spare sensor from Andrew and everything was back to normal. But the time I had everything done up, Charlie and Andrew had new sponge for their air filter. It was 8pm then and we decided to call it a day!

Thanks Everyone!

Some stuff happen during the week.

2008-03-05T23:50:00.007+08:00

Water Wetter x 1 $20 (HKL)
Brake reservoir hose and bleeding at Master pump $10 (Motor world)
Cleaning front sprocket area $20 (Planet Motor)

Some things happened during the week.

I was quite contented with my new hose and its length, was admiring it while riding everyday until 1 fine day when i remove my bike cover and saw the brake reservoir hose "sweating". Beads of liquid formed on the entire hose, I touched and smell and confirm it was brake fluid.
I know that brake fluid mostly are corrosive but i didnt think fuel hose wasn't suitable to contain it.

I rode to work taking care not to brake hard. During lunch time, I skipped lunch and went to nearest bike shop"MotorWorld" to have my black hose replaced with the correct type, doesn't matter that the hose is clear. I would have replace the hose myself if it wasn't for such an important function of the bike and had to be replaced ASAP.

Clear hose/tube

Later in the week, I was looking around for "Water Wetter" coolant coz I will be flushing my radiator on the coming weekend. I went to the nearest place (K&T) I could think of that has Water Wetter. Reached there and Clifford told me that its for his servicing and not for sale :O. Now i had to go all the way to Alexandra, HKL to get that Cherry Red Coolant :X.

The one and only place that i know of selling this. HKL

The last best thing was, Charlie and I were going over to Andrew's Place for the part 2 servicing, but at the last minute, Andrew gave us a timing that would take away out precious sleep. I assume he was going to use the noon time to accompany his GF( she was away for a week). We had to postponed it, still pending :)

Just yesterday, I send my bike for cleaning up the front sprocket area. That place was clogged with dust,gravel,pebbles,tar and any small things u can find on the road. They were mixed with my scottoiler oil and lump up black sticky and oily around that area. The mechanic took 1 hour to wash, brush, dig, rub, jet spray with petrol that whole area.

I didnt want to dirty myself and sent it to Planet motor to wash it. Well the it came out super clean and looked as if it was brand new, but sad to say almost immediately it was clean, its going be dirty again. Dirt and oil are going to mix and slowly lump up at that area once more :C

Doing up some general stuff. Part 1/2 (24 Feb 2008)

2008-02-28T21:17:00.004+08:00

Maxima 15W50 x 3bot $19ea
Oil filter x 1 $10ea
Speed Bleeders for busa x 5 nipples USD$7ea
Brake fluid Dot 4 x 3 set $8+ea (Esso/Mobil)
Hose X 1
Seats cover (rider&Pillion) $55 (aunty shop)

Mileage : 109,230 km

There were some stuff to be done on my bike and had been pending since I was having lesson like 4 days a week. Its quite tiring, and would like to spend my weekends with my wife lazing and relaxing instead of doing anything else.

Exams were finally over and while waiting for next term to begin. Shall doing up some stuff.

Since the Speed bleeders had arrived, Charlie, Andrew and I had decided to install it next weekend, but Andrew was asking me if i want to go over his place to do some stuff first for this weekend since I had alot on my list and he is super free coz his GF is not in SG. Charlie? He doing something for Singapore this week.

Andrew, Alan, Carine, Jean and I met up super early to catch a show, Jumper, sponsored by RSAF. Before that we had Bread and half boiled eggs at Killiney coffee shop(Jln Basar). After the show, everyone accompanied me to "Aunty shop" opposite Lavender S-11 food court, to had my torn seat cover replaced.

I wasn't very keen in changing it there for 2 reason. 1st, the original Suzuki seat cover material is soft and "sticker". 2nd, I was going to Thailand this April and could have it done at much much cheaper price. But the torn was getting longer each time I place my butt there :(

In the early afternoon, I alone met Andrew at his void deckto service bmy bike. I did my speed bleeders first since other servicing require stuff that are not avaliable yet. Screwing out the nipplesheads were easy but not for the clutch nipple(need to remove left fairing). I had to remove both fairings as I will be removing the oil filter from the right side. Bleeding the rear brake system require access to the rear brake reservoir and eventually, the rear cowl was removed. At the end of the day, only the head cowl was left of the 3/4 naked busa.

Even if i didnt intend to replace the nipple with "Speed Bleeder"
I would had it replace with a new nipple as its corroding.
Behind this area is where the front sprocket and 1 end of the chain is,
This is one of the most dirtiest place and I will be sending it for washing soon.

2 for Rear brake caliper( the other one is out of sight)

1 of the Front Brake Caliper

In general, I removed both fairings and rear cowl to access for bleeding and changing oil filter, I replace and replenished my bike with fresh EO. I intended to remount my front brake reservoir so the hose to my Brembo Radial Pump wont be bend(unsuccessful). I replace a shorter hose for my front brake reservoir. And tune my idling. Topped my Scottoiler oil when i go home.

Successfully Shorten the length of the hose but not the position of the resvoir.

Its all thanks to Anderw that I got my stuff done. He had the right tools, he had the right place to do the bike and he is the right guy for the jobs. Too bad he is not a girl haha.

Getting Speed bleeders

2008-02-15T23:11:00.002+08:00

After pondering over the speed bleeders, decided to get it since will be doing my own bleeding on Dot4 areas.

As stated, it should be much easier to bleed the brake system without the brake fluid flowing back into the "nipple".

Went to ask a few guys on getting a small "MO" Got 3 sets of hayabusa's Brake and clutch nipples.

Package arrived on 11 Feb 08.

3 Sets. 4 nipple for brake, 1 nipple for clutch.

Tow-bike for towing vehicles?

2008-02-14T22:46:00.004+08:00

My friend had email me some pic on tow bike for towing vehicles. God look at that!!

Lunar New Year 2008

2008-02-09T11:29:00.000+08:00

Had washed my bike on Lunar New year eve since I will be riding around visiting frends & relative. Did a quick wash so I could have reunion dinner with my in laws.

I guess i wont be doing much on my bike after going thru my finance for the near future.

2008 is quite a busy and expensive year for me. I'll be planning stuff like photo shooting for my wedding, organising my customary wedding and dinner, organising and looking over on Jean & my new apartment's renovation. Finishing up my final year of part time studies. All these require $$$ and time.

So thats it, no serious stuff for my busa. My only wish for this year is some more touring trips hopefully further up north than Penang.

Stainless Steel Caliper nipple with check valve

2008-02-02T11:44:00.000+08:00

DIY bleeding the brake/clutch system has became common among bike owners who really take care of their bikes.

Unlike bike shops with better equipment, bleeding the entire brake system from the calipers without those equipment is a very tedious job. At the end of the day, the owner's hands will be shivering due to too much pumping of the brake lever.

I came across this item from a friend. Its a stainless steel caliper nipple with a check valve built in it. When depressing the lever, the brake fluid will be force out of the nipple and will not return due to the check valve. I say its a pretty good investment and its not very costly too.

Raymond brings us to Benut, M'ysia 26 Jan 2008

2008-01-27T22:09:00.000+08:00

The last time Freddy wanted to bring us to Benut, but it was too late after everyone arrived at GP Petronas, instead we went to Kulai's nasi lemak. I was kinda sad because I heard so much about it but didnt had a chance to travel/eat there.

This time I asked Raymond if he could bring us to Benut and he agreed. Many people couldn't make it, so there wasn't such a big crowd this time. However, i was excited because it was my first time to Benut.

Benut is 85km away from GP Petronas, 70km of highway and 15+ of village road. Road condition at Benut wasn't so bad. Just that it was 1 lane 1 direction on each side. Travelling along the village road for the last 15km was a challenge, overtaking slower vehicles and avoiding sudden vehicle turning out from the side roads or from their house.

After the adventure, we parked our bikes infront of the restaurant "MEI WEI". We chose to sit outside the restaurant so we could look over our bikes.

we've ordered 5-6 dishes, the were some simple dishes like Kang kong veg, Swee sour "Kong Ba", Mimic Prawns, Fried Oyster Omelette , Deep fried pumpkin and last but no least, Shark's fin. Overall, everyone paid approx RM$20, not too ex for a meal that includes shark's fin huh! I would't say the food was special, it was a different feel with a further travelling distant unlike the usual Kulai "You Meng" and Perlin "Queens.

Parking infont of "Mei Wei" Restaurant

The travellers

Some thing different from the usual.

Yes, the food was not so special, but we really enjoy it!

Cheers...

Fixing my Brembo Pump and meeting the red busa.

2008-01-24T22:58:00.000+08:00

Fitting up the brembo radial master cylinder was a pain in the ass. Firstly, I'm working n studying so time is a problem for me to DIY it up. Secondly, my bike shop has been getting real popular till my mechanic, Mr C didn't have time to fix up my Brembo. I waited at his bike shop for an hour + from the appointed time and had to leave my bike there for him to do it up.

My base has an event at AFS and there i met Denson the red busa, in fact i met him many times at AFS. Chatted with Denson for a while to see how things are coming up with his tourings, seems like he always got plans up north all the time.... Envy!!

Once my base event ended, I went to pick up my bike with my Brembo radial master cylinder fixed up, but it was messy, the tube was bent and my mechanic didnt cut it to accommodate the distant of the brake fluid reservoir from the cylinder. No only that, my brake lines were kept in a way it was rubbing my front fender/mudguard. Not very satisfy after paying $40. But was satisfy with the performance of my new brake cylinder.

There, all done up.

Brembo Reservoir has its drain hole at the bottom, not very practical for busa.

This is the part where the tube was bent, it will definitely restrict the flow of the fluid.
Bracket may need to replace too.

For now, will let it run and hopfully everything will be in place when I do my second bleeding in a weeks time to let out all the air bubbles.

My Brembo Product, from USA.

2008-01-22T01:00:00.000+08:00

Brembo 19x20 forged radial folding master cylinder. USD$300 X 1.469 = SG$440

After trying the Brembo on some busa. Decided it was time to get 1 since the stock pump lever is starting to feel sucky.....

Been looking around for good offers but looks like the price in our local market just wont go below $500 for the full set. Decided to go Ebay to look for it and found myself a real good deal. Purchased it immediately.

As usual, the ebay sellers in USA had the product shipped via express mail. Within 5 working days and it should arrive at our doorstep.

Was working today when Jean sudddenly called, she said guess what, a postman had deliver a package and its for you. When I went home that night after night class, immediately open up the package, it was a Brembo alright.

The Package

Complete set:
Pump 19X20
Flip-up Lever
Brackets
Brembo Reservoir
Tube
Banjo Bolt for 2 brake lines with pressure brake light switch

If i didnt interpret wrongly, the data in the circle is the manufacture date,
July 2006.

Now its a matter of time before i fix it up.

M'ysia custom news!! GOOD NEWS on white card

2008-01-20T01:18:00.000+08:00

When I arrived at the M'ysia custom for them to clear me today, they return my completed white card without chopping/tearing. I saw a notice and it said there isn't a need to submit the white card fron 19 jan 08 onwards.

Thats one of the best news i had from M'ysia custom!!

Hooray!!

EDITED: Check the news here

Monthly Flight for the Falcons!!

2008-01-16T17:38:00.000+08:00

After joining the Hayabusa's forum in the SBF for close to a yr, we finally manage to come out with a monthly ride to further places(minimum 100+km), its more like brining the bike for a good exercise, clear carbon, keeps those mechanical muscles in shape.

Here's what the post state :

FALCON RIDERS Announcement

I am thinking of doing a BIG MAN TOY RUN once a month to nearby Machap or Yong Peng for our Falcon blow out.
The purpose is not just only blowing off carbon but also to keep the Singapore Falcon Spirits scheme alive, those experience ones can guide the new comers on their machine neccessary works and to familiarize the Falcon and ride it with confident.
After the raining season is over and I am little more easy to manage my time now, I will do a kick off and somebody will help to take over this event if I am unable to attend. Will either do it on the first or last week of the Friday 11pm.

Complusary needs:

- Proper riding gears
- Clear visor (night run)
- Prior check 1day to 2days before the RUN
- Valid passport (please check)
- Tow truck on standby (Malaysia)
- Appointed road captain with First Aids (take turn)
- Appointed last man with Tyre Repair kits (take turn)

* Guys please let me know your views and level of interest.
I have serveral plans, provide me your opinions and I will work on it accorrdingly. Ride Safe.

Will be looking forward to the program.....

Kulai Turtle Soup 12 jan 08

2008-01-13T14:41:00.000+08:00

Someone posted for an outing to Malaysia Kulai for Turtle soup. Sound interesting isn't it ? Had been to kulai for so many many times since 2001/2002. Have heard of any place selling turtle soup. I wasn't really keen in drinking turtle soup since my dad use to boil for me.

12 jan, we were suppose to meet at 9.30 pm and move off at 10pm, like usual people always come late and the group always move off late. Never in any of my outings people came early and move off at the planned timing.

while waiting for the late comers, I was curious aso I ask the organiser, so where is this turtle soup stall in kulai. You know what was the ans ? "YOU MENG" and i was like "%^#%&#%#$%#$^%&^#%^" Who dunno you meng, but it was true that we didn't know that You Meng sells turtle soups. His excuse was this time, we go there just for turtle soup.

There were only 5 entries in the name list of the outing post, almost 20 over bikes turn up most were from small groups added up to the big number.There is a rare pillion that night from our group, she is Cavin's wife. I heard of her turning up before once or twice, but its a rare sight to see her tonight.

In the end, we went back to the usual place You Meng, none of us wanted turtle soup, even with that, there were no turtle soup that night, ha! No photos were taken then.

Cavin & wife.

Ray & Kris

Solo,lonely,light bulbing rider, Andrew

I just love these, they are sweet with no sugar coz of Xylitol, their main function is to whiten teeth and promote more saliva to wash ur mouth and with more saliva, more enzymes could help break down more left over food in ur teeth !!!! So why ban em ?

Brake better with Brembo Master Cylinder

2008-01-11T00:55:00.001+08:00

Brembo is popular for its reputation, its quality gives the braking sensitivity what riders need for their rides, be it street, touring or racing.

For busa with 2 front disc brakes, Brembo Master Cylinder for front brake with 19mm diameter piston/bore is more suitable. The 19mm bore comes with 3 set of lever ration/pivot distance : 16 , 18 & 20.

19x20 : Very sensitive, brake at slightest pull, street use.
19x18 : Sensitive, slightly more braking effort, street/racing
19x16 : Least sensitive, hard braking effort, pure racing.

EDITED: Apart from the "RCS". The 19 series design comes with 3 different quality of workmanship, newly machined billet, forge and cast. So what's with the cast? Long story so i got a quote from here.

The main differences are the area around the lever pivot on a Brembo is machined flat on bith sides and later cylinders have the dimensions stamped on the top flat, wheras the copies are rough cast. The finish of the copies is a slightly gloss painted type finish and Brembo's are dull anodized finish, the same goes for the pushrod/span adjuster etc, these are gloss black on the copies and satin/matt on Brembo's. the clips for the lever pivot pin is black on the copy and silver on Brembo There is no stamping or etching on the copy levers and are a rougher finish/ not as machined and brembo have the ratio # etched or stamped either on the ball of the lever or in the cut-out just near the span adjuster. The span adjuter on the copy is really stiff and doesn't 'click' nicely. The copies come with a reservoir and hose fitted, there is no branding on the reservoir, brembo's dont come with res and the brembo res has the 'B' logo on the lid. The bleed nipple on the copy is 8 or 10mm nut and Brembo's are 11mm.

EDITED : In general, forged and billet are genuine Brembo product, casted?? no one can confirm what are they.

For busa with capability of hiting more than 300km/hr, most people would suggest 19x20 for effective braking.

Billet

Forge

Another biker down, he was doing a tribute!!

2008-01-10T23:59:00.000+08:00

Late Ahmad Rock was kill in Thailand when he collided with another bike

On front page on some papers, a biker was killed while doing a tribute to his fellow buddies of his bike team, Sport Motorcycle Tour(SMT).

In less than a month, 2 biker were killed while they were not a fault. Although both of them were not related and not doing the same thing, they were killed when collided into another bike doing stupid things, it was sad to hear that because there were kill while doing what the love most. Marcus was enjoying his track while Ahmad's touring to Golden Triangle and at the same time, riding in memory of his buddies who die in Feb 07 around Ipoh.

Ahmad was believe to crash into a Thai bike doing an illegal U-turn. A Thai found out from his friend who withness the scene, put up in the forum so Ahmad's friends and relative could respond to the emergency.

Late Ahmad Rock, busa rider. RIP and continue ur never ending tour to the greater lands.

Shifting and putting things around the bike...

2007-12-28T19:59:00.000+08:00

I had a few things in mind to do on my bike. One of the earliest was to shift the scottoiler from my underseat to undertank. Maverik taught me how to do it and even offered me a bracket for it.

The other thing was to mesh up my rear cowl holes. I bought some mesh wires to mesh up my radiator and had spares left. I always wanted to mesh up those holes ever since i saw people doing it. I was going to remove my rear cowl to shift my scottoiler today and decide to mesh up those holes at the same time.....

Finally the scottoiler is dry and i could shift it witouth dripping those expensive lubricants.....

There, nicely mesh up.....

Some other things that i saw Maverik had done on his bike was to mesh up the sawed portion of his hugger. I didn't want to remove my hugger since i took a long time fastening it the last time. I also didnt want to saw portion off my hugger as i do not have the tools to do so. Lastly, I got no more mesh wire as I gave the rest to Alan for his radiator.

Everything took me almost 4 hours coz some things cock up, if u want to know what stupid thing happen to me, please ask me directly coz i dun wan to put them in my blog.....

thanks ;)

News of Marcus's Duc Crashing into a GSX's Rear fatally

2007-12-27T11:46:00.000+08:00

Was back from Penang not long ago when I've notice the news of a fatal accident happed in Pasir Gudang. At first I didnt know who it was until Charlie asked if I could take part in the funeral convoy.

I knew Marcus in person at Pasir Gudang in June 07, only barely noticing him, all i know was that, he was in a red duc and botak at that time.

Pics taken in June 07

Our group photo in Pasir Gudang, hes the red duc far left.

There were news of the incident for the past few days on how it crash. From "TODAY" to "Wan pao" to "Straits Times".

News of the incident.

In the forum, some closed friends had came out with a logo to stick on the bike in remembrance of Marcus. Small sticker were stick on the front mudguard of Marcus's friends' bikes. I tot the sticker couldn't be made in time, so i had printed out some on paper to stick on the windshield.

At the funeral, friends of Marcus came to form a bike convoy to send him to Mandai crematorium. It was the last ride with Marcus from his house to Mandai....

Rest in peace Marcus, though I hardly know u and met u only once. Will save a space for u in my heart too..... Goodbye fellow biker, continue ur endless ride in the heavenly tracks.....

Penang Island, Here we come...... Starting Part

2007-12-24T17:55:00.001+08:00

Touring to Penang Island - 20 Dec 2007 0630hrs - 23 Dec 2007 1630hrs

Since the post will be a long one, will be splitting it into 2 parts.

Riders :
Jason & Jean, Busa w Touring Project
Charlie & Avril Busa w Touring Project
Alan & Carine Fazer 1k

Driver :
Damian and Sarah

Total Mileage for entire Penang trip: 1570.1km
From GP Petronas to last day of Penang : 846.2km
From Penang to GP Petronas : 723.9km

Few months back, Charlie and Damian was thinking of organizing a trip to Penang and stay in Damian's Parent's apartment. Since that, all of us had been looking at the calender to find an appropriate dates to take leave for the trip.

With the our touring project completed, its easier to pack our stuffs for the trip, jean has her box and I had mine, an additional tank bag for extra shopping stuff ;)

The move off time from GP Petronas is 0630hrs, hence everyone woke up very early. Jean and I set our alarm at 4am and by 6am, we were waiting at Petronas. Without any breakfast, we had milo to keep our stomach from groaning.....

Arriving early at start point and had milo....
With my Touring project completed, its time to test it out at full throttle....

Alan & Carine were the second bike to arrive, followed by Charlie & Avril in their busa and Damian & Sarah in their "little red car" :) All geared up and set off, bikes and car on different pace. Thats because the little red car could hit 400km none stop be4 gassing up but our 2-wheels could only hit 200km.

We make a quick stops to top-up petrol, Later we arrive at a major R&R to have our breakfast, a short brief on the trips ahead to decide on the next topping up point and meeting point with the red car.

Well, big bikes had to park in big lots....
The fried rice is great and coffee is thick... i love it...

Driver briefing with rider while passenger briefing with the pillion....
Once eating & briefing is done, geared up and move off......

The next few hundred kilometers is a bit of a disturbance, the dark clouds formed and dissappeared, rain came and left, got heavy blurring our vision and sometimes light to a drizzle. In the end it seems like the rain was chasing us. In the beginning, we had to stop to put on additional rain gears as our touring suits were partially waterproof.

If u think the rain was bad enough, we had Mini Cooper Sports chasing us in their own convoy, some even attempted to challenge us to a pick-up, but 4-wheeled vs 2 wheeled.... the heavier one is almost always on the loosing end. Anyway, we were all mature enuff to know its some kinda fun and later thumbs up to each other after the thrills.... No hard feelings at all....

If u think mother nature and road bullies were even worst, then we had a major jam with almost 2-4 km long in 2 lane highway moving and stopping as if going thru a car park barrier. We bikes had to squeeze in between lanes of cars making sure not to hit any car's mirror so we could move ahead if others. The worst part in this situation is the pain of the clutch control.....
Riders will know what i mean.... shakie left hands later....

The rain was so heavy we had to stop at a petrol station to take shelter,
at the same time gassing up and had small bites and drinks...

The sun begin to shine once more, put on our gears and head for the highway again. The rain didnt bother us anymore. We stopped at 2 more station be4 finally hitting the Penang Island Bridge.

On the second station previously, we met the Cooper drivers, their sport were super charged, and their engine tuned up.... a man spoke to me, his cooper S could hit a top speed of approx 240km/hr. No idea how fast is his compared to other coopers S, but busa could hit 340+km/hr ever recorded , mine could only hit 300km/hr stock as shown on my dial.

Upon crossing the Penang Bridge, there were more jam due to holiday. We had to squeeze our way into the island and find our way to Damian's apartment at "Teban Leader", i think it meant Leader Garden in Malay.

With to many turns on the roads ahead, Charlie made a wrong turn, we ended up going in circles until we stop at Shell petrol station to get our bearings right. Will looking at the map, an old lady in her late 50s dressed like a begger holding on to her worn off bicycle approach us and asked if we were lost, she wanted to provide some directions. And all the time, she was speaking in very fluent English... I was like, speechless starting at her, her appearance doesnt fit the way she speaks...... OMG lol...

With the help of the old lady, we've finally arrive near Damian's apartment. Damian hasen't reach and he is going to be late as he was caught in the same jams earlier that we had faced. Everyone's getting hungry and decided to eat at a nearby coffee shop while waiting for the little red car.

We were so tired and hungry that we quickly took off our gears and immediately order some food, While waiting for food, we sat tiredly staring in mid air.... just like zombies haha...

Alan finding his tou-fu had a fishy smell.
Jean and I had fish & chips and pork chop.
The food were rather tasty, or were we too hungry?

The moment Damian arrive, it started to rain heavily again, was the rain chasing us quietly or Damian brought the rain along lol... Well its December, cant expect a sunny trip.....
After our meal, we let the ladies in the car while we man sacrifice ourselves by riding in the rain to the nearby apartment.

At the apartment, we were so busy handing our suits to dry and boots to air, all took turns to bath and later gather at the living room to talked about the trip earlier.

With nothing much to do and no idea what's in Penang island, Charlie called up a friend staying in Penang to ask if he could help in showing us around. His friend, Kuma, agree and even took the effort to come to the apartment to discuss on tomorrow's plans. After plans were made, stomach got empty again.... Everyone agree on ordering Pizza as nobody wanted to leave the comfy apartment.

Suits on the celling, Gloves on the windows, helmet on the tables and shoes and boxes on the floor... thats about all in gearing down.

Jean had brough assignment while Avril had homework, they had much work but wanted to come along for the fun, so they decided on playing and studying at the same time....

Once the pizza arrived, everyone dig into the cheesy triangles, the boxes were emptied within 20 minutes or so...
Jean with her full stomach love the cheesy topping so much that she stuff the toppings and left the bread uneaten... BAD GIRL!!!! u know in south America how many hungry people....blah...blah...blah....

Everyone turn-in early after the meal so we could wake up around 8am for breakfast tomorrow. When I woke up, I heard some water gushing sound and rush to the windows to see where was that sound coming from. There was a mini waterfall just behind the apartment. What a nice view, so I took charlie's camera to take some close shots.... I found more of those nice scenery from other bed room windows and had capture them too.

Nice scenery at the back of the apartment.

Some nice view of the sea side...

We took a lift down and found ourselves a beautiful swimming pool, since all the ladies were smartly dressed for the morning, they deserve some nice snap by the pool.

Sweet ladies.... they sure know how to dress to make known their are friends...
see their shirts.... gifts from Avril...

We left the apartment and took a walk to the market to have our breakfast, on the way,spotted some school bus in Penang Island, they were parked outside a school. Further out, I could see a clearer view of our apartment, it has a shape of a thick pencil because of its pointed roof.

It says "BAS SE-Ko Lah"

A View of the thick pencil apartment

Upon reaching the market place, I could smell some foul odor of dead chicken, damn stinko, worst than those in Singapore market. We went inside the hawker, more than half of the stalls were closed, maybe because its their holiday.

The nearby market from our apartment.

After scouting around, Jean decide to have pork mee soup while I ordered fried wan ton mee dry. The coffee here is nice too, Malaysian make good coffee c.

We were having a good time chatting and eating

Some of the tasty breakfast..... everything taste nice...

While walking back to our apartment, we came across a cake shop. Everyone seems so eager to get in to buy something, just like some kids stumbling across a cake shop. The X'mas decoration inside the shop was beautiful, the variety of cakes, cookies and ice-creams sent the ladies browsing shelf after shelf, trays after trays..... everyone bought something for themselves.

HAPPY KIDS...

Kids's Ice creams, Kids's cookies, Kids's cakes, Kids's pastries, Kids's everywhere!!!

Once the kids were contented, we head back to our apartment. On the way, we make sure our bikes were locked up properly, then head up to take a rest, the next plan was to shop at Plaza Gurney.

We make sure our bikes we damn bloody well locked, see this busa... lock to a drain grill and then to a "big" tree.... "super double safety"... hahahhahahaha

Suffering aches from the previous day's long ride, Avril decided to give Charlie and back step, not "not back stab" lol. While Alan need 2 ladies to do his traditional Thai back grip. Everyone was doing something while waiting for 2pm, the shopping trip.

Good massage!! ladies.

Was doing some make up while chatting and got caught in the act...

It was time to set off. I notice a play ground beside the apartment, it was empty and somehow, I felt like going over to just play a little. While walking out to catch a taxi, there is a push cart stall selling fried stuff. It sure smell nice and we all bought something to eat.

Sure bring back some old memories

Ohh!! Ohh, this stall selling fried stuff taste real good!!
I love the fried tapioca and banana ball.

Yum yum... Some idiot told us here got bus, but we waited so long and end up taking taxi.

The taxis in Malaysia are famous for "Meter spoil" and charging by a fixed amount of fare. Anyway, the trip to Plaza Gurney is RM$15. Every couple split at the shopping center to do their own shopping. Jean was enjoying herself and she was hopping to get some shoes in this trip, later, she got a pair. I was happy but no so happy as my pockets were burning slowly.....

Nice deco at the Shopping centre.

Her window shopping and her shoes

Will continue the rest of the trip in the next post, I will arrange the next post of this Penang trip to be below this post.

Penang Island Here we come...... Final Part

2007-12-24T17:54:00.000+08:00

Continue from the previous post........

Kuma came along to the shopping center so he could show us around. After shopping, we all met at Dome restaurant and left for the " AnJung Gurney" Hawker. This place looks like a mini "Newton Circus" in Singapore. Extremely crowded and lotsa Stall. The drinks hawker here seems to have war with one another, pulling customers to different sides and their tables had stickers of their stall, other stall's drinks weren't allowed on their tables. We all found ourselves 2 different drinks stall tables to combine and had some problem ordering drinks at first, but we were left alone later.

Most of the guys left to order foods, we all brought back different variety of food, they were named similar to those in Singapore, just that they were cooked in different way. Overall, the food were really very tasty!! nothing to complain at all.

Jean and I came to a certain stall that had sticks of raw food placed all over, it had a few pots of boiling soup to dip in with the raw food. The food were then cooked and eaten on the spot, payment to be made when we decide to leave, we had a few stick and the food were very tasty and delicious.

The AnJung Gurney Hawker

All the different stalls with variety of foods

The food here look simple but the taste was of a different level...
The fried kuay teow, fried oyster omelette, satay tasted different from Singapore

Panang's Asam Laska isnt spicy at all and tasted delicious
The "Lok Lok" stall selling raw food to dip in boiling soup, just like a mobile steam boat.

Before leaving the hawker, Kuma told us that a certain stall selling snacks and biscuits had this certain brand "Tau Sar" bun that is extremely tasty unlike those normally sold elsewhere.
We bought some...

The stall that sells a tasty brand "Tau Sar" bun,
Everyone bought some....

With bags of shopping stuff, we headed back to our apartment to put down our things and wash up a little before setting off to the night bazaar. It was a very direct stright path towards the bazaar from out apartment, not complicated at all.

We rode to the night bazaar and parked in front of Kuma's friend's shop. Kuma then brought us around the bazaar showing us different kinda stuff and helped us see if the things we were going to buy is worth or being chopped. Jean & I bought some stuff for our new house and for her parents as well.

Stalls were set up along road sides similar to Singapore's "Pasar Malam" but the stuff sold here is definitely different, 1 of the most obvious is the pirated medias. We seems to walk endlessly around the night bazaar and had to rest in a sea food restaurant along the way viewing the sea creature in the display tanks.

Jean just love looking at stuff here.....

Alan and I got very bored and tired and nothing to do and dun wanna walk, we start getting reckless..... we just walk n walk n walk n walk while the girls see n see n see n see... and later buy.... :(

The sea food Village, the entrance on the left had displays of sea creatures to be selected for feasting....

Many many tanks, many many sea animals, many many hungry stomach want to eat many many of them.... But girls only want to look good n take photos.....

The walk was finally over and everyone agree on going home to rest for the next day's event, nothing much happen that night except a few light sleepers heard a big dog barking near-by..... opppssssss it was someone snoring...... whose the fat dog barking ? hehehe

On the very next morning, the boys had plans to tour around the island because Kuma said there were many nice views and winding roads that bikers would love to counter them. The ladies decided to sit comfortably in the little red car while the guys geared up to get ready for some action.

Riding around Penang near the city at peak hour is a little headache, there are so many cars and jams, some roads were 1 laned. Bikers with big bikes just hate those. I must admit the hill top views were very relaxing and the path was a never ending windings. By the time we rest at a dam/reservoir, we counted as if we had countered 999 corners already....

Ladies, always looking good for photo taking.... comfortably sitting in the car.

Riding around to get to the hill pass and some seasides....

We came to a petrol station so we could use the rest room, at the same time, pump some air into the tyres.

Around the hills.... there were many nice views but no place to stop to take pics...
but there is time for video!!

At the dam/reservoir, the view is really nice, we just had to take some shots....

Jean & I and our "Babe"

Using Charlie's camera..... beautiful....

A Snap of babe

Nice view around ......

After having enuff of viewing and photo taking, its time to fill our stomach once more, the winding roads had push all the breakfast right to the bottom and nothing is left on top... Riding straight ahead took us back to the place where the night bazaar was held, there we notice a large ship that is not meant for sailing but to eat in...

The interior looks just like the inside of a ship, the tables, however were all placed for dinning in, the waiters dressed as sailors too..... but they couldn't speak proper English... lol

The food just look yummy, the snails, steak, salmon and seafood all taste good and unlike the way it was cook in Singapore.
Jean had pan fried salmon while I had beef steak with mushroom in mushroom sauce. Delicious~~

X'mas dining photo.....

With swollen bellies, we walk behind the ship and found ourselves a very nice view of a seaside. There were many activities going on, out of nowhere an " ah-neh prince charming in black" rode along and asked if we wanna take photos of his horse.....for $20. Feel like kicking him in his face....

Various seasports in Penang island

Jean & I just love the seaside, when I first met her, I often took her to seasides chatting and enjoying the waves and sea breeze......sometimes, watching aircraft flying past too...

A group photo.... opsss , i was blocking someone hehe...

The girls went for pedi/manicure while 3 guys rode their beast back home in the winding roads. Back at the apartment, Alan and Charlie went to the water fall and did all kinds of stupid things there. While I'm stuck to the show DIE HARD 4 the moment it was played.

When all had returned, Kuma came along and brought us "APLINESTAR POUCHES" it wasn't sold anyway in Singapore and it looks kinda cool! Jean and the girls were complaining the pedi/manicure was too ex and looked too plain haha. Later we cut the watermelon into half that Charlie had bought the day be4. It was sweet and juicy, since the weather was rather hot, it was nice to eat watermelon.

Very nice AlpineStar Pouch.....

See!! Looks good on us!!

Watermelon that Charlie bought while shopping at Plaza Kurney.

Kuma left early and we made our way down to a nearby mini open air restaurant for some seafood. Little did we realise the crabs were all sold out until we ordered the food and had our drinks drank half-way. Well too late to change to another restaurant, the only seafood we had was prawns.

Water Fall photos finally uploaded!!

Beautiful isn't it?

Is he wearing underwear? haha

Is he even wearing anything below at all ?? lol!!

Some restaurant.... never miss a meal without the green bottle.... hehe just joking...

We all went back after eating to pack our luggages as we had to leave very early in the morning the next day so we can reached Singapore before night fall. The packing was easy with 3 luggages. I love to get my things ready early, so I had removed my jackets this afternoon and hung them in my bedroom, my raincoat were packed the day before. Thats the way Jean and I love to had our things done.

The following morning was a little busy, we had to clean up Damian's apartment coz we were allowed to use it for free. The cost to stay in a hotel in Penang is not cheap. Therefore we didnt really spend much on this trip except fueling the bike. Damian & Sarah had to pay an extra RM$200 for the TOL all the way from Singapore to Penang and back to Singapore.

We got on our bikes, the mileage clocked since day 1 was 840++. As we rode along the bridge, Charlie stopped us so we could take some pic at the beautiful Penang bridge, I read somewhere that Penang bridge is the 3rd longest in the world. The sun rise was so beautiful that Jean took pictures of it.

Getting ready to ride back to Singapore

Beautiful Penang Bridge, that how Penang is connected to Malaysia.

The beautiful Sunrise that Jean took

Along the way back, we came to a major R & R Tapah, there were donuts and ice cream, but we were in a little rush and too tired to have them. We went to the food court to have some regular local food.

Yummy, that way it looks...

Stopping to have a break and some bites....

After breakfast, we made another stop at Ayer Kerok for some ice cream wafer's at A & W. For the rest of the journey, we only need to make 1 stop but we made 2 so that we could have enough rest before finally reaching GP Petronas.

The trip back wasn't as difficult as the trip to Penang. There weren't much cars on the road and it was sunny all the way. We took almost 12 hours to reach Penang but it only took us 9 hours to reach Singapore.

Finally reaching GP Petronas all in 1 piece..... Safe n sound, and of coz enjoying every bit of it....

END of Dec 07 Penang post........

EO Change for a fresher run to Penang

2007-12-19T01:38:00.001+08:00

Motor World beside Sim lim
Mileage 103,250
Maxima 15W50 $21 x 3 ($19X3)

Will be going in Penang soon and total mileage will clock more than 1K km, since its 4K+ km on my side, I've decided to give my babe some fresh oil for her run....

Sw-Motech Racks

2007-12-08T23:46:00.001+08:00

>>>My Touring Project<<<

SW-Motech Racks for Hayabusa

1 set :
Total cost USD$423.79
Shippment USD$133.70

We've managed to cut the price and got everything for SG$520 per set ,
YES SG$520 not USD!!

Touring for the past year was really fun but the pain is the luggage space for all the shopping, I've always wanted a Cobin box but who the hell can afford it, especially for an average guy like me. I dont really care if people are going to point fingers and laugh, in the end. Im the one going to enjoy my tourings. Sometime..... it aren't just about looks....

We've placed an order 1 month ago, got a call and our items has arrived, Charlie and I put aside sometime today to get everything fix up for our tourings in future.......

Alan and Andrew came along too to kaypo abit with the setups hehe.... no lah, they just want to come along to have lunch together, chit chat and enjoy what bikers always do.... talk about bikes.....

My package.... SW-Motech racks....

This piece of metal is damn bloody hard....

It was easy to just follow the diagrams.... u just need the right tools...

Had to replace the signal lights coz the rack will need the space...

Andrew helping Charlie and my at the same time..

Getting one of the piece in place...

Shit!, Charlie's almost finished, he just getting the adapter in only...

We got the Quicklock fasteners so the rack can be left alone in public

Done up!!

Been looking around for slimmer box, this is the slimmest so far.... 21 liters...

Decided to decorate the box a little, its just too plain...

Ready for touring!!

Meshing up Radiator....

2007-12-07T23:29:00.000+08:00

Since I started travelling to Malaysia quite frequently, meshing up my radiator is a must as the roads in Malaysia are full of gravel and dirt....

Meshing will prevent the fins getting dented and stuck with dirts from the rides...

One of the most commonly use mesh for radiators, 1 foot for $10....

The Track's full story.

2007-11-28T01:02:00.000+08:00

Out of sudden, Cavin aka Newbie wants to go track, he ask me to jio Alan along. Another 2 friends whom overheard wanted to come along too,1 didnt want his name mentioned, I shall call him "Cannot tell her". The other couldn't come and so he pray hard pray that it will Rain big big.... Pui....... some friend.....Named him "one who curse".

We organised on a particular day with the following guys
Jason & Jean, Busa
Alan & Carine Fazer 1000
Cavin Honda 954
"Cannot tell her" Super 4

We were suppose to meet 9am at Shell just after City Sq. A little upset when I arrived.
Firstly, its 8.55am and no one has arrive yet.
Secondly, the "one who curse's" sua mouth people pray hard it will rain and they clouds are getting dark already :(.
Thirdly, I've dropped my helmet on the side, a piece that holds the visor has a broker joint somwhere inside, now i have a loose visor. Lucky Jean decided to come along so I have a spare scratchless visor, lucky Alan brought duct Tape so i can tape the visor tight.

Early birds but lonely birds...

Soon all arrived and soon, the sky became dark and soon, we hurried off to Johor Circuit. Upon arriving, it started to drizzle. the moment we rode into the shelter, down came the big big rain "one who curse" has brought.

We knew we couldn't ride in the circuit during the rain and immediately after the rain coz of wet slippery roads. Very demoralized and didnt know what to do. Another 2 bikes came along from the heavy downpour and I was so surprise to see the owner of BikeTech21, Shah with his R6.

Top left, "Cannot tell her's " Super4, Alan's Fazer and my busa
Bottom Right, Black R6 and Honda 954

In the end, we waited for the rain to stop and left cursing n swearing to "one who curse" coz he cursed us with rain.... :( "and coz he cant come, haha" Came to a nearby coffee shop and had some lunch, someone decided that we all should go back to see if the floor is dry.

Back to J-circuit again and was happy to see the circuit is so dry after only 2 hours, the "one who curse" didnt cursed enuff i guessed hahaha.... Anyway, we all geared up and went in blasting away and wasting rubbers....

Geared up and waiting for the Rex to finish "his" session.

While in the circuit, we got the ladies things to do to keep themselves busy too, they were the time watcher, videographer, photographer and securities that guard our valuables. Hehe... thank you ladies.

Nice, sweet, lovely ladies, they are so helpful,
dont forget to bring them along next time ;)

The "prayers"/"laiders"/"lacers"

In Action

Full of action.....

End of Session..... and no more action!

The Fazer scraped his lower frame while encountering a corner.. wow...

My tyres, almost fully used...

The Main videographer.... See the clips she took below...
Deserved a big Hug...... from me of coz....

Almost all of the clips modify into 1 clip.

Later, we all travel the highway to 2nd link and took a break at GP KFC before filling our "lacing" bikes with petrol before heading for home....

Track Day

2007-11-27T17:12:00.000+08:00

My timing for last 5 laps is like:
2.25.82
2.14.33
2.14.58
2.09.34
2.13.03

6 days of servicing......

2007-11-18T00:12:00.001+08:00

Motor Factor @ Ubi
Mileage :100,000 Km
Tappet Clearance $280
Hel Steel Braided hose for Clutch $90
Dot 5.1 $10
Clutch Master Pump repair Kit $35
Fork servicing $160
Steerling Damper Servicing $25
Throttle Body Manifold Seals $80
Air filter service $0
Air box sponge $0

After the long wait - was told 4 days but waited 6 days.Went to collect my bike on sat noon. I was satisfy with the servicing. Rode off and felt my bike quieter and also smoother in the acceleration. I was told that my tensioner was not in a good condition. Anyway it was fixed.

Now i can ride to Penang without much worries.....

New Hel Lines for Clutch.

The next 24k Servicing....

2007-11-14T20:24:00.000+08:00

Motor Factor @ Ubi

Its time for the next 24k servicing. I was deciding on a few bike shops, but want someone with lotsa patient to do my tappet clearance. Clifford is to busy with many bikes as usual, the next man on the list is Alex, Motor Factor.

In this servicing, I've included many stuff as well. The process will take about 5 days, wedesday is the 3rd day, went down to take a look how much left to do...

Flip over the cloth and saw this.....
Very much like a many's rip cage showing on an operation table haha.

Had my forks serviced, this looks bad.....

Cams...

Had my clutch lines replaced to match my brake lines,
but the main reason is, clutch lines are already 4 years old.

Had the Pump repair kit replaced too...

Worn glove, New glove....

2007-11-08T22:28:00.000+08:00

AlpineStars SP2 @ Regina $150 ($130)

Jean bought for me a pair of glove as a surprise almost 3 yrs ago or more... I've been using it all the time coz it felt so warm. Using too much has causes it to wear off alot.

Its time to get a new pair of glove. So what happen to the old one ? Will be still wearing it ... ;)

There is a hole on the bottom left and i had it patched with a cloth tape.
I cant bear to throw it away and had sew it many times whenever there were loose thread or small holes.

A pair of new touring gloves. Black, suits me best!