Now I'm pissed off. Put some new iridium plugs in the 1100 and 750. Mate and I took them for a ride, sweeeeeet. Then the 750 decided to start running rough and break down under load. Idles fine, goes ok with little throttle, but breaks down under power. We think maybe the coils aren't keeping up with the extra spark from the iridiums - well, that's a theory. The bike has always run a bit rich, and when I removed the plugs they were quite sooty, so I've wound out the air screws 1/4 turn, but no change to the breaking down. I'm going to get some new standard plugs and see if it goes back to the reasonably fine running beastie that she is. The plugs after all were the only thing we changed, and it was running fine before the change.
I've got electronic ignition to put in it, inc new coils, but ffs I just don't seem to have the time.
The 1100 is running great on the iridiums.
I also got pissed off on that test ride when a knobhead in a 4wd decided to sit 12" behind me and sit on his horn.....in traffic when I had nowhere to go, only doing about 40kph (very busy this time of the year down here on the coast), then he pulls out and passes me with oncoming traffic coming, about 12" from my side and then slams across in front of me nearly taking out my front wheel. That was enough for me, so I followed him and pulled up alongside of him at a stop sign, but he took off without looking at me, so I kept following him - I had plenty of fuel and he had to stop sooner or later. Eventually he pulled into a driveway where I then pulled up behind him, and after a few seconds of discussion with his clearly nervous wife sitting alongside of him, he got out of his car, and I said the obvious...'wtf is your problem cockhead?'....and he says in his upper class toffy nosed fkn arrogant plum in the mouth voice 'you were in my way'. WTF?? I said...'what, don't I have the right to be on the road?'...and he says...wait for it.....'you're on a bike, you were riding near the centre line and you could have pulled over a bit so people can get past you'....at that point I told him...'fk off you fkn idiot'....and rode away. What a fkn knob. What's the point in arguing with a knob like that.
So obviously, as motorcyclists we are expected to ride in the gutter so 4wd owners can squeeze past us to arrive at the next stop sign 1.2secs earlier. Give me fkn strength.
