Riding season will likely end for me Either late Nov or if I'm really lucky, early Dec.

Probably be able to get back on around Feb-March depending on license issue.

Over the winter I'd like to get some work done on her as I'll be able to keep her in pieces for extended periods of time.

Over Dec-Jan I'd like to accomplish the following:
1. Koso gauge
2. rear huger
3. Finally get my clip ons, rear sets, and preload adjusters installed and adjusted
4. Upgrade to a fully customizable rear suspension
5. Possibly attempt a FI project
6. upgrade brake lines
7. aftermarket levers.

Something that I'm sure sounds stupid and way out of my league would be adding a mini turbo if I can get a really solid FI setup. Since the FI setup seems to be a lot of starting up tests, I probably can't do that over winter as I can't start my bike in my living room (if it were my house, I would but it's...

I am a girl, who bought her first bike 2 years ago. I wanted a small bike and feel in love with the look of the Ninja 250.. I bought mine brand new and I drove it a bit but my car was still my main mode of transportation. It is because of this that I was not able to get the gas cap fixed when it first stopped working. 2 months out of warranty I got the first service done with under 800 miles on my bike. They told me that it would be over 300.00 to fix it so yet again my bike went on the back burner. I have not driven it in over a year and when I tried to get an exception to the warranty I was refused by the customer care team with Kawasaki. I am angry, and to think at one point in time I was thinking about purchasing another bike from Kawasaki but as of today I never intend to purchase another from kawasaki...

I just posted some pics of my bike and some recent mods i have done to my bike..check them out

hi everyone...i was wondering if anyone knew anything about this slip-on or had it..i was looking into getting one and wanted to know if i was making the right choice.

The Ninjette has been neglected for at least a week since I finished up Abby the Frankenmiata. I cannibalized my wrecked 1999 Miata to build a nice daily driver and track car using a beater 1990 for a tub. The 1990 Miata now has the drivetrain and suspension of a 1999, hence the appellation Frankenmiata. And the name Abby? Well, if you are a fan of the Mel Brooks movie, Young Frankenstein, you will know the source.

Abby and I will be off to Thunderhill this coming Friday to see if I can get my driving chops back. Trackmasters is having a 7-session track day! No doubt I will be thouroughly whipped when the day is over.

But getting back to the Ninjette world, I am beginning to hate Kawasaki for its excessive use of red Loctite. Today I replaced the bars on my Ninjette. The previous owner had dropped the bike and bent the bars. He tried to straighten them but wasn't too successful. I got new bars and tried to put them on.

Turns out that everything...

Installed a dyno jet kit with a danmoto slip-on this weekend and the difference was crazy. Installed the jet kit using the directions included (I am at sea level) and it required no tuning at all. Kit was easy to install and easy to understand. The HARDEST part was removing the carbs. You can do it by removing the battery box and simply sliding the airbox back, after that just loosen the hose clamps holding the carbs in place and wiggle them out. Long story short, big difference and well worth the money.

I probably should have put this in as my first blog post. I am blogging for a reason. I am working up to doing to some long-distance touring on my Ninjette. I am already thinking of doing a week-long loop through California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and back again. Part of this is how to get the Ninjette prepared to go the distance.

The first step is to make sure that everything on the bike is working properly. As this is a used bike that I purchased with 12,000 mi on it and the previous owner had made some counter-productive modifications, I am getting the bike back to stock and then making some useful modifications to improve braking, handling, a better seat (my 57-year-old butt is not nearly as "iron" as it used to be), and then carrying some things.

I will certainly get into setting up a way to run useful electrical devices such as a GPS, two-way radio (I am a ham radio operator and will include that on the bike), phone, GPS tracker, etc....

Went out riding today. My what an improvement good brakes make. Three things I want to add to yesterday's posting:

1. It takes a LOT of effort to bleed the front brake properly. You have to be persistent and get every last little bubble out or you will have a spongy brake. It doesn't help that the bubbles are trying to rise up the brake line while you are trying to pump fluid down to the caliper. Just be patient and keep working at it.
   
2. The hold-down clamp for the rear brake line failed and let my beautiful new Galfer smoke-grey line bow out and touch the muffler, melting that beautiful smoke-grey outer layer. I have rerouted it and used more tie-wraps to ensure that it doesn't happen again but that is just annoying.
   
3. Be prepared to exert hundreds of pounds of torque to remove the front disk mounting allen bolts. I don't know who last did the ones on my Ninjette but whoever they were, they were clearly a believer in red Loctite. And given the state of the rotor I suspect

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I love the opportunity to learn new things. Getting back on a bike after a 35-year hiatus has turned out to be just such an opportunity. And that bike turned out to be a 2006 Kawasaki Ninja EX250, a far cry from the Hodaka 100 that I had set up for desert racing back in the late '60s. (Yeah, I am that old.)

But I am never one to leave well enough alone, especially mechanical things. The Ninjette is no exclusion. So far I have put right the things that the young man who previously owned the bike had changed in an attempt to increase performance. The bike runs better and stronger now with the stock exhaust and airbox in place again.

I have made the first improvement to the bike -- new brakes. I have put a new rotor on the front with Vesrah pads, stainlesss-steel brake lines, and changed the brake fluid using a high-wet-boiling point synthetic DOT-4 brake fluid.

The rear brake rotor was in good shape so it just got new stock pads but it also got...

So, the way that everything aligned, I started class the next Friday. Classroom stuff was a breeze, but a bit of a pain... it was 45 minutes away, but with DC area traffic, make that a cool 1hr+ on a Friday evening. I got there about 5 minutes before class started. I was also signed up for the 6am class . Sadly, I was thrilled then they told us that they would not start until 6:45am, which meant I could leave the house at 5:45am instead of 5am! (Did I mention that I am not a morning person? I'm NOT.)

Range Day One: I get there on time and we have a class of 12. (I didn't know at the time, but I think that is the max # allowed). The class is a mix of experienced riders (dirt bikers since childhood, people who had been doing the permit test for years, rebels who had just been riding with no license) and total noobs like myself. That's cool?

I'm not going to go into all of the details, because quite frankly I don't remember everything. Suffice to say that I am...