Hibernating Kat

It's been way to long and some of my friends like to joke and say, "Robert use to ride a bike...". Its been some what of a never ending April Fools joke I guess. The bike was flooded, plugs fouled, and it needed a valve adjustment. So it was time for my 1996 GSX600FT Katana to get a tune up of sorts.

Well as you can see all the blue fairings (plastics) on the bike cover most of the bike and the tank sits right on top of the motor. To get to the plugs, you have to pretty much remove everything, just no other way about it. Now the bike was not running right after being flooded a couple times and the plugs being fouled. So the only option was to brake her down and replace some stuff.

We got so far, might as well keep going we said. That's right, we went ahead an broke her down more an adjusted the valves too. Worked in reverse order and put her back together. Still not running right. Took her to a shop and they helped a very little bit, but could not tell me exactly what was wrong an needed. We've messed with her some more and have decided its time to take her to another shop. This time, my hope is the new shop really will know what needs to be done. The sleeping Kat needs to wake up... I'm so tired of the high price of gas and really miss being on two-wheels. Plus my friends don't quite remember that the bike was real at one point.