What's Inside The Box?

Guess - what's inside the box below?



A sewing machine? dinner plate set? box of chocolate? muahahaha...

Ninja 250R Makeover #1

I've done some minor makeovers to my bike yesterday. Thanks to the weather (raining), I arrived at NKS Sentul around 630pm. Met with William at the shop, gave him the bike key and his assistant Sam rode my bike away to .... err I didn't know where exactly. First thing is to install the 'rear hugger'. William insisted that it is called 'inside fender' ... Whatever lah. Steps taken in installing the 'inside fender' by Sam (guide to other Ninja riders):

1. Attach/ Weld a small steel bracket at the right swing-arm to hold the rear hugger using a screw nut. To do this, Sam send the bike for welding somewhere out there. I didn't really know.
2. Sam then made some small holes at the rear hugger.
3. He took out a portion of the bike stuffs behind the front-right foot peg
4. Put the rear hugger onto position - all screw at the hugger aligned with the mount at the swing-arm.
5. Screw the nut at the small steel bracket first and adjust the hugger as not to let the tyre scrap the hugger. I asked him to make some space allowance to accomodate wider tyres.
6. Screw all the nuts together onto the swing-arm. Use cable-tie to hold the hugger onto the swing arm bar
7. Re-attach the front-right foot peg assembly and it is DONE!

Then William got some ideas and told me "Itu signal lamp manyak besar, lu mau tukar kecil punya? LED manyak terang ooo" And I said OK. Again the steps taken for guidance to other members:

1. Take-out the rear seat
2. Unscrew both the the rear signals from its mounts
3. Cut the wire cable connecting to the signal lamps ..ouchh!
4. Install and then re-wire the new teeny-meeny-mini LED signal lamp
5. And then test it ....... both LED signals lighted up but they didn't blink. We had a problem
6. Sam discuss with a guy (I believe he is the electrical master technician) and he asked Sam to change the blinker relay (or someone called it condenser).
7. Next step is to find where the hell is the rear blinker relay located inside the bike. It took Sam around 5 minutes to take-out the middle cover (black in colour) and the front seat. Another 10 minutes locating the condenser.... and he found it on the left side below the front seat.
8. Change the blinker relay and the LED blinking like a christmas tree!

Job well done. Time taken is 1 hour, can be faster if we know the location of the condenser. Damage to my wallet was RM180. If everything works fine, then I will certainly change the front signal lamp which looks like Mickey Mouse ears.

Ninja 250R Gathering #3

We had a gathering at our normal spot at Bintang Sidewalk Cafe, Shah Alam on last Saturday night (23/8/08). Not many turn-up for the gathering compared to our first gathering but still we had fun. Thanks to wanpuma, amad, trono7, along7, kacho, lionninja, keylinkshukri and roslan for spending the time talking cock non-stop till midnite. hahaha...

Point of discussion as follows:

1. We had someone with entrepreneurship skill in selling biking stuffs - Fox Knee/Shin Protector and Alpinestars Pouch bag at such a low price. Wow!
2. Next week gathering will be at Cheras or ampang area - expand our coverage area!
3. Someone is upgrading to a bigger bike, ZX6RR to be specific! Hmm...
4. It was the last gathering for Wanpuma in Klang Valley as he's moving to Kuala Trengganu. All the best in the new city my friend!
5. ... and Liverpool won 2-1 over Middlesborough.

We shall meet again for sure. ;)

Bye Bye Glove

After getting my newer gloves that is Clover Airtek, my old (old? ... only 100km ride) Rjays glove must go. I need to sell it to have more space in my store room. So , here it goes:

Details:

Rjays Leather Glove with Carbon Fiber Knuckle.

48% Goat skin, 34% Polyester, 10% Carbon Fiber, 5% Gel, 5% Nylon.

Palm area with full leather while back of the hand using mesh textile material.

Here are the pix:



Hope I could sell it on the next ninja owner meet-up. Else I have to advertise it in the online forum. Bye Rjays!

Rider and his biking stuffs

I've been riding since I'm 15 years old (that was a long time ago) but until just recently I'm becoming more serious on the safety gears. Dunno how it trigger me to buy those biking stuffs, prolly due to having a bigger bike exposes me to a bigger risk. So the all the protection gears are necessary.

Some of the stuffs that I bought since last year as follows:

Helmet:
SOL Hybrid 37X
Shoei X11 (not yet arrived)

Riding boot:
Alpinestars Ridge

Gloves :
Rjays Leather with Carbon Knuckle
Clover AirTek Textile glove

Jacket :
IZ2 cordura with hard-plastic padding
Clover AirTek 2 mesh jacket with CE approved plastic padding

Protection :
KNOX knee guard

Hmm... those stuffs cost me my arms and my legs. Hopefully they would do the job protecting me.

Helmet, Where art thou?

I've booked quite a handsome looking helmet from a bikegear shop three weeks ago and they told me that the helmet will arrive three more weeks. In total, 6 weeks of agony without proper safety helmet that would protect my head while looking cool!

I couldn't stand the agony for so long, so I bought a helmet that has all the safety elements that I want and CHEAP. It is named 37X, a hybrid helmet made by SOL of Taiwan. It came with gold tinted visor which look nice. Have a look ...

It will be my companion for the next three weeks, if the shop keep to its promise. Anyway, the helmet is indeed nice!

Ninja 250R Owner Gathering

A bunch of macho Ninja 250R owners is calling for a meet-up with the other owners on August 3, 2008. So for all Ninja 250R owners residing in Kuala Lumpur or anywhere in the world (if you don't mind travelling that far), you are all invited to the inaugural session. Kudos to 'Wanpuma' for initiating it and hopefully act as the host as well (we expect free flowing drinks on your tab ... hehehe).

Details as follows:

Date : 3rd August 2008, Sunday

Time : 900pm (Malaysian Time)

Location : Bintang Sidewalk Cafe, Section 7, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

My contribution is nicked the map from Google Map, add the buildings and paste it in all relevant Malaysian biking websites. And er... plus the pix of the Cafe as well.

Hope to see you there!

The Ninja Has Landed

The Ninja already arrived safely at my home on 31st July 2008 around 715pm. A bit delay at the shop as comtemplating whether to buy a protective jacket. However, after nearly 1 hour of trying all the jackets available in the shop, Ben the salesman agreed to give me the price that he needed to argue first with his boss for 10 minutes. So, i bought one of the jacket but i couldn't mention the price here ;) (for fren-fren sake!).

Back to the topic, the bike is now part of the family. Welcome to your new home big brother!

p/s : the jacket that i mentioned here will be my #2 jacket ... my #1 just arrived from Singapore on 2nd August 2008. Yes, I'm that crazy!