2011 11 04 Bandit Fuel Cock, Spark Plug and GN Rear Sprocket

I successfully changed the GN rear sprocket from 41 to 38 today, first ride impression, miss the torque but this is the way I wanted her to be after much consideration.  It cruise at 90 km/h with 5k+ rpm.  I now can have the patience of mind to spend more time to fix the bandit as i can take/use the GN to Johor for some casual ride at
hw speed.

To change the rear sprocket:

It is not enough to just drill holes, got a sprocket from another model so need to mod, there is a process call sprocket balancing which involve drilling the holes at the right spot so that the centrifugal force is balanced when it rotate at high speed. The central shaft hole of the sprocket also need to be enlarge which require the use of a lace machine.

The original standard spark plugs of the bandit is U24 ETR / CR8EK, it is already memorised after asking so many shops for this plugs.  This plugs has 2 'heads'. No body seems to carry them and if they do, they quote me a bomb.  Many says only some rear Suzuki bikes use this(they may be right), so they recommend use this and that type which they have at that time,  moments like this is when I have to make tough decision.

I got the NGK Platinum G Plug instead.

After some research, I settle on NGK G Plus for its value / cost rating.
It does not come cheap, I think the days in 2009 where I bought s$2.80/plug - DPR8EA-9 at Auto Machinery for my TDM 850 is over, these days will never dome back, 1 NGK plug now cost at least S$5.50 due to high Yen Value and high Inflation.




The rubber that is mounted on the chassis still looks new after 18 yrs on the road, originally, I want to give it a spray of paint but then I just decided no need.