Leaking...

No shit... Oil seal, O-ring, gasket... Everything falling apart... What the hell.

My dad says it's due to prolong mild overheating. Thus melts the oil seal and the rubber at the magnet coil. Went down to Tai Hin, but somehow the X9 owners from SgBikes were visiting. Thus my dad redirected me to my cousin. Changed the oil seals at the gears, but the leak is still significant...

Couldn't figure out what's the problem. On Sunday, we went into Malaysia supposedly for a feast on seafood. But after the 3 hours of riding to Kukup, the leak screwed everything up. My dad lost his mood and appetite upon to realise that the leak was so serious. We stopped by a small petrol station to buy a 20-50 to fill up for the moment.

Back at home, my dad figured out what actually happened, the gasket had a small leak. Went down to Tai Hin on the next morning to glue up the leak and replace the gasket. Changed a pair of handle grips also... Nice as new now. But it's losing some power due to the engine oil used. Used to have Mobile ONE running the gears, but the Castrol 20-50 pulls a significant drop in the power... Damn sian.

Malaysian and Cub

Event dated 26th June, 2004.

After losing the R6 and vice versa, I found my block clogging up with dirt and dust. It's the sign of oil leak. Dirt from the street accumulates upon sticking wet surface on the engine block.

My key is always coated with oil, thus I'm beginning to suspect somewhere is leaking quite badly and squirting out due to the vibration of the hard throttle. Couldn't care much, have to wait till tomorrow to do a thorough check.

At night, my father decided to make a trip into malaysia to pump some petrol cause he had some errands to run the next morning, and thus needs the petrol. So I followed, as I was running out of petrol too.

It was about 8pm, and there were still long stretches of motorcycle queues at the custom. Mainly Malaysians, going home after work. And hell, they are daredevils with their small cubs. Maybe it's the desire to get home for dinner after a hard day's work. No hard feelings against them and their riding attitudes, but some just puts me off, no excuses for frustrations at work.

One of them screwed up the queue at the custom and knocked into my dad, my dad kinda did it in purpose too, as that guy was going all over the place to get the fastest lane. No hard feelings yet, let the bygones be bygones. He cut into our lane between me and my dad.

By the time I passed out from the checkpoint, I lost my dad. In attempt to catch up with my dad I sped alittle at the causeway. The same malaysian rider who cut our queue appeared again and was kinda speeding as well. Mischievous caught up to me, thought it would be fun to just fool around with that guy abit. I revved up and overtook the cub, but at the same time I saw my dad. I had to jam my wheels to keep in-line with my dad, but my instincts knew it was a bad decision to perform such a maneouvere.

The malaysian hit into me, I can feel the rear wheel lifted but I still kept my balance. I knew something screwed up and I sped up to stop ahead to check if any damage was inflicted on the bike. The cub was nowhere to be found and luckily my bike had no damage. I guess that malaysian guy must had a scare of his life, he should be glad that he crashed into a bike and not a car.

*Cub, general term given to a kind of small bike when Honda introduced the pre-Wave models known as Honda Cub.

Cubs ranges from 50cc to 125cc, mainly produced by Jap manufacturers. Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki...

The R6

Event dated on 26th June, 2004.

KJE again, but this time down on exit into BKE.

I didn't mean to challenge the R6, I know I'm in no "power" to do that anyway. But he was just too slow. Upon reaching the exit, it was this nice down slope. I was at about 140, and the R6 was thrown behind me. Maybe he took it as a challenge and sped up, we swerve into the bend at about 110. Either he didn't want to or he didn't have the balls to, he slowed down. Gradually lost him at the exit, I was already at 120.

I thought he didn't want to keep up with it, but suddenly the R6 appeared in my mirror. Pushing his engine hard and I estimated it at about 150 or 160, zooming past me. I think he really couldn't keep up at the corner, trying to take revenge at the straight. I'm not trying to say I could outrun a R6 at a corner, but probably it's the rider that shames the R6. Besides, mine is just a really tiny cruiser...

Info
Model: YZF R6
Make: Yamaha
Displacement: ~600cm³
Type: Sports/Race
Engine: DOHC Inline-4 (I THINK)

It probably has more than 80 horses on it.

On the previous post -
"Lao K"

Model: RXK or something..? really old model
Make: Yamaha
Displacement: ~124cm³
Type: Street/AH PEK BIKE

The "Lao-K"

Event dated 25th June, 2004.

It was a new day that I discovered these Yamaha old-Ks are not that slow actually...

Usual route, from Corporation Road up PIE. This middle-aged man probably has a problem with his hands or what, just couldn't stop revving up his engine. I thought maybe he was deaf. He gonna race with his frigged Yamaha or what.

I followed him from the road into the slip road up the expressway, wondering how fast could he run. He didn't take very long to bore me, thus I throttled and went pass him.

The sense of guilt probably crept up to me after I overtook that uncle, thus I took a plunge down the bend from PIE into KJE at about 120, trying to get away from the uncle. To my surprise, at the end of the exit, the uncle was right on my tail!! I could imagine the finesse the uncle was taking trying to keep up with me after I overtook him! Serious shit!

I think he tried very hard to keep up with me on KJE, I couldn't stand the high-pitched revs from his bike. Deep inside me, I waved good bye to him. Off I go. 120, 130... Bye...

But he did surprise me, and I was kinda impressed...

The Civic Inrun

Event dated 24th June, 2004.

A usual day after sending my girl to work. Getting home back on the good old, peaceful KJE. A pretty nice stretch of road to full throttle your gadget.

I was doing my usual 130 and I saw this Civic closing in behind me. Being a safe and courteous rider, I signalled out to the 2nd lane. The Civic(VTi) didn't overtake, but slowly closing in to my side. I was just wondering if he was gonna speed up. Cars began to appear infront of me as I close in to a denser traffic of the stretch.

Just to make sure if the Civic's gonna move on or stay behind me, I left my signals triggered. Seems that the Civic intends to stay behind, thought he would just cut me out, maybe he's just being kind. I maxxed out at 140 and went back to the 1st lane infront of the Civic to avoid the traffic. Somehow the Civic has intention to outrun me as it's closing in on my ass. I thought that was kinda provocative, wondering why didn't he just cut me off earlier.

I went out back to the 2nd lane again, and somehow the Civic took it's own sweet time to overtake. Just wondering if the driver knew I'm maxxing out and doing on purpose to overtake me slowly. After it passed me, I went back right behind it, trying to get into the slipstream. At about 140+, tailgating the Civic for quite some time, my engine lost the torque to move on, not even the slipstream could help. The Civic is slowly pulling away.

I thought by this time, any driver who have got his ass tailgated would slam the throttle and pull away. My guess is... He maxxed out as well, faster than me by a margin. A new finding. No shit.

The Legacy

Why 45? It's my bike. It's about my everyday riding experience on the road, some may find it boring, some may find it exciting, some may find it corny, some may find it cool... and all sorts of reaction. Those who are into mechanics may think I'm fraggin', some may think I'm just bullshitting. It's for you to decide, read it for entertainment purposes.

Why did I start this crap? Simply because my daily riding experience is full of crap, I don't know why. It even astonishes myself, why do I have such a "fulfilling" experience on the road EVERYDAY. I don't understand, is it because of my riding style, or simply because I'm an event-attractor... haha... God knows.

Info on the bike:
Model: Phantom
Chassis: TA200
Make: Honda
Displacement: 197cm³(CC)
Horsepower: 18.9 hp
Dry Weight: 140kg
0 - 100 (km/h): 11.9s *
Top Speed: 148km/h *

* Results tested by me