Another bodge on my poor old GSX550
As mentioned before (http://www.b3ta.com/questions/bodger/post1120864) my bike was a rolling shit heap. However, I was detrmined to show off to my new girlfriend what a cool biker dude I was. (ie a dangerous twat who should know better.)

Unfortunately, the battery died (probably as a result of my electical bodges). I had a spare from an old XS750 and I hammered that in (tight fit) as a replacment. It seemed to work OK at first, but I noticed fuel comsumption was up a bit and when I had the girlfriend on the back I couldn't get over 55mph. Not very impressive.

This continued for a good six months until I had some spare cash to replace the rapidly dying replacement battery. On getting a proper battery and comparing the two, I noticed that the one I'd been using for the last six months was a good 30mm taller than the proper one and had been blocking the intake to the air filter. The bike had been running very rich with hardly any air getting in, which explained the thirsty MPGs and the general lack of go.
Unfortunately, by this time the girlfriend had fucked off and she never got a chance to be scared shitless by my twat-like riding of the newly de-congested GSX.
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Thu 17 Mar 2011, 10:28, Reply)