Carbs, carbs, carbs.
If you own a GSXR400 you will already know that your carbs are a ticking time bomb ready to cause you misery. A friend of mine needed a bike for his ACU licence so I stupidly offered my nowhere near ready GSXR. Well that was the kick up the bum I needed to get things ready! My bike was running rough and I knew that the carbs would be the most likely candidate. The first place to go is to grab my trusty Davida carb balancing gauges. I have used the cheaper balancing gauges before which do the job but if you have the spare cash (or do what I did and stalk eBay) you should get a set of these self adjusting gauges. I simply plugged these into the vacuum take offs on the carb rubbers, podged a funnel into the fuel line, gassed her up and got the bike warmed up. This is easier said than done when the bike doesn't tick over though as my hands were a bit full and a slight parts deficiency was getting in my way already. The tick over screw is located in the centre of the c...