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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Some info required please....

Last post by Burchy - Today at 02:36:29 PM

When my GTR was due the valve service , my dealer quoted about £1000 .  I waited until a quiet time of the year for them, took off all the panels I could, supplied my own shims and they did it for about £500 in the end.

Replacing the spark plugs is a no-brainer when youve got that far into the engine

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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Some info required please....

Last post by Kwikasfuki - November 10, 2025, 08:18:52 AM

Thanks guys, appreciate it.

There's a video done by a member of one of  the American forums that I followed. Even then it was a pain with all the bits that you have to take off. 


The space to work in there is very tight

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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Some info required please....

Last post by Bluesman - November 08, 2025, 11:57:55 AM

Thanks guys, appreciate it.

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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Some info required please....

Last post by Kwikasfuki - November 07, 2025, 07:18:07 PM

I think it's the tools you'll need. From memory it's very very tight working in there

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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Some info required please....

Last post by Burchy - November 06, 2025, 12:05:20 PM

You'll definetly want to replace the valce cover gasket and the spark plug tunnel gaskets.  I'd also think about servicing the fuel pump in the tank while its off

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1400GTR Discussion / Some info required please........

Last post by Bluesman - November 04, 2025, 08:52:20 PM

I'm about to start the valve clearance job on my GTR, what are the parts I definitely need to order? I'll change the spark plugs as well. The bike is an 07 and has done 25,556 miles. I believe the check should be carried out at 26000mls.
 

Cheers guys

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1400GTR Discussion / Re: Hello

Last post by Kwikasfuki - October 28, 2025, 07:42:39 PM

Unfortunately it did get invaded but hopefully they've all gone and the site has been cleaned up. 
I'm going to send an email to everyone which should hopefully get the site going again (prob arrive Xmas time)

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1400GTR Discussion / Hello

Last post by mcfroyce44 - October 27, 2025, 10:51:53 PM

Haven't been on the site for a few months. Last visit it seemed to have been invaded by Russian bots so I thought it was going under. Glad to see it seems to have been cleaned up and still here. I sold my Blackbird during the summer (bought new 2001, sold 2006 bought same bike back 2013 and sold it again 2025). I still have my 2007 1400GTR with 29,000 miles now on it. Moved house 2024 so haven't been able to use it much but hope to have more time next summer. Bike likely parked for winter unless weather unfathomably nice at some point. I'll keep it taxed insured and MOT'd just in case. Not many GTR owners left on the site I think.

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Adventure, Excursions, Ride outs, Touring / Re: 2025 European trip

Last post by Rynglieder - October 09, 2025, 03:01:00 PM

Day 8 Rangerdorf [A] > Bled [SLO] (c.118 miles)


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After getting myself from under the duvet and the bike from under its canopy I set about what was to be one of the shortest rides of this trip. Only 190km ahead of me and it could have been less, except that I had planned a circuitous route that would take me over a mountain pass rather than just confine me to urbanized valleys.
My Innovv camera appears to have missed the first half an hour from the hotel. It does this sometimes and I don't know why, but nothing much is lost of what I remember being an unremarkable ride east along the [106] to Obervellach, where the camera seems to have roused itself after fuelling up for the day ahead.

Spittal an der Drau threw in some town centre riding to break up the progress along the valley floors, at least today the arterial roads seemed mostly to be bypassing the villages, so the ride was mostly at the national speed limits as far as traffic would allow and opportunities to pass slower vehicles did come along. Under blue skies speckled with the odd dark shower cloud, I followed the [100] down to my next great metropolis of the day, Villach.

Once again, with hindsight, I may as well have done this on the A10 autobahn which runs parallel and got the same scenery but quicker. Holding onto the lesser trunk roads does give more opportunities to pull up for a smoke, or coax a coffee from Herr Vendingmachine though and you do perhaps feel that the local culture is maybe being absorbed by osmosis.

At Villach I followed my intended route for a side trip to the Faaker See, a modest sized lake just to the south east of the city. The road out was perfectly rideable although unexciting and upon arrival at the roadside next to the lake I remained somewhat underwhelmed. It's pleasant enough, but not the most attractive alpine lake I have seen and it probably won't go down in any future plan, but at least there was the opportunity for a short stroll and a cold drink.

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From Lake Faak I picked up the [85] for a more enjoyable ride though the Carinthia region, still mostly on flat roads with mountains either side in the middle distance hinting at a better afternoon to come. Just beyond the village of Strau the moment arrived to join the [91] where the Loiblpass would take me over the mountains and into Slovenia.

I really enjoyed this one – a continuous series of bends climbing ever upwards with the mountainsides now properly closed in to form wooded or rocky gorges. A recent shower had dampened the roads, but not the spirits. All too soon I seemed to reach the summit where another sleepy border post awaited, I naturally slowed down but although a couple of police vehicles were loitering, my arival attracted no interest and I rolled on, through a 1.5km tunnel and into Slovenia.

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At the bottom end of the pass lay the town of Bistrica and I reckoned I was due another coffee. Years of riding around Europe has enabled me to pick up enough of the basics to get me by, but Solvenian is a complete mystery. Fortunately, everyone seems to have settled on English as a second language with which to communicate with their neighbouring countries, so I had no difficulty whatsoever in procuring my afternoon latte.

I can't help feeling the Zumo stitched me up in leaving Bristica, I was shown out of town on a series of badly surfaced narrow roads clinging to the hillsides leading though one tiny cluster of houses to another. Eventually I was dumped back into the environs of civilization at Lesce. I would be staying there for the night, but it would be too early to check-in and so I forged on to Bled, which was my objective for the day.

A nice sunny day at an absolute tourist magnet and traffic congestion was a nightmare as soon as I reached the edge of Bled. I crawled along with everyone else, taking about 15 minutes to do a mile before the lake edged into view. The pavements and path around the lake were just as crowded with those pedestrians who had been lucky enough to escape their cars. To add to my frustration, the car park I had planned for was closed off due to some event and I had to ride further on before finding an enterprising cycle store that would permit parking on their land for a few euros.

Once the bike was tucked in and my jacket secured to it, I set off for my walk in search of a viewpoint of the famous church on its island in the lake. Like every other day on this trip, it didn't matter if the sun was out, it was overcast, or it was raining, it was always HOT. I was glad I'd been able to ditch the jacket and had the good fortune that most of my walk was in the shade of trees. I'm glad I visited and got the box-ticking snap of the famous lake and mountains, but I would advise anyone wanting to visit to do so out of season if they can.

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Thankfully, getting out of Bled was marginally less tiresome than getting into it and I was back in Lecse and pulling up at the Hotel Krek Superior before 5pm. The hotel was set on a retail park so once I was showered and changed, I had a number of fast-food joints at my disposal and a couple of bars to chose from before shutting myself down for the day in my nice big modern room.

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Quite a good day, the Loiblpass being the highlight as a biker and the vista across Lake Bled as a tourist. Less than 24 hours to my seventh country.

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Adventure, Excursions, Ride outs, Touring / Re: 2025 European trip

Last post by Burchy - September 24, 2025, 09:16:14 PM

Nice write up.  It's been 9 years since I ride there on my old gtr and it did bring back memories, especially the cobbles up towards the viewing area