I am now the proud owner of a 97 R plate TRX in green (Not my favourite colour but it's growing on me
) It's a great bike and I'm looking forward to taking it round Cadwell on the Bike Magazine track day soon. It joins my other quirky Yamaha a TDR 250 and my Hayabusa.The bike appears to have been loved at some point in it's 20000 miles but it seems not lately. Any way after having a good look around the bike I found the following, and I wondered if anyone wanted to give me some advice.
1. The air box seems to have had two one inch diameter holes drilled in it upstream of the air filter (which is a K&N) now the bike did have Viper cans on it but the guy I bought it off had put the originals back on. Is this air box mod a known one, is it alright with standard pipes (though I'm hoping to get some pipes soon) does it works, would I be better off with a standard air box?
2. I have read that the standard suspension is a bit soggy, well mine is harder than a ZXR750H1!!! I'm over 16 stone and I hardly move it, I mentioned it to the vendor and he said that the last owner liked it really hard (no sniggering at the back!) and had set it up like this
, I'm thinking it's a partially seized suspension linkage as the pre load is set in the middle. The front is quite stiff too but I haven't looked into this fully yet.Thanks
Heath
You'll get some good advice from the guys on here.
you can have my Japanese spec fork springs, teeth rattling! Bottom no probs! My guess is that both front and back springs are not from a TRX! Front fork oil change should tell you what's been done at the front as well.
Mine has still got the yellow spring! 15 years young now and not yet 30,000 kilometers on the clock. I don't weigh 16 stone thoiugh! 
