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my first rain ride
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:35 pm
by rocco
hi guys,
on the weekend it pissed down half way into a trip out of town.
The ride and bike went well but i noticed when i got back moisture or water in the reservoir that the air filter is positioned to. No water went through the filter but it did leak out of a drain hole in the plastic assembly.
When i wash my bike or get caught in the rain, should I always check and clean the resevoir that the air filter lives in?
without obviously blocking the air intake is there a way of minimising water entry?
thanks
Roc
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:43 pm
by Barrabob
There is usually a deflecter and a drain if you have ram air, I have ridden my six for like 600+ kms in the rain at highway speeds and didnt bother with cleaning it out till its next service and would asume that kawasaki have thought of these things.
Re: my first rain ride
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:27 pm
by Gosling1
rocco wrote:...but it did leak out of a drain hole in the plastic assembly....
all is well - the drain hole is doing its job, you have nothing to be concerned about.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:04 pm
by rocco
i only noticed it because this morning i seen what looked like an oil leak
but after feeling it , it felt not a slippery
then i took the sie fairing off to see where it was coming from
its on my gpx250r
thanks
guys
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:23 am
by BladeBoy
It's no good if it's not slippery in the morning ask Gos
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:28 am
by Duane
mate
Good chance if you rode in the rain it will just be the oil/lube off the chain in the front sprocket, thats dripped out over night due to the water/heat
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:28 am
by rocco
nope it definately came from the resevoir where the air filter lives
it leaked out of the drain hole
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:39 am
by Duane
Was your bike dirty at the time, ride any dirt roads?
Often stuff like that (dirty marks on the garage floor) after riding in the rain
Can either be like the chain lube, or dirt turning into mud and collecting crap and spitting back out after it stops raining
I wouldnt stress to much if it came out of where the airfilter is appart from possibly cleaning your air filter.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:17 pm
by rocco
it had an oily petrol smell to it but the viscosity was like water
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:35 pm
by Strika
As others have said, what you described is normal. Kawasaki are pretty cluey. They banked on it ocassionally raining while riding one of their fine two wheeled creations. .............so......being the smart little buggers they are, they took some measures to enable people who want to, to ride in the rain.
They figured the water was getting in from the vents, but also knew that the air came in there too!!! Conundrum hey!!! Well here's what they did. They worked out where the water would collect in the airbox based on airflows, and the smart little bugger fitted the airbox with a drain!!!!!! How smart is that hey!!!!!
Now, here's the killer bit!! Air filters are oily, unless they are the cardboard cartridge types. So, if you wet them, the oil and water mix together. Then, bugger me, it drains out the little airbox drain hole that Kawasaki engineered in to it!!! How feckin good is that hey!!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:26 pm
by rocco
thats exactly what it was.
did scare me for a minute as i thought i cracked sumfin or a hose came undone
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:33 pm
by Neka79
Strika wrote:As others have said, what you described is normal. Kawasaki are pretty cluey. They banked on it ocassionally raining while riding one of their fine two wheeled creations. .............so......being the smart little buggers they are, they took some measures to enable people who want to, to ride in the rain.
They figured the water was getting in from the vents, but also knew that the air came in there too!!! Conundrum hey!!! Well here's what they did. They worked out where the water would collect in the airbox based on airflows, and the smart little bugger fitted the airbox with a drain!!!!!! How smart is that hey!!!!!
Now, here's the killer bit!! Air filters are oily, unless they are the cardboard cartridge types. So, if you wet them, the oil and water mix together. Then, bugger me, it drains out the little airbox drain hole that Kawasaki engineered in to it!!! How feckin good is that hey!!!!
thats the best description i ever read...well done mate...pisseded in me pants...
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:00 pm
by mrmina
riding in the rain is fun ..... not
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:07 pm
by MiG
mrmina wrote:riding in the rain is fun ..... not
At least it makes a GPX250 feel like a fast bike. Hooray for rear wheel shenanigans, although I can see it going bad pretty easily.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:09 pm
by Lainie
MiG wrote:mrmina wrote:riding in the rain is fun ..... not
At least it makes a GPX250 feel like a fast bike. Hooray for rear wheel shenanigans, although I can see it going bad pretty easily.
I loved riding Kemit (gpx250) in the rain.... I used to get it out as soon as it started to rain
