Zephyr?

[wheelnut]

My first bike was a ZR-7 - a lot of bike for the paltry sum I paid for it. Not dynamically the best but I liked it better than the equivalent bandit.

[Supermofo]

They do feel big to me, but then I'm a midget and I'm used to <150kg two strokes and classics.

I'm fine with big bikes, but at the moment I find lots of things feel bigger/heavier than they are cos I'm used to the 690 which is like a BMX

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The one I looked at had a piston circlip in the bottom of the sump and a ton of instant gasket, so someone had the top end off at some point and did a really shit job.

A lot of those big Zeds (900R ZZR1100) had a gauze filter over the pickup point for the oil pump,over time and especially those fond of using gasket goo,this filter became clogged. Usually the pump could suck enough oil to do at moderate speeds,but when the numbers crept up,then the engine let go.

Back then when I bought a bike,one of the first jobs I did was drop the sump and have a look. I caught my 900R just in time,it was well on the way to going pop.

There used to be a shop (Oxford Motorcycles?) who did a replacement/modded sump pan with an inspection plug,so you could check the filter without removing the sump. I made my own by stealing their idea. The plug was a Kawasaki part.

I know the mesh you mean and on this engine it was pretty much blocked with old bits of gasket gunge, the engine was pretty much scrap, but the owner wanted it rebuilt by a friend of mine (who was trying to tell the owner it wasn't worth fixing)