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MODEL SPECIFIC => SUZUKI BANDIT 250 & 400 => Topic started by: Erikkt on April 24, 2006, 02:06:51 PM

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on April 24, 2006, 02:06:51 PM

Does anyone have the owner's manual for the early model b4? I've got the service manual from the "members only" section, but the links for the owner's manual are dead. Anyone got a copy for me?

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on April 25, 2006, 04:28:02 AM

I haven't seen one, but have been thinking of scanning mine, to keep for posterity.  If I ever get to it, I can send you a copy.  Send me a private message if you're interested.  

Alternatively, I know that paixaoj (Justin) is parting a 1991 B4, he may have a dead tree version of the manual to send you.  I met him tonight, nice kid.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: 2Fast4U on April 25, 2006, 06:31:08 PM

http://www.motosonline.net/motosonline/manuales.asp

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http://www.motorosok.hu/szervizkonyvek/

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pass: aba59kz

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http://ursa.irk.ru/manual

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http://www.banditmotorcycles.com/manuals/manuals.html
(See our own Members section for userid & password.)

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http://www.hatotah.co.il/

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on April 26, 2006, 04:30:21 AM

Thank you for the links, BUT....

-The first one does not contain the owner's manual.
-The second one does not contain the OM for the early model, and the password is not correct.
-The third one does not contain the OM, only fiche.
-The fourth one is the one I was talking about, with the dead links.
-The fifth one is written in elvish, so I can't tell if there is any useful info here.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Russtang on April 26, 2006, 06:55:59 PM

Elvish...hehe

I'm also hosting the repair manuals on my site in addition to pete's banditmotorcyles site (see reference to member's section).

Stormi, if you would be kind enough to scan your owner's manual and email it to me, I will upload it to my site & update the link.

Thanks,
Russ

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on April 30, 2006, 02:55:24 AM

Quote from: "Russtang"

Stormi, if you would be kind enough to scan your owner's manual and email it to me, I will upload it to my site & update the link.

The only problem with emailing it, is that it's going to be likely close to 100mb the way I scan!  :shock:

I suppose I could put it on my server long enough for you to download it to host on your server.  I can't currently take that sort of a bandwidth hit, on a consumer grade account.

Sorry for the delayed answer,.. I've been a little pre-occupied with running in the rebuilt motor on the b4 the last few days.  Spring fever I guess.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: wyntrblue on April 30, 2006, 08:12:00 AM

i would be interested in getting my hands on the owners manual, how about setting up a torrent for it? would help save everyones bandwith.....

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on April 30, 2006, 08:59:05 AM

You can use YouSendIt (http://beta.yousendit.com/) to send the files via email. If you send it to me, I will put them on web, as you allready got my email adress. Or you can send it to Russtang, and he will put in on the web too.[/url]

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on April 30, 2006, 09:00:40 AM

I can also set up a FTP-server, if it makes anything easier for you...?

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Russtang on April 30, 2006, 12:07:14 PM

Quote from: "stormi"

Quote from: "Russtang"

Stormi, if you would be kind enough to scan your owner's manual and email it to me, I will upload it to my site & update the link.

The only problem with emailing it, is that it's going to be likely close to 100mb the way I scan!  :shock:

I suppose I could put it on my server long enough for you to download it to host on your server.  I can't currently take that sort of a bandwidth hit, on a consumer grade account.

Sorry for the delayed answer,.. I've been a little pre-occupied with running in the rebuilt motor on the b4 the last few days.  Spring fever I guess.

100megs?  Sounds like you save the images uncompressed.

You should easily be able to get each page/couple pages down to less than 10 meg jpegs.  Gmail allows 10 mb attachments.  I can reassemble them all into a high quality/small size pdf and host it.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on April 30, 2006, 06:48:34 PM

Quote from: "Russtang"

Quote from: "stormi"

Quote from: "Russtang"

Stormi, if you would be kind enough to scan your owner's manual and email it to me, I will upload it to my site & update the link.

The only problem with emailing it, is that it's going to be likely close to 100mb the way I scan!  :shock:

100megs?  Sounds like you save the images uncompressed.

You should easily be able to get each page/couple pages down to less than 10 meg jpegs.  Gmail allows 10 mb attachments.  I can reassemble them all into a high quality/small size pdf and host it.

Well,.. each pic is about 3-4 mbs, and there should be around 120 pages.. so, even once resized ( say 50%) to be managable in a pdf... it will be pretty close to 100MB. I'm about 1/2 done now, so I will know the full tally soon.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on April 30, 2006, 06:49:55 PM

Quote from: "Erikkt"

I can also set up a FTP-server, if it makes anything easier for you...?

I suppose I could do the same for you.  I have a secure FTP server that you could log into using winSCP, and grab it, then host it wherever you please.   Would this work?

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Russtang on April 30, 2006, 07:45:11 PM

Quote from: "stormi"

Well,.. each pic is about 3-4 mbs, and there should be around 120 pages.. so, even once resized ( say 50%) to be managable in a pdf... it will be pretty close to 100MB. I'm about 1/2 done now, so I will know the full tally soon.

120 pages?  Wow, I didn't know it was that big!  Thanks for the work!  Still interested in hosting it on my site.

Russ

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on April 30, 2006, 07:51:43 PM

Quote from: "stormi"

Quote from: "Erikkt"

I can also set up a FTP-server, if it makes anything easier for you...?

I suppose I could do the same for you.  I have a secure FTP server that you could log into using winSCP, and grab it, then host it wherever you please.   Would this work?

It would work perfectly...

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on May 02, 2006, 06:23:17 PM

Quote from: "Russtang"

120 pages?  Wow, I didn't know it was that big!  Thanks for the work!  Still interested in hosting it on my site.

I suspected that was what was going on. :grin:  It's 231 pages in total, but the book is small enough that 2 pages fit on one 8 1/2 x 11.

I'm almost finished, so soon.

Quote from: "ErikKt"

It would work perfectly...

Alright, as soon as I'm finished, I'll provide you two access, and let you decide where you're going to put it.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on May 03, 2006, 11:59:04 AM

Excellent! Looking forward to it!

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: zaptoman on May 03, 2006, 11:10:03 PM

Sweet action! I've also been looking for this.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Russtang on May 04, 2006, 01:35:37 PM

Very cool Stormi.  I'll be putting up on my site with the other manuals.
 :thanks:

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Erikkt on May 07, 2006, 02:36:00 PM

I have now put the owner's manual on web, send me a PM if you want the URL. Hopefully Russtang wil also put it on his site, because it will probably not stay forever on my site.

Many many thanks to Stormi, who took the time to scan the manual. It was surely a lot of work. All credit to you, and thanks!

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: Russtang on May 07, 2006, 03:36:30 PM

I've got it hosted at my site now too.  See member's section for access.

Thanks Stormi!

Russ

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: stormi on May 07, 2006, 04:29:36 PM

It was my pleasure guys.

I have really only one stipulation, and that is:

Don't download this and then turn around and be an ass and try to make money off it.  (Like the people that are doing this, printing it out, then trying to sell it on ebay or via forums.)  :duh:

I am releasing it into public domain. This means, download it, use it for you.  You must not turn around and sell it without permission.

Suzuki retains rights to the content, but I'll help them find anyone I find trying to sell it.    :wink:

I ran into this problem when I was looking for the service manual for Dita.  I -almost- went for it, I was that desperate. Then I found BanditAlley.  I think the people that are doing that are dispicable.

Ok,.. I'll get off my :soapbox: now.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: BrianM on May 07, 2006, 04:55:28 PM

Thanks to the folks involved...  I just DL'd a copy from Russtang (damn man, that's one heck of a server connection!).  Perusing it right now...  my bike didn't come with a copy.

Title: Owner's manual
Post by: sirdarkheart on May 18, 2006, 06:50:49 PM

Hi fellas,
     This is my intro and here is a link to the serviec manual
http://www.blackbears.ru/manual/files/Suzuki_GSX400F_Service_Manual.zip

Title: Need another server
Post by: prana on June 21, 2006, 02:17:02 AM

hey all if you need another server to push this awesome manual out give me a shout. i am currently getting 2k from the last link:)