My now departed sleeper gpz turbo, 145hp and bone stock looking. The only really obviously modified part on view was the (completely) homemade exhaust but it had a dump valve, home made pneumatic boost controller and all sorts of other mods. That end can was once part of a ally drainpipe. I sold it to buy some underfloor heating for our new house
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What I started to replace it with. I was going to rebuild the above bike into a french registered chassis due to import hassles around the 100hp limit law here, so bought a frame and then a friend blew up his fireblade stunt bike so sold me the wheels and swingarm cheap. Some gsxr1100 forks were made to fit and suddenly I realized I had enough junk to make a whole bike out of but with brakes and suspension more in keeping with the power out. So I am...
A led tail light unit milled from a offcut of unknown grade aluminium.
Headlight brackets ( I hate wobbly headlights riding at night)
Done
Motor from junk, but with every lesson Id learnt from the first bike incorporated. The lockup snowflake is cast and bought in not machined though.
My xt500 , usd forks, mono rear, fat spoked supermoto wheels, 320mm disc up front with a 6 pot caliper and 600cc so far, you get the idea, restorers please turn away now
Another project turbo bike.
This is my long term long suffering gs750. I had it normally aspirated running flatslide carbs and a ported 1000 head, then a turbo with efi, and the latest folly is a supercharger and a turbo at the same time with the ecu switching the blower off at higher pressures. Its grown to 904cc with forged pistons and all the pipework is iconel and the running gear will be reworked yet again for taming it purposes. Its not fast, but it is a handful and exciting to ride when its not in bits being mutated, which come to think of it the past 10 years its probably been rideable for 2-3 summers of them
Picked up this old gpz11 recently because Ive always wanted one. Strident promises to the wife that I wouldnt be hacking it about as I have too much on the go already. She just gave me that knowing look at the time...
Then rode it, oh dear (or words to that effect) the brakes and suspension are terrible!
Hmmm these nice zx9 forks look about the right size with some new yokes, and that zx9r wheel and toxico 6pot calipers at the back of the shed should sharpen up the brakes. And so projectitis starts again...
My sp400, not heavily modded just cleaned up, new plastics/wiring/electrics with solid state 6v regulators and led lights etc, different pipe and cans and stuff like that. Once upon a time it had a rather lively tuned engine, but the camchain tensioner blade failed and I took it out to rebuild then it was stolen out the workshop! I havent got the heart to redo it so just have a soft gn400 engine in nowadays. 90mph wandering all over the road on knobblies with a tiny sls drum brake is too much anyway.
Got other bikes but theyre mostly stock and boring as a result, even the bimota
