Sugilite's Winter Project - 1989 ZXR750H1 face lift

[sugilite]

Earlier this year, I went to pick up a 2nd hand motor with a snapped cam chain to salvage the gearbox for my bike, and ended up getting another ZXR750 as well for $750. :facepalm: After not having a bike to ride for over 1.5 years, something needed to be done. So I decided to give the "new" bike a face lift and get it on the road. Note I say face lift, not restoration as I'm not a mechanics arsehole. :laugh: I had to do it all to a micro budget, but luckily for me, a box of spare parts came with the bike and I pretty much had everything I needed to complete the project. I decided to paint it myself and use spray bombs, I know it won't last, but could not afford to have it done properly, more on that later. Anyways, I started with the bike below....

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Right, I've got the only tools I'm qualified to use below, time to get started!

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Now the bike is in the sugilite man cave, it's time to start the strip down :yes:

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OK, got the skateboards under the motor to catch it! :shit:

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Turns out I just needed one skateboard, I used it to wheel the motor out to the car to take it to my friend who is going to build the motor for project number two, the post classic racebike. More on that later.

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More to come.....

[ellipsis]

...i hope they are a metric set of hammers you are using....

[ducatilover]

I shall watch this :yes: rather like the ol' 750.

[gijoe1313]

So, no mr blocky? :gob: Mr Mallet and Mr Blocky always needs to be paired together! Good to see you putting something keen together! :niceone:

[Owl]

Love the hammers, but are you qualified to use skateboards?:laugh:

[Mental Trousers]

...i hope they are a metric set of hammers you are using....

A left handed metric set.

Good to see you playing with bikes again mate :niceone:

[HenryDorsetCase]

we used to have curtains the same as that in our old house.

very impressed you are allowed to use what looks like a spare bedroom for the rebuild.

was it easy to get the old beast in there?

[Deano]

we used to have curtains the same as that in our old house.

very impressed you are allowed to use what looks like a spare bedroom for the rebuild.



Haha - my wife was looking over my shoulder and asked if the bike was in a bedroom.

Good to see things coming along mate !!

[Mental Trousers]

we used to have curtains the same as that in our old house.

very impressed you are allowed to use what looks like a spare bedroom for the rebuild.



Haha - my wife was looking over my shoulder and asked if the bike was in a bedroom.

Good to see things coming along mate !!

It's only a small bedroom, not large enough to stick kids in!!! He was also being thoughtful and put a tarp on the floor BEFORE moving anything in there.

[5150]

:shit: err, what weight are those skateboards certified for?

OSH would have a frickin ball if they got hold of these pics :laugh:

[sugilite]

I just got back from my 1st ride in 1.5 years and I'm sky high on adrenaline! :lol: I did not want to start this thread till I knew I could complete the project for sure. I really enjoy reading other peoples project threads and get disappointed when they suddenly stop never to be seen again!


...i hope they are a metric set of hammers you are using....
After reading this, I raced down to the hardware store to score me some metric hammers, the guy told me they were right beside the long weights, I went round and round and could not find these "long waits" or the metric hammers :laugh:


Love the hammers, but are you qualified to use skateboards?:laugh:
Ex nz champ maaaaany moons ago, one of those skateboards is mine. :yes: Engine weighs 68 kg's, less than me, so all good there hehe.


we used to have curtains the same as that in our old house.

very impressed you are allowed to use what looks like a spare bedroom for the rebuild.

was it easy to get the old beast in there?
We have two houses opposite each other (very rural), work in one and live in the other. It is a really tight squeeze getting the bike in there, but I've had lots of practice!

Thanks for the support peoples! :yes:

Right, I'll post some more pics now....

[Hitcher]

At last. Somebody who may be able to answer THAT question for me.

The ZXR250 has them too, but what do those vacuum cleaner hoses do? Vent fumes or pressurise the fuel tank's contents when the bike is moving forward?

[sugilite]

OK, she is starting to look a bit bare now, I've suspended the bike from the ceiling ready to remove the swingarm and front end. Mmmmmm Hammer!

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Just down to the frame now, which I'm going to polish. I read lots of how to articles on the net, as ever there were plenty of opinions on the best way to do this, for the record I stated with 100 grit, then down to 400, then autosol, I was not going for the "ultimate" polish job, I just wanted it to look better than the beaten up scratched painted original.

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Oh yeah, I took lots and lots of photos like this to help with reassembly. Helps for numpties like me to get the thing back together...in theory!
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Tanks off, and prepping for paint.

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Check out sugilites custom paint shop :lol: There are quite a few discs because I'm doing project twos (racebike) The ones going on the roadbike are already polished, so I'm not keen to paint those. The discs shown below are going on the race bike. Wet and Dry wheels. They are in slightly better condition than the ones I'm using on the road bike.

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More to come....

[sugilite]

At last. Somebody who may be able to answer THAT question for me.

The ZXR250 has them too, but what do those vacuum cleaner hoses do? Vent fumes or pressurise the fuel tank's contents when the bike is moving forward?

Their only purpose is to direct "cooling" air to the top of the cam cover/head. It was not until later models Kawasaki worked out they would be better served for ram air purposes. The H models air boxes draw air from the sides, so none of this cooling air makes it that far. I have always left the "hoover" hoses off as I used to consider them quite ugly, however they have now grown on me and I will actually fit them to the bike this time.

[5150]

Their only purpose is to direct "cooling" air to the top of the cam cover/head. It was not until later models Kawasaki worked out they would be better served for ram air purposes. The H models air boxes draw air from the sides, so none of this cooling air makes it that far. I have always left the "hoover" hoses off as I used to consider them quite ugly, however they have now grown on me and I will actually fit them to the bike this time.

They also came in handy to hide your stash from mr plod.... ahem..:innocent::whistle:

[sugilite]

They also came in handy to hide your stash from mr plod.... ahem..:innocent::whistle:
I'm not sure Kawasaki engineers envisioned them being used as a ram aired bong, hardcore dude!

[chanceyy]

Yay :clap: congrats on the ride .. bet the smile says it all ..

great pics after hearing about the resto project for a while now :blip:

next set of pics plz .. yeah I am impatient :laugh:

[Madness]

I'm just in awe of the fact that you managed to strip that bike down to the frame with just (metric) hammers and not a single 12" crescent :clap::clap: Could this bike be the next Cliffhanger champion?

I need a bigger gargre, or a ramp up to the spare bedroom.

[sugilite]

great pics after hearing about the resto project for a while now :blip:

next set of pics plz .. yeah I am impatient :laugh:

Hence me not starting this thread till it was done :lol:
Yes, I will post more pics shortly, afterall, this is the instant gratification king of project threads:laugh:


I'm just in awe of the fact that you managed to strip that bike down to the frame with just (metric) hammers and not a single 12" crescent :clap::clap: Could this bike be the next Cliffhanger champion?

I need a bigger gargre, or a ramp up to the spare bedroom.
I lost my crescent :cry: Do you have ranch sliders on your lounge? Job done! :Punk:

OK, more pics very soon....

[sugilite]

Prepping fairings for paint. The paint process turned into a real nightmare for me. I'd heard of paint shops that won't touch bike fairings and I'd always wondered why as I'd done several before with no problems, that is until this project! :cry: I won't cover all the disasters as it would take pages and pages. Basically I worked out, if it is the 1st time race fairings have been painted, or indeed original ones, you are unlikely to strike problems. Where a fairing has been painted before, and in this case it had been painted twice before, you need to remove ALL paint back to gel coat if fiberglass, or plastic if original. As soon as you spray, the old paint on it melts (for lack of a better word) and pulls the paint up underneath into UGLY ridges. In some cases even if the undercoat was successful, the top coat will still do it, and I waited days between coats to let them dry. Lots of other shit happened too, but I'm just so over it I cannot be bothered writing about it. If you want to do paint yourself, my recommendation is wait until compressors and spray guns are on sale, like at repco now, both can be had for under $150, then go and use two pack paint for a hardier and more professional finish, it will work out only about 30% more than using spray bombs like I did. If you are a glutton for punishment and want to use spray bombs, stay away from dulux, and go for the cheaper Warehouse Autohaus paint, it goes on better and is better for exterior applications. The Dulux help desk basically told me not to use their product as it is more interior, even though the label mentions it being exterior. They also said their own clear coat could very likely cause he melting issues on their own product!!! :no: I give them a "A" for honesty and very much appreciated their advice. Also, FORGET the chrome paints, both Autohaus and plasticote brands. They mark insanely easily and lose their luster if you dare to use even a clean dry flannelet cloth on them. I got all keen when I saw the plasticote bumper paint. I thought, yeah, thats got to be tougher, how wrong I was, after letting it dry and stand for 6 weeks, the 1st time I lightly brushed a dry soft cloth on it...well refer to the above, they must assume you are never going to touch or clean your bumper, In my opinion this CRAP should not even be on the market! Anyways, enough about paint...more pics!
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Items prepped for paint - read torture! The metal things gave me no issues, Thank goodness!

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Prepping the swing arm, I'll be doing a paint n polish combo. ZXR's of this model have a habit of snapping the battery housing bracket, where upon the whole lot falls onto the swingarm and dents the center part, both bikes had done this. I had a HEAVY DUTY bracket made up for mine, so used that. I filled the dents with bog :laugh:

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OK, time to start putting things back together again. Behold the sugilite engine mounting device Mark 1! As I'm also building a race bike in project two, I figured I'd be naive to think that I won't be hauling the motor in and out a few times and wanted to make sure I could do the job by myself, so I came up with this, I took the sump of the 3rd motor (sad gear box one) drilled holes through an oven tray and fitted it to the jack, which in turn I attached to slab of wood. I then filled the tray with concrete, covered it with a rubbish bag and pressed the sump into the concrete to make a mold.

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And it worked! I had the motor into the frame and the rear engine mount bolts through in just a few short minutes. The Mark 2 version will have a shorter, deeper tray to solve a small frame clearance issue, and a metal plate between the tray and jack for better stability :yes: I had no problems placing the motor into the tray either so all good.

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More to come...

[HenryDorsetCase]

that oven tray filled with concrete idea is genius. I spent basically a whole day pissing about trying to get the VFR motor back into the frame by myself with bits of string and mirrors and zip ties and duct tape..... sore back and skinned knuckles were the result.

genius.

[sugilite]

And on we go. As mentioned earlier, the motor from this bike was destined to become the race motor as it had only done 1/2 the km's my old one had. 65K vs waaay over 100k. Turns out though, the motor with the snapped cam chain had absolutely no damage to the valves n pistons, (A miracle!!!) and further more, the pistons still had the machining marks from the factory, so it was even newer than this one!!! So this motor came back to do road bike duties :yes:
OK, The swingarm just needs a bit more polishing and it's done. (used the 110 grit, then 400 grit then autosol again).

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I also took the opportunity to pull apart the suspension linkages and grease the bushes, they can be poked out with a finger, so it was a pretty easy job.

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I was so over joyed to be past the paint job and back into reassembly! I was very nervous about routing the wiring loom though, I've always had a healthy distrust of my ability when it comes to motorcycle electrics!!!

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[sugilite]

that oven tray filled with concrete idea is genius. I spent basically a whole day pissing about trying to get the VFR motor back into the frame by myself with bits of string and mirrors and zip ties and duct tape..... sore back and skinned knuckles were the result.

genius.

Cheers, I used to spent literally hours just sitting there gormlessly looking at the bike while listening to music while visualizing what I'd do next, and it came to me in one of those sessions :lol:

[ducatilover]

That swinger looks nice, hit it with some 1200 then autosol it. I went mental with my frame/swinger and went 220-400-600-1200-2000-autosol

[bogan]

Interesting stuff! Loving the innovation, and use of a bedroom. However it begs the question, what are the tie-downs tied up to?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Cheers, I used to spent literally hours just sitting there gormlessly looking at the bike while listening to music while visualizing what I'd do next, and it came to me in one of those sessions :lol:

I wound up getting a bit of 18mm plywood and some offcuts and screwing the offcuts in a sort of box shape to hold up under the sump, and underneath a bit of offcut six by two with a big hole drilled in it to take the jack.

that worked ok, but not as elegant as your solution.

then I watched the "how to build an RC30" video and they assemble the engine then drop the frame on top of that.

[sugilite]

This believe it or not is a 22 year old standard pipe that came in the "box of bits" so I decided to use that and put my muzzy pipe on the project two race bike. I picked up a cheap wire brush thingamie bob set for a electric drill, sprayed the pipe with CRC and got to work on removing the surface rust. Always wear eye protection as the brass wire=s fly off at times.

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She is coming together nicely now :Punk:
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Assembling the front end, all went sweet.

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I polished da forks, removed the clear coat with sandpaper, then got to work with the good ole autosol, amazingly I only used one and a bit tubes for the entire project! At $17 a tube, thats a bargain!

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I wire brushed and painted the brackets and other associated crap. :yes:

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OK, the front end is coming together nicely now, ignore my grubby finger prints all over the bike, it looks better than that once I cleaned them off :lol: In the box of bits was a ZZR600 front guard, and it fitted, how handy! One of the very few non standard parts used on the bike, the only other I can think off, is the end can. I think that is a home made one. I'm OK with it, looks and sounds good to me.

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OK, time for me to resize the final photos, then upload them and add them in here, back soonish for the grand finale :laugh:

[sugilite]

Interesting stuff! Loving the innovation, and use of a bedroom. However it begs the question, what are the tie-downs tied up to?

Kawasakis are so light, just a few tacks into plaster ceiling and all good! :lol: OK, that "may" be bullshit. Big fuck off hooks screwed into the main joists may be closer to the truth, been using them for about 11 years now, so all good.

[sugilite]

OOOOOOK, the bike originally looked like this....
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Now it looks like this.....

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The other side....

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I wanted to keep to the H1 pattern, but the inspiration for the colours came from 2 sources, the foremost was when I was a kid, my mum set up a roster for me, with a rewards system. If I did well, I would get enough points for a match box car. I went all out and got a deluxe one, about 3 times the size of a normal match box car, it was a John Player special F1 car, how I loved that car with the black and gold scheme!!! :love: :love: :love: The other source was black and silver for NZ colors. The H1 having a tri color scheme, I just merged them and wallah. I'm pretty happy with it. The most expensive single thing was the decals at a whopping $49 NZD delivered from Malta of all places. The paint cans added up all together though came to about $100. The sandpaper cost $10 (warehouse packs of multi grits) The whole project cost less than $350. We won't talk about the hours though :laugh:

[chanceyy]

:lol: OK, that "may" be bullshit. Big fuck off hooks screwed into the main joists may be closer to the truth, been using them for about 11 years now, so all good.


ohhhhhhh yeah real big fuck off hooks .. have not been brave enough to ask, her indoors what else those hooks are used for :lol: :whistle:

BTW the bike looks freaken awesome :) love the color scheme :yes: congrats again aye, hard work pays off, and looking forward to seeing you out on the road again :clap:

[Hitcher]

I was very nervous about routing the wiring loom

One understands that that can be a bit of a shock. At first.

[sugilite]

OK, here is the last of the photos.

I was really happy with the decals, I ordered them online at http://www.xtreemedecals.com. The cool thing was you could choose the colours to match the bike, nice! They were delivered in less than a week. Good shit :Punk:

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The back end.

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Frount end

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This is the frount on view, nice and generic/discreet. Just the way I like it :yes:

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And so endith the photos, project done!

Project 2, the race bike is lurking in the closet, and the filing cabinets, with the motor up Kati Kati way being built! Bring it on! :laugh:

[Mental Trousers]

Mint colour scheme Sugi!!!!! Love it!!!!

Good job all round. The entire bike looks fabulous.

[slowpoke]

Bloody hell, what an awesome effort mate! Best thread I'v read on here for ages, and you should be well proud of your efforts. Can't wait to see the race bike now.....go on mista gizzalook?!

[yod]

great looking bike, love how you've done the rims :niceone:

[sugilite]

One understands that that can be a bit of a shock. At first.
It actually went really well, though it definitely pays to check absolutely everything is working. I came to the last thing, that being the fan. As everything was working, I almost did not test it, the wires looked good. I had this nagging little voice saying to test, so I did. I started the bike and just let it idle at about 3.5k revs till the temp gage went right up, then turned it off, no fan, huh? I touched the terminal connected to the radiator, and WHIR it went. Turns out it was the old broken connector in the rubber boot trick. I had three looms to choose from and noticed all 3 had damage to the radiator cables in some form or another. So I was really careful to route the wiring away from harm :yes:
Indeed it was a shocking experience :laugh:

[sugilite]

Credits to:
T.W.R Thanks for doing that super late night run to look up the manual and answer my inane questions. Awesome mate! :wings:

[HenryDorsetCase]

Great effort, and shows what you can do with fuck all money but a lot of hard work.

:2thumbsup:

[ducatilover]

Much impressed! My forks almost blew that budget and I thought I was doing it on the cheap :laugh:

[Mental Trousers]

Hope you're painting the race bike with the same scheme. It looks fantastic.

[sinfull]

Dude that is absolutely brilliant ! Well done on that Sir, a fine looking machine !

Most enjoyable read i've had on here for eons !

[White trash]

Should have a thread of the week comp, far better than a Picture of the week. Well done Anthony, you're an inspiration mate.

[Devil]

Nice work, now... where's the turbo kit? ;)

[Deano]

Top effort Anthony - your efforts have produced some wonderful results !!

[5150]

Nice bike mate. Is it fast? :shifty:

[emaN]

Great job Anthony! Bike looks sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!
Look forward to seein' you out on track again, this summer...???? ;)

[sugilite]

Hope you're painting the race bike with the same scheme. It looks fantastic.
Sorry mate, but it is a scientifically proven fact that green is faster! Besides the guys on the red monkey ZXR forum would lynch me for any other colour than green! :lol: I have gone to a lot of trouble sourcing a racing tail piece that is an exact replica of the original silhouette (from the UK as it turns out). The posties class seems to get good spectator numbers, full of old codgers like me wanting to relive the good old days, and I simply want my bike to unmistakably be an H1. Kawasaki represent yeah!!! :laugh:


Should have a thread of the week comp, far better than a Picture of the week. Well done Anthony, you're an inspiration mate.
Funnily enough, your MVX thread was my inspiration for this one, I just loved reading that thread!


Nice work, now... where's the turbo kit? ;)
The courier has not delivered it, whats the tracking number? :lol:


Nice bike mate. Is it fast? :shifty:
Definitely faster accelerating than my last one, even though it is one tooth up on the frount and down 1 on the rear! I always speculated my last poor thrashed baby was waaay down on power. It was over 100k on the motor. This motor is only a youthful 65k!


Great job Anthony! Bike looks sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!
Look forward to seein' you out on track again, this summer...???? ;)
Yes, on the race bike assuming all goes well. But only a race here and there. I will not be competing in an entire series as I simply cannot afford to get "championship fever" This road bike will never see the track, I want to take really good care of this one.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement peoples! Now I'm riding again I'll start posting more. When I don't have a bike to ride my post count plummets as I always feel like a fake biker <_<

Off to take the bike for a WOF in an hour and hopefully rego it, wonder if they do HP deals! :wings:

[White trash]

Funnily enough, your MVX thread was my inspiration for this one, I just loved reading that thread!


Snap! You've given me the motivation to rip into the GSX for a track day in a week and a half. Funny old world.

[emaN]

Yes, on the race bike assuming all goes well. But only a race here and there. I will not be competing in an entire series as I simply cannot afford to get "championship fever" This road bike will never see the track, I want to take really good care of this one.
Be great to see you out there then :)

[sugilite]

A bit has happed with the bike since I last posted. I ended up doing another 8 hours of work on the bike after I got the wof :lol: The main thing was the motor had a air leak round the carb manifold. When I went to investigate further, I could see where! Some muppet had tried to cut one of the manifold bolts off with a disc grinder and eaten a good freaking 3mm step off half the intake face of #4 :facepalm: :cry:
As my tears began to subside I caught a glimpse of what looked like a line of gasket goo 15mm below the level of the mangled face, WTF? On closer inspection, I realised a colossal piece of luck came my way, this motor must have been out of a US CA model, as it had restricter plates, and this what had been mangled!!! Whew! So I removed the said plates, matched the rubbers to the carbs using a razer (some where way off!) and we were good to go:woohoo:
I made a few jetting runs to get the carbs working with the homemade can, rebuilt the forks with fresh oil and put on my preferred tyres and all sweet. :yes:

Anyways, I've put a fair whack of km's on the bike since, and have just got back from a 3000+ km's journey round the north visiting family and friends. Here is where the naughty part comes in! I said I'd never take this bike on the track, I'm even quoted saying as much in the post above :lol: Well what can I say other than "Hampton Downs track days ROCK!! :Punk:

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I was the only street bike in group 1 and only bike built last century :blink:

[HenryDorsetCase]

ooooh. very stylish.

[MSTRS]

*Sorted out some naughty person's work. And then got naughty myself*
I was the only street bike in group 1 and only bike built last century :blink:

'spose you showed them all what your taillight looks like too? :laugh:

[Katman]

I don't think I've ever seen such skinny legs. :blink:

[sugilite]

'spose you showed them all what your taillight looks like too? :laugh:
The guy in the pit next to me with his CBR1000 and ALL the bits indignantly told me his rear sets were 1k, rather than the $700 I suggested they may have cost, thats more than my entire bike owes me. In the next session he ran down the slip road when his attempt at passing me under brakes did not work out quite like he planned. Yep, I love track days :devil2:

[Mental Trousers]

*Sorted out some naughty person's work. And then got naughty myself*
I was the only street bike in group 1 and only bike built last century :blink:

'spose you showed them all what your taillight looks like too? :laugh:

Bugger, I missed that day!! Would've loved to have seen a good old Post Classic 750 kicking litre bike arse.

[MSTRS]

Bugger, I missed that day!! Would've loved to have seen a good old Post Classic 750 kicking litre bike arse.

He's nothing if not poetry in ill-fitting leathers...

[sugilite]

He's nothing if not poetry in ill-fitting leathers...
OI!!!
I could of worn my better fitting but equally colour uncoordinated race leathers, but over 3000 km's no thanks, I kind of like my balls being external, as against internal entities!

Alas, once upon a time I was colour coordinated, then came wife, kids, pets and the uncoordination started to set in......sigh, we can but remember being back in the day of coordinated nirvana....

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[sugilite]

Bugger, I missed that day!! Would've loved to have seen a good old Post Classic 750 kicking litre bike arse.

Mate, it's almost like some of them did not appreciate me crashing their techno party with my 80's heavy metal :lol:

[Mental Trousers]

Mate, it's almost like some of them did not appreciate me crashing their techno party with my 80's heavy metal :lol:

Most of those bikes and riders would've been regulars too. I'm pretty sure I know which CBR1000 was next to you in the pits.

I always like it when talent shows up money.

[chanceyy]

I always like it when talent shows up money.

:killingme: ohh nver a truer saying than that MT, Sugi awesome pics & good to hear you had a fantastic time you naughty boy you LOL

[codgyoleracer]

Mate, it's almost like some of them did not appreciate me crashing their techno party with my 80's heavy metal :lol:

90's technofunk is far more interesting ...:cool:

[sugilite]

90's technofunk is far more interesting ...:cool:
Especially that renegade 90's group, bimo and the quick shifters! :bleh:

I have finally moved from the collecting parts phase, to the building phase :banana:
Latest to arrive was a brembo gold line and master cylinder package, lord knows I'm going to need them! :sweatdrop: (and not from having too much power!)

[codgyoleracer]

Especially that renegade 90's group, bimo and the quick shifters! :bleh:

I have finally moved from the collecting parts phase, to the building phase :banana:
Latest to arrive was a brembo gold line and master cylinder package, lord knows I'm going to need them! :sweatdrop: (and not from having too much power!)


Ok, I'll bite, Brembo Goldlines.......... ?

[sugilite]

Ya, well they are gold lol, just the same as the other guys are running, I think you have a black set on yours? Standard discs at this stage though, the master is 16 mm, so standard size there, could not afford a 19x20 yet, but still got to be better than the standard tokio one...

[sugilite]

Ok, I'll bite, Brembo Goldlines.......... ?
Sigh, read the other thread, ignorance is not bliss as it turns out. I'm starting to lose heart for this project at this point, I spent so much of my very anemic budget on getting these calipers and brackets made up. I'll never make it to the track at this rate. :(

[codgyoleracer]

Did you get to the bottom of the swingarm thing ?, IMO, if it appeared in a shop in February 1990 - then the chances of it NOT existing in Japan in 89 allowing for the obvious manufacturing time & shipping time is pretty remote ?

[sugilite]

Ya, just got off phone to Kawasaki NZ, they have a print out of the H1 race kit parts and the swing arm is listed on it, so no problem.

[Rcktfsh]

Or you could paint your gold ones black.