Stuntbike: FZR400 Tail...

**Kflasher** · 6th July 2007, 07:17

Originally Posted by Drew

I did this to my FZR 400, there is a thread around here somewhere, I'm sure a geek could put a link up.

It's incredibly hard to get on the ground, and mine was about a half past ten bar!

GRs comment about draggin the number plate is a good one here, a cock up with a solid twelve bar would create quite a nasty grab effect, where a number plate gives a bit, so it's saveable.

Dude just seen your images of your mods... now thats got me thinking.
Was that a steel tank you had on yours? mine is the plastic one which I am a bit dubious about standing on (when I get there that is).

**sAsLEX** · 6th July 2007, 07:28

Originally Posted by ZeroIndex

Still trying to think of the easiest way to chop up my tailsection with as little work as possible... One of the things that is annoying is not having rear footpegs which would help with the whole standup wheelie thingy, and probably almost eliminate the tail chop at the same time...

Argh, this is so frustrating...

think you mentioned it after quoting this but just stand on the 12 bar, or add some foot peg things on the side of your new rear end

**Drew** · 6th July 2007, 17:36

Originally Posted by Kflasher

Dude just seen your images of your mods... now thats got me thinking.
Was that a steel tank you had on yours? mine is the plastic one which I am a bit dubious about standing on (when I get there that is).

Mine was plastic tank, but other than the night I got it going and flipped it, I pretty much didn't try any real stunts on it.

The biggest part of learnin to scrape, is not the bar, it's getting the hang of using the rear brake, rather than the throttle to balance the bike.

Practice that first, hack your bike up later.

**ZeroIndex** · 6th July 2007, 18:17

Originally Posted by Kflasher

Dude just seen your images of your mods... now thats got me thinking.
Was that a steel tank you had on yours? mine is the plastic one which I am a bit dubious about standing on (when I get there that is).

Mine's aluminum, but after careful looking at how it's designed with the tank (spacing), I've decided I can't dent the cover cause the petrol cap/lid is too far back

I'm busy trying to find out how to rig up one of those throttle pin-lock/cruise control thingies so I can practice things that require throttle, but without using your hand...

**moT** · 6th July 2007, 19:26

hows the bike comeing along?

**ZeroIndex** · 6th July 2007, 19:35

Originally Posted by Tom

hows the bike comeing along?

Haven't done anything new yet... and haven't got any practice in either since it's been almost constantly raining

**sAsLEX** · 6th July 2007, 21:14

Old choke lever on the bars to adjust idle would be idea, then you can do it on the fly.

Also a thumb/another lever for the rear brake so standing off the pegs you still have the rear brake. Though Death doesn't use the rear brake from what I have seen and he aint to shabby at lofting the front.......

**ZeroIndex** · 7th July 2007, 00:29

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Old choke lever on the bars to adjust idle would be idea, then you can do it on the fly.

Also a thumb/another lever for the rear brake so standing off the pegs you still have the rear brake. Though Death doesn't use the rear brake from what I have seen and he aint to shabby at lofting the front.......

When I eventually get comfortably past balance point and to a stage when I don't have my right foot on the footpeg (on the tail, etc), I'll look into getting a professional handbrake

**Jog-Insanity** · 13th July 2007, 05:18

Originally Posted by ZeroIndex

Hey fellow stunters... got my 54 tooth rear sprocket now, and wheelies are a lot easier to get up, and I'm having loads of fun

Problems that I have found though: I'm getting better at keeping the front up and even though I've had the bike very far up (close to scraping the tail-light), I haven't seemed to find balance point yet...

Pretty much all my wheelies so far are sitting down, as my bike being the FZR400RSP, it has the horrible tail that sits quite high at the back which really gets in the way... I'm gonna be chucking a crash cage and a 12 o'clock bar on the little beast when I have money again (hopefully in 2 months), and I'm just trying to get some advice on what I should do about the tail section as it is at the moment (chopping it up etc tips/advice)

*Here's a some pics of the tail of my bike, if someone knows how to fiddle with photoshop or something if they can give me some rough examples?

your wheelies are like 20 cm off the ground, go back to stunt school n00b!
sell that gay yamaha too...

**Kflasher** · 13th July 2007, 07:14

haha I thought I was doing so well.... then my wife watching said I was only getting 1 and half "Barbies" high...WTF! I thought I was about to flip the thing.

And for those wondering a "Barbie" doll is 11 inches tall.