Home-grown bike porn

[R6_kid:Me]

Did you bin it or something? What brought on the 'need' to rebuild the bike?

[madbikeboy]

Does that really matter if you're not going to be racing?

If it's worth doing, it might as well be righteous from the beginning. I'm known for being a bit particular about building bikes and cars... My evil ex used to call me anal retentive. I've no idea what that means, but I didn't think it was a good thing.

[madbikeboy]

Which is bad how?

You should put up some pics of the bike as the project goes along!

I'll start posting stuff once I get most of the pieces, otherwise it's just photo's of parts...

It was bad because you'd need to double bag it putting in her general direction. Hell, I wouldn't touch it with yours...

[madbikeboy]

Did you bin it or something? What brought on the 'need' to rebuild the bike?

I've been building it out of bits - I got lucky and scored a frame and swingarm, and I knew of a low mileage motor, so I put all three together. And so on. I didn't want to buy a complete dropped bike because it's an expensive guess on what's actually wrong with it, and I figured that I'd still be replacing parts like forks etc.

The basic premise was that I decided a year ago what a good track bike would be, what basic components:
Braking:
I wanted 1000 brakes, (bigger), also liked the front end of the K5 thou more than the 600. So forks and brakes made sense from the 1000.

I am saving for a Brembo adjustable master, that combined with cast iron rotors and decent pads should be a good front set up.

Wheels.
The Marchesini wheels always struck me as a good idea. They're noticably lighter than stocks. I've ridden a couple of 999R/S's, and the difference between them is huge. So, given that the rims are the correct size, I figured they'd fit. Not so, but it'll work when I work out spacers and machine a new caliper mount for the rear.

Rear shock.
I want an ohlins, but I need to wait for big wednesday. I'll run the stock until I have budget. The big spend for January will be getting Robert Taylor to tweak the forks. Ohlins spring, maybe more, depends on budget.

Jenny Craigs...
This will be cut down as much as possible, I figure I can save some good weight here. Between modiyfing the subframe, lighter wheels, and loom, I reckon I can shed about 7kg. I've also got lighter exhaust (Yoshi), that saves about 4kg over stock. Up to 11 kg over stock, and haven't gotten started yet.

HP:
I'm leaving the motor stock, but I have Yoshi cams for later. I'll also be begging some time from Cajun for PC set up. The way I figure it, I can spend money on horsepower, or I can shed weight - reducing mass is cheaper than horsepower. I'll be producing a carbon tail next winter, I reckon a single piece design will be massively lighter.

Pilot skill:
I'm the weakest link here, I've gotten lazy on the road (evidenced by shredded rears and barely worked fronts). More of the pilot skill improvement later...

[wbks]

Sounds like it will be a sweet trackbike...Do you make carbon/glass stuff yourself?

[madbikeboy]

Yeah, I used to do a bit of work with glass and carbon back in the day. Making a tailpiece or repairing fairings is straightforward, although time consuming...

I was looking at the tank this morning, it seems to me that it shouldn't hard to make a carbon tank cover to shroud the airbox, then a smaller custom alloy tank (who needs 14 litres for a trank bike) - the stock tank weighs a tonne...