Sugilite's Winter Project - 1989 ZXR750H1 face lift

[emaN]

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

[sugilite:Me]

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! 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!!!

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?

Nice bike mate. Is it fast?

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!

[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:Me]

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 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
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
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.

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 Well what can I say other than "Hampton Downs track days ROCK!!

 

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

[HenryDorsetCase]

ooooh. very stylish.

[MSTRS:Me]

*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

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

[Katman]

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

[sugilite:Me]

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

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

[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

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

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

[MSTRS:Me]

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:Me]

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....

 

[sugilite:Me]

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

[Mental Trousers]

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

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.

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