ADVGD's DRZ400E ADV Build

[dino3310]

looks fantastic mate, are ya gonna put all your boxes etc on the back

[Night Falcon]

Thunderin Cats!! Fantastic job!

Would like to add some of those farkles to the 690 but I find it difficult putting batteries in a tourch let alone atempting that sort of wiring! Masterful work

[thepom]

Looks bloody great.....

[buggsubique]

WOW! Brilliant looking ride, awesome attention to detail. Q: Why the decompression lever? I thought they were auto or have you got new cams in? What mods have you done to the motor?

Very nice looking bike mate.

[ADVGD]

What sort of DRZ400 is/was it?

Road registered 2011 DRZ400E

Hey, you fitted a kickstart. Good idea.

Not having a kickstart when remote solo riding gives me the shits, on previous occasions in some remote places I have had to resort to a kickstarter, a few kicks and I was off and away again no problems, if I didn't have one I would have been in a prick of a situation. I installed the kickstart at the same time as the Rekluse clutch and finished it off with a B&B clutch case saver

[ADVGD]

are ya gonna put all your boxes etc on the back

For a change I'm going Wolfman soft luggage all round (with a few personalized touches), fabricating all the framing for it this week

Why the decompression lever? I thought they were auto or have you got new cams in? What mods have you done to the motor?

Unlike some models, the E model doesn't have auto decompression from factory. I'll post a full list of mods at the end of the week once it is all complete mate, the photos don't do justice to all the hidden goodies

[Taz]

Looks good.

Any more pics from the build. Found an after market 6th gear?

[bart]

Looks good.

Any more pics from the build. Found an after market 6th gear?

Haha. I was going to mention that. What do they say....the elephant in the room....or something like that. The only fault I had with the DRZ was the close ratio gearbox. The fancy clutch thing may help though.

[Monstaman]

Very nice and clean Josh well done, look forward to seeing it on the trails.

[Cary]

Whats your address, i'll send the XR down for an upgrade (throw an electric leg on while your at it will ya)

[Crim]

Looking great, young man - are you going to have an official unveiling ie a special overseas guest pulls a rope and the drapes are drawn up and away from the thing of beauty that we all stand round and discuss for hours while drinking champagne and eating canapes (or speights and sausage rolls)??

[NordieBoy]

Unlike some models, the E model doesn't have auto decompression from factory.

Manual de-comp is the shiznet for clearing a drowned engine without having to remove sparkies etc...

[mattsdakar]

Looking good Josh, best looking DRZ I've seen on any bike forum, can't wait to try it out

[badblackbuell]

I'm so inspired I have just purchased a brand spanking new DRZ400EK9!

[ADVGD]

The actual build of this bike was very enjoyable and satisfying, what was mind numbing and exceedingly frustrating about the process was the 4 months it took for everything to arrive and come together after having suppliers muck me around, multiple backorders, wrong parts turn up, broken parts turn up, parts lost in transit, parts taking weeks to arrive, a fabricator that is as reliable as drunk monkey on heroin, and many other hiccups along the way, I am stoked to finally say… job done!

So after a number of delayed starts, tomorrow morning I kick off on a 2 a month riding/flyfishing trip of the South Island GPS logging and gathering content for adventureguide.co.nz

Have a great Christmas and New Years all, see you on the DB1K