Bike p*rn for anyone with FZR / YZF withdrawal symptoms....

Post your pictures here: your bikes, meets you've attended, modifications you've made, x-rays you've had taken...
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Bike p*rn for anyone with FZR / YZF withdrawal symptoms....

Post by moronjon »

Hello,

Thought i'd stick my first post in with some gratuitous bike smut of my old bikes.

Firstly, my old Fizzer:

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Yes, that is a Honda SP-1 front end. Nori R7 rep paintwork courtesy of Dream Machine, sadly sold to fund buying my mate out of his share of...

...my old race bike - a *very* tweaked YZF 750, shown here partly undressed for your viewing pleasure.

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Where do I start? Carbon wheels, full Akropovic system, PFMs, Flatslides and an engine tuned to buggery by the previous owner, allowing behaviour like this...

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And a Dyno graph like this...

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Which also got sold to buy an even quicker race bike.

Hope that's cheered some of you up! Happy New Year!!

Now who wants to sell me an FZR 1000? :D

Jon
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Post by RENEGADE »

hey dave 59 another one in your neck of the woods
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welcome, make yourself at home
I'm sure some of the more power hungry members will soon be asking specs :nod:
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:welcome:
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and hello to the funny farm
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Welcome :D
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Post by MoMan »

Welcome to the site.

Incredible machine. :D
'01 Thundercat
I know a little.....and guess the rest :retard:
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Post by cromwelluk »

Welcome M8

As the man says
Incredible machine.
I'm sure some of the more power hungry members will soon be asking specs
look forward to reading the full spec :) :)

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Post by moronjon »

Hmmm, could take some explaining... I'll start with the engine:

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39mm Keihin Flatslides
Race Kit Pistons
Kit Ti Rods
Flowed and ported head
Lightened and balanced crank
Kent Cams camshafts (higher lift, longer duration)
13.3:1 Compression ratio! :eek:
No starter or alternator
Kit CDI
Race Kit Carbon airbox
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(involves cutting through top of rad for scoop, later extended to letterbox nose intake - see pic below)
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Full Akrapovic Race Evo system

I think there were a few other kit bits in there too - odds and sods like valve springs and the like. The cooling system was run as total loss to the original header tank, which the crankcase breather also vented into.

Originally bought as a bike share for racing by me and my mate, and started as a pile of bits. The previous owner had done all the tuning courtesy of George White's in Swindon, and told us the engine was freshly rebuilt and good for 130bhp. :D We built the bike, took it to our local dyno shop and told them this and they nearly laughed us out of the place. :\ Imagine the looks on their faces when it made 135bhp at the back wheel. :unibrow: :finger: The 140 run was after a couple of races after it had been run in a bit! Neither run had ram air either...

The rest of it:
Aerotech full carbon wheels (who are now BST/Blackstone Tech - ads in all the mags)
PFM Superbike Brake Kit with Performance Friction pads (unfortunately pic was taken with stock pig-iron wheel fitted. Nice "Not for highway service" Pirelli slick though. :D
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Full set of Goodridge hoses
Brembo levers
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Harris billet yokes
Revalved forks
Revalved Ohlins shock
Regina 520 X-Ring chain / Renthal sprockets
Loom stripped down to essential wiring
Scitsu tacho + temp gauge
GSXR1000K1 seat unit
Ally plate "undertray" - only had the battery and CDI on it

All up weight on the start line was a gnat's under 180kg. :cool:

The fancy wheels, brakes and levers are now on my mate's Thunderarse :retard:
The bike got stock stuff put back on and flogged for something a bit newer and not so highly strung. :crybaby:
Good fun, but definitely not an ideal first race bike - the combination of hydraulic clutch / Brembo lever / grabby EBC race clutch plates / oh-so-easy-to-flood flatslide carbs left me dead last off the line of about my first dozen races!! A good enthusiasts race bike though. :)
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Post by cromwelluk »

You and go rite off some people :lol: :lol: :lol:

Smashing , Great , Terrific, very nice
I want one

Jon thanks for the spec
Now where's that list for my birthday presents
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As far as I know it's still alive and being trackdayed by its current owner. Phenomenal piece of kit, but it had to be ridden at ten tenths or it was pretty much unusable - a bit more experience and a pretty much stock Gixer thou' knocked six seconds off my time round Donington on the YZF, and the Gixer was 8 seconds quicker round Thruxton! Still miss those PFM brakes though, they are absolutely awesome! :D :D :D

I've still got a copy of bits of the YZF race kit manual somewhere - i'll have to track it down, scan it and post it online somewhere! :ninja:

Jon
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