PDA

View Full Version : GSXR1000K5



2ndclasscitizen
21-01-2009, 08:15 PM
Got myself a new bike today:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3215154808_cc7a0c3ed2.jpg

Here it is. 2005 GSXR1000, 26k km, full Micron system, Ohlins steering damper, tinted double bubble screen, fender eliminator, new rearsets, braided lines, $12k with 3 months reg and new rear tyre. In damn good nick, only problem seems to be that the gear indicator is blacked out, looks like the LCD display died.

And of course, it is going to be fightered. Trying to pick a headlight unit though, any suggeestions as to what would look good with the tail (going to keep the stock tail). Also, it's got an after-market steering damper that's top mounted, would I need to get a custom top-triple made to mount it, or would an off-the-shelf unit (ABM etc etc) work?

flyingfatman
21-01-2009, 08:30 PM
keep the stock headlight and chop the fairings around it. someone on here did it and goddam it was fuckin hot

Cruisecontrol
21-01-2009, 08:39 PM
No, definitely put a new headlight on, and sell the old one to me.

FIGHTERMC
22-01-2009, 02:36 AM
i have one myself mate and they
are a nice bike.

porky gsxr
22-01-2009, 03:05 AM
check out the sv1000 thread, that headlight is the nads!!

CBRRRT
22-01-2009, 03:57 AM
What he said ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Stocky
22-01-2009, 06:02 AM
The gear indicator might not be working if it's got a "TRE"

2ndclasscitizen
23-01-2009, 05:12 PM
Thinking this one might go well with the tail:

http://ausfr.com.au/cart/297.jpg

Gloss black all over, grey and red stripe down the middle.

Large
23-01-2009, 07:06 PM
Get The frame checked?

CBRRRT
23-01-2009, 07:21 PM
quote:Originally posted by 2ndclasscitizen

Thinking this one might go well with the tail:

http://ausfr.com.au/cart/297.jpg

Gloss black all over, grey and red stripe down the middle.


Prezakly

StuNVA
23-01-2009, 07:49 PM
I'll be watching this thread closely if it turns into a build thread, I bought my K5 in May last year with full intentions of fightering it and still havent struck a blow on the cosmetics, everytime I think I have made my mind up I see something different that I like, then someone started a cafe racer thread and my mind turned to mush.

2ndclasscitizen
23-01-2009, 08:22 PM
quote:Originally posted by Large

Get The frame checked?


Nah, mine's outside the VIN range. Must've been the very first batch that were fucked, cause mine's 03/05 build.

2ndclasscitizen
23-01-2009, 09:32 PM
A mate mocked this up:

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/20642063745828.jpg


I like it.

FIGHTERMC
23-01-2009, 11:00 PM
what stocky said mate,mine has a tre
and the indicator display is stuck on 4th
to fool the ecu and to get full power.
the headlight unit looks the job mate.
rgds

FIGHTERMC
24-01-2009, 02:20 AM
Mate i found this on an Irish auction
web site today it might give you some idea's

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/motorbikes/857341

2ndclasscitizen
25-01-2009, 01:57 PM
The original idea had been to collect all the parts, then throw them, the bike, and money at Exben and get it done right, quicker than I can do it. But looks like I'm walking for a couple of months, so I'll be doing it myself now (except for the painting on the headlight unit.) Only problem is I won't be able to ride it to the AFR :(

Docktor
25-01-2009, 07:44 PM
Correct me if i am wrong, which i usually am,but how can you buy a 12000 dollar bike and chop the shit out of it to make a fighter ?. What ya gunna improve ?
To me fightering is taking something that can be improved on and doing just that, improving it. Everything you touch on that will be at best a sidestep on original and at worst a backwards step. Not haggling ,,,,,,,,,, just asking ?.

Cruisecontrol
25-01-2009, 07:57 PM
quote:Originally posted by Docktor

What ya gunna improve ?


The looks.
It is currently a very tasty machine covered in a steaming pile of plastic shite.

2ndclasscitizen
25-01-2009, 08:49 PM
quote:Originally posted by Docktor

Correct me if i am wrong, which i usually am,but how can you buy a 12000 dollar bike and chop the shit out of it to make a fighter ?. What ya gunna improve ?
To me fightering is taking something that can be improved on and doing just that, improving it. Everything you touch on that will be at best a sidestep on original and at worst a backwards step. Not haggling ,,,,,,,,,, just asking ?.


You sure you've got the right forum? But to answer your question, you show me a 180hp, 170kg naked bike. Can't, can you?

Docktor
25-01-2009, 09:05 PM
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/41537048723711.jpg


And thats a super well sorted K5 to thro out 180 HP too

Cruisecontrol
25-01-2009, 09:50 PM
quote:Originally posted by 2ndclasscitizen

show me an attractive 180hp, 170kg naked bike.


Missed one. ;)

Lucas
25-01-2009, 10:39 PM
Email sent mitch.

2ndclasscitizen
26-01-2009, 07:49 AM
quote:Originally posted by Docktor

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/41537048723711.jpg


And thats a super well sorted K5 to thro out 180 HP too




And where is 50kg weight reduction going to come from?

Balakov
26-01-2009, 11:49 AM
quote:Originally posted by Docktor

Correct me if i am wrong, which i usually am,but how can you buy a 12000 dollar bike and chop the shit out of it to make a fighter ?. What ya gunna improve ?
To me fightering is taking something that can be improved on and doing just that, improving it. Everything you touch on that will be at best a sidestep on original and at worst a backwards step. Not haggling ,,,,,,,,,, just asking ?.


If ya want something good you gotta start with something good!

Zbike
26-01-2009, 12:48 PM
quote:Originally posted by Docktor

Correct me if i am wrong, which i usually am,but how can you buy a 12000 dollar bike and chop the shit out of it to make a fighter ?. What ya gunna improve ?
To me fightering is taking something that can be improved on and doing just that, improving it. Everything you touch on that will be at best a sidestep on original and at worst a backwards step. Not haggling ,,,,,,,,,, just asking ?.


Yeah i agree
taking a $5k bike and modding the crap out of it is fun
Seems like a waste of about 7k since u coulda got the same bike as a write of for half the price.
butchering an almost new perfect bike wtf.

Docktor
26-01-2009, 01:51 PM
Balakov : If ya want something good you gotta start with something good!
Spoken in true street fighter form...... NOT!

2ndclass : You sure you got the right forum ?.

Hell yeah. :).

You should be at the " i just bought a 12K bike, watch me chop it up to be cool." forum.

Thats a fuckin outright waste of motorcycle. Go buy a crashed K5 that needs some good street fightering loving.

5K of crash plus 7K of fightering = just plain wicked
12K of mint gsxr plus 7K of fightering = just plain wanking.


Hell buy a kawasaki.................... (no offence T.K)

Again, these are [u]MY</u> views only and [u]may not</u> reflect the rest of the fighter crews thoughts. We all have opinions and most of us voice them. dont like my way of thinking?.Thats cool.dont listen to me.
The next bloke to post may love what you are doing.

But before ya hack it to bits, can I swap ya my 2 gsxr1100's and 5 years of sourcing bits for ya K5 ?. I will even deliver em to ya.

Cruisecontrol
26-01-2009, 02:26 PM
There are a lot of people that try to polish a turd with ridiculous amounts of money and still end up with a turd.
I couldn't imagine spending 7 grand on bits to bolt onto my bike as it defeats the purpose of "fightering" and if you have that much spare money why not just buy something better to begin with?.
I can however see the point of taking a nice bike, ripping off the superfluous crap and adding a few choice bits to make it exactly how you want it to be.

2ndclasscitizen
26-01-2009, 05:00 PM
quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol

There are a lot of people that try to polish a turd with ridiculous amounts of money and still end up with a turd.
I couldn't imagine spending 7 grand on bits to bolt onto my bike as it defeats the purpose of "fightering" and if you have that much spare money why not just buy something better to begin with?.
I can however see the point of taking a nice bike, ripping off the superfluous crap and adding a few choice bits to make it exactly how you want it to be.



This.

BANDITROD
26-01-2009, 05:06 PM
mate thats good to see why not fighter it i reckon.......that way you know that the frame/forks are not bent from a stack btw that headlight will look great i reckon

Large
26-01-2009, 06:21 PM
Whatever advice you do take...

It looks like you'll have plenty of time to build your dream bike.[:p]:D

2ndclasscitizen
26-01-2009, 06:47 PM
Yep, 3 whole months. Three, long, boring, bus filled months.

davio
26-01-2009, 08:47 PM
ha HA 2nd , i hate to burst ur bubble mate,but 3 months is how long u will spend just deciding what u want her to look like welcome to the madness my friend and ALWAYS post pics of the mods as u do em, and never give up ,nothing is impossible if u know the right bloke and ur wallet is fat

hooligan
27-01-2009, 07:39 AM
quote:Originally posted by 2ndclasscitizen

Yep, 3 whole months. Three, long, boring, bus filled months.


That's the reason i first started building one. Except I had 3 years to get it done[V]



9 years later it's still changing.

dub
27-01-2009, 09:31 AM
Mitch, why not get the ZX6r up an running so you're not bikeless. What are you looking at to replace the CCT - a few days in the shop and $500?

It would then be much easier to sell then also (if its running).

2ndclasscitizen
27-01-2009, 10:43 AM
The 3 months isn't how long it'll take to build. That's how long I've lost my licence for.

dub
27-01-2009, 11:02 AM
Ohhhh...my bad

2ndclasscitizen
27-01-2009, 02:29 PM
Does anybody know if the risers on an ABM triple would hit the top-mounted damper? Or could I even re-mount the Ohlins one on the bottom triple where the stock one was?

slip
27-01-2009, 03:16 PM
No idea on the damper issue...

Looks like a good base/colour for a build.

Can't believe there are blokes bagging you out for buying that to fighter. Looks like a fucking great idea to me. Poor kids are probably jealous, or raging xenophobes who think slabbies are the only bikes that should be fightered because 20 years ago when they could chew with their own teeth, it was a badarse bike....kinda like yours in fact.... Buying a crashed bike isn't the most appealing thing to some.

Keep us updated.

FIGHTERMC
27-01-2009, 06:31 PM
not 100 percent on this but
i think ohlins do a kit
so you can replace the damper
with there one.if you ask a dealer he's let you know.
also a great bike to start with and at the end of the
day it's your's and do what you like to it mate.
rgds

latheboy
27-01-2009, 08:05 PM
My 2 cents...
What are you going to do ? change to lights, paint it another colour and put bars on it... big deal, to me it'll look like a crashed road bike thats been "streetfightered" and made to look sick as bro, but thats just me....
Now if you replace the tail, do a frontend swap and turbo it, and ever a swinger swap, that to me would become a good late model fighter...
Keep the frame (engine optional) and swap the rest.... To me thats how you build a fighter, they are a collection of many to build the one.

FIGHTERMC
27-01-2009, 09:35 PM
I know where you are coming from latheboy
streetfighters have come a long way in the last
number of years but it started out using crashed
sports bikes and puting a set of bars on and headlights
and away you go.i still have no problem with this
as not alot of people can afford the cost of putting a turbo
in,changing the swingarm and so on.not having a go
cos it's not my style but just my view.
rgds
Mc

fimpBIKES
28-01-2009, 09:19 AM
i dunno, as someone who has had never-ending issues mainly to do with things from the initial crash that i didnt notice til they failed
i can see the reasoning behind this

i am VERY keen to see if you can make decent $$$ selling the fairings etc
this perhaps even turning a negative loss from your fightering (i.e. the finished bike ends up costing less than the initially outlay)

who knows, the final fighter might only end up owing him 10 grand?

zx12argh
28-01-2009, 12:34 PM
^^^^
If you want to make money on a build go talk to sharky. That bloke has an uncanny ability.

My 2c
I'm with fimp on this one. Crashed bikes often have more then just fucked plastics. I've had to get my swing arm fixed and along with the chassis powder coated to clean up all the battle damage. I've got electical gremlins too, just glad nothing mechanical. Starting with a clean bike clean slate is the best way to get it right. (Not necessarily the only way - just the easiest). Some people love the rat bike/rough look. More power to them. I like clean bikes so I'm forking out the dollars to get mine sweet.

2ndclasscitizen
23-02-2009, 06:09 PM
My budget has taken a hit from the speeding fine and a few other things, so the plan has changed. Initially it'll just be a change to high bars and twin lights, when I get the rest of the money for my old 6R it'll be getting a Carcass bellypan and a 2nd set of twin lights which I reckon will look pretty cool.

Harry
23-02-2009, 08:47 PM
that will look angry fightered....and throw some awrsome wheelie's,
keep every thing BLACK [:p]

2ndclasscitizen
28-02-2009, 12:20 PM
Just gave the credit card a work out:

http://www.streetfighterstore.co.uk/uploads/images/aug_07/sf_1186566989_s67.jpg

http://www.streetfighterstore.co.uk/uploads/images/nov_07/sf_1194369444_chrome_diamond.jpg

http://www.streetfighterstore.co.uk/uploads/images/sep_07/sf_1189419040_chki.jpg

Bellypan will be ordered some time this week, and I just gotta pick some bars. Was thinking about some braced Renthal Streetfighter bars, anyone know where I can find a set?

Cruisecontrol
28-02-2009, 04:30 PM
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/107071883619564.jpg

tunelliner
28-02-2009, 10:53 PM
fark how much did the ABM triple cost?

they sell it on AFR for like 400! omg

2ndclasscitizen
28-02-2009, 11:40 PM
Got the lot for $830 delivered from the UK.

2ndclasscitizen
27-04-2009, 02:05 PM
Fuck you streetfighterstore.co.uk, fuck you. 2 months, 2 FUCKING months since I put the order in, and nothing. Hope you like the credit card dispute cunts.

EFE 1230
27-04-2009, 02:51 PM
If they sent it by sea freight you'll be lucky to sea (lol) it for at least 12 or so weeks.

Docktor
27-04-2009, 02:53 PM
hey shags, think i have heard that somewhere before too mate

ooops. topics deleted coz they are for streetfighterstore.com

not .uk

my apologies

2ndclasscitizen
27-04-2009, 03:26 PM
quote:Originally posted by EFE 1230

If they sent it by sea freight you'll be lucky to sea (lol) it for at least 12 or so weeks.


For $155 they'd have better not sent it by fucking sea.

StuNVA
27-04-2009, 06:44 PM
Dibs on your old top clamp when the new one eventually gets here.

dub
28-04-2009, 01:01 PM
Thats fucked, have you tried to get in contact with them to see where it is?

I feel fucking terrible for telling you about that site now.

2ndclasscitizen
28-04-2009, 06:03 PM
Yeah, sent them an email last night and got a response. They claimed they've been replying to all my emails but I haven't heardsquat from them, but they are cancelling my order and giving me a refund. Strange that when I email just asking about shipping times and for a tracking number I get no reply, but when I send one letting them know I've filed a credit dispute and wanted my money back I get a respsonse straight away.

FIGHTERMC
28-04-2009, 09:08 PM
what alot of companys are doing now they
will tell you they have the part in stock
and they don't and most of the time they can't
get them after you place an order.
they just won't hold stock cos it's money on the shelf
if you know what i mean.
see if one of the lads from Germany can help you mate.
rgds
Mc

2ndclasscitizen
29-04-2009, 07:21 PM
You're not wrong, yot an email yesterday morning saying that the kit had just arrived. Put in a call to Ben this morning, the will be going into him sometime next week. Just going for a set of risers drilled through the stock triple now, will spend the extra dosh on a bellyapn.

FIGHTERMC
01-05-2009, 03:59 AM
keep the pic's coming mate
cos i'm very interested in
seeing the way it turn out.
Mc.

2ndclasscitizen
09-05-2009, 07:02 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3514366437_89a9f0664c.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3308/3515175312_282602ee34.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/3514367145_1e918190f8.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3515175882_fdc3dc97bc.jpg

FIGHTERMC
13-05-2009, 01:47 AM
Looking good there mate.

latheboy
13-05-2009, 06:42 AM
Good one Mitch.... I think the can needs some cutting, and if you take off the pilion pegs it makes the rear look heaps nicer..

2ndclasscitizen
13-05-2009, 08:05 PM
For an exhaust I'm thinking about one of these:

http://www.motomummy.com/store/images/P/m4k5full.gif

FIGHTERMC
14-05-2009, 01:58 AM
this is the exhaust thats on mine
they are nice but very loud:D
it's a racefit

http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1242314522.jpg

FIGHTERMC
17-07-2009, 10:36 PM
Mate are you still looking for the top yoke conversion
kit.the reason i ask is i have one that i'll be using
for my trip around europe in september and i'll be
selling it after i get back.
i'll sell it for 120 euro including the extented barke line.
let me know if you are interested.
rgds
Frank.

2ndclasscitizen
24-10-2009, 10:11 PM
Just hit up eBay for some new parts:

http://www.forwardmotionmc.com/ebayimages/m4_05_BLK_GP_main.jpg
http://store01.prostores.com/starcycleusa/catalog/pciii_300.jpg

Got 'em for $775AUD delivered. Got love the Aussie dollar at the moment. Just gonna be another $250 for dyno mapping. I was planning on getting a quick shifter as well, but I need the Ignition module as well for that [V]

rock hard
25-10-2009, 09:17 AM
Hey Mitch,you'll be happy with the note from the M4 Billy Wizz has one on the britfighter he lives about a kilometer from my house on cold mornings i hear him start up

StuNVA
26-10-2009, 06:23 PM
There is a crowd in the UK that sell a quickshifter that will plug straight into the PC111 and run off the Dynojet software, half the price of a dynojet one, they are on ebay.

2ndclasscitizen
14-09-2010, 11:34 PM
Well, it only took 10 months, but I finally got the damn thing dynoed. Learnt a couple of things whilst there: 1) What the cause of my EFI errors was, a single loose wire on the ECU connector block. Fuck. 2) It is Fucking. Loud. Seriously.

End result: 156whp, which I'm pretty pleased with that, basically what I was expecting.

2ndclasscitizen
15-09-2010, 01:01 PM
http://i55.tinypic.com/2qjlhe9.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/vwzcpk.jpg

StuNVA
15-09-2010, 01:25 PM
That's great, my K5 pulled 152SAE and 78ftlb, with 70,000ks on it, great donks.

2ndclasscitizen
15-09-2010, 05:12 PM
quote:Originally posted by StuNVA

That's great, my K5 pulled 152SAE and 78ftlb, with 70,000ks on it, great donks.


Shit yeah, mine's got 55000k on it and I cane it hard, had a full service done last week and all the valve clearances were bang on spec. Can't kill it with an axe.

Tone
15-09-2010, 06:29 PM
Was this the bike that caught my eye heading south just off the bridge yesterday,down the western dist?
Looked great and those lights are bright as,even in the daytime.Stood out like dogs balls on a budgie.

2ndclasscitizen
15-09-2010, 07:13 PM
Probably, yeah. 'bout 2.30ish?