gsxrdan1
18-10-2008, 11:54 AM
Ok, so I joined up for the classifieds, but i'm a certified streetfighter nut - bikes just shouldn't be left 'standard'; my ride, my way! My first road bike was a gsx250s, I chopped out the airbox and made up some pod filters, 2 into 1 exhaust and changed the rear sprocket to cope with all that extra power (at least another half a kilowatt!) a while later and after several more older bikes including a gs650 shaft drive that i welded a kat 1100 fairing to, I had the privilege of mashing my yzf750 under the back of a stopped car... mind you the car had been moving at 60kph only milliseconds previously... but to her credit I guess back in the Philippines she was used to stopping whenever she damn well liked - peak hour or not! But I digress, the awesome thing about the stack (after the pethidine of course!) was that I now had a perfectly unnecessary excuse to streetfighter my modern sportsbike! Chopped the duck tail and made it a solo with a bob seat, lots of work including puttiing on a cheap set of front spotlights; had the forks straightened and re chromed (place in adelaide does a magnificent job of precision grinding and chroming) and promptly some fucker stole the nearly finished project! So back to work I went and hit the overtime till I could afford another project bike. A SRAD 96 gsxr750 came my way courtesy of an insurance write off, so began my love affair with this weapon of a model - so sharp and focussed! I was gonna fighter it, honest, but it just looked soooo good in standard guise I brought it back to almost original - tho i added some kwaka 750 grab rails to the duck tail for essential passenger safety and comfort, that beast was good enough to have the needle heading off the clock to where 320kph would have been!!! tho I didn't really believe the gauge :) erm... it was a 1 off incident, had spent 6 months building the bike and had to see what it could do!! :) sorry officer...
I sold the gix cause i was using the last mm of rubber on the back wheel and found myself wanting more power for the lights and maybe i needed a 1000cc gix and... WHAT THE FUCK was i thinking??? 320kph on public roads??!!and i wanted MORE!?!?!?! so i sold it for a profit, got to ride it for a year and learned a lot, all good. I've been riding since age of 4, got a car license 5 years after getting a bike license, and i get quite depressed when i don't have a bike... so i went and bought another project. 5 years later i'm still working on it, but have done another 3 bikes in the meantime, and this is one sick mean beast of a fighters bodyguard - an ex-australian superbike from 1986, a vfr 750, the very first model made, bought by mobil race team and filled with all sorts HRC junk like titanium conrods and HRC heads and race trans, showa forks and shock, showa radiator, back in 86 they were allowed to do a lot of mods for superbikes!!! (rumour has it mal campbell rode for mobil on a honda in 86 and won the championship - was it on my bike?) between then and me the bike did ride days at phillip island, then became a burnout comp winner, including its last run at ponde 2000 where it took the title again. I got it with rats nesting in the airbox and compressed ratshit in 2 of the cylinders, i thought it had bent valves at first cause of all the shit almost stopping it being turned over!!! Well now its a full road bike, marsechini forks and astralite race rims, tokiko 6 pot brakes from an SRAD and rgv disks, BIG billet triple clamps and enough of my own fabricated parts to build a mock-up (of something made of a lot of parts...) made a rear wheel hugger in the oven; used high temp gold paint and baked the toxic shit hard in the oven too! I'll put up another post about it in the honda section with lots of juicy details and pix- gets me another post closer to telling you all about my SRAD parts for sale!!! :) cheers, and pleased to meet ya!
Dan.
I sold the gix cause i was using the last mm of rubber on the back wheel and found myself wanting more power for the lights and maybe i needed a 1000cc gix and... WHAT THE FUCK was i thinking??? 320kph on public roads??!!and i wanted MORE!?!?!?! so i sold it for a profit, got to ride it for a year and learned a lot, all good. I've been riding since age of 4, got a car license 5 years after getting a bike license, and i get quite depressed when i don't have a bike... so i went and bought another project. 5 years later i'm still working on it, but have done another 3 bikes in the meantime, and this is one sick mean beast of a fighters bodyguard - an ex-australian superbike from 1986, a vfr 750, the very first model made, bought by mobil race team and filled with all sorts HRC junk like titanium conrods and HRC heads and race trans, showa forks and shock, showa radiator, back in 86 they were allowed to do a lot of mods for superbikes!!! (rumour has it mal campbell rode for mobil on a honda in 86 and won the championship - was it on my bike?) between then and me the bike did ride days at phillip island, then became a burnout comp winner, including its last run at ponde 2000 where it took the title again. I got it with rats nesting in the airbox and compressed ratshit in 2 of the cylinders, i thought it had bent valves at first cause of all the shit almost stopping it being turned over!!! Well now its a full road bike, marsechini forks and astralite race rims, tokiko 6 pot brakes from an SRAD and rgv disks, BIG billet triple clamps and enough of my own fabricated parts to build a mock-up (of something made of a lot of parts...) made a rear wheel hugger in the oven; used high temp gold paint and baked the toxic shit hard in the oven too! I'll put up another post about it in the honda section with lots of juicy details and pix- gets me another post closer to telling you all about my SRAD parts for sale!!! :) cheers, and pleased to meet ya!
Dan.