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Done this aaaaaaaaaaaaages ago, wish i had made one whole thread when i did it but posted in bits n pieces as progress came so threads are all over the forum somewhere.

Started with this, a 1993 ZXR400 L3 with 12000 miles on the clock, but very rough round the edges. Came with a lovely 4 into 1 titanium (possible Beet) exhaust system. Has toad loads of tacky anodised nuts and bolts all over the fairings. Bought for £2000 from ebay 'buy it now' in May 2004. didnt ride it till August because i bought it while i was banned from driving.




The night i started, this was about 11 o'clock at night i got going, i was 'bored'. Got all the fairings and tank off.


next day, strip it bare!!


And in 8 hours reduced it to this




The engine out and in a right state!




Frame, swingarm, sub-frame, all brackets, guards, suspension linkages (basically everything that could be powder coated, was). All cost £120


Lets get together!






Wheels went to a seperate powder coaters, and was chuffed to f*** how they turned out, absolutely beautiful! £120


Getting together still, some add-ons


Looking good but far from complete. All nuts bolts etc, where cleaned and copper greased before they went on the bike, if it was manky or looked toad it was replaced.


Cutting off that mudguard to shapen things up a bit! This is how it should be done.


Waveys!






Mostly complete, wiring all in now.




Some more parts arrive.




How it basically looks now


I started this all in February 2005 and practically came to a standstill that September as i went to uni, but managed to get a couple of hundred miles in before i had to go which was quite satisfying!

Most recent additions, an ASC carbon oval exhaust can for £105 and a carbon fibre tank cover i forget the price now. £35 comes to mind from ebay.






All in al ive spent £2000 buying it, and have spent a further £2.5K getting it to where it is now. The most expensive parts were the wavey disks, they needed doing as the originals were warped and costs £350 for the lot including pads. Next biggest payout was the paint which i have bought seperately, that was £210. Next biggest payout will be getting ti painted, got a quote for £300 but that would be cheaper if i did some of the prep before hand.

Iv got loads loads more pictures, this is only a small selection of what i have and what i can be bothered to upload to bike pics, if anyone is interested in seeing more pictures, say so here and ill see what i can do. Perhaps Baz can help me out with his massive web space

Work to do.
PAINT IT!!!!! Ive been saying for so long that i need to get this done and unfortunately its not happening, next lot of student loan comes in end of april and the last term is only 6 weeks long (half than normal for uni) so fingers crossed i should have some free cash to finally have it done. This is a photoshop of what it should roughly look like, its the green benelli use on thier tornado, absolutely lovely colour.



Loks a bit odd in this picture as its been photoshopped but you get the idea!

Replace the front brake fluid reservoir, the little screw just spins round.

Make ally bracket for the exhaust.

Get some rearsets. Apparently R6 footrests fit, ive yet to confirm this, but if its true then im going for a set of Gilles rearsets in black.

6 pot calipers are on the list also.

Hopefully more to come this summer, and beyond (zxr street fighter ideas floating around my head), so WATCH THIS SPACE!!

quality mate, them wheels look good but £120 for 2 wheels powdercoated?? anyways, you should do a feature to add to the site alongside eds?? space is there if you want it.

A feature sounds good! Dont mind writing one up I can put all the pictures i need in then in a word file rather than keep uploading new ones ach time.

Is £120 expesive for two wheels then? Perhaps compared to yours which were practicaly free?

i think round here you're looking at about £35 a wheel for powdercoating.
do it in html mate its easier for me

ummmm, whats html?

Isnt that what webpages are made of? Hundreds of lines of code?

ok do it how you want and i'll convert it.

lol it's not that hard.

or do it in word and do 'save as html'

Looks great i would have the number board at the front both sides not the one side but 10 out of 10 mate

Looks nice Rob

Its fun building but when the money dries up its a killer waiting for some more

Bike has come a long way since you got it. Corbon fibre with a black frame is sexy as fook!

you know what that bikes anchoring for??? endurance lights at the front or summat like the ducati 999.

@ sloweracing - its was all about money, thats what i spent most of my time doing, waiting to get paid so i could do the next thing. Payday would come and before i knew it a few days later id orderd or got something done on the bike and then there was no money left for the next thing, so had to wait again

@deviant - ill give that a go

@baz - ive been thinking about that funnily enough, have to see, i like the lights as they are at the moment, as they are pretty damn bright, going to something like a H model spotlight im worried things are gonna be a bit dim after that. But the ducati lights are a good idea cos id expect they are preety f'kin bright, have them set to one side would look awesome.

where did you get the carbon frame protectors and the clutch cover from , fantastic looking macine btw. pdhadley@hotmail.com

hey robB there's a nice triumph you might wanna take a look at in this months streetfighters mag, can you get it round by you? if not i'll try and scan it.

scan it in for everyone to see mate cheers

bigger pics in the gallery.