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Hey Ash. Great to see that. So what did the front end and dymags end up on? Or have they been gathering dust in a corner somewhere for a decade!

Here's another one from back in the day

Ah, there it is, yes I put the EF engine in it after I killed the original on an ill-advised flyer at RAF Woodbridge! I bought a whole bike and parted the rest out and basically got a free engine - the Cobra exhaust came with that, I can't remember why I didn't re-use the Harris Collection one at the time. After a steer on here I worked out that I sold it to Ash on the IoM, but he couldn't recall where it went after him - beyond it was Birkenhead? It looks like he swapped out the White Power USD forks, spondon discs, Harris clip-ons etc (basically front end) and the white mag Dymags. It's good to see its still out there

Many thanks. Looks like an option to explore, and a good read

This was my old one, sold it a long time ago and recently tried to track it down. Black of course

That’s not a bad idea, I don’t think i’ve seen many black ones

Lots of questions to follow but one quick one that my recent searching didn't resolve, is there a ready solution for the speedo drive, I've the K6 front and the original clocks?

... in Johannesburg and with the Rand so weak I couldn't pass it by, so it now resides with me in Dubai. Now the fun begins - its good to be back in the OSS world

Hi Clive, good to hear from you. Its a bit of both and no tax helps I can't remember if that was just one of Sean's dyno days or the first of the 200mph Ultimate Street-bike Challenges. Great days but all so very long ago. The pic is tagged 2004. On the mag year, I've googled away for hours but no joy and of course I've had about six different laptops since then. I distinctly remember a web page where someone had collated and scanned all the old feature bikes - probably taken down by the copyright police years ago! Anyway good to see you are around and still on the scene, perhaps there's even a piece of my 'broken' EFE still on one of yours Matt

Hi johnr. That would be great, much appreciated.

So it turns out it was Ash He sold it on a couple of years later to someone in Birkenhead, whom he'd heard had some work done on it but hasn't heard anything for a while. Any suggestions for Birkenhead Kat fans??

Ash does ring a bell, but then so do a few of the names on here even after so long. The pink logos challenged me at first, but after a while I grew to like them Memories are flooding back - WP forks, magnesium dymags, harris clip-ons and swing arm?, harris collection exhaust, spondon floating discs, ohlins shocks, 33mm smoothbores, dyna coils and taylor leads, dyna 2000 etc... you'd almost call it a vintage speed version, definitely of its time. Of course a standard EFE engine after I killed the bored and breathed on one. I bought it at Motorcycles Unlimited in Perivale who always had a few oddities. I think they got it from Reservoir Cogs or his brother... I remember a website with scans of all the old Kat/OSS articles in Streetfighters Mag - but damned if I can find it, its probably gone... it was a long long time ago

Hi All Firstly its great to see the site alive and running. It has been many years since I've visited, mostly since I moved to the Middle East the best part of a decade ago and sold my Katana a few years before that even! It's great to the scene thriving and it got me to thinking about another Kat - that was what bought me back to the site in the first place. In turn that got me thinking about my old bike. A massive long shot, but I sold it to someone via this site way back in in 2004/5 - A good guy from memory, he came over from the Isle of Man to collect it and I believe he had others. Now if it were a standard Kat I know my request is pretty ridiculous, but it was a little modified whilst a long shot you never know someone may remember it. It was in Streetfighters back way back in the day and there was an article on it calling it the Donkey Choker - a Pip Higham bike. I blew the engine doing a flyer at Woodbridge and dropped in an EFE before it was later sold - so the pic here taken outside Big CC had the earlier engine. Does anyone know the bikes whereabouts now, or even have an encylopaedic knowledge of back issues of Streetfighters mag? Fingers crossed. Matt