spondonturbo

Looks great

Thanks guys, will give Steve a shout.

Looking to put a bandit 1200 arm in to a kat 1100 SD frame. Want to do it as a twin shock as I dont want to chop the frame and want to keep it sort of old skool. How hard / easy is it? and who makes the bottom shock mounts that need to be welded on to the swingarm? Any advice / pitfalls appreciated

Two Kat projects in progress at the moment, both aircooled so any more additions are a long way off!

Yes, especially the monster (tube) frames. would like to own one of those one day too - just need to keep buying those lottery tickets! Went with the efe engine at the time as they were the engine of choice for turbos way back when...yes, I am that old!

I would hate to lose the old look, but now that I have had a petrol incident and blown some of the paint, she needs repainting, so dilema time. In an ideal world, I would love to keep this bodywork and colours and do a second set modern but that involves another tank and they aint cheap and hard to find someone to make one now

handles well for an old bike. The idea of the build was to put a powerful motor in a frame that would handle well, so pretty short and set up for going round corners, not in straight lines. Nowhere near as good as a modern sportsbike, but good enough - apart from the wastegate hitting the floor on left handers! thats the next job!

Cheers mate. Looks a bit old skool now as was built in 1992. Modernising would be good, but then would it spoil it??

Good man, keep us posted

wheres the turbo or am I missing something? very nice bike. That paint looks nice

This is how she looks now

That was the original colour scheme and it really was bright, but in them days the dayglo paints faded pretty fast, so I ended up with a different paint scheme within a couple of years and she still has the later paintjob now. will post a pic

It's not a barge frame. The barge frames were the same aluminium extrusion but actually ran around the front of the forks in a big square shape hence the name. I am also not a fan of that design. This frame was built to replicate a deltabox type arrangement with a single beam either side and returning in to the headstock. It was a bast**d to do as the section does not want to bend

the Harris before you started stripping it, assuming you are going to post pics along the way?

ah OK, what cc was the aircooled motor? bored out? flowed at all?

F**k me - it worked

Thought might be worth learning how to post pics with a few of my old faithful. Lets see if it works! First one should be of part way through the original build

any ideas on horsepower?

you do realise that once Sue has passed her test, she'll be pinching the keys for your other bikes

any pics??

I'll second that! nearly had one a few weeks back, but then my Kat project didn't sell bummer. Great bike that James