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Wilson could pass for, like 57, tops.

It is a small world. My wife was born and raised in Swan River, near the majestic Duck "Mountains". Did you go to the Benito Demolition Derby, or the Kamsack "Kam Jam"? How about the Northwest Roundup?

Like my buddy Wilson, the Blandit is nearly ready for the first race weekend. However he has the luxury of a heated garage, so I haven't fired mine up as yet. Most importantly race numbers are on and motogp=spec reservoir sock has been sourced. He also has my "winged hammer" stickers...

I had covered some of this on another forum subsection, but since I'm now an "official" Winged Hammer, I'll summarize here: At time of purchase -- written off, purchased for $700 CAD, plus gas and lunch for my buddy Wilson who went into Winnipeg with me (400km round trip). 12,000 km on the clock, not bad for a 1996 model. Original Plan: Hacksaw comes out: Frame bracing begins: Subframe construction: Trial fitting v.1 bodywork: V.1 exhaust: Pepo-ish headlight -- although mine needs to pass government inspection, so actually has to have hi/lo beam, etc: Reassembly after frame finish-welded and powdercoated. Swingarm bobbins tig-welded to swingarm: Version 1 (street) "finished", but what followed was the summer of 2017 trying to get the bike to fuel properly on stock carbs: Fast forward, winter of 2017-18 I gave up and bought some Mikuni 38mm carbs. Ran almost perfect from the start. Also decided that another expensive to insure streetbike made no sense, so why not race it. Street bodywork removed, race bodywork sourced: Track test: Blown fork seals... Track-modified bellypan: Winter 2018-19 update: GSXR1100 forks rebuilt, with new seals, springs, and rechromed tubes. Penske shock from my street triple modified to suit the big bandit. Galespeed wheels sourced and fitted. Suzuki branded brake resevoir sock fitted.

Thanks -- this is the information I was looking for. Won't do it!

This is what I was referring to. Already have a larger oil cooler fitted. Yay or nay?

Considering buying a top end oiling kit for my track/race Bandit 1200. Something from Holeshot performance on this side of the pond... question though -- is it necessary? The bike will be run 5-6 weekends a year, with the odd weekend as "hot" -- 30+ degrees C. Track sessions are between 20-30 minutes long, and aside from a stint during an endurance race of at the most, 40-45 minutes, the bike won't be ridden hard for any great length of time. I already have an aftermarket oil cooler installed, and the bike is otherwise stock aside from carbs and exhaust. I like the idea of extra lubrication where needed as a preventative measure, but as usual the interweb opinions are divided on whether the modification is useful on even highly tuned engines. Thoughts???

At the current exchange rate that's about 350 pounds! It only had 12,000 km on it when I got my hands on it. Carbs were toast... that's a lot of years with ethanol rotting everything, and helped justify the carb swap!

You can see by this pic that the GPR muffler results in a pretty loud bike -- although its a race bike, the sound is tinny and annoying. For $50 murican on the bay of E, i found this: With a bit of tweaking it fitted a treat. The same overall length of the GPR, but I'm hoping the larger volume of the muffler itself will change the tone and quieten it down somewhat. I made some progress with the Galespeed wheels -- the rear required a custom rear rotor, which I got Kayla from Projection Components to do up for me, at a fraction of the cost ISR quoted me. Front ready to be fitted with race tires in about 4 months time... c'mon spring!

An email from a buddy -- been trying to get him to join this forum but he's a bit of a luddite. Aside from compression, or perhaps a timing issue, or way too much fuel to 1 cylinder, I'm stumped -- any ideas?: The #1 cylinder on my GSXR is not firing. It is getting fuel because the plug is wet.The spark plug is sparking.The coil’s primary and secondary resistance are within spec. Looking at the top of the piston through the spark plug hole it appears black and wet.Now that I write this it is pointing ominously toward low or no compression. I cannot test the compression because my compression tester does not have a small enough end to screw into the plug hole. Annoyingly, the bike ran well last fall. What could have happened while it sat in the garage for a few months? What do you think?

It was the rear brake disc -- Micheala from Projection Components over there in Blighty is going to help me out.

Hey all, scored a good deal on some Galespeed type C wheels for the bandit racer. I am a bit stumped at the rear rotor -- it didn;t come with one, and the stock suzuki rotor doesn't. What I need is a rotor with a 80mm bore, 240mm OD, and 100mm bolt circumfrence (if that make sense). And it also is a 5-bolt, like the suzuki. The stock suzuki comes with a 240mm OD, 89mm bore, and what looks to be approx 105mm bolt circumference. Can anyone help? I have looked through the galfer website and no other make/model has similar specs. Galespeed did sell their own rear floating rotors, but I can't seem to finds some specs and dimensions online...

Hey fellow hoser, where are you located. I can offer no other advice other than typical polite Canadian encouragement. Thanks, and sorry.

I was able to adapt the Penske shock from my Street Triple 675 to the Bandit with a change of lower eyelet to clevis. Result! Should work well with the upgraded front end!