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fat bastard spring out, slightly less fat bastard spring fitted....... see if I can get in in the bike tomorrow . Also blew the tire up, 18psi in the front was a bit shit..... funny that

dry yer eyes , I was in no way criticised anything you've done , you appear to be in the same boat as most of us here, we do what we can with what we have when we can if anything I was stating I prefer you are going about it over simply throwing cash about and why wait till its done to make a build thread, use it as a diary of how the bike progresses ?

i'd rather see hard work done right than a big budget

done a couple of complete custom builds myself , got any pics, sounds good?

or fit a 6" rear wheel

a bit tame compared to everyone else, only 210bhp, used in all weathers , commuting, TT ,Sunday morning blast

it done it once, trying to avoid it again

got my bar end mirrors fitted, I must be getting old, indicators ...mirrors... where will it end? To be fair, with the carbon Bandit lid you have fuck all hope of seeing much over your shoulder .... and.....i'm... auld the act of doing this pointed out something I've never really noticed, as soon as I get on my bike I automatically kick up the side stand , not a bad thing I hear you say ? No, not under normal circumstances, but when you've just adjusted the mirrors, have no hands on the bike and just let it roll onto the stand... it becomes an issue, catching a bike on one leg alone, before the nearby wall stops it for you is no mean feet, which evidently was beyond me so for now at least I now have black numberboards on the tail

went to change my spring yesterday, soon as I unboxed the new spring something looked wrong, existing spring is 525lb.... and here is where it all went wrong , the new spring was ordered as an 8.5kg/mm, so they sent me an 850lb spring.... I'd have been better of with a steel strut ... ah well , nothing that can't be swapped went for a hurl around Ayrshire on Friday night, bike didn't feel right, I need to sort the geometry, so it needs it's steering damper, turns out the anchor post needs bracing, if moving at any kind of pace the amount of steering input don't move the damper much at all ... add it to the list (but we need pictures) I had to sort out the back brake , I've not mentioned this have I?, I'd fitted the HRC green rear res tube... which I now know is shit for long term use, ended up with a seized master cylinder, so that got stripped , cleaned and made to work again, then I made myself something more fitting. Couldn't decide what to engrave on it, bike already has Suzuki logo, GSXR, BFT... so i went full on nerd

i hear he likes to move it move it

checked out the spring, it has a 525lb one, needs to be about 480, feels so much better with the lighter spring, sort out ordering tomorrow . Super stiff spring might suit the fast guys, I'm a doddery auld cunt with too many injuries to count, I need the softer one

by the time I got to September I'd got sick of patching up the leaky tank, so it needed sorting. initial plan, chop the arse out of the glass tank and make a fuel cell , I almost finished it too , got half way back to the van with both parts, ready to fit a filler neck.... but the cover still weighed more than the tank .... nah, that's not happening lets make a full tank , it's still a little heavy, I had a load of 3mm sheet, bit thick, but I have it lets get to the English wheel.... oh yeah, I don't have one, sandbag.... nooo, wooden mallets..... nope.... if fact there appears to be a lack of any sheet metal working tools ... never mind, carry on bend stuff around gas bottles, bench vice, 4lb copper mallet, nylon mallet, I somehow muddled through and Deeks made it look nice ...somehow . If I make another I'll make better tools then a bit of paint and yellow wheels and that's where we are

as nice as the can was , I couldn't get my right foot on the peg properly , to the point riding it hurt my ankle, so time for a can change, the Harris one looks much better on the bike , sounds great, and don't interfere with my foot. fitted dry breaks (did i mention that before?) brilliant for when you need to pop the wheels out traipsed around the West Coast to check everything was all good , then off to the IoM

i fink so

i never rode it without the eliminator with the servo removed, i can't remember if it would go into limp mode or would just be a light on the dash , I know that removing the clutch switch puts it into a zero map, it doesn't run right, loses power, simply removing the servo may do the same? i'm not about to take it off to see , but I will try to remember to make enquiries as to what happens

the rest of the paint was applied, the seat went off to Devon to be covered, ramair filters fitted, HRC rear brake hose and then off to Ade and Blair to be wired up I fitted the Leo Vince SBK can, It was a little long, but it's a nice can , then onto the Dyno After that it was MSVA, I had considered just using the original frame number, but after speaking to MDM and Jason Flather I went for the test, It wasn't as bad as i heard, paperwork was a bit stressful, but perfectly do-able passed, mot'd, insured lets ride ....to be continued

since the fancy wheels came from a K2 , I figured a K2 sprocket would fit..... it didn't, It actually fit right over the sprocket carrier... which was actually quite serendipitous , owing to the fact that i'm a twat and made the frame too narrow where the chain passes .... durrrrrrr lets buy a 520 chain, grab a little room, and make an adaptor to move the sprocket inboard, pretty sure I moved the front inboard too

I'd already made up headlight brackets when Deeks had the light, I made up a set of nylon fork leg brackets to be sure they'd fit, then replaced them with ally ones. Once they were on i was able to make up mounts for the front indicators the headlight surround went off to Deeks for paint

found a pic of the speedo healer now that the airbox lives in a corner of the garden, I was able to fit an electrics tray above the engine, it housed the super light battery, which my expensive mosfet reg/rec killed (I resorted to the stock reg/rec and battery) . The horn and starter solenoid found a home there too The Pair valves were blanked off too, I should have more pics, but this is the only one I can find just now

Lets see if I can make sense of this pic dump On the cross bar behind the engine is the M Unit, on it's m unit plate , the ECU in a little ally box and the iat sensor from the airbox under the seat was somewhat pressed for space, I kinda built the bike and worried about electrikery later . I did make up a tray and managed to fit in the m lock, a servo eliminator, a speedo healer, a PC V, a usb connector, an overflow tank with the original Suzuki cap and underneath it the reg rec the subframe at this point was only connected at the rear with the seat mount on the top rail, so I machined up an X brace and a bar for across the back , neither of these are ever seen, but I like them

didn't count, but was a fair few

Cheers, all advice welcome . I have tried the vacuum bag thing since then, much nicer parts

I like steering dampers, might not always need them..... but this time I do , it's fair to say it gets somewhat squirrely without it . the initial mock up bracket was ugly as fuck, but it was never going to be anything other than mock up, once it looked like it would work a decent bracket was machined up. An anchor point was welded to the frame and a post bolted to it. It did loosen off on the way back from the last TT, proper spoiled the big sweeping bend into the Gretna services oh, yeah, this is the Ohlins that replaced the sprint

more resin and kevlar , a friend had chopped up a GSXR muddie, and went a little to far, it was bin fodder, so I set about it and turned it into something one off-ish I thought about aftermarket instruments, decided the stock item could be just as good, I stripped the back off, smoothed it and skinned it with kevlar and made a nice Ti bracket, the bracket ended up skinned in kevlar too as the clocks were too bouncy The MT03 headlight had its surround popped off and given the message while I was at it all these items would be tarted up later

perusing the internerd , as you do, i found a nice filler cap , think it was a vortex item , but will I fuck be spending that kind of money on a filler cap . I bothered my turner friend again for a male and female thread, then set about making my own . It screws together and has a little sprung lock, to be fair it shuts a little too tight once the o ring is added, but it works