steelprunes

they must have changed the rules coz when i finished building the first incarnation in 2004 they did'nt award points, any three parts would do! obviously its different now! any hoo i have a v5 for it with the spondon numbers so its all good

thanks m8, took a bit of work to make it fit but was worth the effort! got the engine in last weekend so its off the G.I.A engineering on saturday to get the subframe modified and to make the brackets for the oil cooler.

hi all im currently building up a 1200 bandit engine to replace a 750 slinshot engine, ive heard people talk about fitting the 750 cams in bandits and 1127's, what the advantage of this? and will the cams/head fit the bandit? i would imagine the 750 has smaller combustion chambers that the 1200? cheers mi awds

hi all , i hav'nt used the frame numbers from the slingshot for the spondon, that came with its own number. i changed the frame number on the v5 to the number on the spondon frame and kept the original number plate. i spoke to the D.V.L.A and they told me as long as i had 3 parts from the original bike that would be ok, its been registered for 10 years now, so the original slingshot frame has its original numbers but no v5. hope that makes some sense! cheers steelprunes

ok, so now i'm on a roll this with this resizing fandango i thought i'd show you my other project which has sadly been abandoned its a 750 slingshot frame with a vfr single sided swing arm fitted with a White power rear shock, the swingarm had to be machined down 4.5 mm on either stde to make it fit in, gav at G.I.A did all the work and also build the fantastic subframe, the seat is zx 10 and the front end is paoli forks, brembo calipers, marchinesi wheel and spondon yokes, this all came of the front end. my original plan was to fit the 1200 bandit in it but i have decided to concentrate on the spondon. does anyone know what the deal is with registering it at the d.v.l.a, it has no v5 for it, its straight cos its my old frame i used as a donor for the spondon but ive used the v5 for the spondon. i have a matching vfr front wheel to go on it to so the wheels match.

ok think i've got the hang of this re sizing malarky, one more picture

ive changed the front end, it now has a zx9 front wheel and forks and a set of lurvley G.I.A c.n.c yokes, the old blade seat has been junked and i just finished making a new m.v agusta seat for it, i bought a donor seat from a guy on this site and modified it to fit then made a new part. heres a picture of the modified seat,massive thanks to rich at http://www.profibre.co.uk/ who is a genius getting the thing to look right and allowing free use of his facilities , materials and expertise! as you can see we had to rivet a strap across it to get the shape right, the fabricate the foward wings to cover the sump on the tank, then 5 loverly days in a styrene stinking hell hole making the mould! oh what joy! ardous and tedious but the result ( i think) was worth it.

its gonna have a 1200 bandit fitted instead of the weak and pathetic 750 slingshot i had in it. this:

now it looks like this!! soz about the picture size, having a bit of bother getting the sizes right!!

hi all, just thought i'd post some piccies of my spondon re fit, its been up and running for ten years , it looked like this