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Bandit 1250 throttle bodies fit apparently. Carb options: BST40 - most of the world GSXR1100 spec BST38 - GSXR750 BST34?36? - junk the US spec 1100s got FCRs Mikuni TMRs or RSs EFI - Bandit 1250 or respace something. I don't know of any inlet rubber swaps that let you run oil boiler carbs or carbs from something else. RF900 runs something annoyingly small, and downdraft. I think a few people have swapped re-spaced downdraft Yam or SRAD carbs onto RF900s though.

Unfortunately not! I might be able to go do some work on it at my mates place, but untill our container arrives I won't have any of the stuff I'm bringing back for it - but given that I'll now be prepping our old place for sale, I still doubt I'll get anything done!

Current target is being back in Oz mid 2022, but given the plan to keep renting our current house out, and live with the in-laws while we find and buy a new place, I reckon I won't actually get to do anything until Q4 2022...

I've seen the 3 spokes, and the red 6 spokes, but no 5 spokes? The Marchesinis are a bit too new to be "Period", but a nice set of Marvic Pentas would be spot on I reckon.

Mick Hone Suzuki in Australia?

More luck with kleinenanzeigen, found a set of factory fork tools for the Paiolis, along with a factory spares kit (which is short an o-ring - no buggy). Anyway, got back from a week's work travel away and these were waiting for me. Plan is to strip the spare set of forks (which I have here with me in Germany), hand the Carts off to a work mate from the UK and get them to K-tech so they can see if a ZX9R piston kit fits... Love how 90s the logos are. Looks like the tools have never been used despite a few greasy fingerprints... There's something really cool about factory tools, especially unused ones near 30 years old.

I wonder if adding a solenoid controlled powerjet to the Lectrons would help?

Honestly I was surprised you went down the Lectron path, I've only ever seen them on drag bikes over the last 25 years... I would have looked at 36 or 38mm Keihin PWK Airstrikers, Mikuni TMXs or Tz250/RS250 carbs... I know of a few people who are great believers in the "Smart Carb", the next generation from the guy that designed Lectrons, but their promises are smell awfully snake oily to me...

Oh, forgot to mention I managed to find the correct corrugated tubing for the factory "cold air" feed, it's a product that basically doesn't exist in Oz... And picked up a spare Tacho and temp gauge, will replace my Tacho that's had a wiring bodge of some sort... Slowly growing the pile of bits that will come home with me.

So, setting up a standing search on Ebaykleinanzeigen paid off today... A little message popped up on Tuesday evening while I was on the couch watching the OG Ghostbusters with the missus "2 new ads for your search for Bimota SB6” - hadn't seen any pop up for a while, so clicked it. One was an ad with no pictures, "Bimota SB6 Sportendschalldämpfer"... Ad had been up for 12 minutes. Asked a few questions, transferred €150 and it arrived today. Despite the seller saying there were no stampings on it, when I pulled the end cans out of the box, I found this: While it's no Corse Titanium system, it is definitely a solid chunk lighter than the stock cans, and at 150€, I'm very happy! I neglected to take an overall photo - it looks much like the stock cans except with some extra rivets in the alloy sleeves, and no bulged section in the up pipe...

SV650 calipers are 2 pot sliders.

Hi mate, the thermostat (and almost all of the pipe) sits under the frame, the smaller diameter shiny branch runs up through the floor of the headstock brace to the filler cap. Have you got the parts book? unfortunately I'm a very very very very very long way away from the bike and can't take any pics or measurements, but the lower mount is a tubular A shape that picks up off the inside of the (unused) front engine mounts. Don't recall if theres another piece between the a-frame and the suzuki lower rad mount. There's a rubber bush there too. Upper is a bent flat plate. there's some coolant pipes here: https://www.Eblag.de/itm/BIMOTA-SB-6-1995-COOLANT-TRANSFER-PIPE-RARE-PN-502645060-OEM-LOT52-52C5111-/333575570446?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0 And this one https://www.Eblag.de/itm/BIMOTA-SB-6-1995-COOLANT-TRANSFER-PIPE-RARE-GENUINE-OEM-LOT52-52C5097-/233559896957?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0 And a lower radiator support https://www.Eblag.de/itm/BIMOTA-SB-6-1995-RADIATOR-SUPPORT-BRACKET-RARE-PN-502645020-OEM-LOT52-52C5099-/333575527070?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0 And an upper (and the two battery clamp pieces) https://www.Eblag.de/itm/BIMOTA-SB-6-1995-MIXED-PARTS-RARE-GENUINE-OEM-LOT52-52C5116-/233559948029?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0 Pretty good chance you can get a package deal or get offers accepted on that stuff, I've bought from them in the past (in fact it's where the bike came from) SB6R stuff is different, uses a Thunderace rad.

I thought there was another thread, but that shows the setup. First model VFR800 discs, not VFR750.

Because I had wire wheels, none of the 4 pot calipers would fit. I wound up designing a kit that used SV650 calipers and VFR ~296mm discs (I actually used Aprilia RS250 discs for the prototype with the holes slotted 2mm or something). Pretty sure I posted drawings of the adaptor plate. That disc size with the SV calipers lets you use the upper fork mount hole (so the adaptor plate had 3 holes instead of 4) and made a huuuuuge difference in braking compared to the factory shit.

I had a flashy GSXR600 clutch lever in the stock perch on my Kat, you could pretty clearly see that the cable pull point was in a different spot, and we'll, it was heavy as fuck. I just dealt with it though, I guess I could have modified the anchor point or something, but couldn't be fucked.

Its still a problem on a road bike that's used hard. I suspect it's part of what lead to the death of my crank/cams and rockers. I modified mine to take a gasket and a modified gs1000 screen (to allow easy cleaning of the screen), blanked the tubes off and cut a new pickup hole in the bottom. Only issue I saw from doing that is that it picked up any sealant scraps on the screen instead of them lying on the bottom of sump. Funnily enough, GSX750ES and oily GSXRs used a pickup that did away with the shit tubes and pulled from the bottom of the pan (uses the same bolt pattern too, can be fitted to GSX with a ~20mm spacer). I know some drag guys re-clock the pick up, block one tube and extend the other so it pulls oil from the bank of the sump, but that only works under acceleration.

I'd be more worried about the oil pickup sucking air where it doesn't have a gasket, or sucking air because the pickups point forward and are 3/4" off the bottom of the sump. Both can be fixed easily.

Throw in bin, fit Ignitech?

Moto Junkie reproducing them in Japan, however they're horrendously expensive, almost as pricey as the original Suzuki ones (which you can't get plates for).

Unfortunately postage to and from Oz is a fucking shitshow at the moment, and brutally expensive... Not that I can exactly get out and about at the moment. Fucking lockdowns.

Yeah, unfortunately there's not going to be any updates for a while, my stay in Germany is going to be extended to early next year...

So, while I'm in Germany the SB6 has been living in the "mancave"/office half of a friend's shed. He was working from home today, and heard a bang from the garage half of the shed, ran in through the access door he installed a month or two ago (his garage door opener failed and it was the only way into the garage previously, had to bust a hole in the internal wall to get the garage door open), and found a knockoff Ryobi cordless drill battery on the charger had exploded, and flaming debris had landed on a storage tub sitting underneath it... Luckily he has several extinguishers around the place (probably because his last shed almost burned to the ground, destroying the fiat he'd spent 15 years modifying and tweaking, and it almost took his house too)... Anyway, lucky the access door went in, otherwise by the time he got to the house to use the opener, the bit on fire in the charger would have spread and tripped the breaker, stopping the garage door opener from operating, and stopping him from being able to put the fire out... Several layers of luck there today.

The later frames were also lighter (thinner sections), which is why they braced to the head to bring the stiffness back up.

Fuck that thing looked great.

Anyway, we're fuckin miles off topic here.