Spondon no 10

[clivegto]

Got my self a early steel frame Spondon  says its F1R/10 on the frame.  Its been a bit unloved for the last 10 year sat in a damp shed. Man I got it from has owend it for the last 30 year's . But it has a gsxr 1127 motor with only 10200 miles on it and thunder ace running gear.      

[Blubber]

Lucky 

 

Cool

[Ivan]

Awesome 

[Jaydee]

Nice find. Here's another example of that frame. They do have a lot of potential. 

[kja.busa]

Damn, I should have guessed, I had first dibs if you didn't buy it. I was hoping you wouldn't turn up!

[Wee Man]

Nice one. Looks like it's got a lot of potential.  

[clivegto]

48 minutes ago, Jaydee said:

Nice find. Here's another example of that frame. They do have a lot of potential. 

Yea nice that is.  

[clivegto]

46 minutes ago, kja.busa said:

Damn, I should have guessed, I had first dibs if you didn't buy it. I was hoping you wouldn't turn up!

I did turn up lol. Never thought I would own a Spondon but I do now 

[kja.busa]

2 minutes ago, clivegto said:

I did turn up lol. Never thought I would own a Spondon but I do now 

It looks like it needs work, im guessing hes spliced the spondon swingarm front section to the arms of a chunderace swingarm, strange.

[clivegto]

3 minutes ago, kja.busa said:

It looks like it needs work, im guessing hes spliced the spondon swingarm front section to the arms of a chunderace swingarm, strange.

Needs a tone of work & yes the previous owner spliced the ace arm to the spondon one. Would love to know how it started life. I do know it was orange originally with thin cast alloy wheels, it also has various faring/seat brackets that haven't been usesd for a long time. 

[FJD]

Cool bike - i can see a challenge !

For Oil filling you might need a 5 year old, to get his hands within the frame rails to open up the filler cap

[Dezza]

Ace Any idea on what engine the frame was built for? It would guess either gsx1100 or kawasaki gpz 1100/z1000.

[clivegto]

27 minutes ago, Dezza said:

Ace Any idea on what engine the frame was built for? It would guess either gsx1100 or kawasaki gpz 1100/z1000.

Man I got it from owend it for 30 years with the gsxr motor already fitted when he bought it. He thinks it had a gs1000 motor although I suspect it had a gsx1100 motor originally. 

[clivegto]

Not the same bike but found this picture in my old IOM TT photos. 

[kja.busa]

It would definitely have been for the gsx/gs motor, by the time the gsxr motor became popular Spondon were already experimenting with the Ali beam frames

[kja.busa]

10 minutes ago, clivegto said:

Not the same bike but found this picture in my old IOM TT photos. 

There weren't many steel frames made for the larger capacity motors, and the co axial swings makes it rarer still I think. I've only actually seen one other, many years ago in B&B Suzuki in Lincoln, although I know there's others from photo's.

[clivegto]

More than one steel trellis frame designe I think but not co-axle. 

Edited October 24, 2021 by clivegto

[kja.busa]

It would be interesting to see what it looked like originally, when newly built.

[Dezza]

What about an EFE turbo Steve Burns style with all the chassis bells and whistles? Just a suggestion....

[clivegto]

9 hours ago, Dezza said:

What about an EFE turbo Steve Burns style with all the chassis bells and whistles? Just a suggestion....

It has crossed my mind. I already have a mk2 b12 1216 turbo motor sat doing nothing with less than 200 miles on it. 

Edited October 25, 2021 by clivegto

[clivegto]

11 hours ago, kja.busa said:

 I've only actually seen one other, many years ago in B&B Suzuki in Lincoln, although I know there's others from photo's.

Last owner got it from a bike shop in Gainsborough 30 year's ago. 

[gsx]

Only ever seen one co whatsit in the flesh and that must been 30 years ago at the bulldog , mint find 

[Dezza]

I was at Bruntingthorpe when Burns was doing 150 mph wheelies on his but as said above, his was based on an earlier frame that did not have coaxial swingarm mounts. The steel Spondon frames do need an air-cooled motor though although admittedly good ones are not easy to source.

[clivegto]

45 minutes ago, Dezza said:

I was at Bruntingthorpe when Burns was doing 150 mph wheelies on his but as said above, his was based on an earlier frame that did not have coaxial swingarm mounts. The steel Spondon frames do need an air-cooled motor though although admittedly good ones are not easy to source.

This one has had a oil boiler in for 30 years. The picture above of Burn's wheeling the blue and black one was re-built by Spondon with a gsxr1100 motor after  Burns trashed it. Last seen in Lancashire some where lol. 

I do have a gsx1100efe motor and a gsx1100es motor but there heavy as well as expensive to turbo and I need to turbo this bike. 

Have considered fitting a early gsxr1000k motor as well 

Edited October 25, 2021 by clivegto

[Gpz1100_Convert]

saw that posted on that there facey. hope you didn't pay full whack eh.

Loads of potential there for a dead cool oldskool built.

One thing if you plan to turbo as I did. Factor in the clutch cover to coax pivot point as if its anything like my coax then there is 1mm clearance so lockups are a no go. There are options like heavy springs but they won't hold much more than 170bhp which makes a turbo a little pointless. Mine even has the cut out for the mr turbo kit and still I wasn't prepared to go turbo draw through. stuck N/A.

Mark

Edited October 25, 2021 by Gpz1100_Convert
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