A tale of two race bikes

[Markz9]

 I have been meaning to post some photos of my gsxr slabby race bikes one is a 750 to race and practice in the uk and the other is gsxr 1216 to race with csbk German classic super bike a club I have raced around Europe with for a few years

[R1guy]

Very cool! The 2002 looks like it hasn't moved since I was there.... 

 

Whats happening with the subframe in 1216? Offside lower rail looks tubular?!?!

Edited February 4, 2018 by R1guy

[Ulleke]

Nice bikes, love the color scheme

[colinworth79]

very nice , more close up pics required . How easy was it to fit the k5 onwards wheels ? I'm assuming 600 5.5 inch rear rim ?

[Markz9]

1 hour ago, R1guy said:

Very cool! The 2002 looks like it hasn't moved since I was there.... 

 

Whats happening with the subframe in 1216? Offside lower rail looks tubular?!?!

Hi your right i did fire up the bmw 02 last year but .... a friend of mine working a Landy workshop hopefully he will help ! 

I will post some piccy when that frame  race at the tt

[Markz9]

1 hour ago, Ulleke said:

Nice bikes, love the color scheme

Cheers I do nick a bit from Hans in cloggie land one of his bikes 

[Markz9]

50 minutes ago, colinworth79 said:

very nice , more close up pics required . How easy was it to fit the k5 onwards wheels ? I'm assuming 600 5.5 inch rear rim ?

It is 5.5 I think a 6” rim is too wide and makes the bike too slow to change direct and the rubber about now is so good 

[Markz9]

And here are some piccy of the frame of 1216 the frame was a originally braced by Colin at TPE some time ago when that bike was entered at the classic tt

[Markz9]

This is some detailed pictures of the 750 although the engine is slightly larger and I rebuilt it with the usual new part shell cam chain some of valves and  Ray debben tidy up the ports a bit the front and back wheels are slingshot but I didn’t want to put too bigger a tyres as makes it harder to roll into corners so 4.50  rim on the back

the chain adjusters also incorporate a gp lifter for the paddock stand and Sam Baker has the cad drawing now to make these 

[Markz9]

Some pictures of 750 when I first bought it from a chap in London basically it was a collection of parts loosely bolted together but he did give me some spares as always it had taken much longer than I expected

the spondon yoshi tank will hopefully allow me to get behind the fairing a bit more as I seem to have gained some weight over Christmas!

[Markz9]

And some more close up piccys of big Bertha I wanted one genuine bit of yoshi so a friend in japan managed to get a set of yoshi tmr mjn carbs for me duncan on here fabricated the battery holder and fairing mount and lots of other jobs when the whole thing stalled last year

[Kurf]

Very nice bikes!!

[Markz9]

54 minutes ago, Kurf said:

Very nice bikes!!

Thanks Kurf should be ready for the season this year so will go around Europe with the CSBK

I always try to race at spa at the classic end of june usually race this Yoshi gs1000 but I have moved out of the vintage class this year 

[KATANAMANGLER]

Lovely bikes. Take look at this.

 

[vizman]

ossum' machines @Markz9and superb colour scheme

[Markz9]

18 minutes ago, KATANAMANGLER said:

Lovely bikes. Take look at this.

 

Hi I did try and post it in the race section now I understand why I couldn't thought I was mucking something up

yes happy to shift it into the race section if you don't mind katanamangler  

[Markz9]

20 minutes ago, vizman said:

ossum' machines @Markz9and superb colour scheme

thanks very kind

I always thought the red and white ones were faster but I am prepared to try blue and white to see if it helps my lap times go a bit quicker ! 

[KATANAMANGLER]

4 minutes ago, Markz9 said:

Hi I did try and post it in the race section now I understand why I couldn't thought I was mucking something up

yes happy to shift it into the race section if you don't mind katanamangler  

I will take care of it later. We need to make you a winged hammer first.

[Kurf]

1 hour ago, Markz9 said:

Thanks Kurf should be ready for the season this year so will go around Europe with the CSBK

I always try to race at spa at the classic end of june usually race this Yoshi gs1000 but I have moved out of the vintage class this year 

I visit Spa every year at bikers classics.

Great event, maybe I will catch you there

[Markz9]

1 hour ago, Kurf said:

I visit Spa every year at bikers classics.

Great event, maybe I will catch you there

yes come and say hello our club usually on the concrete area near eau rouge and the tunnel into the track

made it to schleiz and oscherleben this year as well  this piccy is schleiz dreieck which is part road part track and really good fun they had the european ducati cup same weekend

first corner and 45 old superbikes trying to fit, bit crowded

[Markz9]

Some pictures of 750 when I first bought it from a chap in London basically it was a collection of parts loosely bolted together but he did give me some spares as always it had taken much longer than I expected

the spondon yoshi tank will hopefully allow me to get behind the fairing a bit more as I seem to have gained some weight over Christmas!

[Markz9]

This is titanium engine bolts a friend machined for its t5 grade and very hard sam made up the double thickness engine plates and I turned new spacer to hopefully tighten up the engine mount

[Markz9]

On 04/02/2018 at 7:56 PM, colinworth79 said:

very nice , more close up pics required . How easy was it to fit the k5 onwards wheels ? I'm assuming 600 5.5 inch rear rim ?

Hi forgot you wanted more details it’s not too bad to fit

swap inner bearings will get spindle to the correct size for standard s/arm you don’t have to machine the sprocket carrier but I did need to nick a bit off the inner bearing spacer to sprocket carrier bearing

I am using a 530 chain ray debben sells front off set sprocket and in it goes, I used a captive spacer on the sprocket side also gets around using original giant bearing 

[Markz9]

As the swingarm with the original braced frame was built and at the tt classic it’s mad the wheel base a bit too long

  I have got a friend of over in Germany who has modded a slingshot arm with the slabby shock rocker mount 

[R1guy]

Does that mean the other swinger is surplus to requirements?