TBH i still have the shits with the LJ after a few issues i've been having with supplied parts purchased at great expense, so time to play with something wilst NOT spending money...Immediately anyway.
Enter the 74 KZ400.
Some of you may remember some silly picks i put up in the Random picture thread a couple of weeks ago.....
Turrible, Turrible riding position.
Epic riding position, lock it in Eddy!!!!
Cheers.
Well, i wasnt actually joking......
Been procastinating what to do with this bike for ages now, picked it up from the last swap meet 10 months ago for $50 just cause it was old and cool and its kinda been shuffled around the shed the whole time.
I did dick around with it a bit, and spent another $50 on points and concenser (i pointed out in the bike shop that they cost me the same as the whole bike lol) and got it to run reasonably well considering i hadnt bothered to clean out the carbs or anything, so thats promising.
I kinda had a view in mind of what i wanted, Cafe style (i can see dirtbag cringing right now), and saw a few picks of similar models that im using as a bit of inspiration atm.
But how to achieve the look i so desire???
Then it hit me like a freight train about a week ago.
I picked this up for $100 a while ago pretty randomly, mainly cause it was there (i have a bad habit of doing that)
Its a 96 CBR 250 RR frame, wheels and most the brakes lol.
Hmmmmm.......Bit of tape measure work....Its worth a shot i decides.
Suddenly.....
Nek Minnut
Nek Minnut
Hmmmm.....Surprising how close it is to fitting, so close but so far.
The CBR between the insides of the swingarm is about 10mm shorter, so that gives me a bit of room to play with with spacers etc. Axle is the same dia on both bikes.... At the moment the sprocket (which is the wrong tooth width sadly, thought i might get lucky) is about 10mm to far outboard whilst trying to get good alighnment, i've got a few ideas how i might tackle that.
The tyre also hits on the swingarm, i could fix this by going to something a bit smaller like a 120 (currently a 140) but we will see. I would much prefer to chop the swingarm, need to investigate legalities........
Also the brake calliper interferes with one of the shocks, think i'll just move the shock out a bit.
Seeing though that had come close to fitting, and i'd only been dicking around for an hour or so, i decided to get greedy....
An Den
An Den
Again, surprisingly close to fitting. Turns out the KZ top bearing is the perfect size for the triple tree, but the lower bearing doesnt fit. Its currently dummied up by just knocking the lower race out of the CBR and sitting it there so it looks like its on lol. It is bolted up and holding weight, i'll investimagate it properly at a later date, tonight was just a frOck around.
Threw the tank back on to have a glance
Thus far, i frOcking love it.
Total time spent so far about 3 1/2 hours. Total $$$ spent (over a period of about 12 months) $200. Total awesome value, priceless.
Theres a few other little perks to the bike, being a 1st month of 74 model, it gets away from a couple of ADR's that came in in the first month of 75....Namely mufflers and blinkers!!! AWESOME!!!.
Cheers.
Edited by Bomber Watson, 22 May 2012 - 10:24 PM.
