Thought I'd join up and show you the project bike I'm building for my wife.
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Laid my hands on a G plate 400 bandit from that there ebay and it is going to get the wrenchmonkee/cafe racer treatment over the next months. Spoked 17" wheels (from a supermoto), single front brake, lowered flat track seat unit, heat wrapped and painted exhaust, lower clip ons, generally stripped of all uneccesary gubbins and then given a satin black paint job...possibly with gold shelby stripes to match the talon hubs on the moto wheels.
This is the bike just after we got it home when I tried a set of my spare moto wheels (I race moto's) in to see what they looked like on the bike..
This is after I've taken an angle grinder to the seat sub frame to remove the back 3rd and with the flat track seat unit resting on it. I'm going to cut and re-weld the sub frame to get the top rails parallel with the ground so the seat unit is lower and flatter and I'll trim the seat unit to make it shorter so the tail is closer to the axle line. The DRZ moto wheels are resting in place, I'm machining the spacers/fitting smaller bearings to suit the bandit axles and will start sussing out front and rear brake options once this is done. Renthal are making a custom sprocket in 525 size to suit the DRZ PCD.
Once the wheels and brakes are done I'll chop and weld the seat frame.
More to follow..
