Been working on this for a while, bought a 1992 bandit 400 vc a while back for the missus for when she passed her test. Originally the plan was clean it up respray it and use it, lol how things change turned out to be a major re-model here's how far i've got so far, hoping to have it finished next month.....
Part stripped


frame re painted


frame trimmed ready for new tail


new brackets and tray welded in


shortened and reshaped undertray


it's takin shape




Going with a white and kawasaki green paint job, now got the renthals on just gotta sort the cableing out and got a nice belly pan to go on

Coming along nicely, should look good when its finished.

cheers most of the bodywork sorted, forks are done, just leaves carbs, electrics and paint to do. still trying to track down the sidelight live wire, found it in the loom from the switch but no sign of it exiting anywhere to goto the light???
One more quicky does anyone know wether the uk spec bandit or bandit with flat bars have longer throttle and clutch cables than the import or one with clip ons?

cheers

If you need slightly longer you could go bandit6, the UK B4 should be longer but im not 100%. I just take my old cable into the local spares shop and get them to hold a couple of cables against the old one.

Looking well smart.........Had the paint job done yet.......

Mike

Not yet painters been on holiday should have it all back by next weekend though. Heres a couple of pics of it in white primer before it was stripped and sent to the paint shop...

Thought it was about time i updated this bit lol. Well after the paint shop royally screwed the paint job up twice, i ended up spraying it myself. Should have done it myself in the first place and saved months of hassle!! hey ho. Anyway, barring fitting a new starter motor which packed up on tuesday all thats left now is the graphics
I've made a stone chip protector up for the front of the bellypan (similar resin to the stuff used for tank pads) and all the graphics will be raised with resin too. I'll get a pic of the belly pan up tomorrow so you can see what you think? it'll be a bugger to polish with all the raised graphics but should look nice

Before I even bought my bike, this always inspired me. Don't really have money or other transport to try something out like this

Where did you get the belly pan, is it a straight fit and can I have some up close pics?

Hi HD,
Glad you like it the belly pan came from germany its to fit a hornet 900, it needed a bit of trimming and i had to make some brackets up for it but they were easy enough to do. I'll post some close up pics when i get time the wkend.

That was gonna be one of my next questions... how/where did you mount it

Looking forward to pics :)