Big Heavy Wobbler

[kanerdog1X1]

Following the demise of the old forum, I have had a few requests to try and rebuild the build thread I had over on the old .org

The loss of that forum, and the subsequent demise of Photobucket means that this is going to be a mammoth task. I'm not going to write in present tense, as it would have been, but rather write it as simply a commentary of a photo  album. I will use Imgur to hold the images, and this is what will take the most time, finding the pics and uploading them.



Here goes.


The bike as I bought it in June 2010. Two previous owners, and having only covered 4750miles:-



That was a Friday afternoon, come Saturday morning I was making stuff for it. First up was a couple of titanium brackets, the first for the Power commander, the second to hold the front brake hoses securely.

PC3 bracket:-









Brake hose guide:-






Ill add to this thread as I find the time. I hope it is enjoyed by both those who remember it, and inspires those who are new to it.

[seth]

fantastic 

[Andre]

Much appreciated. Looking forward to the pics with your commentaries

[Del]

  love to see this thread again

Do you have the specs for the PC and the brake bracket - cheers Del

[kanerdog1X1]

Thanks guys.


First round of upgrades consisted of a PC3, and Hel brake lines. These were all purchased with discount codes offered by the old .org, I removed the calipers and gave them a thorough clean while I was fitting the hoses.










Then a few weeks later I started to add a couple of bits of bling. First was a set of rather naff CRG copy levers. I used to think these were ace, but now I realise they're just a bit crap.



Then out with the Bike-It tax holder and in with the Fiber-Lyte one.







It wouldn't be long before that nasty anodised exhaust would go too. You get the idea from these pics at just how clean the bike was. It really was in excellent condition.

[kanerdog1X1]

love to see this thread again

Do you have the specs for the PC and the brake bracket - cheers Del

Specs? I think I still have the brake bracket somewhere, and I continued to produce the PC3 brackets in alloy. I might have one of those ready to go. PM me if you're interested.

[kanerdog1X1]

Couple of weeks later I rode over to Probolt in Tewkesbury and bought some fasteners.





Also my boss bought me the Akrapovic system.





This then led to me needing a lighter hanger rather than the pillion footpegs. So I storated by making a jig to get the dimensions perfect.













That would later get anodised black.

[kanerdog1X1]

Around the same time I discovered that the Gilles tooling chain adjuster for the GSXR models would fit, so I bought a set of them with the paddock stand lifters.



This would lead to a whole other side project, the paddock stand. You'll see that later in the build thread, it get used a LOT! The bike spends 95% of its life parked on it. It started out as just a piece of bent pipe from the scrap bin. I was trying out a borrowed pipe bender, just to get a feel for it, and this pipe was left over.

Started by welding it to a couple of pieces of box section to make a frame. With this frame I could beat some sheet aluminium over to to form the two halves of each upright.









This then left me with forms, that could be tacked together to form the monocoque:-







And welded.





Roller blade wheels added.







A friend of mine made the cnc bobbin mounts:-





At first it had rubber feet at the rear, but these were later changed for aluminium. its easier to slide the bike back and forth in the workshop with the aluminium feet.



And in use:-

[kanerdog1X1]

This was powder coated satin matt black.





I added some nylon guides behind the bobbins. Makes it easier to guide the stand under the swingarm.



And in use





Starting to look like my bike.

[kanerdog1X1]

Later that summer, I bought a few relatively expensive items. For both the yokes and headlight mounts I was inspired by another forum members bikes, that belonging to Des Sharp. His bike had both billet yokes and billet headlight mounts. I loved both items, and ordered the yokes from Roy Martin and the mounts from Just Bandits. The bar clamps/risers came from Moorespeed.





The yokes were very nice, but upon trial fitting them it was apparent that the k5 model was different from the point of view of the key transponder reader.



A few emails to and from Roy saw them modified to fit the later bikes.



I'm not a fan of polished shit, so all of these items went off to be anodised.







The same time I fitted some Renthal ultra lows, they don't look very low, but they are. 

[kanerdog1X1]

Had a friend machine me some pairs blanking plates, those also got anodised black.





Banking off and removing some of the pairs pipes caused a headache with the plumbing. Two different size pipes needed to be blocked off. This was resolved by making a double ended bung, that basically goes between the airbox and the throttle bodies.





And made some bar end weights as the standard Suzuki ones wouldn't fit the Renthal bars.



After 'polishing' with 240 grit paper in the lathe.

[kanerdog1X1]

This led me onto the undertray. Undertrays were available and I thought they were a great idea, however that was before i would out you had to cut away a fair chunk of the sandwich box under the seat.



By that point I had already resolved to ditch the snow shovel, so just set about chopping that off and leaving a tidy standard undertray.











This left with with a dilemma, where am I gonna put the number plate?

As I had also ditched the fold out luggage hooks, I was left with two perfectly good mounting points for a tail tidy.

Tacked:-





Welded:-



Powder coated:-

[kanerdog1X1]

So this was coming to the end of the 2010 riding season, and the last bits I got for it were the Coerce rearsets and the clutch slave bracket.

The clutch slave came first, ordered from Japan to see if they were any good, which they were. Very. Then a week later the rearsets.

Love Japanese packaging.











The rearsets made a huge difference to the feel of the bike. It helped stop it feeling mushy, and you felt far more connected to the bike.

[kanerdog1X1]

I picked up and R1 throttle tube too, its very similar in shape to the GSX but has a shorter stroke.



It makes the bike feel sharper. I'm totally used to it now, but I remember it being a 99p eBay game changer.

[kanerdog1X1]

This was annoying. It was a friend who thought it would be funny to get back at me for a practical joke by peeling a sticker off my bike. I forgave him. We have since pretty much stopped talking, but because of something else entirely.