AB-Oz Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 No worries mate, you can't rush these things, take your time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zRoYz Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 (edited) Why bother sending forks away to spend more money on a project that will never be finished, your like a female with a shoe collection :rolleyes: On another note my X track VFR750 restore for new owner is finished & will post some pics when I get some as my camera died (don't lend camera to daughters) Ozvfr members don't tell owner I posted pics when I do as he doesn't come here & wants to show it off first but bugger him I did all the work. Complete new paint including wheels (tail has been welded to a one piece item no ugly joins) F4I front end. Penske shock. Pazo levers. R/R rewired to front of bike. Duel horns. Hugger. New grips. Replaced throttle cables. Custom exhaust shield. Lets see took me 2 months doing now & then at night in garage & you have been at it now for how many years :P Edited March 6, 2008 by zRoYz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nungboy Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Who cares about anything other than the Cannondale in the backround with the headshock! Cool bicycle... I am a Cannondale man and have a 10-year old Super Vee in the collection (but it is time to get a new Mtn Bike!) OK...SORRY...BACK TO TOPIC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baileyrock Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 On another note my X track VFR750 restore for new owner is finished & will post some pics when I get some as my camera died (don't lend camera to daughters)Complete new paint including wheels (tail has been welded to a one piece item no ugly joins) F4I front end. Penske shock. Pazo levers. R/R rewired to front of bike. Duel horns. Hugger. New grips. Replaced throttle cables. Custom exhaust shield. No pics, no reality ! :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzed_viffer Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 No pics, no reality ! :rolleyes: Oh - you mean: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zRoYz Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) No pics, no reality ! :rolleyes: Oh - you mean: Ok taken with phone camera, but forgot to add solo seat cowl. Before its said, foot pegs will be changed because there is going to be rear sets fitted. It also has 954 mirrors to be fitted & to add to parts list braided lines front back, high rise staintune, K&N filter. The ignition was also replaced with a 954 item due to standard 750 ignition barrel was smaller & looked dumb in triple clamp + has a nicer key haha & yes the same fuel cap off 954 was used so same key. Pics here http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40110 Edited March 9, 2008 by zRoYz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Wow, another excellent effort Roy. I take it you got a good deal on gold wheel paint :P O/T - Nungboy, that Super V is possibly closer to my heart than my VFR - it's a beautiful bike. It's a 2001 model 400, and had Maxxis Hookworm 2.5's on it in that pic - heavy, but an awesome road and skatebowl tyre - although as I'm pushing 39 I'm pretty careful in the skatebowl... I swap to knobbies every other week. It also has the 'twin-spar' swingarm which is not as strong as the triangular one but looks a lot sexier! and Magura hydraulic rim brakes (most disc systems were crap in 2001 and I knew the Magies were good). Since the pics I've also fitted a Syntace VRO bar system. The wheels are the Shimano 16-spoke models - not super strong, but I don't jump it much and am pretty handy at bunny-hopping it. Cannondale is money well spent - you ride it all day, get home, and feel like continuing... they are simply a pleasure to ride. There's a Cannondale bike trailer in one of the pics too :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 (cough cough... dusting off an old thread, dust masks mandatory) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmatt Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Looking good Nice work on the under seat exhaust, how did you work it in with the rear fender/mudguard? Add any heat shielding? Glad you got your camera back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veefer800Canuck Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Do we have to wait a year for the next chapter? :goofy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEBSPEED Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Hey! At what point did the upper fork tubes change color??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer spotthedogg Posted March 20, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted March 20, 2009 Sweet! I like how you got the bicycle in the shot, too. LOL. I'm not sure which one is my favourite two-wheeler :joystick: Cannondale Super V, my first full suspension bike was a 1998 Super V 900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-Oz Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Hang on a sec... thats the body work off the other bike isn't it? What happened to the custom black fairings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Do we have to wait a year for the next chapter? laugh.gif Maybe, I never quite know what's next in this saga! But hopefully there will be some updates ongoing for the next month or so... At what point did the upper fork tubes change color??? When the original R1 fork uppers were discovered to be bent... the new ones are 2005 ZX-10R items, with the 2004 R1 lowers fitted to them. The ZX-10R uppers are 10mm longer than the R1 items. Hang on a sec... thats the body work off the other bike isn't it? What happened to the custom black fairings? I'm working on both bikes, and the Phantom made a convenient place to put Mrs Phantom's bodywork The custom bodywork is well underway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 Recent developments: - got a ding taken out of the R1 front wheel - got the forks back from the Man, who did his trickery with them (same guy who set up zRoYz forks, maybe the best in Australia) - got some bits for my bodywork mods (more later) - got some of the spacers for the R1 front end redone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer tok tokkie Posted March 21, 2009 Member Contributer Share Posted March 21, 2009 Those clip-ons are pretty. Not seen that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 Nice work on the under seat exhaust, how did you work it in with the rear fender/mudguard? Add any heat shielding? Glad you got your camera back That's a Wolf system that I got for a song, I've fabricated a new inner fender out of aluminium and when everything is ready it will be rivetted into the subframe - from which I've cut a bit of material out, to get the canisters as high as possible; they are maybe 25mm higher than you can get them with the original Wolf installation kit. The depression with the cut-out bit is there to allow the stock seat locating ribs to still drop inside the subframe rails, I am using plaster to shape over the exposed pipes, then will make a mould from which I'll lay up a carbon fibre cover - so heat transfer to the seat won't be an issue. The cans are also CF, I don't think I will require any heat shielding with this approach. I had to cut a bit out of the seatbase so it could slide forward and down over the highest part of the new inner fender. I have an unused new inner fender in a box somewhere - I'll weigh it and the aluminium one, I don't think there will be much in it. Those clip-ons are pretty. Not seen that before. Ralph, the clip-ons are Epro, from Japan - a high-end aftermarket creator of bits for Yamaha. Not much info on them on the net, I just happened across them in a wreckers when I was looking for a front guard, from what I can tell they were around $350US new... paid a lot less than that! Four-piece billet aluminium, and truly art. http://www.eijyupro.co.jp/toppage.htm They are of course made to go under the top triple and when fitted thus they give about 20mm of rise over stock R1 clip-ons. I have a guy making up some CNC riser blocks to go between the fork clamp and the top block, in pairs, so with a few longer bolts I can get variable bar height. There's potentially a problem with the lever assemblys hitting the dash at full lock, because of the bars geometry, but I'll work that out - probably going to lower the whole front subframe so the dash will end up lower and there's my clearance :biggrin: BTW the lever assemblys I'm using are the radial master cylinder assembly from the 2004 R1, and a VTR1000 clutch unit (as I wanted a pair of plastic reservoirs rather than one plastic and one VFR). The levers will be Pazzo, the lines will be HEL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobie1dog Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Murray: Glad to hear you are still around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-Oz Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I'm just waiting for you to give up so that I can have those Wolf Exhausts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hey Rob - less than a year mate... :blush: It is coming along, more than the pics can show. My kids are a bit older (so less demanding; I'm actually getting a bit of sleep these days) and the wife has some of her own stuff happening which occasionally gives me a whole evening and sometimes a good part of the weekend too. I am well into the front bodywork which is turning out very well! Pics soon (soon being a relative term in this topic of course). MAJOR thanks to Sebastian (SEBSPEED) who has kicked this project along with his help and excellent advice. More on that later. I got the underseat exhaust set-up to about 95% complete, then decided that I needed to take some more weight out of the bike. Both physically and aesthetically. For some time I'd been looking at alternate tail sections - checking out pics, deciding which ones looked good, then hunting around online for pics showing the subframes of the ones I'd shortlisted. Once I found the pics (and it took some creative searching), I looked at the relationship between the top and bottom spars, and when possible asked people questions on measurements etc. The 2002 R6 came out on top - measurements seemed close enough, good looks, aluminium subframe, LED tail lights, pillion seat cowl available. A local dealer agreed to phone me when he got an '02 R6 in - I expected it to be a sale bike but he called me when a customer booked one in. I asked him to ask the owner if he was ok about me going over his bike with a tape; no problem. Everything checked out - it wasn't exact, but it was in the ballpark. But the best part was that the seat appeared to work well with the VFR tank (which I'd taken along to the dealer to check :fing02:) I decided that it was the one - and literally a day later, an entire R6 tail unit turned up on Australian ebay. $450 delivered to my door. I mocked it up with cable (zip) ties, and worked out how much I'd need to trim off the spars - very little as it turned out, maybe 10mm on each. Got the exact measurements somewhere in case someone wants to do it. The spars required some mild bending - I checked with the aluminium specialist who rewelded the brackets onto it for me and he said the range of bend required was nowhere near enough to impact the strength of the frame; less than 10 degrees. l needed to trim the tank mount on the R6 unit as it interfered with the VFR tank mount, and completely remove the VFR's seat locating tab at the rear of the VFR tank (the R6 seat locates into a bracket on it's subframe; actually the original R6 tank mount bracket). I also needed to trim some of the plastic undertail, as bringing the lower frame spars closer together meant the plastic couldn't sit between them like it had originally. No big deal. The internal tray mounts the battery lying down - I've read of problems with R6 batterys leaking because of this, and of course I need to allow for the possibility that the R6 battery doesn't have the cold cranking power that the VFR needs. No problem at all - the CBR929 battery also lays on its side and has all the power I need. There is plenty of space for all the other VFR electrical bits although some of the wiring may need to be extended; I'll document that as I get to it. A few weeks after I'd received the tail unit I was chasing a solo cowl to replace the pillion seat (where I live, single seat registration is a fair bit cheaper than pillion-capable rego, and my wife has her own bike - this bike is not being built with cruisy Sunday rides in mind anyway!) and I'd determined that the options were a 'Targa' solo seat cowl or a factory Yamaha seat cowl. The latter looked much better to me but was seriously expensive, so I was about to buy the Targa when I came across another Oz ebay listing, for a 'Yamaha seat cowl'. No model listing, but I knew from my research what it was; a factory seat cowl. The starting price of $90 was what I got it for - half the Targa price, and don't even ask what the Yamaha price is. The entire R6 tail unit - subrame, inner fender, light, seats etc. - weighs 1kg less than the bare VFR steel subframe... Anyway, we're here to LOOK not READ :goofy: Reference pic: Oh yeah, it's got the Indigo full system on it now too - have a good look at the difference in the rear header pipe routing and the outlet(s)... that lovely Wolf underseat system don't fit no more with that skinny tail! And I had both wheels powdercoated since the last pics. I need to work out what to do with those exhaust outlets... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Kel Posted February 2, 2010 Member Contributer Share Posted February 2, 2010 Very impressive! :fing02: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEBSPEED Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Schaaa - WING! :fing02: :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmythecop Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 man, i need a garage............ great stuff there!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veefer800Canuck Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 .....and I'm stuck here at work where I can't see the pics. :fing02: So with an R-1 front end, and an R-6 tail, you now have yourself a Yamahonda! :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEBSPEED Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 .....and I'm stuck here at work where I can't see the pics. :blush: So with an R-1 front end, and an R-6 tail, you now have yourself a Yamahonda! :goofy: I prefer Hondamaha(haha). :fing02: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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