simmo's bikes :) zxr getting a FULL rebuild for next season!

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Post by Spike16 » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:24 pm

ooo your zxr looks good, almost rossi like scheme
but is that a brake light on the back? i thought it was a race bike?

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Post by simmo » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:40 pm

they are carbon tubes, not sure what they are for, just on the bike when i bought it,
yes it is my race bike

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Post by LozVTR » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:09 pm

They look like an awsome exhaust system from the pic.....shame its not.

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Post by simmo » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:30 am

well this is how she looked when i bought her,
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she now looks like this
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ive cleaned it, replaced nearly every single bolt with a stainless steel 1, as they were all annodised blue before (they wont go with new piant job)

fairing gone for respray, stuff for powdercoating goes in the morning, and a few other odds n sods have been ordered.

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Post by simmo » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:30 am

fairing is off at the painters now.
pick up all the stuff from powdercoating in the morning :excited
the before shot
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painted the generator casing
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modified the exhaust hanger that arrived this morning (cheers baz)
just got to finish polishing it up.
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Post by simmo » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:31 am

done a little more to it today,

fitted newly painted radiator,
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fitted the modified exhaust hanger and freshly repacked exhaust.
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went to choose the colour for the fairing today, and the guy has made an awsome job on repairing them.
unfortunately i dont have a before pic, but they were in a very bad way, but look at em now!!!
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Post by simmo » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:32 am

and i fitted my new clock bracket :smt003
i think it looks cool :smt004

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Re: simmo's bikes :), ZXR RE-BUILD REPORT

Post by Spike16 » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:35 am

bike looks good mate but why are you repainting it? it looked great before, did you drop it?

o and that generator cover looks awesome!


and how many bloody wheels do you need! ;)

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Post by simmo » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:26 pm

i wanted my own colours, and have been waiting a while to get my own bike in my favourite colour :D

not all of them wheels were mine, 6 were 'smellsteven's', 5 were mine and 2 were leons. plus some car bits me mate wanted doin.


pick up front bodywork work tomorrow, so all will be reveiled ;)


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