Heres my tracker build, I have been searching for a suitable bike for riding around town at the right price for 4 years, was tossing up between a few models Yamaha TW200, SR500, Honda CB 350, BMW R180, Triumph Bonneville (new shape or old) older Ducati, Older Moto Guzzi it didnt really matter as long as it has chrome guards.
Anyway I ended up with an 83 Jap Import Yamaha SR400 that only needed new tyres for rego. I rode it around for 6 Months until one night during mid corner the valve on the rear tube ripped off dropping every bit of air out of the tyre and me doing a speedway style slide down the road at 80kph. Lucky to not drop it I put it back in the shed cleaned my undies and decided it was time to rip it apart.
So far I have started Mocking the bike up before tearing in back down for Powdercoat, paint, polishing and chrome.
Cut the rear frame off to make a new tidier rear loop, Modified Blank guards from England, had Ashs spoked wheelz build me up some 17"x 3 and 17"x 4.25 rims for some 17" 120 and 140 Shinko 705 tyres ( Original runs a 18" rear and 19" front)
Had a spare "powerbomb" header from my CRF450r so I thought Id see how it looks mated to a Cone Engineering rear cone, I need to tweak it a little to get past the kick starter.
A new "moped" tank arrived yesterday from India so I got into cutting the tunnel out to see how it would fit, I happy so will get to making and welding the new wider tunnel and mounts.
Mocked up a seat out of styrofoam to get the lines of the bike, I need to spend more time on it as Im not really happy with the shape and length.
Anyway I ended up with an 83 Jap Import Yamaha SR400 that only needed new tyres for rego. I rode it around for 6 Months until one night during mid corner the valve on the rear tube ripped off dropping every bit of air out of the tyre and me doing a speedway style slide down the road at 80kph. Lucky to not drop it I put it back in the shed cleaned my undies and decided it was time to rip it apart.
So far I have started Mocking the bike up before tearing in back down for Powdercoat, paint, polishing and chrome.
Cut the rear frame off to make a new tidier rear loop, Modified Blank guards from England, had Ashs spoked wheelz build me up some 17"x 3 and 17"x 4.25 rims for some 17" 120 and 140 Shinko 705 tyres ( Original runs a 18" rear and 19" front)
Had a spare "powerbomb" header from my CRF450r so I thought Id see how it looks mated to a Cone Engineering rear cone, I need to tweak it a little to get past the kick starter.
A new "moped" tank arrived yesterday from India so I got into cutting the tunnel out to see how it would fit, I happy so will get to making and welding the new wider tunnel and mounts.
Mocked up a seat out of styrofoam to get the lines of the bike, I need to spend more time on it as Im not really happy with the shape and length.