Recent content by Taread

Steering steam bearing were next inline. The previous ones felt like they were made out of corn flakes. The day I replaced these bearing was the day my garage door spring broke, leaving the door closed. Unfortunately my tool box was I side so I was forced to improvise. Found an old sludge...

Re: Bart's cb400 That is a seriously wicked nice license plate bracket!

Love the red frame color idea. Black frames are too boring in my opinion. Also is this a dry sump engine? Is that plastic reservoir for oil? Great build, keep it up!

PAINT DAY IS HERE!! The Frame and tank will finally get some color. The quality turned out pretty well for never painting a bike before. Since most bikes almost always have a black frame, this one had to be different. This metallic green with a hint of blue just looked killer. Since the...

The frame sat in primer for a couple weeks awaiting for the paint to arrive. So in the meantime I went to work on the tank. The original dark red was in pretty decent shape but the red was not going to fly with my paint vision. Sprayed the balls off of the old paint with a whole can of paint...

Finalising my decision on the color was the single most difficult part so far on this build. I searched for paint schemes of race cars, trucks, guitars, and other bikes and become fond of the british racing green color. Inspiration for the color scheme came from this bicycle:

Test fit the rear swing arm upside down to simulate what clearance I would have if it was ever lowered.

After grinding all the useless tabs off, I hit it with a few coats of primer and set to work on the triple tree clamps. Frame Detabbed This is the triple tree before. And this is after. -wire brushed it down to bare metal and clear coated it so it may stay shiny for a while. -also painted...

To me the Gn400 is a lost and forgotten bike. It never came close to following the Yamaha Sr500s/400s and had a very short 4 year production. Its hard to see why it wouldn't make a great project bike. -They are cheap because there is no demand -Parts are still readily available because many swap...

Re: A Different Thumper -The Suzuki Gn400 story It this point in the project I have about a week till I left for a 10 day vacation to Northwest US and Canada. Determined to get as much progress finished as possible my next step for this Suzuki was detabbing the frame. So many tabs were for the...

Re: A Different Thumper -The Suzuki Gn400 story This was my first engine removal so it took a while to massage the engine out of the frame. I ended up using a rubber mallet to persuade the last knew inches, and during those persuasive nudged I accidently smashed in the oil filter cap. Oooppps...

Re: A Different Thumper -The Suzuki Gn400 story Pictures from the day I brought her home.

Last month I drove 4 hours to pick up a 1980 Suzuki Gn400 singled cylinder bike. It had previously been chopped up and welded to look like a bobber. My intentions quickly changed from a quick fix up and ride around town before winter hits to tear the entire bike to the ground and start from a...