admiralplux
New Member
Hello mates,
I've been reading on this forum for a few months (without a account) and been getting inspiration for my Yamaha XZ550 -82 model.
Since I really like Hondas and a few older English and Belgium bikes, this thing with Yamaha is a bit off for me (Yamaha's are not really considered as a "real" bike in my family, at least my dad thinks so and I can agree a bit.)
I got this bike around 2 years ago, bought it for roughly around 100$ and it was a good runner, with pretty high mileage on it. But still it was cheap and I thought why not have a modern bike (Everything after late 1970's is modern.) as a change of pace instead of constantly fixing oil leaks on the Sarolea's (and the same goes for the Velocette's also..).
I think this will be a pretty good bike to build on since it's quite rare where I live (and that's because of "natural selection") rare in the means of they where not so reliable and stuff, so they got crushed..
Anyway I didn't like the fairing so I removed those after 30 mins of getting it home, and it looked a bit better, I did put on a "temporary" electrical box and a Honda 800F 1982 frontlight and it looked a tad better. Then I parked it for almost 2 years, since my Alfa Romeos swallowed all my money + a new apartment swallowed a tad more.
Now when everything is back to normal in the money side of things I started to look at the bike again, since there was a electrical issue with the front cylinder turning off when using the blinkers (only left side though) I tore it apart and thought, let's rebuild this a tad better.
So here we go!
Pictures in this first post will be from oldest to newest changes, since I've done a little bit already.
When it got off the trailer it looked like this;
After some cleaning it looked like this;
After removing some of the fairings and some other stuff it looked like this;
After these images (sort of) the bike sat like this for almost 2 years..;
Then I started for a few weeks ago to tear it apart and it looked like this;
I started by "lowering" or more so removing the front forks travel distance by 50mm;
And I bought some clip-ons and made some bushes for them to fit the 35mm front fork (and yes I've been redoing this after these pictures);
And this is how the bushes look like;
I (this weekend actually) bought a set of rims from a XV750 that I wanted instead of the aluminium(?) that sat on, as a bonus I got a bigger rear brake
;
Downside is coming from a Jap-glide, it's looking like a bobber/chopper..
So I took the fueltank of a Honda 900F 1980 and cut it to fit over the frame (still need to weld it.);
To remove the "bobby"-ness of this bike a removed the rear mudguard and removed the spring and shock to see if I could fabricate a shim or something to allow for a 20-30mm of height to the rear tire;
And I'm also almost always weighten the stuff that I remove or replace and as of now I've reduced 10,3kgs of weight (I've not weighted the fairings and exhaust system yet and I have not weighted the stuff I put on) but a goal is to get the bike below 200kgs wet since original they weight around 215kgs wet. I will bring up a complete calculation of it later.
Cheers, mates!
(and I hope I'm doing all the right things as far as following the rules of DTT, and I do apologize if I misspell anything, writing this on my lunch.)
I've been reading on this forum for a few months (without a account) and been getting inspiration for my Yamaha XZ550 -82 model.
Since I really like Hondas and a few older English and Belgium bikes, this thing with Yamaha is a bit off for me (Yamaha's are not really considered as a "real" bike in my family, at least my dad thinks so and I can agree a bit.)
I got this bike around 2 years ago, bought it for roughly around 100$ and it was a good runner, with pretty high mileage on it. But still it was cheap and I thought why not have a modern bike (Everything after late 1970's is modern.) as a change of pace instead of constantly fixing oil leaks on the Sarolea's (and the same goes for the Velocette's also..).
I think this will be a pretty good bike to build on since it's quite rare where I live (and that's because of "natural selection") rare in the means of they where not so reliable and stuff, so they got crushed..
Anyway I didn't like the fairing so I removed those after 30 mins of getting it home, and it looked a bit better, I did put on a "temporary" electrical box and a Honda 800F 1982 frontlight and it looked a tad better. Then I parked it for almost 2 years, since my Alfa Romeos swallowed all my money + a new apartment swallowed a tad more.
Now when everything is back to normal in the money side of things I started to look at the bike again, since there was a electrical issue with the front cylinder turning off when using the blinkers (only left side though) I tore it apart and thought, let's rebuild this a tad better.
So here we go!
Pictures in this first post will be from oldest to newest changes, since I've done a little bit already.
When it got off the trailer it looked like this;
After some cleaning it looked like this;
After removing some of the fairings and some other stuff it looked like this;
After these images (sort of) the bike sat like this for almost 2 years..;
Then I started for a few weeks ago to tear it apart and it looked like this;
I started by "lowering" or more so removing the front forks travel distance by 50mm;
And I bought some clip-ons and made some bushes for them to fit the 35mm front fork (and yes I've been redoing this after these pictures);
And this is how the bushes look like;
I (this weekend actually) bought a set of rims from a XV750 that I wanted instead of the aluminium(?) that sat on, as a bonus I got a bigger rear brake
;
Downside is coming from a Jap-glide, it's looking like a bobber/chopper..
So I took the fueltank of a Honda 900F 1980 and cut it to fit over the frame (still need to weld it.);
To remove the "bobby"-ness of this bike a removed the rear mudguard and removed the spring and shock to see if I could fabricate a shim or something to allow for a 20-30mm of height to the rear tire;
And I'm also almost always weighten the stuff that I remove or replace and as of now I've reduced 10,3kgs of weight (I've not weighted the fairings and exhaust system yet and I have not weighted the stuff I put on) but a goal is to get the bike below 200kgs wet since original they weight around 215kgs wet. I will bring up a complete calculation of it later.
Cheers, mates!
(and I hope I'm doing all the right things as far as following the rules of DTT, and I do apologize if I misspell anything, writing this on my lunch.)
