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Trying pic first will add text. Now for text, bought bike an 85RZ with a straight titled frame, roller with two complete engines one seized the other good compression. It came with pile's of parts. I decided on the RZ because I like two strokes, this one was inexpensive, straight and a challenge due to the cradle frame. First was deciding on look i wanted and tank dictated that, after a few trips to dismantler each time bringing 10+ back I found the look I wanted, initially I thought I would need one with knee indentations or would have to cut and weld some in but not needed with this tank, I'm 6' and with Raast rearsets in exiting frame location knee's tuck right at tank bottom. Engine plans, one will be fairly stock using PV system and 30mm Mikuni's, aftermarket pipes ect.The other down the line a stroker. All electronics will be hidden under tank, rear seat hump and the front panels seen in the pics. Tire size 110/80F 130/80/R rest typical cafe type build parts.
Have been making good progress. Mocking up to make sure all fits prior to welding just about finished with that then sand blast, paint. Getting ready to rebuild engine have one that should be ok but going throught it completely. All electrics etc. are in tank tunnel and seat hump what you see in pics now is all your going to see. GT pipes and going to be cut at bend of the stinger and the cans will point up and tips will not protrude past rear seat.
Looks like very little progress since last post but as many of you that have been down this road know little details you sometimes can't see can take days, weeks, months and you change little things that took a day to build you suddenly decide you don't like. I got Triumph two pot front calipers fitted, front forks total rebuild with emulators all new seals springs etc. I had to go with latter Canadian/Euro lower fork tubes to get the 83mm the Triumph calipers require since i did not want to run adapter. The stock rear mono replaced with Honda but respring and getting correct a real pain, I ended up with another Triumph part a rear 625# spring gives me the 25mm sag I want. Decided on engine a 4mm 375cc stroker. I will be running auto lube pump the tank I built is hidden in tank tunnel as are all other electronics etc. I will be running a Zeel programable ignition system, billet head with interchangable domes, etc, etc. I want 70 rwh, if I don't get it with the 375 I will built it larger, easy to do with an RZ. It WILL rip, the bike complete will weigh less than a lot of 4 stroke engines . Having a real difficult time on paint decision wanted Porsche gulf blue/orange scheme but not sure how to pull it off with big tank. Both tank and rear seat hump have a 5" wide raised section in the middle I thought that orange rest of tank gulf blue but since tank is big don't know if I can pull it off. Frame orange, front fender lower cowl blue but second thinking it all. Suggestions welcome.
Agree on two things (1) The bike is looking just sick !
(2) Need to sink the tail light in or level it out some .
As for the paint maybe something like Orange stripe down middle of tank outlined with black with rest blue . Orange on the inside part of the 3 spokes and black out rest of wheel. Jm2c
Thanks all, one thing I'm learning on this build is NOTHING is final for now. Like the tail light I thought about it and had 10 guys give opinion and thought it was neat tipped and frenched in a bit but that like 100 other things that have been changed already could change tomorrow. I see what your saying looking at the pic's but for some reason looks good in person but they say pics don't lie. I'm not to obsessed with HP but not to hard to get big numbers out of a 350 RZ since it was the mother motor for the Banshee and they make some VERY nasty stroker kits that make big HP easily and reliably. Good suggestion on the paint Dread I'll kick it.
Ok I set taillight back about 1" today. I really cut lens since I didnt want to screw with finished metal work. I did extend the box you can't see that holds the light assembly inside the tail enough to cut and set the lens flush if that makes my boat float. Stopped cutting until I can get to manny, moe and jacks manyana to pick up another then will keep cutting just to see.
I'm building a Banshee-based beast myself so I know what you mean by nasty!
My build isn't as as advanced as yours but if you would like to see what has been done so far: http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=36690.0
As for pictures, they lie all the time!
The tail-light looks better in the latest photo, and if it looks good in the flesh that is what counts.
Your build looks sweet Crazy, got it bookmarked looking forward to following. Your going very up tech on instrumentation lighting etc. only going with a Zeel here, the rest of mine pretty low tech except suspension, not HT but good solid upgrades. I see you scored some 83mm forks great upgrade the RZ brakes marginal by today's standards your 4 pots will cure that. When I was searching I found out a lot of late model Triumphs run 83 so that saved me a lot of trouble locating , they are a direct bolt on mine are off a speed 4. I got a decent spare engine when I bought my pile of parts so maybe build a 421 as a spare. I'm building a short rod (110) with 4mm stoke first go and keeping all PV system. I had to laugh, your parts cut off pile and mine could be identical twins!
The fancy instrumentation wasn't in the original plan. Because Banshee crankcases aren't machined for a geared tacho drive I couldn't use the original instruments. The Motogadget seemed to provide the most minimalist solution, at least in appearance.
My crank is also stroked 4mm to give a 58mm stroke on a 73mm bore for 485cm3 with a custom built PV system. If it all works as planned I will be extremely happy and somewhat surprised!
Perhaps we should suggest to Tim that he starts a new board comparing scrap metal collections (or maybe not).
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. Having a real difficult time on paint decision wanted Porsche gulf blue/orange scheme but not sure how to pull it off with big tank. Both tank and rear seat hump have a 5" wide raised section in the middle I thought that orange rest of tank gulf blue but since tank is big don't know if I can pull it off. Frame orange, front fender lower cowl blue but second thinking it all. Suggestions welcome.
