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Had to do something about the brakes. In spite of having a slightly sticking inboard piston they actually worked pretty good(much better than my 1970 BSA) but had a dead feel and didn't have that initial bike that modern bikes have. Did a bit of searching and found that short of doing a...

I know what you mean, you can actually see them flexing while riding. Been looking at fork braces but can't really find anything I like, may have to make something. Rebuilt the steering damper, tried to just refill it at first but leaked pretty bad. Really simple but kinda cool idea, just a...

Yup, UNIs with the outer wrap removed.

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Thanks guys! After all the cosmetic stuff was done it was time to move on the the fun stuff, MORE Power!! Started with a set of Spec2 expansion chambers, these seemed to be the hot set-up for the guys that actually race these bikes. Took awhile to get but worth the wait, the bike always had a...

last mockup in tape and finished product.

As I said before, the bike looked too plain, had to do something to break up all the orange. Decided to do something that looked at least somewhat OEM(the idea behind the overall build was to make something that Yamaha could have offered to the public similar to Daytona special). Played around a...

Here it is painted and reassembled. Liked the color but with all the additional tin from the new tail looked a bit too plain, I'd have to fix that somehow. Had to use a Pingel petcock as the factory 400 petcock interfered with the cylinder head. During the paint process alot of other parts...

Decided to go with orange for the color. Used Hugger Orange from a 2016 mustang for a baseline and just made it a couple of shades redder. Went with a single stage urethane for ease of repairs later.

Thanks! Sorry about the pics, most were taken awhile ago but there are more coming and most were taken in better conditions.

I've had good luck with drywall screws and mag wheel cleaner to remove rust and acetone after final rinse to prevent flash rusting. I've also had good luck with the Caswell sealer, its two part epoxy flows right while coating and dries nice and slick.

Primered up and seat padding. Used a walmart yoga mat for padding, nice and soft, a bit stretchy and solid enough to form easily with a electric turkey carver and a grinder disc.

Body work on tank and a seat pan. Pan uses 3 nylon mounting pegs that fit into corresponding holes on tail. 2 holes are in the seat area and one is where the rear of the pan kicks up so the seat has to be slightly bent to fit in and locks into place when the pan relaxes.

Final shaping done and ready for paint prep. After relocating the battery and voltage regulator to clean up the looks I decided to change out the reservior for the oil injection system. Had a local chopper place make me a custom sized tank then using some tabs from Lowbrow rubber mounted it...

Top welded on and ready for final shaping. The two holes are to access the front mounting bolts(rear bolts are removed from the underside of the tail.

Mounting tabs.

Then started working on the tail. Made it out of steel sheet using my 110v welder, a piece of tube to use as a rounding die, a nice straight edge to bend on and a pair of tin snips. It sandwiches between the framework and seat and is located fore/aft by grommets mounted on tabs and bolted to frame.

After finding a shape I liked I started working on the tail. Ended up making a structure out of 1/4 steel bar to support the rider relocate the voltage regulator and battery(ended up using a anti gravity since the battery ended up being mounted so high).

Oops, sorry. I guess I should have figured there was at least one Kawi triple owner on the forum. Trust me, if I would have found a decent one in my price range I would have bought it on the spot, ignored what I didn't like about it and enjoyed the sound and power from that awesome engine!

Then started to formulate a plan. Started by doing the typical removal of non-essentials like fenders and passenger pegs then made a new gauge cluster to lower the gauges and get rid of the speedo altogether. Didnt like the factory tank(looked too peanut like) so got a hold of a Ebay RD400...