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cheers man, regarding those clamps im sure they wont be that terrible over all. 

just been impatient atm and want them here yesterday haha.

plenty of other small things that will require work so i'll keep waiting.

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Seen worse. The chain itself would have kept things aligned.

Looking at the front end, I suspect you're going to wind up with a very stable bike. The head angle plus the offset on the ZX triple clamps have given you a lot of trail. More suitable for drags than circuit use. As stock they steered very well on track but you've dialled in more trail which will make it feel heavy. We'll see.

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Yeah it'll be interesting to see how it handles over all.

 

I'll have nothing to compare too been I hadn't really ridden it long distance or hard.

 

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Looking at this image of it with the fairing, with out the fairing and then with a zxr front on it.

 

It doesn't look to much different But it definitely look stretched out over all been a naked bike now.

 

Handle bar position is completely different to original and more styled like a gsx1400, bandit or a hornet.

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For a bike this size and weight in my experience with pre82 racebikes you're looking for a trail figure between 88 and 98mm

Less than that is unstable, greater is heavy steering.   That's with modern 17in front on a 3.5in rim.

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Even with loctite that final drive nut is going to come loose. They're noted for it. I'd machine it narrower so the nylon locking material is actually on the shaft.

Nice job overall. You've kept the essential character of the bike.

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I was sitting in my van yesterday at the traffic lights in Nawton, looked over saw a real cool bike, swooned, pointed it out to Guy and we watched it being ridden away majestically at which point Guy says "wonder if that was Greg" photos indicate that it was indeed. Very nice bike.

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that looks great. only thing i would do is splash a little blue on the front fender somewhere, currently it looks a little bit like a replacement universal part on an otherwise very thought out machine.

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On 15/05/2024 at 17:23, BlownCorona said:

that looks great. only thing i would do is splash a little blue on the front fender somewhere, currently it looks a little bit like a replacement universal part on an otherwise very thought out machine.

 

Yeah I'd like to put some blue and black on it to match the rest of the bike. Just happy to get some white on it and get it rolling.

 

Went for a ride with a mate on Tues and had my speedo cluster come off/brake. Had been watching one on trademe for the last 4 weeks. Rang him and picked it up and changed it while we were out and about haha.

 

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Squshed my quadlock phone holder onto it and held it in place while we rode to the guys house.

 

Speaking of quadlock, I got that and some wing mirrors off Aliexpress. Happy with the quadlock stuff and how the mirrors look. But they don't hold well at 100kph, the move a lot so I might have to find some none Aliexpress mirrors that look similar 

 

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