Before I got into modding PC's my main passion in life was motorcycles I've been mad about them since i was a kid and got my first one when I was eleven and I went on to train as a motor vehicle tech so I could eventually work just on bikes, I've owned, built and customized many bikes and this is the latest.
I did have a website with the details of this build but since I moved ISP's I no longer have any free web space and as I'm too tight to pay for it the site is down but while I'm waiting for some PC parts I thought I would post some shots of my last bike build, yeah, I'm bored
The bike started out as a Yamaha FZX750 (called a Fazer and 700cc in the USA) it was a bit tatty and definitely needed a make over so I decided to make it into a streetfighter, basic lean and mean that's all about go rather than show with no flash paint and loads of chrome just satin black paint, kind of Mad Max style.
I stripped the bike down completely and fitted the front forks from a FZR1000 Yamaha because the standard FZX750 forks are a bit spindly and flex and the front wheel is a small 16" which doesn't help the handling and there are not many decent 16" tyres that fit it, the FZR1000 fork legs are stronger with a bigger diameter with a 17" wheel and big brake discs with four piston calipers, a billet alloy top fork yoke was fitted with short risers and flat anodized gold bars.
The tailpiece is from an R1 Yamaha 1000 it was bought cheap because it was cracked but some fibreglass and filler sorted that.
I made a new tank top from fibreglass which is a dummy tank top and cut two holes in it for the air filters to come up through.
The most expensive item was the stainless steel exhaust system, ouch, but it still cleans up like new after nearly 6 years and was worth the money.
Finally the complete back end from a Yamaha XJR 1200 was fitted which has a much bigger and stronger alloy swinging arm and a 17" wheel, this replaces the original 15" wheel which is even harder to find a decent tyre for than the 16" front!
I fitted a set of FZR1000 carbs and a Dynojet jet kit which took a while to get the jetting right but gives the motor more mid range torque and the bike pulls like a train, I've used the bike for about 6 years and it been very reliable which is more than some of the PC's I've built