Just a garage (incl motorbike content)

Loving the SRAD. Growing up my Dad had a similar eras Fireblades (a late carb and early FI one), CBR600 and Triumph Daytona.

One of his riding buddies had a black and silver GSXR which I thought was rad as hell until he crashed it and broke his collar bone. May yours give you infinitely more luck.

If our upcoming house move involves a garage I'd like to go down the RSV Mille route. Loved watching Haga and Edwards on SBK, but can't afford a SP1 or SP2

Those Milles are definitely a sweet spot in terms of value, wasn't that long ago I had a RSV in the garage. The gen 1 RSV are taller, slimmer and apparently more raw from everything I read. The Edwards editions are really special by all accounts too.

I'm a bit fascinated by the 750cc in-line 4/1,000cc v-twin era of superbikes, 100-ish bhp for the road feels just right in terms of performance and usability.

Good find with the Drill. I've been making a bit of progress on my garage of late and understand the temptation of getting bits to find that it's all a bit squashed in. I need less stuff as more space isn't an option.

Yoshi looks great on the gixxer. The recent space woes listed above have put a halt to looking at a motorbike for the short term so I'll live vicariously through this thread!

Before we moved into the house I remember the temptation of buying things. Like you say, better to hold off until you've got an accurate idea of space if that's possible.

With the repositioned muffler I needed to create a new exhaust hanger. I really like the high-rise look but let's see if it melts the indicator. Only a small job, but was great using the drill for the first time and went through the 4mm aluminium like butter.

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Waking up from hibernation

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MOTed and taxed, also new tail tidy fitted. Time to enjoy...

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Very nice

Yeah, that looks super fresh!

Hopefully not today with the absolute state of outside right now. Bet you wish it was BH Friday again...

This was at lunch time, think you can just make out the grey clouds in the background. Would love a long weekend to really enjoy the bike now it's all reay to go.

And so the front end swap begins.

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Pure filth. Absolute pervert.

You like?

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Wonderful bike (i know nothing about motorbikes) - it would look quite brutal (in a good way) without the fairing on the front . Those gold fork legs are just right.

I agree on the lack of front fairing, something quite muscular about the look. There's a guy on Instagram I follow who has fitted retro fairings to his modern sportsbike, with the belly-pan section removed which works really well. Shame to cover up those stainless pipes too eh.

I bought a sightly better workbench from eBay yesterday for the pillar drill, nice to have it closer to eye level and storage underneath is always useful. I did move the drill onto the new workbench myself though, which wasn't my proudest moment considering how heavy it is. Either that or I need to up my Weetabix intake.

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I was going to wait until all the parts for the front end swap had arrived to take a photo of everything neatly laid out. Predictably didn't have the patience, so on went the Brembo master cylinder. Already sat in the garage the lever feels a lot better.

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Shit, I just saw this. I’m eyeballing an RCS too. Love a good fork swap.
Are those forks from a k5/6 750 with new internals and adjusters?
What you doing about calipers?
This is gonna be spicy.

Are those forks from a k5/6 750

Yes, although the seller had the forks so long he can't remember re the internals. It's probably safer to assume they're standard. I'm going a bit silly with the calipers and thinking Brembo M4 but we will see. Once everything is plumbed in and working I'll get the suspension looked at by Maxton, when the bank account has recovered.

Nah, I reckon if someone’s gone to the trouble of replace the lower adjusters, they’d have replaced some internal stuff. I threw some linear springs and lower weight oil in there. Happy as a clam.

M4’s would be fucking baller. Just for the shiny. What’s the bike weigh so far?

I like your positive thinking! Let's say it has fancy internals, sure :) . I don't actually know on the weight, was hoping to have a look at the last MOT but the mechanic didn't let me help this time. My bike is fairly standard weight-wise but interested to know.

Reckon you'll be sitting at the 160 odd. I'd fucking love some lightweight wheels, but they're casheesh. Doesn't stop me having an ebay search update.
You gonna do shock as well?

You remortgaging? Ha
I race against guys whose forks and shocks are worth more than my whole bike.
Who has put the Ktech stickers on the forks? They do that when they tweak them so they could have been done already.

A certain purple shock is on the shopping list, eventually, but trying hard to finish one job at a time without getting distracted. Latest quest is finding longer throttle cables as fitted wider clip-ons due to the new Brembo MC hitting the clocks. It never ends...

It's best not to think about it. Originally I was going to buy a 1198S but knew I wouldn't want to tinker with it, so here we are. The history of the forks are unknown, but they are in good condition and were sensibly priced so snapped them up. I'm assuming they are standard and anything else is a nice surprise.