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  • Reverting the ZX-6RR back to stock in prep for selling and can't help feeling a part of me is dying!


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  • So damn nice.

    What does one of these go for?

  • £3,250 is what I'll list it for priced to sell, but might be able to do something for a fellow forumer ;)

  • If only.

    What you replacing with?

  • Cant blame me for trying. Very slim chance Honda VTR 1000 SP1 but more likely an old Honda Civic.

  • Honda........ civic?

    Hmmmm

    EK9?

  • #rep

    @jambon a K20 swap EG6. If you can find a clean example.

  • Already owned that shape so ideally EG6, but can't see many unmolested VTI's existing.

  • Do like an EG6.

    Also like an EG8.

  • Would be well up for that but not too sure how insurance/reg works on the undeclared ones. EG with a K20 would be all my adolescent Christmases at once.

  • Right! Used to lurk on the EK forum before this one.
    I think the idea used to be that because the EG's were so cheap, you'd shove a k20 unit in there and call it a sleeper, declare it as standard then if something happens, they're cheap enough to get another without any major problems.
    Now however, you barely see any of them, so finding one is a pain enough that you'll want to declare it as modified. Pretty sure there's a few companies that will insure you on that. Cost however, would be a whole other ball game.

  • 4 wheels? GTFO >>>>

  • EF or >>>>
    Liked the accord estate of that era, not keen on any 1990-2007 Honda, all just so bubble

  • You're a massive bubble! You can barely see any curves on the EG series. EF series is up there in the 'use only a ruler to resign a car', but where the hell are you gonna find one now that you can use in the wet and still stay dry?

    @DethBeard I hear people also use these things bicycles here. Makes you sick!

  • To paraphrase, and bastardise, Orwell "2 wheels good, 4 wheels bad"

  • Ooooh er

  • Supercharged crazyness


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  • Is it just me that feels bikes are getting uglier and uglier?

  • what 2nd hand models make good bases for such builds?

    It depends what you want and how much you want to spend.

    At some point, I really want to build a lightweight small engined bobber style rat bike... from something like a Suzuki Savage... which wasn't available in the UK or a 250cc Honda Rebel.

    The obvious choices are jap cruisers. Shadow or older Kawa Vulcans - the 750cc I think and they have the advantage of having a soft-tail-like rear so they look a bit more like a "proper" bobber.

    Or can get an old oil cooled gsxr or bandit and build a custom hard tail on one of the hard up choppers frames - although I sort of think you're better buying someone else's project.




  • Sooo...speed wobble. It seems like a massive pit to dig into with many variables. I pushed the bike a couple of times (not on public roads) and that shit is hair raising. I know the SV isn't exactly designed to sit at 120 for long periods, but how do I find cause to the effect?

  • Do you have bar end weights?
    Or is it vibrations that they suppress?

  • worn tyres? bad pressures?

  • Speed wobble or weave? Weave is gently unsettling, full blooded tankslapping utterly terrifying. Usually different things that cause them too.

    Weave often a function of worn / unevenly worn tyres on roadbikes. Also too soft rear shocks, lack of damping and too much sag. You'd notice it going fast in a straight line or through gently sweeping corners.

    Tank slappers are a different beast.

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