Tywash's Build Project

[cboling]

Mine was.  Bob is definitely the man! Now I just need to sell some stuff and get through Crimmus then I can work on mine some more. Yours is coming along.

[Tywash]

Yes, mine was a welded stem. I need to send Bob a new stem to replace the one he loaned me to get this project done. He also did my ignition advance. Definitely a great guy to deal with.

[Tywash]

Well, I have been a little busy and a little lazy for the past 6 months. So I cleaned out the garage and began trying to remember where I left off. I removed the ignition assembly from the top bracket and went ahead and installed the complete front suspension, clipons, tire, etc... So without further adieu....



I am back on the ball and hope to keep rolling. I will update when I can.

[tt_four]

Man, all you guys are really making me want a new front end.

[acid]

The reverse drills are the worst things you can use for removing a cracked bolt. Those are hardened, so you will have a very hard task on drilling them out or cutting a hole inside. Best thing is to just drill out the whole bolt. Now you will have to get very sharp drills. Likewise you will kill some or have to grind them sharp again a few times.

After you got a new hole nearly as wide as the winding you cut a new one inside. Usually it will be more loose than the original, but it should do the job.

Good luck.

[O.C.D.]

Damned Streetfighter - $3500 a year in insurance.  How does your buddy afford that?!

Anyway, glad you are back.  I gave up on you a few months back, lol.  Did you buy a 1000 FE?  Those coated tubes make me think so as well as the red anodized adjusters on the top of the tubes.  Might be pretty stiff if so?!

You just reminded me that I need to sell my GSXR controls.  I toiled for hours on how to make those work and it never seemed feasible.  You'll find swapping your GS ones a lot easier.  But then again you probably knew that.

Ok, so you are back, lets see her some more!!!

[Tywash]

Streetfighter insurance- In Texas your only have to carry liability if you own it. He charged the whole damn thing on his credit card. He paid it off, but I thought that was awesome.

You are dead on about the 1000 FE. Yeah I will change the controls for sure. They came with the clipons, which I got really cheap if I remember correctly. I need to sell off the extra pieces to offset this build. I went with 1000 suspension pieces since I weigh 250lbs. I should offset the stiffness perfectly.


I had to come back. You were hogging all the 'build' glory. I will not be trying to outdo you though. You have gone far above and beyond what I hope to achieve.

[O.C.D.]

Damn you Ducati people, damn you!!!  I still will get one though.  Gonna do an 1100s Monster instead.  Same displacement, 1/3 less horsepower.  And about $2000 cheaper in insurance here in CO.

Don't worry about the glory.  When she is finished I will vanish into the shadows of the forum. 

Then you will take over young Padwan, lol.

[Tywash]

I rode the 1100s. I liked it very very much. But, I wanted something a little more retro. So after I ride the GS for a while I want to build a Ducati Sport 1000. Almost exactly the same as a Monster but with a classic look. This one is modded all to heck.

[O.C.D.]

The Sport 1000 is a very nice bike.  I would love to have one of those as well.  The one you posted is VERY heavily modded as you stated.  THose brake rotors alone are $1000. I too love the look of the vintage/retro with modern components.  Kind of what we are doing to our outdated GS's, lol.

[tt_four]

I know I asked before, but I don't know that it was ever answered, nor do I remember what thread I asked in to find out.

Do the monsters have that same nightmare of a valve adjustment as the other ducatis, or are the naked bikes easier?

I wouldn't mind a ducati, and one is still on my possibilities list, but there's no way I'd want to deal with that valve adjustement with as many miles as I put on bikes. Especially when a Buell xb9 has so much more torque(and forget about it if you're gonna compare one to the xb12), and even though a lot of people won't agree, I think the Buell looks a lot better, plus the valves never need adjusted, which is a huge plus.

If I wanted something European I'd probably just get a street triple. Even though I used to complain about that speed four, it was definitely fun, and the street triples look like they'd be way better with the triple, usd forks, riser bars, and of course the extra 75ccs(which also happens to make more power than the ducati 1100, and only about 6ftlb. less of torque). I think if I had known how to work on bikes better at that point, and didn't have a warranty that made me not want to work on it, I wouldn't have had all those same problems anyway.

[O.C.D.]

As we continue off topic, lol:

I was told a few weeks back while looking over the new Ducati's here in town that the valve issues of yesterday are gone.  Mind you this was from a salesman who is, well, a salesman.  But I have also discovered this as well on the net.  I guess the only way to know is research and word of mouth.

As for a Ducati and the "why" aspect, for me it is exclusivity.  Anyone can buy a liter bike with 4 cylinders.  Not many buy a twin with the same capacity.  Also, they are kind of like Ferrari's so to speak.  Not everyone will buy a Ferrari as they are higher maintenance costs involved.  But, it is a Ferrari.  You can snag a used 360 Modena for around $60k now.  Compared to a Viper or Vette it may not be as fast or new, but it is a Ferrari.

Ducati=Ferrari to me at least.

[Tywash]

Agreed on the Ducati=Ferrari. Du-Ca-Ti. Say it slow or fast it just sounds sexy. Way more than Suzukawayamahondaki. But I like them too. Now I would not mind having a Triumph Street Triple R. It can hang with an 848 or the monster 1100s. And at the risk of sounding like a commercial, Triumph has 1.9% interest financing...

Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast...

[O.C.D.]

Crap, you mean we are actually going to talk about your build thread?! 

[tt_four]

I was told a few weeks back while looking over the new Ducati's here in town that the valve issues of yesterday are gone.  Mind you this was from a salesman who is, well, a salesman.  But I have also discovered this as well on the net.  I guess the only way to know is research and word of mouth.

If I did get one it would be an older one. No streetfighters or 696s here. I'd probably pick up an old 900 or something of that sort, and I'll assume they have the awful valves.

Now I would not mind having a Triumph Street Triple R. It can hang with an 848 or the monster 1100s.

Hmm... not to be a downer, but I'm pretty sure a street triple would eat a monster 1100s, and cost waaaayy less doing it. I think you're pretty much paying for the exclusivity there, although the entire time I owned my speed four I only saw 3 others, one of which I had to track down on the internet first. I've seen way more monsters.

[Tywash]

Okay SO I mounted the GSXR1000 rear shock and my swingarm, wheel and caliper for a test fitting.

THe shock is not a direct bolt on fit as previously stated. There was a minor trimming job that needed to be done. The shock was hitting ever so slightly on the knuckle. There is also a change in the angle of the knuckle. This leads to a second problem

The dogbones no longer reach the swingarm. Even with swingarm resting on the spring.


I have ordered lowering dogbones for a ZX6. Hopefully they will be here next week.

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I abandoned the GSXR shock. It would not compress properly because of the geometry. I ended up going with a R6 shock. It's a little on the soft side but fitment is stock like.

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I also proceeded with fitting the brakes back on the bike. I can't remember...some guy on here said the 98-02 Katana Caliper bracket was a better fit to the rotor on the Kat/SV650 wheel. Thanks OCD!

This last photo shows why you have to modify the arm for the caliper when you do a wheel swap. There is slight lack of a gap between them.

[Tywash]

I went off and bought a Bandit 600 brake arm to make sure it fit our GS's well specifically my GS. This is shot of them side by side.

The Bandit arm is slightly shorter but that doesn't really matter since the caliper can rotate. What is interesting is the bolting flange locations are exactly the same. To be clear the Bandit arm is thinner and shifted over to one side of the mounting flange. This picture represents the bolting locations fairly clearly.

You can see that the front mounting point (right side) is where the interference with tire would occur with the stock arm.
Here is the arm mounted on the bike. Mounts up with no issues whatsoever. Now keep in mind that I am using the caliper bracket from a Katana as previously stated.

[O.C.D.]

Sacrilege!  You didn't cut up the stock arm and weld it?!?!?!?  That is not fortuitous to creative building, lol.

I couldn't locate that Bandit arm at the time but I too would have gone that route.  Looks good!

[Tywash]

O.C.D., I got the info from one of your old posts. I can't remember what I was searching for, but you asked about it somewhere. If I didn't get one off of Ebay ($20.00 shipped) I was going to order it from bikebandit.com. It's only $37.00 bucks brand new plus shipping. My welding is just O.K. so I really wanted to avoid it if I could.

[Tywash]

I am back again. My Dad was really sick this year and past away last month. He really wanted to see me get my bike done. Well I am here to try and finish. I have missed working on my project and hearing from you guys. So let's start again...

This is how the bike looked on friday

Passed inspection and was registered. GSXR 1000 rearsets

I have always hated the stock exhaust and hated all the aftermarket ones for costing too much and looking almost as bad.

Ninja 636 muffler. It's shorter and lighter than stock, yet cost $25.00 bucks.

I chopped off the stock muffler and located this one in the exact location of the stock one. It was positioned by welding a stud for the rear mount to sit on and then welding the fron of the exhaust to this cart so it couldn't move after I cut the muffler off

Now we just have to weld in some pipe. Sorry I couldn't get the pics to rotate