Gsx750 cafe/street bike

Here's a photo with the rearsets tacked on, if I really focus on them they look like they're on a funny angle, but if you look at the lines of the bike, I think it's okay... Not completely sure yet though...

got my oil cooler mounted and started playing round with my rear sets... As you can see in the photo the front rearset mount on the gearbox output shaft hits the frame tube. Does anyone know if you can get an offset one??? Otherwise I can just cut this one and weld it together offset. I'm getting to the stage where all the major stuff is done and now I'm down to all the little tricky bits!

Great idea and nice progress

Did you find this on OSS?



You might want to consider more bracing for the additional HP

Yes, thanks. I have seen that... This is where it gets complicated with the bracing. The new top and bottom shock mounts that I cut off the bandit have a wall thickness of about 4mm and the bracing I've added to these seems pretty solid.

.....what I really don't want to do is over brace certain areas and make them extremely rigid, if you make one section too stiff it will transfer its load to the nearest weaker point, so as I see it if you brace it, you need to brace the whole lot.

My next point is that a gsx1100 puts out 98 HP? And my 750 has the same frame, the bandit puts out 100hp so the frame can handle it. Im not an engineer, but I don't like the idea of transferring loads to all these different points on the frame that they may not like going, interested in any input anyone has on this topic????

Where did you get the clip ons from? They look the business.

They're tommiselli bars... Not sure if I even spelt that right! I got them cause they are adjustable in pretty much every direction so I can really fine tune my riding position. They were about $250 new Zealand dollars. I got them from Boyle Kawasaki in Wellington.

[Big T]

Great idea and nice progress

Did you find this on OSS?



You might want to consider more bracing for the additional HP

[gs58]

Where did you get the clip ons from? They look the business.

beautiful.

Got some chain clearance now:

Wow! not a lot of clearance there at all.

Bruce.

Yeah, I knew it was gonna be tight! From what I've read, most people who put a bandit swingarm on a gs/gsx engined bike need to gain 6mm more clearance for the chain to miss the frame. I'll end up with 4mm between my chain and frame ( which seems to me like plenty) by only taking 3mm off the sprocket carrier and output spacer. All seems a bit easy really!!! Hope it works:-)

Wow! not a lot of clearance there at all.

Bruce.

Picked up my 520 chain and sprockets today as well as some clipons. Bolted on the sprockets and draped the chain over them. The chain JUST clears the frame, so I'll get 3mm machined off the rear sprocket carrier and the same off the gearbox output shaft spacer. Chucked the bars on... Not sure how I'm gonna run them, but they're fully adjustable in every direction so I'll get the rearsets on and sort all that out.
It's quite hard to get a good photo angle of the chain clearance

Here's the bars, check out the bandit frame in the background... Not much left of it!

No photos to show tonight. Just mocked up the oil cooler, did manage to order a chain, sprockets and handlebars today, So might have some action photos tomorrow...

my morbidly obese friend Ed did a bit of tinkering with the tachometer and speedo which I think is gonna look pretty good once the headlight etc is in place.

got a bit of bracing done for the top shock mount... I'm pretty sure that shock mount won't snap off!

for some reason I'm having issues loading photos so I have to put each photo up on a seperate post.