My Kat rebuild

[Guest]

a bit dusty.
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Shows that it's being ridden! I'm a little suspicious of overly clean bikes sometimes - are they there to be ridden or just looked at?

[GSXR7ED]

Very nice build, indeed!

Ed

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Great build! Love the Mazda red.

Thankyou and we then bought a Mazda when we traded our car in and it was by coincidence Mazda red...we have matching colour vehicles the wifey and I...awww.

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Very nice build, indeed!

Ed

Thanks Ed,
I just love riding my bike every day to work.
Cheers Andrew.

[GSX1100 dreamn]

A bit of rework for the fork extensions to suit the Bandit forks.
From this,

To this,

Went from 50mm to 34mm in length which should be enough to offset the shorter Bandit forks.
And added a bumpstop to the lower clamp.


Cheers Andrew.

[GSX1100 dreamn]

And the rear shock mounts.



Cheers Andrew.

[posplayr]

Nice welds

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Some of my best welding is done by other people thankfully haha.

[Guest]

Looks great!! Is that wheel bling a kit?

[GSX1100 dreamn]

I don't know about the wheels history as I got it as part of the donor bike. Sorry no help there.

[Guest]

Sorry I meant to specify the front brake set up. The rotors and calipers.

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Yes a kit of sorts,
The Brembo calipers and the adapters were from Webike.
The floating discs are off the GSX1135 EF and using the GSXR shoulder bolts for the disc mounting.
Standard 1982 Kat 5/8''/16mm master cylinder.
Cheers Andrew.

[Guest]

Thank you. ��

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Here are some more pictures of the brake setup.
The GSXR bolts because the holes in the discs are 10mm.

A spacer is needed to center the disc to the caliper.

I did open the up the bolt hole slightly just to give clearance for the shoulder bolt if needed.

Standard disc right and EF disc left, same dimensions 275mm dia. just that the offset occurs sooner due to the floating design.

All the parts ready for assembly

Cheers Andrew.

[GSX1100 dreamn]

I am a center stand tragic, just love having one.
So one of the problems with some 4-1 exhausts is that you have to remove the center stand to fit them, I then noticed the 1250 Bandit one is offset which would help people like me have my cake and eat it too.



enjoy,
Cheers Andrew.