Knowing what’s behind you.
A mirror is a useful thing sometimes, i got spoiled by the busa’s massively effective garda spotters.
So i had to put one one the cbr, can’t put one on the right side because i’d have to change the master cylinder, but however i do have this broken clutch perch lying around which got glued back together and left in the sun in a spare car and over the weekend hardened up quite nicely, splash of paint and it was ready.
Of course i don’t actually have a proper mirror, that would be breaking the rules if all my work accomplished something for once.
My e52 nokia is dead, won’t start, so i had to dig out the nokia 6233, where i found this pic of the insides of my new laptop, totally choked up with dust and loose metal bits rattling around, quick clean and i was away.
Hayabusa 0 cbr6 1
Went for a spin on the busa wednesday,hand nearly exploded all four fingers still hurt to move, no more busa riding it’s gotta go.
On the plus side the cbr6 is still good, added a bit of weld to the right passenger foot peg to level it out a bit, put a bit more oil in it (filter is still leaking a bit) and when i discovered last night that the lights were pointing way up (haven’t actually driven in the dark in a long time) i chopped a wedge of metal out of the headlamp bracket and re welded that too, just have to wait till it’s dark to test it out.
Also a while back i re-soldered my 8-cell stick battery pack to make it fit in the tt-01’s 6-cell space, haven’t actually played with it since but it should be a lot faster then the old 800mah 8-cell pack. That is of course providing that the solder will stay in place, don’t have a very powerful solder gun.
cbr6 rebuild: done
Ready for a test drive
test drive done and i’m a happy bunny
tucking the Wiring loom away was the last real hurdle, after the test ride i fixed up the gear change for a better spare and topped up the oil. next small thing that needs finishing is to re set the exhaust headers a bit to stop a blow and thats it for a while. paint job rear hugger and katana nose cone are for after that.
Niki’s ex500 looking mean, new parts soon
iec watergrasshill trackday
Went and had fun, took picture of everything that wasn’t very shiny.
modern car retro wheels
only escort i actually took a pic of, this just needs some nice deep dish 13″ jap wheels
very clean
Gertrac rwd mk3 escort, very sweet
Started the cbr, ran crap, had spark, tore into carbs, sorted the air screws, back together, still crap, put plug leads on right, sweet as a nut. I’m some idiot.
The busa rebuild started, cbr6 build (nearly) finished.
Niki’s tank, it really does look like any year tank will fit.
I’m not actually allowed to work on the busa. cheapest busa i can find online is €4000 and that’s a 01 with 47000km on the clock, mine has 7000 and is a 06, it’s mad to keep it, i should sell it on and buy quite a lot of entertaining bikes for the money i could get. ted wants me to keep the busa, said that he’d keep the busa and i could sell the R1. R1 is worth nothing. More annoyed that nobody can see that the sight of me on a brand new busa worth 6 grand is ridiculous, by the time I’ve gotten my moneys worth I’ll be 50+. One grand got me the cbr in the first place and that got me through 5 crashes and 40,000 miles, do that by Six and with Six different bikes and we’re talking timmy style then.
I’ve had 37 crashes, any other parent would be happy if i wanted to get rid of a bike that can do 186mph.
Front cage needs to come down a touch, cbr in the background is only stuck on the clocks (won’t fit with honda bars) and a decent sized zip tie to hold on the scottoiler.
Ted won his first race, bit late to become a racing superstar
BUSA!
BUSA!
BUSA!
BUSA!
BUSA!
BUSA!
BUSA spares!
Ahem enough of that now, as you can tell i’m a bit excited 😀 got for roughly 23% of what a 2006 busa is worth. Gotta get loads of parts but it money well invested.
Got the new plugs in, had to file down the plug spanner, very tight in there. they were the only part holding me back.
so now the air filter is in, only difficult bit left is to take out the exhaust studs and replace em with bolts. once i got the tank and side panel on idecided to give the engine a spin over, no power 🙁 more stuff added to the list
cbr6 rebuild pt billion+1
Taking small bit’s out of the rebuild, so i’ve stop numbering it
Wiring loom snug next to the carbs, forgot to take a side pic but it’s nice should have tried this ages ago. Comes out under the frame by the radiator hose.
Battery box and finalised wiring loom. Note the worn foot peg rubber.
ass end in, note the right peg is brand new, found it out the back, both grips are like new as well so i’ve got to find a new left hand peg to make it good.
To much extra wiring loom, used to hide it behind the big nose, that’s not there now.
Niki’s tank, gonna be hard bodgeing to fix this. Not so easy to find a ez/gpz500 tank in he breakers.
Brother sprayed some spare cheap paint over my weller looks nice not sure what to match it with.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 BUSA! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
🙂 should be picking it up tomorrow, got if for an unreal price, I won’t believe there’s not some sort of hitch until I have the logbook in my hand. it’s a ’06 low mileage good tyres have to buy a head lamp and bend the bracket got spare slightly damaged fairings and the standard exhaust pipes ,€70 extra, but probably worth it, I’ll see how loud those pipes on it are first.
cbr6 rebuild pt4
Much work done, little to show for it, wiring is in but needed redoing twice, first the back piece had to be put behind the subframe and now the front piece which is normally outside the frame has to go inside, because the previous owner chopped off the mounting buttons for it. Gotta chop off the ignition barrel to the wiring fit in and around the holes of the frame, more work but it will look very tidy when it’s done.
Ripped the nose off the dr750 nose piece, much better. have to find a katana nose piece to fit on now.
Didn’t take any more pics after that got in a bit of a frenzy fitted the carbs rear tail piece battery box foot pegs and tore into the old cbr to canablize it airbox and coolant tank.
I’m still in high gear right now all excited about picking up the new bike tomorrow, finding out howto remove the 186mph limit oh and it’s got efi so i’m all plans and hamster wheels in my head right now 😀
cbr6 pt3
gold and red, classic
threw bits of body work on while chatting bollocks with sarge and didn’t do much else, the combination of magnolia bodywork and ice white wheels are blegh. the red is much better in real life, it’s so red the phone camera can’t take it.
cbr6 rebuild pt2
if there’s enough parts left over I’m gonna make a hypermotard out of what’s left, fit a tank under the seat make the seat really far forward nearly on top of the carbs and fit some crosser bars, looks like i am missing all the spacers though.
it was like archaeology, shovels were used.
and that took all day!
na i got more stripped off the old cbr and fitted the new swingarm in and bolted up the engine and rear shock, to beat to take photos 🙂
