Post by colinjay on Nov 16, 2006 22:27:06 GMT -5
Hi all,
I resently posted some pics of some of the SR's that are in my shed into the photo gallery, so here is some info about the bikes.
SR500 Café Racer
This is my original SR, purchased in 1980 for $1500 AUS second hand (1600km on the clock as the original owner couldn’t start it). Over the years it has been in many incarnation of the café racer. I actually sold it in 1988 to a friend of my young brother, who then bought it from his friend, in 1994 I repossessed it from my brother as a wreck and with possession being 9/10 of the law it’s now mine.
Details of its current state areas follows;
Std frame with minor mods for rearsets and seat.
Standard tuned engine (one of my spare engines, the original hotted engine is in the MX’er).
Fairing of unknown manufacture, that I bought it in 1980, and it has been on and off the bike ever since.
Modified Yamaha 650 XS1 fuel tank.
Seat is a cut down SR seat pan with a rear hump molded from a Ducati 900SS.
Front wheel is Yamaha 650 (XS2?) with a FZR1200 disc and caliper.
Hand fabricated rear sets and foot control made from 316 stainless steel.
Staintune replica Conti muffler on a hand fabricated Stainless steel header pipe.
Hand laid fiberglass R/H side cover to clear the exhaust pipe.
Rear wheel is XT600 wheel heavily modified to fit in the SR swingarm. I cut it in ½ on a lathe, machined it down so it spigoted back together (about 80mm narrowed in width) then had it MIG welded back together
SR500 MX
I originally built this bike in 1980 or 81, a long time ago and things get a bit fuzz as you get older. The frame is from my 78 Husky 390AMX (automatic motocross), all the original husky stuff is still in some boxes and I have recently been able to track down a 78 CR250 frame which this bike will be rebuilt on so I can rebuild the husky on it correct frame. Originally raced it with the std 78 tank, forks and wheel before I change to Yamaha forks and wheels and the YZ125C fuel tank. As it stands now, it has a set of early 80’s IT forks with a twin leading shoe YZ front wheel. Rear wheel is from a TT500. I made the oil tank (on the LH side) from 1mm steel sheet and it is rubber and spring mounted to the frame.
The only modification to the actual frame was to bronze weld (so they can be easily removed) mounting bushes to the lower frame rails for the lower front engine mounts, a bracket for the head stay and two lugs to mount the ignition coil on. The rear engine mounts are part of a large box section assemble that encompasses the swingarm pivot.
The current engine is the one out of my café racer. Basic engine specs are; modified 11:1 Wiseco piston (giving 14.2:1 with modified head), gas flowed and plained head, Web 88A cam, S&W springs with titanium retainers, 38mm EI Blue Magnum carbie, Barrnett clutch plated with XS650 springs. I will be building up a slightly lower tuned engine for this bike and this engine will be rebuild and put back into its proper frame (the café racer) also in a lower state of tune. A fully sick hot engine will be built up to go into the SR rolling chassis (with the blue front guard) that can be seen in the background.
SR500 Supermotad
This has been a project for quite a while. The frame is a TT500. Front forks are from an early 90’s XT350. Front wheel is the XT350 hub laced with an 17” x 2.5 Excel rim. The disc is a 13” full floater that I had custom made to suit the hub. Front caliper is from some Kawasaki? (it came in a box of SR bits I bought years ago). Rear swingarm and shock are XT350, same model as the forks. Rear hub is a late 70’s DT250/400 hub (almost identical to the TT500 hub) again laced with a 17” x 3.5 Excel rim.
I still have not finished setting up the shock and linkage mounts and once that is done I will replace/modify the rear sub-frame to remove the original shock mounts. Current engine fitted for set up is my SR400 engine. The engine that will eventually go into this bike is a big bore / stroked (7mm over stroke) SR engine that I have built displacing almost 600cc that is still sitting on the bench waiting for me to decide what cam to fit.
Floating Brake
This is the front brake setup currently fitted to my “Stock” SR that is in everyday use. The disc is from a FZR1200 as is the 4-spot caliper. I custom made the spacer required to mount the disc and the bracket to position the caliper from high tensile aluminum plate (I can’t recall the grade but it is the same that they make road tankers and dump truck trays from). A good source of hi grade aluminum is to companies that made things like road tanker or do structural aluminum work as buy off-cut as they will normally sell the small bit for scrap value which is a lot less than the real price of hi grade alloy plate.
The red sports car is a 1965 Honda S600 roadster, as close as you can get to a bike with 4 wheel.
Some of the other bike that appear in the back ground are; the rolling chassis for a Period 5 SR classic racer that I am building, a XT500 rolling chassic that is being beuit up as a sidecar, 1962 Honda C72 dream, 1964 Honda S90, a 1975? Suzuki RV125, a 1960 Honda C71 (250cc) Dream, a 1960 Honda C76 (305cc), the body for the XS1100 sidecar that I am building. There are anothe 20 odd bike including another SR and TT 500 spred around the shed as well.
And NO, I am not fithy stinking rich, hence why most of the projects are in long term hold.
I resently posted some pics of some of the SR's that are in my shed into the photo gallery, so here is some info about the bikes.
SR500 Café Racer
This is my original SR, purchased in 1980 for $1500 AUS second hand (1600km on the clock as the original owner couldn’t start it). Over the years it has been in many incarnation of the café racer. I actually sold it in 1988 to a friend of my young brother, who then bought it from his friend, in 1994 I repossessed it from my brother as a wreck and with possession being 9/10 of the law it’s now mine.
Details of its current state areas follows;
Std frame with minor mods for rearsets and seat.
Standard tuned engine (one of my spare engines, the original hotted engine is in the MX’er).
Fairing of unknown manufacture, that I bought it in 1980, and it has been on and off the bike ever since.
Modified Yamaha 650 XS1 fuel tank.
Seat is a cut down SR seat pan with a rear hump molded from a Ducati 900SS.
Front wheel is Yamaha 650 (XS2?) with a FZR1200 disc and caliper.
Hand fabricated rear sets and foot control made from 316 stainless steel.
Staintune replica Conti muffler on a hand fabricated Stainless steel header pipe.
Hand laid fiberglass R/H side cover to clear the exhaust pipe.
Rear wheel is XT600 wheel heavily modified to fit in the SR swingarm. I cut it in ½ on a lathe, machined it down so it spigoted back together (about 80mm narrowed in width) then had it MIG welded back together
SR500 MX
I originally built this bike in 1980 or 81, a long time ago and things get a bit fuzz as you get older. The frame is from my 78 Husky 390AMX (automatic motocross), all the original husky stuff is still in some boxes and I have recently been able to track down a 78 CR250 frame which this bike will be rebuilt on so I can rebuild the husky on it correct frame. Originally raced it with the std 78 tank, forks and wheel before I change to Yamaha forks and wheels and the YZ125C fuel tank. As it stands now, it has a set of early 80’s IT forks with a twin leading shoe YZ front wheel. Rear wheel is from a TT500. I made the oil tank (on the LH side) from 1mm steel sheet and it is rubber and spring mounted to the frame.
The only modification to the actual frame was to bronze weld (so they can be easily removed) mounting bushes to the lower frame rails for the lower front engine mounts, a bracket for the head stay and two lugs to mount the ignition coil on. The rear engine mounts are part of a large box section assemble that encompasses the swingarm pivot.
The current engine is the one out of my café racer. Basic engine specs are; modified 11:1 Wiseco piston (giving 14.2:1 with modified head), gas flowed and plained head, Web 88A cam, S&W springs with titanium retainers, 38mm EI Blue Magnum carbie, Barrnett clutch plated with XS650 springs. I will be building up a slightly lower tuned engine for this bike and this engine will be rebuild and put back into its proper frame (the café racer) also in a lower state of tune. A fully sick hot engine will be built up to go into the SR rolling chassis (with the blue front guard) that can be seen in the background.
SR500 Supermotad
This has been a project for quite a while. The frame is a TT500. Front forks are from an early 90’s XT350. Front wheel is the XT350 hub laced with an 17” x 2.5 Excel rim. The disc is a 13” full floater that I had custom made to suit the hub. Front caliper is from some Kawasaki? (it came in a box of SR bits I bought years ago). Rear swingarm and shock are XT350, same model as the forks. Rear hub is a late 70’s DT250/400 hub (almost identical to the TT500 hub) again laced with a 17” x 3.5 Excel rim.
I still have not finished setting up the shock and linkage mounts and once that is done I will replace/modify the rear sub-frame to remove the original shock mounts. Current engine fitted for set up is my SR400 engine. The engine that will eventually go into this bike is a big bore / stroked (7mm over stroke) SR engine that I have built displacing almost 600cc that is still sitting on the bench waiting for me to decide what cam to fit.
Floating Brake
This is the front brake setup currently fitted to my “Stock” SR that is in everyday use. The disc is from a FZR1200 as is the 4-spot caliper. I custom made the spacer required to mount the disc and the bracket to position the caliper from high tensile aluminum plate (I can’t recall the grade but it is the same that they make road tankers and dump truck trays from). A good source of hi grade aluminum is to companies that made things like road tanker or do structural aluminum work as buy off-cut as they will normally sell the small bit for scrap value which is a lot less than the real price of hi grade alloy plate.
The red sports car is a 1965 Honda S600 roadster, as close as you can get to a bike with 4 wheel.
Some of the other bike that appear in the back ground are; the rolling chassis for a Period 5 SR classic racer that I am building, a XT500 rolling chassic that is being beuit up as a sidecar, 1962 Honda C72 dream, 1964 Honda S90, a 1975? Suzuki RV125, a 1960 Honda C71 (250cc) Dream, a 1960 Honda C76 (305cc), the body for the XS1100 sidecar that I am building. There are anothe 20 odd bike including another SR and TT 500 spred around the shed as well.
And NO, I am not fithy stinking rich, hence why most of the projects are in long term hold.
