my zed bitsa

[nanno]

Comin' together nicely!

[yantosh]

time was marching on and the blade wheels just made the job much easier, the front wheel needed a new disc centre making to let the caliper clear the spokes(single disc), and possibly a adaptor bracket from the fork leg, which i'm not a big fan of, i know they can be made to look ok, i just prefer not to need them

[yantosh]

of course, chopping the subframe meant chopping up a gulliari 2/4 seat, but needs must, i also didn't like the profile of the hump part of the seat so that got re worked with a ballpene hammer using a workshirt as a beanbag to hit it on . i'm starting to like how it looks



i didn't want to use the standard H**** method of holding the front muddie on, so that seemed like an ideal oppertunity to make a fork brace ' i tried to add similar detail to the pockets in the yokes, make it look like proper front end rather than a disparate collection of parts



a rummage in some boxes unearthed a zx6r tail lightwhich is mounted on the abbreviated subframe under the z650 tail

[Pigford]

Usually I'd say its a shame to fudge-up a 2:4 seat, but from what can be seen, that looks ACE

[yantosh]

i was chopping it up thinking.......gonny get shit for this .......never stopped me mind. i'm sure i have the original cover if its of any use ?

[yantosh]

it was a z9 seat, it didn't fit the z650 tail properly either, i had a pattern z9 tail which i was going to fit but figured that would take away from the fact that i was building a z650 based bike

[yantosh]

the blade wheel wants a 20mm spindle while the zxr arm has 28 mm holes so i knocked up a pair of adjuster blocks with sleeves to take up the slop in the slots



then i had to decide on a headlight, headlights always seem the hardest part, i was going to use a v rod light , but then i started looking at pics of racing Zeds and decided a numberboard was what i needed . but i still needed a light , so i made an aluminium plate and fitted a cbr400 light



and mounted it off the bottom of the top yoke

[yantosh]

figured i better sort the carbs out next, afraid they were looking a little worse for wear



but the lads at MP soda blasting sorted them out, highly recommend them

[yantosh]

then me mate came round to be david bailey

[Redbeard]

cool looking bike, the headlight/no. board looks spot on!

[yantosh]

cheers mate

bit more done,

i had thought the engine was all mounted.....till the chain tried to eat the top of the arm ...D'oh, so a new set of engine mounts were knocked up , raising the rear of the motor , nicely sorting out that issue



afraid i'm no the best photographer

then i made a top nut that would fit with the adjustable offset yokes



then it was bodywork on and run it outside for a coupla pics

[mutz-nutz]

that looks well nice is the gsx yours also as it looks rather intresting also pictures please keep up the good work

[yantosh]

yeah, i thought it a good idea to do both bikes at the same time ...

[Redbeard]

both bikes look cool, brutal looking zed, nice one. would love a headlight like that for me flat tracker zed.

[yantosh]

i used a cbr400 headlight , nice and small