my zed bitsa

[yantosh]

always liked Zed's , but never built one, thought i'd give it a go



seems like a reasonable starting point

[yantosh]

coupla calls, bit of shed rummaging and i have blade forks, gulliari 2-4 seat, zed 9 tail and z650 side panels

[zmaxmotorsports]

What are your plans?

[Pigford]

Yan...... and more importantly lad - whats the time scale for this one

[yantosh]

next few weeks i hope , the bike is much further on, i have to let the magazine have the pics first

its got some nice stuff, i'll post pics tonight

[steve bowdler]

next few weeks i hope , the bike is much further on, i have to let the magazine have the pics first

its got some nice stuff, i'll post pics tonight

What magazine ??

[brian 450]

Streetfighters

[yantosh]

i was going to put this Z1 motor in it



but then i came by this



and decided to keep the Z1 motor for something trick later

[yantosh]

made a start on fitting a new filler cap to the tank, seemed rude not to as i had a nice Harris cap lying about doing nothing

[yantosh]

my initial plan had been to use a fireblade arm , since i had a couple, i'd widened the frame and modified it to take a blade spindle, and it looked ok. But then i remembered i had a zxr750 arm squirreled away, which looked much better(it will cause me grief later) so that was fitted



and shock mounts welded on

[yantosh]

stock yokes would never cut it, and i'd never tried adjustable offset ones, so it seemed the ideal opportunity to make some. they'll never win the worlds lightest yokes competition, but i like them

[yantosh]

i'm getting myself slightly out of order here



the 750 engine is now in place , and at this stage i was going to fit a mono shock, but as i do....i changed my mind. i was also considering spokey dokey wheels, but they are now in the "use later pile "

[yantosh]

i decided from that shot that the tail was just too dam long, so the back of the frame was abbreviated somewhat and the tail piece shuffled forwards. that meant a bit of re-shaping to fit it around the shocks



then i decided to use blade wheels, just to make life easier, i needed this bike to start moving on . back wheel centred



the front was easy, blade wheel in blade forks

[Crofty]

Looking good

[Flying Tiger]

Like it alot! The early RWU blade forks look great and I must say I like the photo with the spoke wheels fitted, how come you decided to change? Look forward to more pics!