Old faithful

A few months ago on the way back from Scotland I decided to crash my zx9r, luckily with copious amounts of tape I managed to ride it home the last couple hundred miles, so a rebuild has begun starting with a new frame as the bike landed heavily on the left and cracked half way along the main spar. I was going to strip the original frame and scotchbrite it so I’ve done the new frame and a zx10 c1h swingarm for it, I also dropped the forks and Öhlins shock off at revs suspension yesterday for a service and ktech valve kit.

I bought the 10r arm with all the adaptors ready to bolt is so thought it would be an easy job as it came out of another 9r but my rear wheel is about 20 mm wider at the full spacer width and won’t go in the arm so rcd is going to fit his qr kit in it,I hit the rear of a farm trailer that was turning right into an entrance with no indicators working, screeed my leg and arm up a bit and wrenched my neck , I did a fantastic rolling stoppie, Pfm for the win as without them it would of been worse.

The frame and swingarm will stay bare and I’ll just acf50 it, I’ve bought some second hand oe bodywork to be painted in the original colours . Mark at rcd is going to weld some of his qr’s in the 10 arm and I’ve gotta send my front dymag to dymag for a small repair. Took a few weeks for my neck to recover as I don’t bounce as well as I used to, more like a big sack of spuds landing.

The bike was seriously high but I think it saved it from a lot of extra damage to the forks and wheel, there’s a small nick on the wheel but it would probably of been scrap otherwise.

Just an excuse to get out in the new cave

Glad to hear you're ok Warren.

If we have an RSVR.net get together, we'll book you to do the stunt show

Knowing you, the Kwak is headed to be another masterpiece.

Nice rear shock

Is the new frame the same age as I had to q plate a fighter I built due to the new frame being one of the 3 main parts in  dvla's list I replaced,then a vosa check...nightmare 

Rcd sent me a pic of the new swingarm today, it’s lush 😊

The paint looks great!

Looking good for the rebuild that swingarm is gorgeous 

Nice bike, liked these when they came out, back in the day.

I originally bought this to save using the Mille in bad weather, I always liked the looks but never rated them until I rode one and they are a seriously under rated bike. Very stable and forgiving and deceptively fast and you can get a curry and chips under the seat.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-details/202008212786025?advertising-location=at_bikes&postcode=ws120pl&model=ZX-9R&page=1&price-from=500&make=KAWASAKI

Loving the swingarm and the paint Warren