Newbie

Newbie · by Cove on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 13:30

Hi Guys an Gals

Thought i'd actually sign up an say hello, as i've been lurking on the board for a while, had my rrw blade for a while now, an have been inspired by some of you to start modifying it slightly, am in the process of putting a Yamaha R1 04 front end on now although hit a snag, and a rry rear end just to slim it down.

Anyway hello.

Andy

Re: Newbie · by **daz blade** on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 14:43

hello mate welcome to the forum

Re: Newbie · by **1992fireblade** on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 16:49

Hi Andy & welcome to the forum

Re: Newbie · by **bazza** on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 19:16

welcome to the forum

Re: Newbie · by **NuttyTart** on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 20:30

Hello and welcome to the forum idhitit

Re: Newbie · by **fastbikefinder** on Sat 19 Sep 2009, 21:36

Hi, welcome aboard,

Interesting mod you have going there! We'd like to see some pictures??

Post a thread in the http://firebladeriders.forumotion.com/projects-streetfighters-modifications-f15/ Section for us to follow

What snag have you hit?

Re: Newbie · by mac777 on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 09:53

Welcome to the forum

Re: Newbie · by Cove on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 12:28

Hi all thanks for the welcome,
Fast bike finder not much to show in pictures at the moment, I'm waiting on a new stem as the one i have has lost half the thread on the adjustors, will def post pictures when theres something to see other than a headless bike, (girlfriends description!)

Re: Newbie · by **fastbikefinder** on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 14:57

Cove wrote:Hi all thanks for the welcome,
Fast bike finder not much to show in pictures at the moment, I'm waiting on a new stem as the one i have has lost half the thread on the adjustors, will def post pictures when theres something to see other than a headless bike, (girlfriends description!)

Have you found one to suit it? I think the Fazer thou stem is slightly longer if I remember rightly - I did R1 conversions on a couple - One of them I used the Fazer stem.

If you get stuck you could phone some friendly breakers and ask them to measure a Fazer stem for comparison?

Re: Newbie · by Cove on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 15:04

The plan was to use the stem from the blade, and have that pressed into the yamaha yoke, but at some point in its past some one has cross threaded it, so i'm now trying to find one on ebay at a decent price, it did not help that i damaged the top nut thread on the stem trying to remove the lower bearing race! but that gave me an excuse to buy the R1 front end as my front discs where badly warped, Brand new pads and silverstone GP track obviously did them no favours. Plus i get a 17" front wheel and a choice of decent rubber!

Re: Newbie · by **jallen** on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 16:30

Welcome to the forum.

I hope you didn't get the front end from my friend's old R1 Smile

John

Re: Newbie · by **nicksparkie** on Sun 20 Sep 2009, 19:23

ouch!!!

Re: Newbie · by **masterblader** on Mon 21 Sep 2009, 08:50

Hi Andy and welcome to the forum.
Why an R1 front end, surely a later blade set up would be an easier job.

Re: Newbie · by **megawatt** on Mon 21 Sep 2009, 10:46

how do you fit a 929 swinger to a rrw? Doesn't it bolt to the engine?

Re: Newbie · by **stuart** on Mon 21 Sep 2009, 12:29

Welcome Andy

Re: Newbie · by Cove on Mon 21 Sep 2009, 18:57

Thanks Guys, masterblader its simple really, it was all that was available at the time, any later blade front fits i think stems are the same although you have to mess with the lockstops, Megawatt i havent got a clue i'm afraid!

Re: Newbie · by **wes** on Mon 21 Sep 2009, 19:46

hi andy welcome to fbr

Re: Newbie · by **Kaiser** on Tue 22 Sep 2009, 11:05

Re: Newbie · by Cove on Tue 22 Sep 2009, 20:32

Sorry megawatt jus read my original post i meant tail unit not swinger that will be the usual VFR route when time and funds are available