Introducing the Yamasaki YZX6-R

Yeah! Come on Roman. Give us the story Was this something you always wanted to do ?? What was wrong with the stock and how has it improved. Have you got any pictures of the parts being machined , of you putting them together ?? Stop riding for just a second and give us the words LOL. Oh , and Jacqui . as your an admin you can give ownership of the post to Roman , and that way he can just edit the post and add bits and peices to the original main post so we readers can get the whole story in the one post rather than following the saga in comments.

Ok Kate done . Roman its all yours you should be able to edit the text, add photos etc give us the good stuff on this custom job

Well I have now completely finished the bike as was waiting on braided lines from the USA to arrive, took about 6 weeks due to one of the lines not being a standard length, but it was worth is as no sponginess at all and the brakes are great.

The standard bike is good but this front end swap has made an unbelievable difference. I have adjusted the front to be not too hard as a lot of the roads in the Adelaide hills are as bumpy as the local goat tracks in Afganistan, just with out the bombs and bullets. The stiffness the upsidedown forks have has made braking hard much nicer and the adjustable compression and rebound enable me to attack bumpy corners really well. Actually the bike has turned out better that I thought it would.

I bought the Kwaka 636 forks off Ebay for $275 us. and the brake calipers for $60 us.

Franks racing made me the triple clamps for $1000, not cheap but the quality is second to none, brake lines $120 aus. so all up it was not too much considering that wreakers in Australia want $1400 just for the forks and $400 for the calipers.

Anyway thats enough from me hope to see ya on the road.

Wow. Looking good . I'd be interested to know what sort of 'feel' you have or are looking for and to that end I suppose the tires will come into play . So , what tires are you running . Bumpy roads abound hey ! but do you like to 'feel' the road or are you more into a sticky ( spongy is not the right word but you get what I mean I hope ) .

Looking forward toseeing this up close in about a month when I head over to see Jacqui. 

 

Thanks for the info Roman 

Kate what I mean by feel is that I know what the front tyre is doing all the time. Most importantly when hard braking I need to feel the tyre to judge if grip is being lost, the same is true for when the bike is on it's side.

If you ever get the chance to ride a BMW twin with a paralever front end you will find that although a good setup for stopping front end dive you feel somewhat removed from what the tyre is doing, "the feel is vague".

Yes type and brand of tyre will also affect the feel to a degree but not as much as the setup I think.

I am running Battlaxe's on the Fazer as came from factory like that,and I think they are a good choice.

Yes hope to see you when you come over and have a chat and a ride together.