Brown bike lives on. http://www.flickr.com/photos/25191903@N05/3216246085/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/25191903@N05/3216245625/sizes/l/ My mate Carl and I are rebuilding another mate's CBR600 after he threw it into a ditch at 90. Brown bike donated its full set of bodywork after I bought track plastics. We're building it up for matey's burd to use once she's passed her test. -- Lozzo SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project SpazzCaffer I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no fear of having their motives questioned
Thank you. This particular bike was heavily mullered, forks and yokes bent beyond repair, rear subframe bent down where it went upside down, every bit of bodywork trashed etc, it even cracked the sump. Me and Carl got an oxy-acteylene torch and used heat to bend the back of the subframe into line again and the same with the fairing cradle up front, which was the worst I'd seen. We would have got a replacement but couldn't find one anywhere. Aside from that, every bracket and lug was bent out of shape. We spent hours offering the bodywork up and straightening things to get it to sit just right. I was quite surpried at how good the paint on the bodywork is. I removed two decals from the front nosecone and the paint under them is exactly the same shade as the rest of it. Bearing in mind it's 11 year old bodywork with 33,500 miles on it, it's stood up remarkably well. The only real damage is from where Blaney dropped it at very low speed and from when I've lobbed the bike into vans taking it to trackdays, and that's only minor scratches that mostly polished out. From a complete write off to this, including a brand new full exhaust system, for a total of 350 quid on ebay and a lot of hours. The bike is being given to the owner's long term girlfriend as her first post DAS bike, and she's seen the effort that's gone into it so she knows not to bend or damage it. -- Lozzo SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project SpazzCaffer I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no fear of having their motives questioned
darsy wrote: The current owner doesn't have the skills to fix it, which is why Carl and I are doing it for him. He had it sitting in his garage for 4 years and all he managed to do was remove what was left of the fairing and exhaust in that time. -- Lozzo SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project SpazzCaffer I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no fear of having their motives questioned
