I've been out of the DSM scene for a while now and left it when I traded my last dsm for an 07' R6r. I choose to sell that when my DD died on me and wanted to replace it with something nicer and no loan. Well I've regretted selling my R6 from the get go and wanted to get another bike. I finally picked up a 2006 GSX-R 600 track bike at the end of January. The bike is definitely a project but I knew that going into it. I got some history on the bike and it was bought new from Suzuki as an AMA race bike and was raced by the original owner for some years and then made it through the hands of two other racers before I bought it. The bike finished 1st overall in the novice class for 2012 and 2010. My plan is to clean the bike up, put a new motor in it, make it street legal again, and since it is a race bike prolly take her to the track.
Mods:
-Ohlins Front Forks
-Penske Triple Clicker Rear Shock
-Leo vince Full Exhaust
-Vortex Rearsets
-Woodcraft engine covers
-Woodcraft frame sliders
-Woodcraft clip ons
-Dyno jet PC3
-Dyno jet ignition Module
-Dyno jet quickshifter
-Vesrah Racing Clutch
-GPR V4 Stabilizer
and more...
Here is the bike from last race season:
I immediately tore the whole bike down and started cleaning:
Frame and swingarm prepped for paint:
Primer:
Paint:
Reassembling:
I have to clean this up and then she's going in:
Accumulating all of the oem plastics:
Here is the pile of boxes I got in the mail today:
w00t! Another gixxer around! Biggest thing with an ex track bike is to make sure everything is straight. They tend to get banged up on a regular basis. My track bike had a slightly bent swingarm and I didn't know it (was from the previous owner) and caused some handling quirks.
__________________ Is burning corn and stayin' warm!
My motorcycle is stock and reliable, my Talon is neither!
Leo's South FTW! I just went in and had a very large order of mostly misc bolts that I priced out online and ordering the parts through Leo's saved me $25 and that's not including what I saved by not having to pay shipping. This should be the very last parts order for whats needed to put the bike back to street legal.
I bought my first gixxer from Leo's, nice place. I deal with Larson's in Cambridge now that I am on the north side. Now the wait for the nice weather begins...
__________________ Is burning corn and stayin' warm!
My motorcycle is stock and reliable, my Talon is neither!
I haven't updated this in forever but here are the pics from wrapping the bike in gloss pearl white and frozen metallic grey. After this experience I will never vinyl wrap again because of how much of a PITA it was to do. I did successfully wrap the tank in one piece without any seams which is quite a feat.
Here are current pics, finally finished, finally titled, and plated.
Took off the slicks and mounted street tires.
Friday was a big day for me after running around trying to get a title and plate for this, after trying multiple DMV's with the original certificate of origin on the bike from 2006 I finally found one that would issue me a title and plate for the bike. Up until this point it has been a very expensive track bike converted back to street legal that couldn't legally be ridden on the streets.
New clip-on tubes, grips, reservoir, and controls.
4,1xx miles, that's 300 miles on her since Friday but actually less due to gearing -1 front +2 rear.
Finished pics of the bike with very poor lighting in my garage. Will get better ones later.
Wow that looks amazing. You should come out riding soon. I am going out today after work.
We should definitely meet up and ride one of these days, I had to work this evening and of course everyone else was out riding. Working retail blows because it always happens that everyone wants to ride so conveniently when I have to work.
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