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Hi folks, Viktor from Sweden here. I'm a 21 years old, currently unemployed electrician, who's about to undergo re-schooling in order to become a welder.
So, how did this project start?
Well, let's just say I got a blooded tooth after helping my dad out with the rebuild of his Yamaha XJR1300 (new running gear).
We figured I might as well buy myself one too since I was going to get my license. As I'm a old-school aircooled fella I went out hunting for pretty much anything which fit that criteria, didn't matter if it was a Kwak, a Honda, a Suzuki or a Yamaha.
But since my dad has been riding Suzuki's for all his life and I've grown up on one as well (GS1100G with a sidecar) we figured an old Suzuki would be the best choice. Decent power and unparalelled reliability.
Looked at all the old GS and GSX models, both 750's and 1100's. And after a while, I found an add for a nice GSX1100EF.
400 miles down south.
Jumped into the car the next day and drove all the way down, took it out for a ride, paid up and went home.
After that, the GSX enjoyed a nice summer of about 3400 miles. Some carb problems along the way but that was fixed by a set of CV36's from a GSXR1100.
During summer I had collected a few bits for the build. New front forks from a Hayabusa, swing arm and wheels from my dads XJR1300 plus a bunch of other bits. From the start, the idea was just to do something along these lines:
New, extended swing arm with a mono-shock, new wheels and new forks.
But as we all know - one thing leads to another and on that way it was...
Tore the bike down to the bare frame in order to start figuring out how much machining the swingarm needed in order to fit the relatively narrow GSX frame (236mm inside the swingarm pivot).
A friend had a slightly cracked FJ1100 spoiler which I decided to try fitting.
Looked pretty good. (slightly modified by me)
Then I started working on the rear end a bit. Didn't want to keep the old rear light so I opted for a different design for the rear end. Married a chopped up GSXR seat cowl to the sidepanels from the EFE.
This is pretty much the point where I decided it wanted to be a "what-if" Yoshimura AMA superbike from the early 80's. Since they never raced with this bike, I thought it would be kinda cool to build one.
So, how did this project start?
Well, let's just say I got a blooded tooth after helping my dad out with the rebuild of his Yamaha XJR1300 (new running gear).
We figured I might as well buy myself one too since I was going to get my license. As I'm a old-school aircooled fella I went out hunting for pretty much anything which fit that criteria, didn't matter if it was a Kwak, a Honda, a Suzuki or a Yamaha.
But since my dad has been riding Suzuki's for all his life and I've grown up on one as well (GS1100G with a sidecar) we figured an old Suzuki would be the best choice. Decent power and unparalelled reliability.
Looked at all the old GS and GSX models, both 750's and 1100's. And after a while, I found an add for a nice GSX1100EF.
400 miles down south.
Jumped into the car the next day and drove all the way down, took it out for a ride, paid up and went home.
After that, the GSX enjoyed a nice summer of about 3400 miles. Some carb problems along the way but that was fixed by a set of CV36's from a GSXR1100.
During summer I had collected a few bits for the build. New front forks from a Hayabusa, swing arm and wheels from my dads XJR1300 plus a bunch of other bits. From the start, the idea was just to do something along these lines:
New, extended swing arm with a mono-shock, new wheels and new forks.
But as we all know - one thing leads to another and on that way it was...
Tore the bike down to the bare frame in order to start figuring out how much machining the swingarm needed in order to fit the relatively narrow GSX frame (236mm inside the swingarm pivot).
A friend had a slightly cracked FJ1100 spoiler which I decided to try fitting.
Looked pretty good. (slightly modified by me)
Then I started working on the rear end a bit. Didn't want to keep the old rear light so I opted for a different design for the rear end. Married a chopped up GSXR seat cowl to the sidepanels from the EFE.
This is pretty much the point where I decided it wanted to be a "what-if" Yoshimura AMA superbike from the early 80's. Since they never raced with this bike, I thought it would be kinda cool to build one.
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