Finally after 8 months

Of a nice big box from Japan sitting in my garage, I finally got all the planets to align and my swingarm is now on the ZRX.

I must say a big thanks to Evro (or blade boy as the CDT crew will know him as) for doing 90% of the work Evro used to be a technician for TKA a few years ago and raced superbikes (a ZXR-750) in the NSW and Australian Championships himself back in the 90's, so he knows shit about bikes that I dont, so he was the man to help out.

I got the arm from the guru in Japan, Drew Jonsen, it is a stock 2nd hand arm he purchased from Yahoo Japan and then sent off to K-Style Custom Factory http://www.kstyle-cf.com/ to be modded to my spec that I requested.

The whole thing worked out much cheaper than the original Onishi Heat Magic Arm I wanted so it was a good result all round. As always Drew was great to deal with and did exactly what he said he could do, I love the hassle free way he goes about sourcing parts from Japan.

Anyway its all on & I cant wait for tomorrow to go for a run

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Before we started, still a pretty trick looking arm, the std one

Evro hard at work - thanks mate

New arm on, still much work to do

Finished, now I need to get the wheels up to Harv spec to match the arm

The other side

was wondering when this was going to be fitted up looks farken excellent mate . Will be interesting to hear if it has made any improvement to the handling - is it much lighter at all ?

Goodonya Evro for doing the spannering - for a GayBlade rider your All Right

is it much lighter at all ?

Nah Gos, if anything it would be a fraction heavier as the bracing is additional to an OE arm, but I doubt if would be much.

And travelling through Nasho at 60kph I doubt I'll notice any difference, smile on my face will be bigger and I had to do something to compete with Shaun's Triple Clamps

aah yes the old Clamp envy. Bracksy used to get that all the time when Wobbler only used the infamous testy clamp on Sam !!!!

well the new swingarm sure looks the goods mate. Should take away a lot of the attention from Shaun's clamp

Looks awesome Phil!

The gentlemans express rounds another corner in its journey

Mmmmm........as nice as a Neptune Schnitty at the Fingal Bay Sporto ???????

I think so. Well done mate. Looks awesome.

Thats more Shiney than Shiney himself!

Looks Great Phil!

Mmmm nice, I bet it looks even better in the flesh

Horn

Mate that is very very nice. Congrats. Quick question. Your seat is it a custom job ?

Mate that is very very nice. Congrats. Quick question. Your seat is it a custom job ?

Yep, re done in leather with olde school stitching

Mmmm nice, I bet it looks even better in the flesh

I have to say I think it is

nobody has asked the question !!!

Is this functional bling ? or just............bling ?

nobody has asked the question !!!

Is this functional bling ? or just............bling ?

Functional bling Gos, functional first, bling was getting it polished

Grouse