Extreme Makeover: Tyra
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:52 pm
G'day! As some of you may or may not know, I copped a 5 year licence suspension (long story not for this thread) and I have about 2 years to go. To keep sane and to reduce levels of frustration and anger, I subscribe to the MotoGP, tracked Tyra and take her on Eastern Creek as often as I can afford, watch and read everything I can related to bikes and keep myself busy with other large projects and activities. I have almost completed my most recent project and after some (read: just a little) planning I have decided to turn Tyra, a perfectly good road/track bike, and turn her into a scrambler.
My reasons are:
- I love projects! Learning with a goal and reward at the end is the best!
- I have 2 years to finish it and I need a bike to get around town on.
- I want to take Tyra places she really wasn't designed to to.
- It seems like stupid fun to take a ZX-10R and make her dirt-worthy.
- I love the Aussie bush.
What I plan to do is:
- Remove the engine to change the head gasket and While it's out get any other required engine preventative maintenance done.
- Extend the forks and change the rear link for more ground clearance.
- Change the triple tree so I can mount bar risers and a flat bar.
- Remove all fairings and change the location of the wiring.
- Have bash rails & plate made up and certified by an automotive engineer.
- Have a rear rack that can take 4 x 10L cells for fuel where pannier go mounted to the existing or new sub-frame, also possibly requiring an engineer.
- Have 2 sets of wheels. The current road and a set of spoked 17s with a larger sprocket on the rear.
- Put a smaller sprocket on the front.
- Install a new speedometer, front light and possibly a screen, making the ram-air intake the feature of the front end.
- A few other bits and bobs, like a custom seat, blah, blah blah.
So I am going to start soon. Here are a few pictures of Tyra to let you know what I am starting with and I plan to post up my progress as often as it occurs. I aim to have this done in 12 months depending on finances but, from experience, things always take longer than you think. Wish me luck!
My reasons are:
- I love projects! Learning with a goal and reward at the end is the best!
- I have 2 years to finish it and I need a bike to get around town on.
- I want to take Tyra places she really wasn't designed to to.
- It seems like stupid fun to take a ZX-10R and make her dirt-worthy.
- I love the Aussie bush.
What I plan to do is:
- Remove the engine to change the head gasket and While it's out get any other required engine preventative maintenance done.
- Extend the forks and change the rear link for more ground clearance.
- Change the triple tree so I can mount bar risers and a flat bar.
- Remove all fairings and change the location of the wiring.
- Have bash rails & plate made up and certified by an automotive engineer.
- Have a rear rack that can take 4 x 10L cells for fuel where pannier go mounted to the existing or new sub-frame, also possibly requiring an engineer.
- Have 2 sets of wheels. The current road and a set of spoked 17s with a larger sprocket on the rear.
- Put a smaller sprocket on the front.
- Install a new speedometer, front light and possibly a screen, making the ram-air intake the feature of the front end.
- A few other bits and bobs, like a custom seat, blah, blah blah.
So I am going to start soon. Here are a few pictures of Tyra to let you know what I am starting with and I plan to post up my progress as often as it occurs. I aim to have this done in 12 months depending on finances but, from experience, things always take longer than you think. Wish me luck!