The Punk is Back AGAIN!

[gpxpunk]

After a 60k low side on the old road and a mad dash up to bathurst for all the gear thanks to ebay i have the punk back on the road.

before:




now after:



So now all i have to do is put the twing disc front forks on that i picked up also, and get kelens to change over the tyre on friday and ill have be done for the time being.
The fairings are not the best, slight crack on the left which i have glued for time been. and the over all finsh is not the best but she is running and that the main thing.

Little bit later im ripping the fairings back off and respraying abit of it, to make it look sweet again, ill have to sauce a chrome exhaust coz the one i got was black and one black one chrome looks shit. And then that should be it.

Special thanks to Neville from kelens kawasaki for staying back tonight after i got the wrong gear lever, if it wasnt for him i wouldnt have the bike on the road once again. Cheers Bud, your a life saver.

[seiko1]

Shit that was quick mate!
Cracker of a job

[laidback]

Yeah great work to get it ready so quick. Still ride OK?

Can recommend the 9. Had my first decent ride on mine today. Just have to remember that it has about half as much power again than the GPX.

[robracer]

wooo hooo ..... now dont fall off! See you on the road mate

[tim]

Damn man, you're a machine! Well done

2 days and fixed. HA!

[gpxpunk]

well since this is a daily rider i needed it fixed asap, had most of the stuff sunday night when i went to bathurst, just needed a new clutch lever and gear selecter, which i got tonight, its abit rough but ill be getting some plastic weld this weekend and some gloss black paint, so a couple of weekends and it will look better then it did b4 the drop.
And yeah sides sweet, the black exhaust has been drilled at the end and gives it a beefier note but i dont like it. was fun getting back on her tonight aswell zipping around the streets {damn i missed her}, but now i dont know yet if ill get the 9 or maybe a 7 now lol jumped on joe's 7 on sunday and i loved it aswell. i'll have to see at the time which one is right for me.
and rob, i wont be falling off again haha, i know what i did wrong so ill remember next time.{ note to self dont take it wasy through corners hahaha}


edit: oh yeah forgot to say, my old fairings are farked haha, the main part snapped into 2 under the left blinker, so ill see what i can do with abit of putty, fibreglass and plastic weld. lol

[Richo]

Can recommend the 9. Had my first decent ride on mine today. Just have to remember that it has about half as much power again than the GPX.

Drop it down a gear and wind the farker on ... theres a wee bit more than half again I can assure you ....

[Tinman]

Nice work! mate

[laidback]

Can recommend the 9. Had my first decent ride on mine today. Just have to remember that it has about half as much power again than the GPX.

Drop it down a gear and wind the farker on ... theres a wee bit more than half again I can assure you ....

Yeah Richo don't want to steal his thread what with him doing an awesome job but have to bring the skill level up a few notches before I let it loose or it will bite me and I can't do that to JP...

[gpxpunk]

no you dont want to do what myself or gazza did....

[gpxpunk]

ok front wheel is off and both the old single disc and new twin disc wheels are in the boot, drop them off at kelens tomorrow and get the tyre switched over. grab some new pads bears for the forks, and ill have to check outabout the single muffler thing tomorrow aswell.

[the_shez]

wow that was quick. mine only took 5 months.

[gpxpunk]

wow that was quick. mine only took 5 months.

i was going crazy not riding for 2 days let alone 5 months. hahaha
so is it fixed now shez if so see you on the old road one sunday.

Anyways, got my tyre changed over to the twin disc wheel today, replaced the forks and put all back together, had to go get a new socket coz i broke my nice shiny repco one, and they replaced it free of charge cool. then though on the way ill pull in to the wreckers in stmarys and asked if they had a chrome left hand muffler. $50 later i have a shiney chrome exhaust attached now, and it looks better then the original, should have asked if they had the right hand side too..

So now the twin disc front end is on and the new chrome exhaust, everything is starting to look sweet. i was going to get a sinel muffler set up but cant find anyone that wants to modify the spare headers. So ill have to settle for the twins.

Next in lone is the hard part, painting i dont want to strip her all the way back coz i dont want to sauce for the stickers, so ill leave them, plus i dont want it to be too new looking. so ill do a clean up spray jpb. cant wait.

[Disco]

Any Pic's of the new front end?......And have you ridden it yet and can you feel the braking difference?

[gpxpunk]

yeah sorry forgot to mention, ill take some pics tomorrow, it was to dark and im too farken tired to go back out in the cold for tonight.
took me about an hour and a half to get the brakes to work, due to alot of shit in the lines, so flushed them and got the brakes nice.
Yeah Dave, took it around the block acouple of times and yes there is abit more snap in the front end, forks are a shit load better {old ones were gone} too. ill have to take it down to the glenmore park track to see how good it is b4 going to the old road though.