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06-13-2009, 06:17 AM
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Posts: 123
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Essex, England
Sportsbike: TLR '99
Riding Experience: 6 years
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i want one!!!!  very nicely done
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MY few mods....
'99 TLR yellow (what else), pipercross filter, PCII, T.R.E, carbon fiber front and rear hugger, '07 gold 6 pots, undertray, Bitubo, Barnet clutch springs, SS goodridge hoses, blk double bubble screen....
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06-13-2009, 06:36 PM
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Silver Subscriber
Member #4628
Posts: 7,281
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: south aussie,australia.
Sportsbike: 97 TLs streetfighter , KTM950SE , APRILIA RXV4.5 , RC-51 joey dunlop rep , XR630RN.
Riding Experience: 28yrs & still learning.
Pictures: 31
Life Wasted on TLZone: 1 Month, 1 Week, 1 Day and 16:06:19 Hours
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Originally Posted by Kamikuza
I'm one up on you then BP - I can about 3 words 
IMO do what Sam et al did - upright bars on a TLS ... |
any chance getting someone over there to translate it with pen to paper/pdf for us
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SUZUKI 97TLS: STREETFIGHTER PROJECT January '09 TLotM - renthal fat bars,franks racing top clamp & 75mm high swept back raisers,chain gang rear sprocket,renthal drive sprocket,goodrich stainless lines with ano banjo bolts duel line front R/H 900mm & L/H 1000mm long & rear line,tail raisers,billet clutch cover pollished rim lips,bar end mirrors with one off billet clamps,riflemans 1/5 throttle mod,veypor vr2 dash/billet case with vxb accessory,clear tail light,billet race rearsets,G'craft billet rear brake res,rizoma billet front brake res,jmv rear seat cowl, abm peak wave disc's,satre mod,delrin sliders,airbox mod,k&n,gap tray,daytona digital temp guage,5/8 mc,6 pot callipers,RHA,vandrivers TLs bilett sprocket cover,bernhard's 57mm OD headers,225mm length yoshi rs3 bolt ons & custom slip on adaptor,+/- mod , dyna jet nos , ALSA CORP: mirra chrome tank , pwr alloy rad , ktm 950SER light , 666 carbon front guard.
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06-13-2009, 06:47 PM
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Que?
Member #4632
Posts: 10,797
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shiga, Japan
Sportsbike: 1998 Suzuki TL1000RW + 1986 Honda NS400R
Riding Experience: Enough to know better!
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Life Wasted on TLZone: 2 Months, 0 Weeks, 3 Days and 5:50:03 Hours
Kamikuza
's real name is Kevin
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What do you want to know? I can read all the names of the bike bits, but the rest of what they did is self-explanatory I think ... the rest is just a ride report of the day the photos were taken ...
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06-13-2009, 09:43 PM
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Silver Subscriber
Member #4628
Posts: 7,281
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: south aussie,australia.
Sportsbike: 97 TLs streetfighter , KTM950SE , APRILIA RXV4.5 , RC-51 joey dunlop rep , XR630RN.
Riding Experience: 28yrs & still learning.
Pictures: 31
Life Wasted on TLZone: 1 Month, 1 Week, 1 Day and 16:06:19 Hours
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamikuza
What do you want to know? I can read all the names of the bike bits, but the rest of what they did is self-explanatory I think ... the rest is just a ride report of the day the photos were taken ...
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i was thinking mainly for everyone interested in this.
what names of the bike bits & the setting up/build up if any info 
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SUZUKI 97TLS: STREETFIGHTER PROJECT January '09 TLotM - renthal fat bars,franks racing top clamp & 75mm high swept back raisers,chain gang rear sprocket,renthal drive sprocket,goodrich stainless lines with ano banjo bolts duel line front R/H 900mm & L/H 1000mm long & rear line,tail raisers,billet clutch cover pollished rim lips,bar end mirrors with one off billet clamps,riflemans 1/5 throttle mod,veypor vr2 dash/billet case with vxb accessory,clear tail light,billet race rearsets,G'craft billet rear brake res,rizoma billet front brake res,jmv rear seat cowl, abm peak wave disc's,satre mod,delrin sliders,airbox mod,k&n,gap tray,daytona digital temp guage,5/8 mc,6 pot callipers,RHA,vandrivers TLs bilett sprocket cover,bernhard's 57mm OD headers,225mm length yoshi rs3 bolt ons & custom slip on adaptor,+/- mod , dyna jet nos , ALSA CORP: mirra chrome tank , pwr alloy rad , ktm 950SER light , 666 carbon front guard.
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06-14-2009, 02:15 AM
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Que?
Member #4632
Posts: 10,797
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shiga, Japan
Sportsbike: 1998 Suzuki TL1000RW + 1986 Honda NS400R
Riding Experience: Enough to know better!
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Life Wasted on TLZone: 2 Months, 0 Weeks, 3 Days and 5:50:03 Hours
Kamikuza
's real name is Kevin
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Page 7 in the .pdf.
Fromtop left corner around in a circle ...
Exhaust
Custom by EXTEC Asahina Racing aluminum muffler, stainless headers & stays
Off-road plastic parts and seat
YZ250 rear fender, number plate, side cover, fork sliders by UFO
CRF radiator shroud by UFO with decals by Metal Mullisha
UFO Motard Front fender
YZ250 seat (base modified for the ECU, battery etc)
Steering
Posh Special handlebars
YZ250 standard top triple
YZ250 stem pressed into TL lower triple (I think)
Magnum aluminum bash gaurd
YZ250 front forks cut 35mm and using YZ426 0.47kg/mm springs at 35mm preload, 10wt fork oil with oil level 20mm up
Tail unit
YZ250 seat rail
One-off battery cover and base for a 250cc bike battery
Custom 5L aluminum fuel tank (under the seat at the back)
Top radiator from an NC30 and left half from YZ250 (?)
Rearsets
Custom peg mounting plate
YZ250 pegs, rear brake and master cylinder
TL shift lever modded with a collapsable knob
Front end
Berringer (sp?) rotor, 6-pot caliper and radial master for YZ
YZ hub and RK Excell 3.50x17 front wheel
Dunlop Rain (?) 120/70-17 and Dunlop D605 4.60-17 for the gravel heat
Swingarm
TL and YZ hybrid ...
YZ250 rear link - rotary damper was dumped, can't understand the bit about the shock but they used one A7N0 link maybe ...
TL pivot and YZ swingarm
YZ250 shock with a spring from a YZ450 (5.6kg/mm)
Rear end
YZ rear brake
Road heat wheel is YZ hub and RK Excell rim 5.50-17 with hand-cut Dunlop slick 165/55
Gravel heat wheel is YZ standard 2.15-19 with Dunlop D707 110/90-19
The picture in the middle of the motard, above the OE TL, was the design concept. Specs for the TL.
What I can gather from the main article body on page 7 ...
It seems the guy saw the TL in a scrap yard and got thinking about making a 'tard. People said he was an big idiot, but he had the assistance of 3 friends so he went for it.
The style is very lovely (wank wank) and with the YZ parts they got a long stroke suspension. The seat is lovely too (typical Japanese crap journalism - I'm surprised they didn't ask him what he wanted to be when he grew up  ) and it seems the seat hieght is 100cm.
Can't understand the last paragraph ...
The main article is a ride report of the 3 days racing, it would seem, including the problems in handling and how they tried to sort it. But it was fun
They mention 0.8kg/mm springs in the front and 8-9kg/mm spring on the shock - maybe their reccomendations?
They want to sell the bike for 1,000,000yen (about USS$10,000 these days) ...
Keep in mind that I can't converse fully with kids at elementary school unless I'm fully aware of what they're talking about I'm looking at the kanji and stuff I do understand and making guesses ...
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06-14-2009, 04:08 AM
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Silver Subscriber
Member #4628
Posts: 7,281
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: south aussie,australia.
Sportsbike: 97 TLs streetfighter , KTM950SE , APRILIA RXV4.5 , RC-51 joey dunlop rep , XR630RN.
Riding Experience: 28yrs & still learning.
Pictures: 31
Life Wasted on TLZone: 1 Month, 1 Week, 1 Day and 16:06:19 Hours
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thanks for that 
only downfall of this is the bottom end  it be sooooooooooo hard not to mono every were
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SUZUKI 97TLS: STREETFIGHTER PROJECT January '09 TLotM - renthal fat bars,franks racing top clamp & 75mm high swept back raisers,chain gang rear sprocket,renthal drive sprocket,goodrich stainless lines with ano banjo bolts duel line front R/H 900mm & L/H 1000mm long & rear line,tail raisers,billet clutch cover pollished rim lips,bar end mirrors with one off billet clamps,riflemans 1/5 throttle mod,veypor vr2 dash/billet case with vxb accessory,clear tail light,billet race rearsets,G'craft billet rear brake res,rizoma billet front brake res,jmv rear seat cowl, abm peak wave disc's,satre mod,delrin sliders,airbox mod,k&n,gap tray,daytona digital temp guage,5/8 mc,6 pot callipers,RHA,vandrivers TLs bilett sprocket cover,bernhard's 57mm OD headers,225mm length yoshi rs3 bolt ons & custom slip on adaptor,+/- mod , dyna jet nos , ALSA CORP: mirra chrome tank , pwr alloy rad , ktm 950SER light , 666 carbon front guard.
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07-06-2009, 03:01 PM
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Member #16656
Posts: 304
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: mansfield uk
Sportsbike: tl1000s
Riding Experience: 2 years legally ;-)
Pictures: 0
Life Wasted on TLZone: 6 Days and 18:46:30 Hours
vtwin-nutter
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if any uk peeps here read tbm trail bike mag there was one in there but based on the dl1000 strom and it was fuckin awesome
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09-10-2009, 04:34 AM
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Member #18453
Posts: 356
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
Sportsbike: TLR's
Riding Experience: A little more every day
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Life Wasted on TLZone: 1 Week, 4 Days and 13:41:57 Hours
mossspeed
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And here is thought I was just the tardiest of them all trying to do this. Not to far off for a stab in the dark so I can have a desert toy. Here is where I am at so far. Had some spare TLR parts laying around and picked up a YZ front end. I had the TL spindle pressed into the YZ triples allowing it to bolt on. As for the rear... this is where its starts to get a bit complicated and show my tardiness. Keep in mind I am in Southern California and the bike is primarily for sand dune use and is a dakar(ish) project, so I am calling it. The rear end is starting with a streched TLR swingarm using a Banshee rear shock. Looking for a 5.5" GSXR wheel for a 150/70/17 dual sport and having SKAT TRAK make me a paddle out of a 190/55/17 for the dunes. The bodywork plan is to stop in to AIRTECH since they are local and try to fit up a KTM enduro type bodywork. Sorry for the big tease but the swingarm is out at the fabricator and I just had a lowside on my daily so that is turning into a racebike rebuild... Did I meantion I am a little tardy?? lol I will get picks as soon as I can, could be a couple months as I am not rushing my fabricator at all. I am looking at april(ish) for a completion time.
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09-12-2009, 05:38 PM
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Baby Twin
Member #18676
Posts: 95
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: west sussex
Sportsbike: TL1000-R
Riding Experience: YEP! ; )
Pictures: 2
Life Wasted on TLZone: 1 Day and 2:49:57 Hours
delta1983
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MX bike with big heavy engine in = CRAP!
If you want a supermoto with loads of power then buy a husaberg FS650 the things wheelie off the power in 4th gear! I would know this as I had one shortly before getting the TLR as I fancied doing some mileage again.
Trying to ride a moto with over 100bhp and nearly 90ftlbs of torque would just be silly, would handle really badly on the dirt too imo
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09-12-2009, 05:58 PM
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Carbon fiber, the chrome of sportbikes
Member #759
Posts: 11,779
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Japan (at the waters edge)
Sportsbike: 1999 TL1000S
Riding Experience: ...could always use more!
Pictures: 0
Life Wasted on TLZone: 4 Days and 9:28:07 Hours
bx-459
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Quote:
Originally Posted by delta1983
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MX bike with big heavy engine in = CRAP!
If you want a supermoto with loads of power then buy a husaberg FS650 the things wheelie off the power in 4th gear! I would know this as I had one shortly before getting the TLR as I fancied doing some mileage again.
Trying to ride a moto with over 100bhp and nearly 90ftlbs of torque would just be silly, would handle really badly on the dirt too imo
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...guess you've never see the KTM superduke or the Ducatti Hypermoto
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On the inside - HID type bulbs, K&N filter, Iridium ix plugs, 16T front sprocket, Coerce billet sprocket cover, +5, +5, +5, Scorpio SE-i500 system from my GB and an ATRE.
On the outside - TLR forks, front carbon fender, 5/8th master brake cylinder, black SS brake lines (frnt & rear), braking waves all around with Ti bolts, Brembo gold front calipers & a busa gold rear caliper, flush mount signals (frnt & rear), ZG DB screen, black mirror stay, Helibars, black '97 top triple clamp, preload adjusters, Scott's magic gold box, Coerce real carbon dash surround, Irvine sliders, TL1000S (cutout) heel guards, carbon case cover - left side, clear billet clutch cover - right side, carbon gas cap, 1/2 tank bra, gel seat, Coerce full real carbon tail section, Coerce real carbon hump, Coerce real carbon tire hugger and undertail eliminator w/ LED's, Ohlins rear damper & LE 800# spring, Yoshimura RS-3 race Ti full system, Stealth 41T rear, and more to come...
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