Bike of the Month June 2008

http://www.gsxr.com/gallery/data/501/gsxr-botm-june08.jpg Congratulations, royalpane! 01 Gsxr-750 Fully polished including frame and neck, subframe, rotors, clippers, forks, gas cap, and passenger rests +10'' cut and welded polished swing arm Polished billet Performance Machine Hustler rims wrapped in new Dunlop rubber Chrome upper triple tree, upper fairing brace, kickstand, clutch and brake leavers, frame sliders and bar ends Black tinted windscreen Steel braided brake lines 530 chain conversion at 11k lb. tensile strength Yoshi TRS full exhaust Power commander PCII ecu mapped and tuned Fully adjustable rear sets from NYC parts in anodized black. Custom paint job with shaved topside bolt holes and signals on the left and right side main fairings HID headlight conversion Signals wired into the mirrors then painted to match Custom under tail with r1 style led brake light and integrated signals Polished billet plate re-locator Barnett Clutch with stiffened springs New head gasket and a valve adjustment Please congratulate royalpane here: http://www.gsxr.com/showthread.php?t=55363

Heres a little bit better description of whats been done to the bike along with the story of how it came to be over the last 6 months. Thanks again to everyone that checked it out and voted. . . I picked this bike up in late November of last year to use as parts for another bike I’m building. My first intentions were to swap some things over and use what I could and then part it out once I was done. After driving it home though I like how it rode and decided to clean it up and use it as a winter project at the house while the other was in the shop. I tore it down and found a bigger project that I first intended to start. Everything had to be repolished, anything that was chrome needed to be replaced or blasted and redone, the tires were shot, and a lot of little gremlins to work out, along with every single plastic having some kind of scratch or crack in it. I took it to MirrorLook Refinishing where my 600 is being built to have the polish done, the clutch installed along with some other small projects and it came out looking like glass, better than I ever expected it to look again when I dropped it off. Put a custom painted set of fairings I had from another bike on it and then I went fishing for the rest of the parts on ebay, here and craigslist. From start to finish it took me 6 months to rebuild and now it rides like a brand new bike and looks a hundred times better. Take a look at the progress in the bike pics section of here in my rebuild thread and you will see what I’m talking about. Fully polished including: -Frame and neck - Subframe -Rotors, Calipers, and Brake Bar - Forks - Gas cap - Extended 10'' cut and welded swing arm -Passenger pegs & Brackets -Yoshimura TRS Exhaust -Billet plate relocator -Polished billet Performance Machine Hustler rims wrapped in new Dunlop rubber Chrome: -Upper triple tree -Upper fairing brace -Kickstand -Clutch and Brake levers -Frame Sliders -Bar ends Other Modifications: -Steel braided brake lines -530 chain conversion -Adjustable lowering links 1’’-3’’ drop -Yoshimura TRS full exhaust -Power commander PCII ecu mapped and tuned -Black anodized fully adjustable rear sets from NYC Parts -Custom paint job with shaved and filled signals -Custom painted solo seat to match -Black DB tinted windscreen -Skull grips -HID single beam headlight conversion -Signals wired into the mirrors then painted to match -Under tail with R1 style led brake light and signals -Barnett clutch with stiffened springs You can see the before and after pics of the bike on here in the Pictures section under bikes...Rebuild of my 750 (http://www.gsxr.com/showthread.php?t=54736)

This is one of the nicest bikes that I've seen. I would love to see it in person. I live in Mt. Greenwood and work by Midway. My buddy lives in bridgeview gardens by 71st and roberts road. If your ever out and about let me know, we'll cruise by and take a look. Congrats on the botm. Well deserved.

just curious royalpane, werent you trying to sell the plastics at one point? are you still trying to sell them? i was just curious, because i was going to have my painter basically mimic the design for your bike, if they werent still up for grabs.

Is this a race bike? Or do u actually ride it on the street or both?

Congrats on BOTM! Sweet looking ride you have there!:thumbup:

That was from June...