Hi guys, greetings from the UK (which is usually wet and miserable) 
Just been having a look through the forum, there sure are some masterpieces out there... love them all!
I've had bikes for 35 years now, mostly Jap stuff but a lot of special framed bikes too including Harris, Moto-Martin and Rickman.
Just finished building this Z1000R Eddie Lawson Replica. It's been such a joy building it, but I couldn't get on with it so I sold it after just 250 miles.
I fitted a GPz1100B1 engine in it with ZX1100 cams, carb conversion, ZR front end and wheels, loads of one-off hand made parts and nicely finished with a Kerker exhaust.
The white dials I made myself as I run a business making them since 1991.
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Immediately after selling it I bought a Honda VFR500 to restore over the coming winter.
My other bikes include this brilliant Kawasaki ZRX1100R,
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and my beloved 1976 S+S Performance - Silver Saxon. This utter beast of a creation is actually the prototype of a standard production bike ! No shit !
There was only a total of 9 bikes built before the company went into receivership, 1 x prototype and 8 x production bikes.
They were built using a full rolling chassis from the Rickman brothers (another UK frame manufacturer), ran Ronal wheels, Lockheed brakes and housed a Kawasaki Z1 engine, bored to 960cc and turbocharged.
All bikes had extensive cylinder head work undertaken by a genius called Russell Savory, with enlarged exhaust valves and trick porting.
What I ended up with was the original prototype bike, which after being used for extensive research was fitted with an uprated A-flow race only turbine wheel, which gives well over 200bhp. The bike was then sold to the British heavy metal rock band “Saxon” who used it as a stage prop, riding on and off the stage at each concert for the “Strong Arm Of The Law” album world tour. After that it 1980 it was put into storage and simply left.
I found it in 2006, still unregistered and only 1100 miles on the clock! After a 1½ year restoration, it’s now been used on a very regular basis, though it’s now grown to 1200cc.
The bike came with both short tank (dual seat) and long tank (single seat) bodywork which was very lucky.
Sure I’ve had to adapt some later technical additions, but all done in a way that carries that 70’s look and feel, so the bike is still “stock” but with later ignition system etc.
This one's for keeps..... definitely !
Regards, Will
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Just been having a look through the forum, there sure are some masterpieces out there... love them all!
I've had bikes for 35 years now, mostly Jap stuff but a lot of special framed bikes too including Harris, Moto-Martin and Rickman.
Just finished building this Z1000R Eddie Lawson Replica. It's been such a joy building it, but I couldn't get on with it so I sold it after just 250 miles.
I fitted a GPz1100B1 engine in it with ZX1100 cams, carb conversion, ZR front end and wheels, loads of one-off hand made parts and nicely finished with a Kerker exhaust.
The white dials I made myself as I run a business making them since 1991.
Immediately after selling it I bought a Honda VFR500 to restore over the coming winter.
My other bikes include this brilliant Kawasaki ZRX1100R,
and my beloved 1976 S+S Performance - Silver Saxon. This utter beast of a creation is actually the prototype of a standard production bike ! No shit !
There was only a total of 9 bikes built before the company went into receivership, 1 x prototype and 8 x production bikes.
They were built using a full rolling chassis from the Rickman brothers (another UK frame manufacturer), ran Ronal wheels, Lockheed brakes and housed a Kawasaki Z1 engine, bored to 960cc and turbocharged.
All bikes had extensive cylinder head work undertaken by a genius called Russell Savory, with enlarged exhaust valves and trick porting.
What I ended up with was the original prototype bike, which after being used for extensive research was fitted with an uprated A-flow race only turbine wheel, which gives well over 200bhp. The bike was then sold to the British heavy metal rock band “Saxon” who used it as a stage prop, riding on and off the stage at each concert for the “Strong Arm Of The Law” album world tour. After that it 1980 it was put into storage and simply left.
I found it in 2006, still unregistered and only 1100 miles on the clock! After a 1½ year restoration, it’s now been used on a very regular basis, though it’s now grown to 1200cc.
The bike came with both short tank (dual seat) and long tank (single seat) bodywork which was very lucky.
Sure I’ve had to adapt some later technical additions, but all done in a way that carries that 70’s look and feel, so the bike is still “stock” but with later ignition system etc.
This one's for keeps..... definitely !
Regards, Will
