The Katana.project @ Street or Track 2004

The Katana.project @ Street or Track 2004 There had been little progress on the project after it's last public appearance at the KatanaClub.NL meeting, but when Tinie from BikePenR saw the project and heard about my plans for Street or Track he started to help me and things moved up to speed. In a couple of weeks most of the agonizing little details was solved and the rear end pretty sorted. Even in the last week he had to quickly make some spacers to fit my 37mm forks in the yokes that had been designed for USD forks. In the last two weeks I tried to get as many project sponsor to deliver their parts in time for the show. The rest (front wheel and fairing) I was able to lend from Fred to make it resemble something like a bike. Sprintek and H.E.L. respectively had the billet yokes and oilcooler kit delivered to PP just before he had to leave for the ferry and I bought a new set of headstock bearings. PP arrived at 2:00am in the morning, we all went asleep at 3:00am and at 6:00 am I was fitting the parts to the bike and 8:30 we were on our way to the show. So not much time for detail finishing, the oil cooled was strapped to the frame with tie-raps and the lines still way too long. Again much thanks to all mentioned above!
The Katana got carried into the hall by four men because otherwise the rear rim would damaged when. One steering, two lifting the back and one shoving a piece of cardboard under the wheel when they got tired.
Assembling the bike, afraid to scratch that lovely bodywork, sweatdrops falling.
Temporary fairing cleaned with Pledge.
Fully assembled and looking good!
Technical drawing of the swingarm and specsheet taped to the floor.
Oilcooler will need to be fitted higher up and will fit between the fairing perfectly!
Showtime!
The bottom yoke just clears the fairing (after scaping away a bit of fiberglass, you could hear Fred cringe also ;-) "I don't care if your damn yokes get scratched, they're free and that fairing's been paid for be me!"
Let's just take it for a spin. Nobody volunteered the otherwise feather-light katana around with me on it :-(
Cosy place at the show
The next day we got a place with more light to do the carbon bodywork justice. How nice.
It really was a crime to hide this work of art behind a fairing. The only time people ever thought a Katana looked better without a fairing!
The yokes look massive, but are hollow and therefore light. The bushings that make them accept the oldskool forks however are not. Check out that logo!