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Fast Bikes’ Honda CB500 Project Bike For Sale

| News | 18/05/2011 14:33pm

Now, don’t get too excited, this isn’t exactly Cracking One-Off material we’re talking about here – but is it is a hugely amusing and entertaining little track hack – and it’s CHEAP!

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Charlie’s ZXR400 Loom

| Blogs | 01/02/2011 16:00pm

I am getting into the technical end of the ZXR400 now. With all fitting nicely into place I can no longer avoid the spaghetti maze of wires which has waited patiently for attention.

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Charlie’s ZXR400 Project – Shake, Rattle, Roll…

| Blogs | 17/01/2011 18:01pm

I have had some work to do on additional parts of the frame. Armed with two rattle cans the grills for both the radiator and oil cooler have been sprayed, attached and fitted. I am delighted with the results, considering I was going to bin both of them, it’s great that my perseverance has restored them to almost new – right down to ‘Kawasaki’ being written on the front of the rad.

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Charlie’s ZXR400 Project Gets A Boost

| Blogs | 05/01/2011 15:00pm

Just as you all think that I have given up on the ZXR400 project here I am again to tell you what I have been up to. Having been stripped, powder coated and re bolted together, wheels, suspension and engine dropped in the ZXR is slowly coming back to life. In fact I have a constant reminder at what it should look like as the Mrs bought me a Kwak garage carpet – thank you honey – or was this a dig to get on with it?

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It’s A 400cc Showdown

| Blogs | 21/05/2010 12:53pm

Hello Fast Bikes readers, my name’s Simon, or ‘Pip’ to my ‘friends’. I work in the FB office, and I’m new to biking – so Moby thought it would be good if I shared my experiences with you here on the FB website. I think he’s just working on the theory that I’m bound to make a tit of myself through a lack of experience, and the fact that I’ve bought a needy VFR400 will make good practical advice and tips for readers who also aren’t rich enough to be able to buy a minter.

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Charlie’s project ZXR400 – is a rolling chassis!

| Blogs | 04/05/2010 15:23pm

My forks are back from MH Racing which means I have finally got to the first stage I was really looking forward to – a rolling frame. My own workshop is not as well equipped as I would like with a plethora of paddock stands so for this job a 20 year old Black & Decker Workmate had to do.

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Blog: Charlie's project ZXR400 – more progress

| Blogs | 19/04/2010 08:00am

Now that my wheels have new bearings and new rubber I can put the final pieces in place before setting out on the frame. Stripping down a bike to the very nuts and bolts tells you a few tales on what has and has not been done in the bike’s lifetime.

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Blog: Charlie's project ZXR400 – the rebuild

| Blogs | 16/04/2010 17:00pm

The obvious way to start in the rebuild is from the bottom up. With my newly powder coated frame wrapped back up and awaiting my attention my focus is the wheels. I was nervous coating these, stories of cracks due to the pressures of powder coating in modern bike wheels is not uncommon, how would my 20 year old runners fare? Beautifully.

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