ZXR400

Fast Bikes Issue 266, September – on sale now – Free visor wipe!

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22nd August 2012

The new issue of Fast Bikes is on the shelves now – and, like every issue, you really can’t afford to miss this one! The big test this month is £1,500 superbikes, proving you don’t need 200bhp and electronics galore to go fast, plus we’ve ridden Kevin Schwantz’s championship-winning RGV500 and there’s a free visor…
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Charlie’s ZXR400 Body Beautiful(ish)

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6th February 2011

I have managed to put a few more pieces together recently, a front mudguard arrived via a speculative £5 bid I had on eBay and ended up being the highest bid – ‘I thank yaow’. Despite it being OE Kawasaki Green I decided to put it on so that I could put the brake lines…
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Charlie’s ZXR400 Brake Overhaul

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3rd February 2011

I love best intensions, I love them so much that I now have quit a collection of them. Over the Christmas period the Mrs was working for the majority of the break leaving just me and the 400’s to while away the Christmas period. I was going to get her finished.
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Charlie’s ZXR400 Loom

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1st February 2011

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…

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17th January 2011

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…
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Charlie’s ZXR400 Project Gets A Boost

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5th January 2011

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…
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Charlie’s ZXR400, Another One

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12th September 2010

Just as I think I am making good progress with my ZXR400 I find the next project come round the corner. About a month ago my other half passed her test and we went out and sourced a bike. This was pretty tricky, Shay is not the tallest of lasses and thus cannot ride either…
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Charlies ZXR400, Keeping Cool

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10th September 2010

When I started stripping the ZXR400 I started compiling a list of what I needed to replace. Bar the faring that is smashed to hell, the radiator and oil cooler were at the top. A clogged up mews of shite that went throughout the intricate grills of these integral parts of the bike.
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Charlie’s ZXR400 Scrub Up

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8th September 2010

Having seen what Pip has been doing with his own 400 project I thought it was time I got back into the ZXR400. Its not like I have not being doing anything over the past months but the build up to a rolling frame had me staring in awe at was emerging as opposed to…
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It’s A 400cc Showdown

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21st May 2010

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…
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Charlie’s project ZXR400 – is a rolling chassis!

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4th May 2010

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 &…
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Blog: Charlie's project ZXR400 – more progress

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19th April 2010

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

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16th April 2010

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…
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