When I was browsing through some of my old motorcycle picture archives, I stumbled over this picture that I’ve downloaded from www.streetfighters.nl. This is one of the meanest looking Kawasaki Z I’ve ever seen. I absolutely love it, except for the exhaust system, I think it would have fitted visually better with a real silencer. The engine is from a newer Suzuki GSF 1200 Bandit, which made me think… perhaps I could fit an engine like that in my Honda!

Perhaps it is a little blasphemeous to use a Suzuki engine in a Honda frame, but it’s a fact that the Suzuki GSF 1200 Bandit engine just runs more miles before a rebuild is needed, and doesn’t have problems with primary and cam chains rattling in an early age as the Honda F’s do. The GSF 1200 Bandit engine would fit perfectly with my requirements for an engine. But, first of all, I’ll have to find out if it’s realistic to make such a mod to my bike.

If you have any thoughts on this idea, please leave a comment.

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When looking for a replacement engine to my current CB900F engine, I found a couple of engines on eBay and started bidding on one of them. Even though this was my first time on eBay, giving me a hard time because I was using the German eBay. My German is pretty lousy, but Babelfish helped me out quite a bit. Fortuneatly for me I won the auction at 250 €, which seems to be a good price. At this moment I’m waiting for the seller to arrange shipment from Germany to Denmark, and to have a final shipping price for me before I make the transfer.

Alright, a couple of days ago, the thread in the cylinder head for the cam chain adjustment screws died. I wasn’t able to rethread it from 8 to 10mm. The right and left side of the engine block has once taken some damage due ot a crash, so if I’m going to do a complete rebuild as I’m planning, I might aswell use another engine block for the rebuild. So now I’m starting the huntdown for a new CB900F engine in technical good shape, if you have a CB900F spare engine or know someone who has, please feel free to contact me, my contact information is at the contact page.

Two times a year we have a public motorcycle event in Denmark to celebrate the official start and end of each motorcycle season, where thousands of bikers meet up at a street called Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen. A route from Nørrebrogade to a place called Bakken, see Bakken’s website, is being closed for traffic by the Police, all the motorcyclists are then escorted to Bakken from Nørrebrogade by Police motorcycles. This year I talked to a guy who had a CB750F Bol d’Or F2, I told him that I was looking for a CB1100R fairing and he told me he had one at home, so I got his phone number. A week later I called him and arranged a pickup of the fairing. It wasn’t an original CB1100R fairing, but at the price of 40 USD, so I bought it anyways just to see if it fits, if not, then what the heck.

When I got home, I found out that the downpipes from my custom exhaust system was in the way for the lower part of the fairing, so I’ll have to cut it a little to make it fit perfectly. Also the fairing brackets needs a little welding before taken into use. I think I’ll wait with the fairing stuff till next summer, first I’ll try out rebuilding the bike as a more brutal streetfighter. So for now the fairing has ended up in the parts pile, as seen in the picture. Gotta clean that up some day