The Tasteful Modification Thread

[moanthebairns]

I thought I'd start a thread were people can post their latest aftermarket mods as these sometimes get lost in the 'picture a day' thread or elsewhere. Handier to peruse, making mental shopping lists as well. Although it may fall flat on its arse.

Any modification goes, from suspension, to brakes, to gel seats or carbon anything really. But keep it tasteful, the first person to post up mini indicators, anodised tat or wavy discs will be rightfully mocked.

Anyway, these came today after I bought them at Knockhill on Saturday.



A Hel radial conversion kit for my 98 ZX6R, bloody reasonable price too. On top of the discount they flung in an entire set of braided lines as my Goodridge dual ones wouldn't fit.

[moanthebairns]

Fitted this today, still to bleed it but have it on the track Daytona and love it.

Some other mods on the 675, some I've some I've inherited.


Front k-tech end


Arrow rearsets and billet reservoir


Arrow can


Triumph LEDs with carbon in places.


Ktech with qs

[moanthebairns]

Hel radial calipers and new lines fitted to the ninja.



Also fitted a Hel m/c



I forgot how much of a pain in the arse it is to bleed an entire empty system.



Rear line was a doddle.

Only road it to the end of the street and big improvement even with brand new pads. It stops like a modern bike.

[moanthebairns]

Marquezs Stabilisers said:

Have you got a bit of a man maths situation that your lovely new calipers overwhelm the discs and suspension - so you need to upgrade those now too?

I've already been looking...... I should really just ride the fking things but summer it seems hasn't started up here yet.

[moanthebairns]

kingb said:

Maybe I’m being a bit thick here

The radial calipers mount to a non radial bracket - so surely the forces are applied in the same manner to the fork / bike? So the upgrade is the calliper rather than the mounting orientation right?

Yeah I get what you mean as I thought about this too. My view on it was as it's bolted top and bottom of the caliper there would be less lateral movement over the face of the disc and pad where it maters. I may be wrong.

[moanthebairns]

Perhaps better illustrated with the original calipers, which were always fking st.

[moanthebairns]

black-k1 said:

BST carbon wheels, with green in the weave, on my H2 SX SE.



They make steering noticably lighter and quicker as you would expect.

Offt, that's a big one. I remember looking at these before for the Daytona and there wasn't much change from £3,000. Do you have a close up?

[moanthebairns]

fred bloggs said:

moanthebairns said:

Perhaps better illustrated with the original calipers, which were always fking st.

Was gonna say pointless upgrade, then I remembered the 6 pots. You did a good thing.

Yeah the 6 pots were verging on dangerous, now it's a joy.

It'd be interesting to see what a decent pair of 4 pot axial calipers would have felt like in comparison. It'd cost a lot less, but then these are machined calipers not forged so that's something to consider I keep telling myself.....