12-09-14, 09:25 PM
Surely by the time you have bought the bike and spent fucktons of money upgrading the suspension etc you would have been better off just buying a sportsbike in the first place. You can get an early R1 / Gsxr 1000 for little more than 2k I cant see your ohlins FZs troubling them much.
The last trackbike I had was an 04 ZX636 B1h (Cat D) with a rattle can painted fibreglass fairing. I paid 1400 quid and used it for 20 or so trackdays. I spent a couple of hundred quid on oil and filter service, new front pads and fork and shock refresh when I first go it. Then did 20 odd trackdays spending nothing but tyres on it. When I found I wasnt doing as many trackdays I sold it for 1500 quid to a frenchman who drove over with a trailer, paid cash and took it away.
I had a couple of newish road bikes at the time also but either of them would have cost me a lot more than 100 quid if I had lobbed it up the track.
The last trackbike I had was an 04 ZX636 B1h (Cat D) with a rattle can painted fibreglass fairing. I paid 1400 quid and used it for 20 or so trackdays. I spent a couple of hundred quid on oil and filter service, new front pads and fork and shock refresh when I first go it. Then did 20 odd trackdays spending nothing but tyres on it. When I found I wasnt doing as many trackdays I sold it for 1500 quid to a frenchman who drove over with a trailer, paid cash and took it away.
I had a couple of newish road bikes at the time also but either of them would have cost me a lot more than 100 quid if I had lobbed it up the track.