Project FZR – Join the Dots

FZR600 budget track bike mods

February 12, 2023December 18, 2021 by mark.drechsler

It was a few months back that I wrote a post about Billy-Ray, the barn find 1992 FZR600 that I converted to a track bike and took out to the smaller of our three South Australian road courses – Mallala. I’ve owed my fellow FZR boffin Fury Moto a post for a while on some of the mods I’ve made which have improved the FZR from stock, and finally I’ve got it done.

Done. No, really this time.

September 2, 2021 by mark.drechsler

Well, the saga of the 1989/90 FZR600 is over. Like, I’m seriously done with it. Countless hours, far more dollars than I’ll ever see again, many tears of frustration spilled on the shed floor, but it’s done. The rebuild the second time around was far less stressful. A big part of this was getting the … Read more

Billy Ray’s day at the track

May 1, 2021 by mark.drechsler

I finally bought a GoPro after many years of avoiding it. I figured that if I’m going to try and get better on the track then it was time to have a look at myself from the outside, and what better bike to do it on than Billy Ray, aka the Victorian Parts Bike, named after Billy Ray Cyrus who was also a big deal back in ’92.

Not done

March 28, 2021 by mark.drechsler

Well.

Eighteen months is a long time, particularly when that time includes COVID-19, a change in jobs and a whole lot of change in the bike space, including the realisation that Project FZR is indeed not done.

Or at least the main Project FZR.

Done

September 1, 2019August 31, 2019 by mark.drechsler

The moment almost didn’t happen. Hooking up the battery should have been the simplest task in the whole project. One red wire to the plus, one black wire to the negative, right? Yeah but what about that third wire there? Well it’s got some red on it, so it must hook up to the plus, … Read more