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PROJECT NINJA

“IT’S AN ITCHY, FIDDLY BALL ACHE OF A JOB.SO WHY BOTHER?”

I guess it’s time to give you all an update on my ZXR project, and I haven’t quite made the progress I would have liked to this month due to me being a moron and a massive bout of incompetence. Basically, when taking measurements of front wheel disc spacing I managed to measure the wrong wheel, which meant that when I looked more closely at the front end the discs were really close to the outside of the calipers.

While they weren’t touching anything, it wasn’t right and could have proved a problem when pads were fitted. After some digging round in my cave of many things, I found a set of ZX-10R yokes I’d

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