Thanks. Time? Years 😝 hard to gauge as depends how much time you can spend on it & how much you do it yourself. The major part of the transformation it was unrideable for about 8 months. Some stuff was done professionally some by me- I’d do little bits at a time. Cost is kind of the same- depends how much you do yourself. Eg painting the tank costs me maybe $120 in paint coz I do it myself. You could take a bike to a custom shop to do the whole lot, maybe take them a couple of months & probably cost just as much as the bike costs.

Well it is a cheap Chinese bike. The video makes the plastics look like they are loose and wavy but they actually aren’t that bad.

mentioned in the video @3:30 that headlight is a ebay cheapie- since the video I have replaced with a Purpose Built Moto headlight. and the windscreen is an ebay cheapie I just painted white.

Think I’m going to do something similar to my 400e… nice work

@@denhamhunter753 this is worth a look for the 400 purposebuiltmoto.com/blogs/gallery/2018-suzuki-drz400-street-tracker-motorcycle

YC110-136-07-BK. Its also noted in the video at about 3:30

Thanks. Rides great. Nice blend of road manners and off road manners. Since the video I raised it back to height midway between stock & lowered- just because it looked a bit too squatted down. I’ve always been tuning it with a afr tuner & finding I’ve been running on the rich side.

It’s a little bit over 12L so similar to a stock tank- about 200km

Thanks for the reply. Planning on doing something similar with a 1992 RS.

Thanks. Yes, the weight is something I pay attention to. I weighed it with some Fitbit scales and it was 154kg with an empty fuel tank. I just changed the exhaust yesterday which is heavier than that custom exhaust by about 1kg. There’s some steel made brackets etc that I might trim down to shave a little more weight.

@@dalepaddon8904 A fine job! Some of your solutions could come in handy in my plans. I ride -97 which looks pretty standard, but has lots of mods. Last weekend I went lithium-ion, which dropped the weight three kilos. Light weight is very important to me.

@@markkumanninen6524 lithium batteries are good bang for buck when it comes to cutting kilos

Thanks! The main things that change the feel are the seating position (where the tank & seat make you sit depending on their size/shape) and the wheels/tyres. Otherwise it’s still very DR. 👍

Thanks. It’s still not quite finished for me though (maybe never will be)… not sure what next though. Maybe paint the oval number plates

@@dalepaddon8904 Take it out for an overnight in the mountains is what I'd do.

Good point - I didn’t mention that the rear rim is changed also. Front 19x 2.5 Rear 17x 4.25 Tyres 110/80R19, 150/70R17

@@dalepaddon8904 Thanks. I have DR650 with 17" front and rear wheels and would like to go with a 19" front.

@@ghostryderinthesky this wheel set was originally a super Moto 17/17 set. I had the front relaced to a 19”

8:08 min in!

@@dalepaddon8904 was more interested in hearing about fitment and ease of change over... More details required haha, I like it!

Maybe in a video another day 👍

Thanks! Frame has been hooped right at the end of the tail only. It’s a Sol Invictus (Australia name but maybe named something else internationally) tank.

Thanks! Yeah been meaning to do one for a while!