thats really nice mart, mine is planned to be a bit different though. i once owned a suzuki katana 400, an exact replica of the bigger katanas but at 3/4's of the size of the 1100, and with modern handlin and dimensions. it handled brilliantly. the only thing i didnt like was the awful gutless rev happy engine.my mind couldnt get round the egg whisk noise of pasting it to 12 thousand revs (the 250 revved to over 15 grand!) but i loved the look, the handling, the brakes, everything but the motor. so, i stripped my dr big and kept the motor and electrics and carbs, and sold the rest, then i bought an engine less 400 katana nfinished project, and well, you can guess where this is heading. hopefully it will just look like a katana, albeit a tatty scruffy one. but it will go like merry hell!
i did consider some spoked supermoto wheels like the ones in that pic, but decided i liked the look of the katana stock wheeld better.
it got shoved to the back of the shed when my enthusiasm waned and various other things have kept me from getting in there for a few years now. but ive got to sell a few bikes to get the room and the finances i need to finish this thing now. i loved the dr big i had, well, i loved the way the engine felt, but hated the slow ponderous handling and weight. the exact opposite of the katana experience. one has a brill chassis and an awful motor, the other has an awful chassis and a brill motor, why not link the two.
