THE “Old Bike Baptism” – A Story of Wanting to Ride the Dreamy Z1R Smoothly?

By the way, Decoboco’s Tokyo operations are the same as the crowdfunding campaign – through the end of April.

I’ve said this many times, but
the address is “undisclosed” so please understand that not everyone can just drop by casually.
If I write too much detail, it just ends up giving me more things to do, so I’m being cryptic about it.

I think this Z1R probably won’t be finished before the move…
If I could work on just this bike every day, it might barely make it…
But it’s not that simple.

Today I’m going to install the rear brake master cylinder using an OEM-based custom modification.

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V-STROM650 OEM Rear Brake Master 69600-06G00

The rod foot was extremely long, so
I thought it might work as-is, so I decided to get it.

Reality wasn’t quite that simple…

Comparison with the OEM part.
The pitch is the same, but the V-Strom is M6 so we’ll upsize to M8.

The rod length was slightly short, so we’ll solve it with the “cut-to-inlay-to-weld-to-gun-coat” method.

The V-Strom rear brake master shaft has an outer diameter of 6.2φ,
while the Z1R is 10φ, so it has nice thick walls. We’ll inlay it here and weld it.

I quickly joined the rod together.
By the way, I’m currently down to 1 bottle of argon gas, so I’m welding in a pretty tight situation.

For those who find cutting threads tedious, using a sleeve to fix it with M6 is also an option.

Body is wet blasted! Rod is gun-coated

Today I’m doing incredibly mundane work again.

And that’s how the assembly is complete.

When I look into it more, information about the Z1R Type 1 is pretty scarce

Installation is complete like this.
The master body needs to be offset slightly, so I’ll make a spacer and insert it.
*I haven’t made it yet.

It’s been a while since I’ve used Suzuki OEM parts like this…
To be continued.