Swamp Thing - KR1 Track Bike
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 3:57 pm
Rather than adding to a previous thread I thought I'd start a new one detailing the build of my KR1.
I bought the bike (a KR1S) back in 2014 at a good price but the bike was in pretty poor condition and looked like it had been stored in a swamp - hence the title. I had originally wanted to restore the bike back to original condition but it soon became apparent that I had a 'bitsa' consisting of part KR1S and part KR1 namely the engine was off a KR1 and the frame a KR1S. I didn't discover this until I was part way through the engine restoration so I figured I may as well carry on building the KR1 engine and then decide where to go from there. Around this time a friend offered me a KR1 frame in pretty poor condition but for a great price (free =D> ) and so this project was born.
I've now bought a KR1S engine to match the original frame and will restore that to original condition at a later date but for now I want to build a KR1 based track bike that I can use and develop over time. Here's the progress so far, starting with a shot of the engine as I got it..
I bought the bike (a KR1S) back in 2014 at a good price but the bike was in pretty poor condition and looked like it had been stored in a swamp - hence the title. I had originally wanted to restore the bike back to original condition but it soon became apparent that I had a 'bitsa' consisting of part KR1S and part KR1 namely the engine was off a KR1 and the frame a KR1S. I didn't discover this until I was part way through the engine restoration so I figured I may as well carry on building the KR1 engine and then decide where to go from there. Around this time a friend offered me a KR1 frame in pretty poor condition but for a great price (free =D> ) and so this project was born.
I've now bought a KR1S engine to match the original frame and will restore that to original condition at a later date but for now I want to build a KR1 based track bike that I can use and develop over time. Here's the progress so far, starting with a shot of the engine as I got it..