Street Legal R1 Powered Yamaha Banshee
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Building it
This is defiantly the coolest, fastest, and most fun machine I have ever
built. I started with a Banshee frame and cut out the entire center
(motor) section. From there I built a new center section along with
removable subframe to hold the massive R1 street bike engine. Then
came the custom fuel tank (Thanks to Mike B at Brenseke Welding for
bending the bottom on his CNC Brake).l fabricated all the brackets, lights, shift
assembly's, etc. I found out real quick that when you make the bike
twice as wide nothing fits back on. This meant A LOT of
fabrication. Dropping the motor in was the easy part,
its all those brackets and assembly's that took all the time.
Power
Zero to sixty seems in the neighborhood of 2-3 seconds. The bike ran 91.2mph
with the banshee motor, but now with the R1 motor it will pretty much run
as fast as you want to go. I have taken it up to about 105...and that's about as fast as I want to take it. It can do
92mph in 1st gear. I would figure the bike is good for about 150MPH if you were
nuts enough to try it. The power is EVERYWHERE. Its
amazing.
Fun
The bike is a lot of
fun to ride and gets some CRAZY looks from people, looks of disbelief. Unfortunately,
this includes the various police officers that have pulled me over.
So far I have been pulled over 23 times.....but have never received a
ticket.....because there is nothing to ticket! Its all DOT
legal!!! I love it =)))
Frame: Front and rear off a 1996 banshee, center custom
made by me.
Motor: 2002 Fuel Injected Yamaha R1 Street Bike Motor 1000cc 152 hp
100% Stock
Motor mounts: Custom made by me
Fuel Tank: Custom made by me and Mike Brenseke (www.sekcustoms.com)
Exhaust: Yoshimera Silencer with Custom Made center Pipe by Kooks Custom
Headers. Stock R1 Header and EXUPS.
A-Arms: Lonestar
Swing arm: Lonestar
Sway Bar: Lonestar
Rear Hubs: Lonestar
Sprocket Mount: Lonestar
Disc Mount: Lonestar
Locknut: Lonestar
Handlebars: X-Bar's
Controls, Throttle, etc: 2002 Yamaha R1 Street Bike
Gauge Cluster: 2002 Yamaha R1 Street Bike
Powder Coating: Action Powder coating
Pics of the Banshee with the stock motor in its 3 wheel configuration
Special Thanks to:
Brensekee Welding (For all the steel!)
JetSport Kawasaki/Suzuki/Polaris/Sea-doo (For all the parts)
All the members of LIORV (For all the support)