Summit Of Achievement

In this, his final report, Paul Brookes takes the completed homage to his 1989 Supersport series winner to Cadwell Park for a shakedown.

- Paul Brookes

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me last (September, 2018) so here’s a brief re-cap.

I won the British Supersport 600 series on a trusty Yamaha FZR600 and decided to build one that (if you squinted) would look roughly the same, but also have some modern upgrades.

The screen on the FZR was the original one and I really wanted to keep it, as these are no longer available. I could have got a reproduction one off the iWeb, but wanted the original version as that’s what I ran on my race bike. As luck would have it, this one was in good nick, with no bits broken off it. I borrowed a buffer from a mate and thought I would just have a go at giving it a spruce up and see how it turned out. All I used was just some polish I had spare. I started off with just a light buff, having been told not to be too hasty as it was really easy to get it too hot, and this would overheat and melt the screen! It took me three goes, and now it’s as good as it gets. The best thing was that I got rid of all the yellowing that comes with age, so it’s almost as-new.

Another thing which needed doing was making a mounting bracket for the Yamaha R6 master cylinder that I was using. The R6 calipers that came with the bike were in good nick, but it was running on the old original master cylinder, which wasn’t ideal, really.