Le Projet FZ1000R: Thunderace-Powered Yamaha FZ750

[weeksy]

https://www.bikebound.com/2025/09/26/fz1000r/

[KungFooBob]

It's a bit busy, my eyes hurt trying to make out the details.

[Taipan]

There's a kind of brutality to it that I like, but I'd prefer it in black.

[Supermofo]

I semi like the 80s style colours but they are a bit much! I'm also assuming that starting with a Thunderace with some tuning/weight loss would have been a far easier/better starting point and probably a better bike but then that's rarely the point of these things.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

That's a lot of power through an FZ frame, I would've gone for FZ bodywork on a Chunderarse.

[Skub]

Great story about a guy overcoming the odds. It interests me for that reason,rather than an example of a custom build.

[Count Steer]

Great story about a guy overcoming the odds. It interests me for that reason,rather than an example of a custom build.

Yeah, the graphics/paint job are all a bit secondary to the story but, all the same, it's quite a build.

(And it gets ridden).

[Bigjawa]

I knew a guy who raced an FZ with a FZR1000 Genesis engine in it. That was back in the 80s.

[Yorick]

I knew a guy who raced an FZ with a FZR1000 Genesis engine in it. That was back in the 80s.

There were a few OWO1s with litre engines.
Same with some R7s

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I knew a guy who raced an FZ with a FZR1000 Genesis engine in it. That was back in the 80s.

There were a few OWO1s with litre engines.
Same with some R7s

I've got a 911cc FZ750 race engine sat in my garage, you can't tell it from a 750cc FZ750 engine, it has FZR1000 barrels and pistons on an FZ750 bottom end. Peter Day had (and may still have) a couple of ex Belgarda WSB OW01s that are 820cc.

[Brommo]

Other than the paint job that`s ace