Introduce your Bandit

[andrewsw]

Very nice. What is the bottle strapped to the passenger grab rail, just above the exhaust?

A

[Catrocentos]

Hello bandits! This is my machine:



92 B 400 exhaust Dopinger
92 gsxr Fork
Galfer wave disc front brake
Nissin radial brake pump
chain guard handmade fiberglass
Wp rear shock

Greetings.

Very nice!
I like it all, except the bend in the exhaust :).

Anyway.. two questions.
1) Where did you get the passenger seatcover? (Edit: you just painted in red I see? :P)
2) What 92' Gsxr fork ? How hard was it to install?

Thanks

Hello,
  I do not like the curve of escape ...: (
  The passenger seat is covered with red leather, very slippery :)

The front axle is 92 gsxr 750. Very easy swap. The bearings and steering shaft are equal.
I have yet another Galfer wave brake disc ... $ $: (
Greetings.
(My knowledge of English is low. Google translate ...)

Thanks.
It's GSF400 wheel, right?
What did you have to change to swap gsxr 750 fork?

The front wheel is the gsxr 750: b400 17/3 "and gsxr 17/3, 5".
Forks, triple trees, wheel, brake calipers, front wing, brake discs ...: For the complete front end swap gsxr necessary
(my Galfer wave is b400, with spacers on the caliper.)
Key contact / clausor is b400.
It is necessary to modify the steering stops.
If you are interested in the swap take a look at this video I uploaded to youtube:
http://youtu.be/y6OkjPh4FSk

[Catrocentos]

Very nice. What is the bottle strapped to the passenger grab rail, just above the exhaust?

A

Thanks, it is the bottle wp rear shock ...
Greetings.

[npa]

Hi everybody!

I live in Quebec and I own a Canadian 93 400 Bandit I bought last year.
Thanks to the information found on the forum and its french cousin (400bandit.xoo.it) she now runs great again!

I'd like to go further and I am looking for a Yoshimura exhaust... very hard to find these days...
I'm also looking for some advices on the best mods available for this little bike: airbox mods, carburetor settings...

Here are a pic with her new tires (pilot powers!)

Nicolas

[lupin]

Greetings, about a month ago I picked up a non running 250.  After a little investigation I found the firing order was wrong and away it went.  From then on its basically been a matter of putting everything back to where it belongs.



As you can see at some stage someone has made a custom tail section.  I'm not quite sure if I'll keep it or revert back to the original one.  Its fairly rough and I've been using a fair bit of bog to try to smooth it over again. So far I've spent most of the time cleaning the thing and replacing missing parts.  I've also painted the headlight bucket and the gauge surrounds as the chrome was coming off.

Heres how its looking now complete with 3 year old daughter.



Still got a long way to go.

[Holger]

Hello from Germany,

my name is Holger, I am slightly younger than 40 years and own a 1993 B4.

The bandit is almost in original condition except some smaller changes like indicators, mirrors and a Puig - windscreen, nothing special so far.

I stumbled upon this board while looking for some details about the 400, because in Germany the little Bandits are quite rare and information about the bike is even more rare.

Regards

Holger

[bdouvill]

Hello from Germany,

my name is Holger, I am slightly younger than 40 years and own a 1993 B4.

The bandit is almost in original condition except some smaller changes like indicators, mirrors and a Puig - windscreen, nothing special so far.

I stumbled upon this board while looking for some details about the 400, because in Germany the little Bandits are quite rare and information about the bike is even more rare.

Regards

Holger

You have the "German" version with dual front disk and stainless steel exhaust, in black which I guess is pretty rare. The condition seems really good. I like it ;-)

[andrewsw]

very nice!

A

[Holger]

Thanks a lot :)

My Bandit is the "localized for Germany" - version, as far as I know all officially sold B4 here in Germany came with the following specs:

- double disc brake
- stainless steel exhaust system
- 50hp / 37kW - restriction, because of insurance reasons

In total about 3.500 pcs were sold by Suzuki Germany, the B4 was not a top seller. The -95 and onwards model was not sold in Germany, neither as the 250.

There were a few "grey" imported B4 and at least 1 B250, so the single disc - B4s are very rare here in Germany, despite of the souble disc, which sell from 600 Euros up to about 1500 Euros in road ready condition.

Mine was about 700 Euros and to get it on the road again I had to buy new tires and do the usual maintenance (spark plugs, oil, brake fluid, air filter,....).

The picture shows the "German" carb covers:
- the one on top: stock 50hp covers as delivered by Suzuki
- the one below: 48hp restricted cover for our European Driving License Class A2

Why do I leave 2 of the 50 ponys in the stable?

The A2 license allows to ride bikes with a maximum power of 48hp / 35kW (the deristricted bike must not have more than 96hp / 70kW) at a weight of min. 175kg (maximum power to weight - ratio: 0,2 kW/kg).

The A2-license has despite of these restrictions some advantages if you own a 125-license: You can upgrade a 125-license to A2 simply by passing a driving test rather than to obtain a new driving license.

After 2 years with an A2 - license you can upgrade the A2 license by passing another test to A unrestricted.

It is much cheaper than "a whole new license", my A2 was all in about 400 Euros, the unrestricted A-license would have been about 1500.

[Squishy]

Yes and normal gsf400 don't have any riser in the carb cover you can easily go to full power

[ventYl]

Hi Holger,
I have same GSF400 yet little bit older - it is model year 1991 - in red. I imported it from Germany this spring. Someone already de-restricted it in Germany as carb covers are stock without raise limiters. As far as i know for MY1993 various models were unified, camshaft was changed to be different that GSX400R one and power output was equalized to 37kW for all models so your should probably be MY1992 sold in 1993 or my informations are bad.

[Nuked114]

2000 Suzuki Bandit 250 VS
Black
Basically a barn find project .
mostly standard
Has a lot of problems so you will be hearing from me again haha
This is my first suzuki and i love it even though my wallet does not.
 

[tanito87]

The same post i put in Members only
Hi, my name is Gianluca, i am a 22yo guy from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
First of all, sorry for my English.
I recently bought a 1992 GSF400P which is the first "sport bike" i own after some cross bikes (last one being a XR250R 93 daily driven). The Bandit needed some care (say to have 35000km, which considering the state of the bike i think it's impossible): front forks completely scracthed and empty, rear shock was a bloody jumping table, front tyre 15 years old, rear tyre 140 size, plastics were ok, the wiring.... let's not talk about it, the engine needs a rings replacements, and totally needs a rejet (excessive amount of fuel) but i decided to rebuild the bike.
Despite knowing that the bike couldn't be used cause of the tyres and suspension issues, i was like a kid with a new toy and started to make the first minor adjustments to use it, all fluids replacement, k&n oil filter, spark plugs replaced, the first 3 days the bike improved it's ride a little bit, but still the handling was just dangerous, i didn't want to go past 60mph, and at the 4 day of using it, i braked like a normal guy, and Thor came with its hammer and hit the bike, because it felt like that, normal braking at 25/30mph, 0.1 second later i was in the floor braking with the skin of my arm.
The day after that i took the bike to a specialist in suspension, to completely rebuild and upgrade the front and rear suspension, and bought a set of Bridgestone Battlax T30R 120/70/17 & 160/60/17.
So here i am waiting for the bike to be finished since the front forks has to go through a process to determinate if they are 100% straight (if not they are taken to it's original line through hydraulic press) ant then Re-chrome the material (i think thats the word in english)

Aaaand some pics from my bike

[greg737]

Gianluca (tanito87),

Here's a bit of advice regarding the Bandit's carbs:  The Mikuni BST carbs are notorious for worn emulsion tubes (the holes in the soft brass emulsion tubes get worn into an oval shape by the harder metal of the needles). 

Your Bandit, with 35,000km on it, almost certainly has very worn emulsion tubes.  You mention that the bike "needs a rejet (excessive amount of fuel)".  Well, worn emulsion tubes cause excessive fueling.

The Mikuni corporation views the emulsion tubes as a "consumable" item.  In other words, this is a component that regularly requires replacement as part of normal maintenance throughout the vehicle's lifespan. 

We occasionally get owners here on the forum who are desperately trying to tune Bandit carbs by setting everything to "factory original specifications" and they still end up with an over-rich pig.  If you want to re-set your Bandit's carbs to factory original specs you almost always have to replace the emulsion tubes.

[Squishy]

35000KM? That's a little over exaggerated.
Mine has 72000KM and it still runs great even at 3000KM it ran fine when I put the needles back in stock position.