Introduce your Bandit

[gsxr400 racer]

 

[bandit250]

Bandit 250
15,000Ks
Daytona screen
Upgraded HT leads (old ones were sparking in the rain)
Phoenix Racing exhaust
Super Bright blue bulb & LED rear bulb
Gold wide bars
Non-slip pillion seat cover off e-bay

Usually ride big bikes but this is a cheap commuter out here in Japan and it's surprisingly fun to ride. Did 375k the other weekend around Mt Fuji and kept up with other bikes easily. Would like to change the blue bar ends and tires which the previous owner put on.

[toomanycooks]

Hi All,

Newly arrived at this forum and it seems like a real great place for info and advice.

I've just bought myself a running 1992 Bandit 400 with the variable valve timing.  I'll try to pop up some pictures over the coming week or so.

Please all be prepared for a ton of basic, noob questions over the coming weeks.  Thanks in advance.

Later.

[andrewsw]

@bandit250: what screen is that? I likey.

@toomanycooks: welcome! Questions are good.

[bandit250]

Thanks, it's made by Daytona and fits many bikes.

[scottgroovez]

Hi All,

I'm from the UK and recently passed my test. I was recommended a Bandit 400 so my search began.

Just bought a 1997 Bandit GSF400V-V in Pearl Novelty Black (code 33J) which is black with blue flecks in the paint. It has the Bandit script badge on either side of the tank, but nothing on the rear. I found a picture of a similar bike that does have a decal on the tail, but I cannot make out what it says.

Mileage is showing 16,000KM's

The bike is standard as far as I know.

Cheers,
Scott

[Bandit400LTD]

Hi All,

Also from the UK. The B400 is the wife's bike and was bought during the grey import boom a few years back from Bike Direct in Bristol. It's a 1991 Ltd VVT, so should be red and black, but has been resprayed (pretty badly) in the blue and silver of the non-VVT Ltd model. It has a Yoshi exhaust system but, apart from that, is standard.

After riding it for a couple of years, she lost interest and it stood outside under a cover for 6 years (yes, really!). Recently she decided she wanted to start riding again and asked me "could you get it running?".....

Initially she wouldn't fire up, but I traced the fault to the ignition timing coil under the left engine cover. I also replaced the plugs, ignition coils and leads, oil, filter, coolant, brake fluid and pads, fork seals (dust and oil), polished the fork legs and am painting the singarm before she goes for an MOT.

Wish me luck!

Cheers, Chaz

[skibum]

Hi all,

I have owned my 1993 400 P model since new.  Modifications include the following:

Yoshimura pipe
Factory jet kit
K&N air filter
SBS pads (front and rear)
Stainless brake lines (also front and rear)
EBC Contour front rotor
Race Tech cartridge fork emulator
Sargent seat
Avon Azaro rubber

If I ever find a bike a like better I'll buy it, but so far, it's been a long fruitless search. I'm hoping all of you will have some new ideas for me in the modifications department so that I never have to get rid of my Bandit.

Pics will follow (if I can figure out how to use the new camera). 

[andrewsw]

welcome!

just give up the search. There is no better bike than the B4

meanwhile, head over the 250/400 section of the forums. There's lots of great help there.

[Red01]

 

meanwhile, head over the 250/400 section of the forums. There's lots of great help there.

That's where this thread lives! 

  

[andrewsw]

 

I guess I was working from the dull end of the stick yesterday...

[Bandit400LTD]

Update on the B400 Ltd. She passed her MOT yesterday and is now back on the road after a 6 year layoff.

Going like a train, too :-)

Cheers, Chaz

[bandit250]

Cool! Congrats on the MOT pass. Got photos??

[Uncle.Jay]

Hi guys,

I´m new in this forum here and I´d like to introduce myself and our bikes.

I´m sorry for my bad english but I´m from germany and it took me at least two weeks to get
registered in your forum. Normally I can be found in the german www.banditforum.de with the same username.
But there the B4 isn´t that much seen as here, so I hope to find some suggestions for my B4 project.

I´m 26 years old and I have a B6 and a gsxr 750 from 1989 with a b12 engine.
After I rode my girlfriends B4 after taking out the throttle it was clear I need one myself.

This is my girls bike


we bought it in a very bad condition, so we put it in its parts, coloured it black and put it back together...

we also did with my brothers b4 a year before.

so now I want one myself, the frame still was lying in the garage and an engine I´ve found already.
I´d like to give her some extra power and the swingarm of the b12 with 5,5 wheel, sticked togehter it looks quite good... *g*

[skibum]

Welcome to the forum!    Nice looking B4.  Once you get your own, you won't want to ride anything else.  My barn is full of bikes, but the B4 is the one I ride most.  By the way, your English is, I suspect, far better than most of our German. Wie geht's?