My 2000 Bandit 1200S has been in storage for 11 years.Time to get her out and back on the streets!!

Better looking than most new street fighters

oh damn round 2 turned out pretty damn nice as well. Sweet and glad it's alive again.

A very well finished streetfighter.

the satin black stig helmet is icing on the cake

Being loopy about Bandits, pretty sure in my 30 odd years Kawasaki only, 1200 streetfighter Bandit S, sure that's a Bandit with plenty torque, very, very SPECIAL.

until Christmas and I will show you mine sc50 s.f.Now ride, swim, sun and beers!good summer and many miles! Greetings from the land of light!

Thanks for the info Steve, will try & source one & see how I go. Cheers!

I need a wallpaper of that! Amazing man. Sooooo getting myself one someday

I'm a retired university professor in Davis, CA, with my own bone stock 1200, with which I keep up with traffic, too. It's like a magic carpet; so smooth and powerful, but I wish I had a motion damper on the forks -- it starts to demonstrate classic high-speed wobble above 100 or so. We have some great roads in the hills and mountains around here, not to mention the coast. May you enjoy many happy miles.

One of the best sf bandit I've seen. Well done!!

Greetings to you too Jonny...Have a good summer dude!

Clean as a whistle, a job well done. I have to start mine all over again after seeing this baby.

so sick. your bike looks unreal

Got to be TORQUE Paradise, half way to the red-line, 3rd gear, WOW. Professor BTE. OUT, that's BANDIT TORQUE ENJOYMENT.

Thanks Dan. The headlight unit on mine is from a Derbi Senda X-Treme SM50....Best of luck finding one. Took me ages to track one down on E-Bay.

Lovely bandit that fella!

Nice touches, like the "brass knucks" footpeg guard and the transparent clutch cover.

i love that "remove before flight" patch ;) great looking machine.. i wouldn't of chosen orange and black though because it reminds me on KTM

gorgeous bike!

They're standard Bandit hangers cut down and home made knuckle duster heel plates bolted on. Top and bottom yokes were from TES Engineering. They no longer exist, but Rich still does machining. Good luck with your build Duane.

Love this bike. Tastefully done. Good work

Wobble over 100 is usually down to tyre wear or pressure. Mine goes right up to 145 ish without any problems. I like the sound of your roads!! Hope you enjoy many happy mile too.

Best Bandit on KZfaq

That visible engine is sick!!!

beautiful bandit, I own a 99 bandit 1200 streetfighter as well. great machine takes me over 170mph with only a few mod. suck as changing the cams, using high performance valve kit, stage 3 jet kit, Yoshimura exhaust, k&n filters, boosting at over 127hp.

hey dude, nice bike you got there! i love it!

Wow, one of the best well done 👍🏻

Beautiful bike. Good job!! :-)

beautiful bike!

Классный тюнинг,передняя морда симпатичная,давно себе такую ищу

Impressive!!!

Just BEAUT !!!

just picked up my bandit 600 would like to get it like this one!

Hi Joe. I'm running a Stage1 with the rubber snorkel removed from the airbox and a K&N air filter. If you go to a Stage3 you need to run K&N dual pod filters and not 4 seperate ones as it will not run well at all. Whatever you decide to do, get it set up on a Dyno to get it running really well. Fiddling with jets etc yourself is a pain in the arse and you'll struggle to get it running to it's full potential. Have fun.

fair play, looks great!!

Ce bandit et monstrueux

Very nice

best bandit I have ever seen...

That's a sweet clutch cover

I agree change the head light then it would be perfect! Still very nice thumbs up :)

Hi Joe. Headlight is from a Derbi Senda SM50 Xtreme...Best of luck finding one ;) Brake res bottle was from the USA.

Sweet sound, and I know it keeps up with traffic just fine. ;o)

thanks a mill steve for sending me the link , super build , was up half the feckin night studying the 28 pages, you were very lucky in the smack with the poor corsa, when i have my own machine finished off il email you a few picsa, iam trying to work out a neat place to refit the ignation block , any ideas, wont fit in triangle piece under tank, tried at battery box , but too bulky ,

awesome bike

Not an easy job Duane! It took me a while to work out the wiring. Had to fit a sprocket cover and speedo sensor from a Mk2 B12 and then connect it all up. Also had to fit a Speedo Healer to calibrate the clocks as they were reading way out. I do have wiring diagrams, but if you're not that technically minded when it comes to wiring it's best left to someone that knows what they're doing or you could end up with lots of smoke and sparks lol ;)

Cheers mate.

beautiful ;)

Thanks Johnny...I think the orange/black looks better though! :)

Your Bandit is black and orange, I'm green!

Thanks mate!!

Awesome

0:42 heftig geil! !! Hammer Ross ! ;)

Hi Joe. Thanks for the comments on my bike. To be honest I'm not sure whether the brace is from the carbed or injection model. I've compared photos of the 00-01 and 02-03 models and the swingarm brace looks the same on both??

Was thinking it would be tricky ill let someone else do it when I get to that part.. anyways thanks again steve

Thanks for the comments Joe. The smack with the Corsa was not nice at all :o( Look forward to seeing the pics of your bike when it's finished. Re the ignition switch..You're just goin to have a look arounf the bike and see if you can spot somewhere you think it will look ok and work around a fix. You'll proly have to extend the lom to get it to work though like I did..Good Luck!!

OOHHH yeah, Very nice.

haha Derbi headlights :) love the details

brown is awesome man

Thanks for the info. I must have spent 10 hours on web looking and havent seen anything that looks half as good Does it come with mounting kit

Thanks Will. Yup I'm froudy off BF and yup it's the resurrected brown one!!

super, nice

I love the open clutch cover! What is it made of? Also you need to get some orange plug wires :D

Thank you!

Outstanding, I'm in AWE, but would only have a pillion one, got to share the Joy. Yours Scott Loch. Na, Professor Bandit B.T.E.Torque Enjoyment only, nothing technical out. Ps Sadly now a semi retired Banditateer fekkin Banditaholic, ruined for any other bike, and I ain't even lying.

Thanks dude!

Veeeeery Niiiice.. : )

R1 ass ART exhaus, sir your bike is the best

I used my original wheels and discs...I changed the bearings on the front one to suit the larger diameter GSXR spindle and got spacers made up to get it all centered. Calipers also spaced out to suit the b12 discs which are bigger than the GSXR items ;)

Cheers Camilo.

I have a blue 600 street fighter looks so close to the 1200,AND I have the same remove before flight thing on my bandit 600! I'm eventually gonna get the 1200 or the 1250 but I love the 600 nimbleness

Sweet

A nice ONE 1💝

steve pal joe from Ireland , got the bandit up and running after , I may upload a vid here for ya , the headlight your running , what is she , as iam getting my head blown apart by the feckin wind lol, also very neat rear break res bottle

I got them made my TES Engineering. The company no longer exists, but I have a contact that can still get them made.

Thanks Tom.

nice bike! did you black paint or powder coat the engine?

Baddest bike I have ever seen. Wanting to remove the fairing from my 600s. Can you tell me what company sells the one on your bike.Love the look

Thanks Dave ;-)

Thanks zbod.

froudy pal jo here , sound out for the advice on the arm hope my mate does a tasty job on her. question for ya are you running a stage 1 or 3 dynojet kit as i notice you have done a few mods on the air box set up , can ya fill me in man as i know with the stage 3 set up cone filters are the way but in the lovely irish weather where you get 5 mins of sunshine if the filters get wet the 1200 engine runs like a bag of s.it. once again class machine froudy

Well mate what sorta foot hangers are they building a bandit same colour and were you get your top and bottom yokes lovely bike want 1the same

froudy pal , joe here from ireland, question on the swingarm , have a cnc machine pal who is going to knock me up a similar arm for my own bandit 1200 was going to run a jmc which i have but love the look of your arm , is the brace from the 00, 01 carb model or 02,03 injection set up just there are big differences in the arms . p.s. if your ever thinking of letting her go do let me know , cheers man and once again sweet machine

Thanks Johnny

Ill try again in awhile must get a look was on ebay buying wheels was looking at k4 gsxr but got srad 750 wheels need discs and a lot more yet not easy

Thank you :o)

Hmmm...Not sure why that happened when you tried to register :-/ There's plenty of streetfighters and bike builds etc on there. Members are a good laugh with plenty of banter too.

Thanks Jessee

I sprayed it all in one piece and then swapped the shiny bits over from my spare engine. To powdercoat it would have to be stripped completely..It would be expensive due to all the gaskets and seals needed to reassemble.

Cheers steve

very nice looking, how is the Vmax?

Thanks for the comment mate!

Another question wat way did ye wire your clocks im not the best at that kinda stuff

Can you please tell me where you got the round chrome frame covers from I've been looking for some Every where for my 98 1200 bandit !!!!!!!

Yup....With a little help from some good friends!

Cheers lilroc ;)

that thing is fucking clean

Hi thanks for the information when you have a wiring diagram can you let me no the bike is so nice you do get work bud

Very nice but I'd put the headlight unit a little bit lower

Thanks for the comment SGB.