Bandit Track Bike – concept – British Superbike School

This was originally an attempt at creating a Suzuki XR69 from a Bandit. However, it was discovered that it would have required major surgery to get the seat to fit, and having bought a complete XR69 body kit, the fairing is far too low and narrow.

Could have cut the fairing in half, leaving just the top and bottom, but decided not to. I suppose you could cut it into 2 halves and widen it, but it might look a bit odd.

An orginal XR69 looks like this – if you haven’t seen one.

Below is another great bike based on a Bandit in Classic Team Suzuki blue, but without a fairing and high bars. Looks like a SRAD seat? Smart colour scheme. Looked a better way to go.

A great attempt below with the fairing problem overcome by removing bottom half.

I can’t find a track bandit with a full fairing, although later 1250 road Bandits had one, and Pyramid Plastics do lower touring panels for road bikes.

You can get cockpit fairings, but it was decided to go with just a Bandit race seat, straight bars and a number board, more Wes Cooley than Mick Grant, but in the red and black Suzuki colours.

May look at fitting a belly pan later – can’t find a race one at the moment.

Expert advice from Spike at Ragged Racing if you want a full fairing on a Bandit:-

Harris F1 fairing is pretty much the same dimensions as an XR69, since Harris copied the bike. Seen a few Bandit/XR69s, but it’s the height that really throws it. You have to have the clip-ons very low for any of the full fairings.

I must admit, I am a fan of a more naked look… and the XR69 replica thing has been done to death!
I noticed you had the Yoshimura half fairing in your article [No12 bike], which is essentially a Harris F1 to with holes in it. Skidmarx have just bought BB Plastics moulds, and have that…

And alternative, would be to ‘copy’ the Team Force bikes that bellypan came from, which is a well know European endurance bike.
This is a top derived from the 1979 XR69, so has that ‘proper’ Suzuki look. The seat is a slightly altered Nico Bakker.
I have Christian Hames’ mould for this, and can produce a fairing with or without headlight cut-out.
Obviously this is a Harris chassis, but it’d work as well on a Bandit, with just a bit of light surgery on the subframe.