As I find companies who manufacturer or distribute aftermarket goods for the YZF1000 Thunderace, I will include them on this page.  If you know of any that shoud be added, please let me know.  Note that this is simply a list of vendors, it is not a recomendation or endorsement.  I have marked the parts or suppliers that I have used with an astrisk.  For information on these parts or suppliers, check out the Words section of this site.

• Body Work (Fairings, Fenders, Undertail Enclosures, Huggers, Etc)
• Braided Stainless Brake & Clutch Lines
• Brake Pad & Rotors
• Custom Parts (Mostly billet and carbon fiber replacement parts)
• Exhausts
• Sprockets & Chain
• Sport-Touring Accessories (Seats, Cruise Controls, Luggage, Etc)
• Suspension Components

Body Work

• Pyramid Plastics*.  Manufacturers of huggers and the solo seat cowl.
• Eurobikes*.  U.S. importers of undertail enclosures manufactured by JMV Concept.
• Yoyodyne Racing.  Sells replacement body panels in carbon fiber or carbon/kevlar.
• Sharkskinz.  Manufactures some replacement body work in fiberglass.
• Zero Gravity*.  Manufactures replacement windscreens, including the trick Double Bubble.
• Lockhart Phillips USA.  Manufactures carbon fiber tank guards.  Also distributes pattern body work.
• Harris Performance.  Manufactures carbon fiber huggers and fenders.

Braided Stainless Brake & Clutch Lines

• Goodridge*.
• Russell Performance.
• Earl's.
• Fren Tubo.  Also manufactures kevlar brake and clutch lines if you're after the last gram of weight savings!

Brake Pads & Rotors

Custom Parts

• Over Racing Project.  A wide range of billet aluminum and carbon fiber aftermarket parts.
• Lockhart Phillips USA.  LP USA generally has some neat things available for the YZF1000. 

Exhaust Systems and Slip-Ons

• Vance & Hines*.  Makes the SS2R full system and slip-ons.
• Yoshimura R&D.  Manufactures highly regarded slip-ons, but no full systems.
• Indigo Sports.  Manufactures both full system and slip-ons.  Also distributes Leo Vinci.
• Leo Vinci.  Nice looking exhausts, but I don't think there's anything for the YZF1000 yet.  Distributed through Indigo Sports.
• Micron.  Manufactures a range of full systems and slip-ons.
• D&D.  A lot of Thunderace List members have said good things about both D&D's full systems and slip-ons.  I can't find a web site for D&D, but these exhausts are widely distributed and should be easy to find.
• Arrow.  High quality Italian exhausts.   Manufactures both full systems and slip-ons.  Available from Kiernan Racing and others.

Sprockets & Chains

• EK Chain.
• RK Chain.
• DID Chain.
• Tsubaki Chain.
• Renthal Sprockets
• AFAM Sprockets.
• Vortex Sprockets.

Sport-Touring Accessories

• Throttlemeister.  Manufactures a throttle lock that replaces the bar-end weight.
• RKA Luggage*.  High quality tank, tail and saddle bags that fit the YZF1000 well.

Suspension Components

• Ohlins*.  The best name in sportbike suspension components, including shocks, springs and steering dampeners.  You can get a great deal on Ohlins shocks from Pro-Link Racing Suspension through Thunderacers.com
• Penske Racing.  High-quality shocks.
• Race-Tech.  Spring and the Gold Valve "cartridge emulator."
• HyperPro.  Springs and steering dampeners.
• Lindemann Engineering.  Suspension tuning experts, used by a number of racing teams.

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I no longer have a Thunderace, so these pages are updated as I have time.  They are an ongoing work in progress and reflect my own personal thoughts.  If you have any questions or comments, please drop me a line.

This page last updated: November 28, 2001