I wasn’t saying that it was a bad color, just that the lighting inside was making it look less good. Planning on bringing it out to a cars and coffee in 2016? I’m going to actually bring a motorized bike instead of my cyclocross bike with Jr in tow.
I’ll be there on my cafe CB550. Checko is selling this once it’s completed, although he has other motorbikes he’d bring.
Main just saying lighting wise to see the colors. We shit the fluorescent lights off and tried to use the halogen work lights to get better picture. As Gennaro said. I’m planning on selling it. I do still have my 636 and zx10
Out of 3 old British bikes, I will most likely make it half way on one of them and walk the rest.
I snapped some pics of progress last night. tank got wetsanded and cleared, motor got a bunch of covers swapped out for powdercoated variants, we wrestled the motor into the roller, mocked up the tank, and installed the hydro clutch conversion.
fresh paint on the engine
frame prepped for engine install
some powdercoated covers installed
hydro clutch mech
tank with clear (under fluorescent)
I tried a color correction, this is pretty close to what it actually looks like in person
tossed the tank on the bike
halogen light pics
Looks good :tup:
Started making wiring today. Key, headlight switch, headlight and tail light, coils and charging system components are wired. Still have to hook up the brake switches and horn, loom and route it all.
Aso sanded the tank badges, just the raised parts of the letters back to a bare finish. And mounted the led tail light strip, and installed the rear brake stay/rod.
Looking good buddy!
On a note of actual work on the bike. It’s fully wired, and loomed. I made a little box out of 1/8" aluminum to hold reg/rec and fuses. Programmed it in ProFab, punched it and bent it on the press break. There are bolts that come thru the seat pan (welded the heads to the seat pan) and bolts up under. Gonna mount a plate off the back of it too.
Focusinprogress and myself finished turning the rotor adapter and test fit it. Still need to drill/tap for bolts from rotor to adapter. And drill the holes for thru bolts for adapter to wheel.
figured I’d contribute some pics I’ve taken recently along the way
Humble beginnings of the rotor adapter:
the puck was too big for my lathe chuck, so we started my using a hole-saw to cut a 2" bore in the middle.
Moved it over to the lathe an started opening the bore to match the CB500t front wheel
After many repeated removal-testfit-remount-cut-repeat cycles until we had just the right fit, here’s the rotor on the nearly-finished puck
We’re debating taking the time to cut the adapter back to only having “tabs” where the rotor mounts instead of being a giant circle all the way around as it is already a pretty bulky looking part…
but, here’s some pics of the tank and emblem mocked up and the exhaust mocked up on a complete bike for the first time
Would that adapter need to be balanced at all?
we’re waiting to balance the wheel until the adapter is complete and will be balancing the wheel with the adapter and rotor mounted…
Are you planning on grinding the welds on the exhaust?
yep, followed by header paint and titanium heat wrap.
Nice! That’s going to look really good I think. :tup:
My second time using the lathe by myself (well little help from @focusinprogress) made me a tach delete plug. Took some rough measurements of where the cable would go, couldn’t find a cable to measure. Don’t think it turned out half bad. Didn’t quite get the knurling tool quite right tho. :shrug:
I like it!
I still need a starter plug for mine, make me one!
You guys still have those starter plugs I made a while back? Man I miss having a cnc…
Sounds like he won’t be making more anytime soon 