Monday, January 25, 2010

Bike Club Complete

We did it -- over the course of a few after school sessions, we rebuilt the supermono!


What you can't see is the "keep door locked at all times" sign -- untold dollars of time, parts, and tools behind this door!









This is where we started on day 5... an electrical gremlin needed to be found (which I did by staying late on day 4), but you can see the tail securely in place, and the exhaust system mounted.









Rear view -- oil tank breather hose was later shortened and tucked under the tail.  Still need to sort the remote reseviour on the shock. 










RHS view -- rear brake clears the exhaust can.  I searched the entire garage for an hour, going through many coffee cans worth of spare parts, just to find the little bracket that attaches the brake pedal to the threaded master cylinder rod.  I KNEW I had one somewheres... never throw anything out!





LHS view. Muffler brackets are temporary -- gonna make something up in stainless steel, or perhaps aluminum, if I can source the right stuff.  The picture immediately below it is the mega-expensive Yoshimura system that inspired it.  Can't wait to hear it!





A bit less Carbon-fibre on my system...

Fairings on, ready to roll (not quite, but it looks good!)
Front view -- note fair trade coffee in the background.  A student club sells it to the teachers and kids and sends the money to the local Marquis project...
A bit tidier, anyway... remote reseviour line for the shock is just a bit too short to neatly attach anywhere.  Need to sort a solution somehow.

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