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Damn that thing looks good already! Love those forks!
Yes that is the right size bearing. Just ordered mine today. Opted for the type with rubber seal rather than the plain, open sided ones.
Made some progress the last couple of days.
Seat is now fitted. I bought this one from vonzeti on ebay. Very nice quality and strong fibreglass. Well made, but as it's not specifically for an XS it's a bit too small, so I'll have to take the cover off and put a bit more padding on to shape it to the frame rails and close to gap to the tank. Then make a new cover.
Fitted the tank and welded the R6 filler cap in. Will get the tank blasted with the frame before painting it.
Also got the new tappered roller bearings for the R6 head stock last week so that went on. Both top and bottom bearings are 48x30x10, same as the stock XS bottom conversion.
As soon as I get the new wheel bearings, I'll work out the wheel spacers and R6 brake disc adaptors.
Frank,
She is Looking nice Mister Indecisive me has now changed to wire spokes with a drum brake set up on the rear
Leslie
Looks very nice Frank, any chance you will be going to Das Drag Day in Bitburg? Would be nice to meet.
I'm also going with the radian swing arm, what shocks are you going to use?
Hey Leslie,
Are you still using the R6 front end with wire wheels? I'm using R6 front end with blue spot calipers, not checked on clearance for the spokes between the twin callipers, but it looks tight.
Hey Jesse,
I'm not going to Bitburg this year as I'm taking (towing) the Bug to SCC in Norway in a couple of weeks. Are you going? Have been finishing a few things off over the last weeks and I'm making it a 2 week holiday traveling around.
I'm always rotating my European trip holidays so think next year will be Bitburg again but I'll also try to get to the states for 4 weeks to go on the Hot Rod Drag Week.
Frank