"half dead on arrival" had to chop it

RFLIVES said:
Here's some updates. Powdercoated the tank and fender. Finished the fork swap had to buy and learn how to use a metal lathe to finish the spacers. Just all the little things are left.
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Hi RFL,
House Atriedes colors, too. Nice.
Nothin' to using a lathe. Cutting speeds are all in Machinery's Handbook and apart from the high speed steel sliding blade threading and parting off tools there's only 2 kinds of cutters, one has Tungsten Carbide inserts and the other is rubbish.
 
This is such an awesome, clean build. I really never thought I'd like sport bike forks on a hard tail but oh my goodness was I wrong. That is so awesome. Such a clean build man I'd love to see how it turned out!!!!
 
I'm currently finishing up a set of wheels for it. I'll get new pictures up soon
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Got the new wheels and tires on it last night and just went on a shake down put. Nothing fell off and is much smoother now. The sport deamons were sitting at a buddys shop. a customer had ordered them and never picked them up so I got them at cost. Nice tires however even though they are the same size the profile on the rear is not the same as my old tires resulting in a fender gap I'm not happy with.
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RFLIVES said:
- - - Nice tires however even though they are the same size the profile on the rear is not the same as my old tires resulting in a fender gap I'm not happy with - - -
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Hi RFL,
you need something quick to reduce the fender gap and reversible so you can put a same-profile-as-the-old-one tire back on when this one wears out?
Six little cylinders and six longer bolts, one set between each fender stay and the fender should do it.
Polished aluminum or blacked out or green should work.
 
That would work and then the spacers would bug me. I'm just going to ride it and get my sidecar rig sorted
 
Hi RFL,
being bugged either way is good motivation to swallow the cost of that nice new rear tire and buy a tire that fits nice.
BTW, what is that tire's size, would it fit on the sidecar rig?
 
Wow that's sexy. Can I have some info on the lcd screen? I'm also thing about doing something similar with mine.
 
bergoff said:
Wow that's sexy. Can I have some info on the lcd screen? I'm also thing about doing something similar with mine.
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Thanks the speedo is a KOSO XR-S really simple clean electronic speedometer / tach. I ran the pick up off of the rear sprocket bolts because I spent way too much time on that front end to clutter it up. I just drilled a shallow counter sink hole in two of the bolt heads and the surprisingly strong magnets just stay in there. Out of all of the mods on this bike I think the electrical, gauge and switch set up are my favorite part. It's all there battery, 4 fuses, regulator, ignition switch, kill and headlight switch on the bars. These are things a lot of people omit some or most of these in the name of being "clean"

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TwoManyXS1Bs said:
Nice bike. Calendar material. Hint, hint...
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Why would you go and tease a guy like that? It would look good hanging next to this one in my office.
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