“Garage built, shed built”... stable built!

[miketweedie]

As promised I've spent hours making this look like it grew there!

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I'm elated with the results and I don't think the photos do it justice.

Daniel.

I did a similar style on my Buell café bike, though I use the word "similar" liberally as mine is nowhere near this slick. I agree the look really cleans it up. My only downside was I needed to hide a little shorai battery in there, so I was forced to add a small box near the backbone to accommodate. It gives you an awesome spot to hide wiring, relays, fuses etc.

Looks really good man, very impressed.

 

[Bewarethemoon]

I did a similar style on my Buell café bike, though I use the word "similar" liberally as mine is nowhere near this slick. I agree the look really cleans it up. My only downside was I needed to hide a little shorai battery in there, so I was forced to add a small box near the backbone to accommodate. It gives you an awesome spot to hide wiring, relays, fuses etc.

Looks really good man, very impressed.

Thanks for the kind words Mike!

The seat cowl I’ve made has more than enough room for a small Lithium battery (I think I’m going to go with a Shorai too).

I’m designing a seat pan that arches/rises across it’s width to a height of 25mm above the top of the frames tubing, this coupled with the base pan should give me close to a 50mm cavity to house everything else.

Daniel.

 

[wannabridin]

Updates???

 

[Bewarethemoon]

Last night I offered up my Ohlins shocks to my frame & swingarm, in the three years or so I’ve owned them this was the first time I ever have, initially I intended to see what was needed to make them fit but lo and behold the bushings were the exact size.

I liked the look so much I had to sit the tank & seat cowl on there too to see how it all looked together, it’s worth noting the tank’s not in the position it will eventually sit and the cowl needs more work to fit perfectly.

But you get the general idea.



Daniel.

 

[Bewarethemoon]

This morning I went and saw Rick of Smedspeed, he pressed in my Cognito Moto steering stem into my bottom yoke.

I just had to share photos as there’s been a surprising amount of work involved in this transformation and it’s an element of the build I’m quite proud of.



Daniel.

 

[Bewarethemoon]

Last one for a little while I promise but as things are slowly starting to come together I couldn’t not share this…



Daniel.

 

[JesseeS]

Nice work Daniel! What length Ohlins are those? You have a particular model number? I’m looking at a few different shocks currently

 

[Bewarethemoon]

Nice work Daniel! What length Ohlins are those? You have a particular model number? I’m looking at a few different shocks currently

Hi Jesse,

I’m pretty sure that they’re these…

https://www.ohlins.com/product/twin-shock-absorber/

I bought them off eBay, they were off a Kawasaki Zephyr.

Rough approximation with a tape measure has me at 13.75” and the model number is KA 2161.

There’s another longer number stamped on there too if that would help?

Daniel.

 

[JesseeS]

No Daniel that’s perfect, I already found them from the info you gave me. I appreciate it!

 

[Bewarethemoon]

No Daniel that’s perfect, I already found them from the info you gave me. I appreciate it!

I’m going to have mine rebuilt, I want to source the right springs for rider weight so I know the front & rear suspension are optimised for me.

Daniel.

 

[Bewarethemoon]

I’m just going leave this here…



A little bit ‘eye watering’ isn’t it, but when you’re in as deep as I am…

Daniel.

 

[Raymond]

In for a penny . . . but to make a positive out of it - at least you can't afford to go out drinking?

 

[Bewarethemoon]

In for a penny . . . but to make a positive out of it - at least you can't afford to go out drinking?

I don’t feel the desire anymore, once a year around Xmas see’s me right. At 35 I’ve become an old man and I’m fully immersed in that!

It does help having a beautiful partner, a beautiful home, two beautiful dogs and a beautiful new member to the family in the guise of a Maine Coon kitten.



Daniel.

 

[46th Georgia]

I don’t feel the desire anymore, once a year around Xmas see’s me right. At 35 I’ve become an old man and I’m fully immersed in that!

It does help having a beautiful partner, a beautiful home, two beautiful dogs and a beautiful new member to the family in the guise of a Maine Coon kitten.

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Daniel.

Well said.

 

[Adamc]

I don’t feel the desire anymore, once a year around Xmas see’s me right. At 35 I’ve become an old man and I’m fully immersed in that!

It does help having a beautiful partner, a beautiful home, two beautiful dogs and a beautiful new member to the family in the guise of a Maine Coon kitten.

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Daniel.

Nice pussy....................... (or is that Kitty in the US?)

 

[Bewarethemoon]

Nice pussy....................... (or is that Kitty in the US?)

Dogs seem to of taken to him quite well, especially well considering they’re both Terrier’s (boy’s a Jack & girl’s a Border).

We’ve called the young lad Odin.

Daniel

 

[jpdevol]

I'd reckon before long that "Coon" will rule the roost!

 

[Bewarethemoon]

I'd reckon before long that "Coon" will rule the roost!

He’s well on the way to that (in his own little mind) but the Border is defiant to the end and will always rule the roost, she’s the boss of everyone in the household (in her own mind) and we all live in her world!

Daniel.

 

[Bewarethemoon]

Not the most exciting progress report but immensely satisfying for me none the less.

I designed some spacers to take up all the dead space left over from using the Ohlins shocks on my build.



I wanted to use whatever dimensions I found nearby to give for a ‘factory’ look so for the innermost spacer I took the outer diameter of the lug on the frame and tapered up to the inner diameter of the hole for the bushing in the shock. Then for the outermost spacer I tapered down from the inner diameter of the hole for the bushing in the shock to the outer diameter of the spring washer when compressed. There’s also a recess in each to allow for the distance the steel collar inside the bushing protrudes.

It probably all sounds rather tedious to you folks but the level of satisfaction I felt when sliding these on was high!

Daniel.

 

[Adamc]

Not the most exciting progress report but immensely satisfying for me none the less.

I designed some spacers to take up all the dead space left over from using the Ohlins shocks on my build.

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I wanted to use whatever dimensions I found nearby to give for a ‘factory’ look so for the innermost spacer I took the outer diameter of the lug on the frame and tapered up to the inner diameter of the hole for the bushing in the shock. Then for the outermost spacer I tapered down from the inner diameter of the hole for the bushing in the shock to the outer diameter of the spring washer when compressed. There’s also a recess in each to allow for the distance the steel collar inside the bushing protrudes.

It probably all sounds rather tedious to you folks but the level of satisfaction I felt when sliding these on was high!

Daniel.

Hi Daniel
Nice work; any photos of the component parts?