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Post by turbochris on Jan 27, 2013 10:32:58 GMT -5
Have you considered what battery your going to use?
the bike looks like a perfect bar hopper! Got sheet metal screw in the tires?
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Post by Johansson on Jan 28, 2013 7:43:06 GMT -5
Not yet, I will wait until I know how much space there will be inside the fairings. In case there isn´t much room I will fit two smaller batteries instead. Sorry, no spike tyres planned for the Triumph.
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Post by sven on Jan 28, 2013 12:24:50 GMT -5
Nice bobber, not too rat style, just perfect
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Post by Johansson on Jan 28, 2013 16:12:17 GMT -5
Thanks Sven! Last night I continued building the bike frame, a couple more nights like this and the frame will be ready to take down from the jig and get some wheels put on. Some might think that the rear frame looks like piss being square and all, but trust me it cannot be build any other way since the drive chain needs to run free. The steering head welded to the lower frame tubes, the final welding has to be done with the jig upside down since I am not very acrobatic... Next time I can weld the upper frame tube in place, hopefully some evening this week if the night time duty at work doesen´t interfer. The best thing is that I can route the exhaust up between the seat and rear wheel just like I wanted to from the beginning! No side pipes that will burn my legs! Cheers! /Anders
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Post by sven on Jan 29, 2013 11:46:00 GMT -5
Deem you work fast ;D couple of more days and we see it run Rear end gonna be hardtail? Sven
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Post by Johansson on Jan 30, 2013 5:44:41 GMT -5
Yup, hardtail it is. I worked on the frame to 00.30 this morning and hopefully I have time to continue tonight so things are moving along nicely.
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Post by Johansson on Jan 30, 2013 15:02:49 GMT -5
After last night most of the frame was put together and today I attached the last frame tube and took some pictures of the result. If you think the rear frame looks strange it is (hopefully because it is asymmetric, the chain drive side sticks out further than the other side where the brake disc is. A closeup of the rear frame. In this pic you can clearly see the space where the exhaust pipe will stick out, it will be a challenge to built the exhaust but I think I can pull it off. Next up is double checking the tube angles and weld everything together, after that I can remove the frame from the jig and see if the wheels fit. Cheers! /Anders
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Post by Johansson on Jan 31, 2013 17:05:18 GMT -5
This evening I welded up the last sections and removed the frame from the jig, there are still welds left to do but I can do them later when I am back home from Speed Weekend. The moment of truth, will the rear wheel fit or not? Phew, it did. I need to make a couple of aluminum spacers for the rear axle to get the wheels perfectly aligned so I cannot fit the engine or fairings before they are fitted. The frame is very lightweight but once the engine and heavy gearbox are fitted it isn´t as easy to move around. Things are starting to come together now, I can´t wait to see the bike with engine and fairings on! Cheers! /Anders
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Post by metiz on Jan 31, 2013 17:33:20 GMT -5
Will those tires hold at super-high speeds?
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Post by Johansson on Feb 1, 2013 0:01:52 GMT -5
No problem, it is a set of Michelin Pilot Ppwer 2 tyres so they should have no problem at all. I´ve run the same sort of tyres regularly up to 300km/h on my hayabusa so the tyres will be the least of my concerns at those speeds on the turbine bike.
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Post by pitciblackscotland on Feb 1, 2013 0:25:09 GMT -5
Looking good Anders. Cheers, Mark..
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Post by ernie wrenn on Feb 1, 2013 8:35:31 GMT -5
I like the White Wall look! Do you have a 3rd shift of illegal aliens coming at night to work on the bike?
ernie
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Post by Johansson on Feb 1, 2013 18:01:36 GMT -5
Nah, just little me who hates watching tv. I had planned for a cosy friday evening with my feancee and a movie but when she started snoring against my shoulder 20:30 I headed out to the shed to get some work done instead. I fitted the engine to see if the chain clearance to the frame tube was as excessive as I imagined it to be, fortunately it turned out to be close to perfect since I will have to add a spacer behind the rear sprocket to get the two sprockets to allign. A friend who builds and races turbo bikes suggested that I should add some strenghtening tubes where the lower frame tubes meet the rear end, I did so and it sure looks stronger now. The other side. After that I made a spacer for the rear wheel and fitted the fairings to see what it would look like. My two winter projects eagerly waiting for the roads to turn ice free again. Cheers! /Anders
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Post by Richard OConnell on Feb 1, 2013 21:59:49 GMT -5
wow.. looks great!
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Post by Johansson on Feb 2, 2013 8:54:05 GMT -5
Thanks Richard! I took the bike outside today to take some better pictures of it, I found an old drawing of the bike that I made before I started building the engine. The resemblance is almost frightening! The fairings will be modified somewhat so an oil tank can hang under the lower frame tubes, so they will be closer to the ground later. Yours truly in place, I am in dire need of a couple of yoga lessons... The bike is lower than I could have imagined, perfect! Orsa, here I come! Cheers! /Anders
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