I had a pretty good idea of how I wanted it to look, so it's good to be getting there on that score and I want to get it to a rolling frame stage so that I can take it to the classic bike show at Newark in January.The forks really suit it
Learning a few bits here and there in this thread, keep it up
7th and 8th of January, I've not been before but it's supposed to be good.My look at going to this as it’s always boring in the winter times for meets and shows
He's mostly disapproving of the amount of stuff going on which doesn't involved sandwiches, walking in a field or snoozing. I can see his point to be honest.Your helper looks keen. Don't tape his tail in position. He won't like it.
No, I haven't.Coming along a treat I know you want to still give it an ET look but have you considered a bandit headlight instead of the ET styling disaster imho from factory?
I know what you mean, and I did consider it. At the moment I'm sticking with the 17" rims purely for simplicity.I'm thinking some 18"rims would look better on that.
Why?I'm thinking some 18"rims would look better on that.
That's nice, loads of work gone into it but you have to really look to see exactly what's changed. Aside from simplicity, that's why I stuck with RWU forks, some old bikes suit them really well and others they just look odd. Strangely it's often the smaller bikes which they suit best, for example I've seen a GT500 with USD forks and it looked fantastic.Here's mine.
Yamaha XV750 with CBR600 RWU forks as I don't think upside down ones would suit it plus the standard Yamaha brakes were very poor! XS650 disc's on alloy mounting adapters. The wheels are a XS650 front hub machined to fit and a XV535 rear hub with lots of machining to fit the drive spider and get the offset correct. (It's shaft drive) I had the wheels spoked by Anglia Wheels in Halstead Essex with satin black powder coated rims & stainless spokes.
I haven't touched it for 5 years after we moved house
Loving your bike @Cato
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I deliberately stopped work on it as the house needed / still needs in places loads of work. I didn't want to rush in a couple of hours on the bike and cock something up.Shame that your project has stalled, is it just a motivation thing or have you lost one of the 'Holy Trinity of Projects' (time, money and space)?