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retro1

21 posts recovered 1 thread started First seen 12 Mar 2015 Last seen 20 Oct 2015

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  1. something i should have finished already retro1 30 12 Mar 2015 20 Oct 2015 retro1 · 12 Mar 2015 – 20 Oct 2015

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  1. something i should have finished already 20 Oct 2015 18:21 Crap pic of welding. [image: C589B6F7-ADEF-4437-B971-A3E742255E2D.jpg] One more bit to spin up and then I'm starting to bolt things back together.
  2. something i should have finished already 19 Oct 2015 12:17 swing arm looks good, photos to follow, in other news, 3d printing a battery holder for 8 lipo cells, 26650 size. yay! 3d printers are the shiznit fact!!
  3. something i should have finished already 16 Oct 2015 09:24 Sent the swing arm to be welded up a couple of weeks back, Call today from the welder, swing arm is done, I'll pick it up on Sunday, if it doesn't look a gopping mess I'll post some pics of it, if it looks shit then…
  4. something i should have finished already 28 Sep 2015 14:47 Yesterday I had a few spare minutes so I had a quick look at the suspension linkage and how it would mount to the frame, good news is it bolts straight up but will need a couple of spacers machined, I like this swing…
  5. something i should have finished already 26 Sep 2015 22:11 Right side pivot spacer machined and pressed into the swing arm, left to do but I'm out of 5083 alloy (I may have a piece but I need to find it ) need to relieve the swing arm and engine casing because at the moment…
  6. something i should have finished already 24 Sep 2015 23:09 So I have this long term project bike, it seems to get close but then something crops up and it gets pushed to the back, so one of the conditions of me and the wife making a go of it was for me to finish the things i…
  7. something i should have finished already 24 Mar 2015 08:47 So after burning out two new five inch angle grinders trying to flatten out the bottom of the cbr swingarm out came the nine inch, used a nice thick metal grinding disk and it's almost flat, the item I was removing was…
  8. Custom Brake Line 19 Mar 2015 12:32 im all for the cable tie method, get out all the air you can, pump up the lever then cable tie to the bar, leave over night come back in the morning, cut the cable tie and watch the bubbles appear in the reservoir.
  9. Custom Brake Line 19 Mar 2015 10:13 if anyone is interested you can buy the bits and make these lines your selves, i do it on cars and bikes so if your interested i can give you a talk through on how its done.
  10. something i should have finished already 17 Mar 2015 09:58 Well my next job after zipping up the swing arm is to redo the exhaust, can't remember if I'm supposed to link front to rear or rears and fronts paired, I'm going for a 4-2 system with either two cans under the seat or…
  11. something i should have finished already 16 Mar 2015 14:37 thanks for the compliments polarbear, although i think you may have been mislead by my work being more bolt together than fabrication and that fact that my bravery and my stupidity sometimes gang up on me and make me do…
  12. something i should have finished already 15 Mar 2015 20:17 it fouls on the r6 shock reservoir, so it had to go, its getting plated back up so im not missing any strength if anything its probably going to be stronger for having the extra material in there.
  13. something i should have finished already 15 Mar 2015 15:46 ive been very bad lately and i havent paid my bestest bike any attention, to make up for it i have purchased a pillion seat cover and smoked rear light with built in indicators in the hopes that she forgives me, i will…
  14. something i should have finished already 15 Mar 2015 15:34 more progress to report, having got the pegs where i wanted them i concentrated on the seat subframe, its tacked together at the minuit as my tig kung fu is nowhere near as strong as my mig kung fu, but the tail unit is…
  15. something i should have finished already 15 Mar 2015 14:45 no probs, i came to the conclusion a long time ago that opinions are like arse holes, every one has one and most of them stink, but if you dont like whats been written or photographed feel free to pass on by, the photos…
  16. something i should have finished already 14 Mar 2015 18:36 new goodies, thanks to our tame bike breaker! [image: Image0189.jpg] should look a lot nicer than the lorry dash i removed. spurred on by all this fevered v4 activity that the site has been pounded by i went to the shed…
  17. something i should have finished already 14 Mar 2015 18:16 whilst the engine is still out of the frame i'm taking the opertunity to tidy it up, so im cleanig all the last 20 od years of chain lube/wax and all the crappy paint off the engine, not looking to strip it down just…
  18. something i should have finished already 14 Mar 2015 18:02 checked the fit tonight and i need to make 1 spacer which is cool, so thats the job for tomorrow along with building jigs for bike lift tables. ive pushed the wheel as far forward in the swing arm as the adjusters will…
  19. something i should have finished already 14 Mar 2015 15:16 thanks for that i was going to go back over and sort it later. but if you find yourself with time on your hands i wouldnt mind the help. anyway onwards. bought an nc29 swinger of that auction site, picked it up (it is…
  20. something i should have finished already 14 Mar 2015 09:58 ok what ill do is cut and paste from another forum because theres been a lot of evolution over the last 5 years, iv had to take a lot of time off with this too as life sometimes gets in the way and things like helping…
  21. something i should have finished already 12 Mar 2015 15:58 seems i never got round to doing this thread let alone finish the bike, let me know if theres any interest in what im doing, 86 vfr750 with sp1 or 2 front end and cbr1000rr swinger and r6 shock combo etc...... . Edited…

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