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So my bike used to have this big ugly thing: But today this arrived in the mail: But then I did this to it: The mark-up must have been high because I paid something like $6 for it from china and I don't quite think it was $6 worth of chinese quality. Nevertheless, now I have this: Which is some pretty reasonable looking switches and a decent layout to work from. I'll cad something up at some stage to give the water jet man some more work Then I will have a sweet sweet aluminium one.

Cheers guys! With the tank off now I'm seriously tempted to start pulling off many more parts to paint... I can see it being a bare frame in the coming months

Also, drew these up last week and am going to see about getting them laser or water cut. The two bits on the left are two aluminium parts to replace the one plastic one as the fuse box/handlebar clamp cover. The 4 holes nearer the inside are for some of these guys as idiot lights The bit on the right is aluminium and is to mount just the original speedo without the tacho low, close to the clamp and in the center front of the bike. Should look sawheeeeet EDIT: the bit on the right is actually steel. Dunno what I was thinking when I wrote that ^

Todays progress although it was only minor, feels like a fucking roaring success. Got a present in the mail today in the form of a bare bones push pull throttle assembly Bought it off ebay, wasn't quite sure what mods it would need to fit but turns out its a direct replacement for old honda's! Hopefully grant has the same luck when he goes to put his on the NV750. What this allows me to do is say "Fuck off" to this massive piece of shit and all its wiring: Letting me move the master cylinder further out so I can tilt the bars down to where i want them. Stoked. Current state of the bike:

How the fuck did you keep it off the wall coming onto the front straight!!!??? Great driving man, awesome to watch!

would kick ass on one of the rumbler bikes but wouldn't suit my CB at all EDIT: Fuck yeah - page 3

CB does better gravel driveway skids DO NOT DENY IT

Challenge accepted

Our race car has an oil temp gauge in it. Took us what seemed like ages (prob 15 mins or maybe more) to get some temperature in the oil with the 354 running and heating elements on the dry sump tank It does carry a fuck tonne of oil though

The reason for the aforementioned bicycle diet is that I will be moving back to New Plymouth in October, where the rest of the world (namely the pub) is downhill from home. Thus if I ever want to return from the pub (not sure why but just incase) I need to make this beast climb. I have been running it single speed for ages by just choosing a gear from the cluster and running with it. The freewheel I'm running at the moment is absolute rubbish and I don't think it would survive many drunk races home. Also the rims I'm using at the moment are chrome steel jobbies, they look lush but they are bloody heavy too. So I have bought a single speed hub, and hunted through all the spare parts floating around here and found a couple of nice araya aluminium rims which I'll build up for it. After lifting ladaspeeds gun blued tarini and realising just how light a STEEL bike could be, some work needs to be done

Does anybody have an old steel framed road bike frame lying around? I'm after something roughly medium sized but really want something super light made from awesome steel. Something that would have been awesome in its day. I'm looking to replace the frame on my Healing Turbo cos it weighs several tonnes. Any condition is good. Christchurch would be awesome, New Plymouth would be another good location, but if the price is right (and its a sweet enough frame/bike) it can be anywhere in the country.

Haha that would be way to easy! I always wanted to build one from steel just to see if I could and say I had. If this one doesn't work I'll try another approach but will keep working with steel and filler I'm thinking about giving up on trying to keep it rideable, maybe do a ride or two after I finish this seat and then strip it for a full frame re-spray etc. Might start taking this build a little more seriously and try and bring home a trophy in the cafe racer class at the bikes blues and hot cars show in new plymouth next feb.

I wasn't going to post this up yet incase it turns out to be a total fuck-up but its going too well at the moment and I'm really excited about it. Mark II Day 1 Went and picked up some sheet metal, guy hands it to me and says "be careful, its really sharp" - Yeah yeah sweet as... ~30seconds later/nekminit big cut on my finger Luckily I kept the cardboard templates from Mark I, so I trimmed them up a bit. Have decided to grow some balls and chop off the old seat mounts and latch, this will allow me to run a much narrower seat. Then the lightening got out of my disposable warehouse jigsaw, you can see why in the pic... So off to the wh and got another. I think the new shape is alot better, I've tried to better follow the lines and shapes of the tank. I busted out the files and sand paper and put a radius on my plywood template to dress the edges over and try and get a nice corner. Pretty stoked with how that came out. Day 2 Cut a section out for the seat pan, I have done the same radius along the edge of that ply template too. Then got a block the right thickness and screwed it to the back. Dressed the edge over that as tightly as I could. Then trimmed it and dressed it over the rest of the way. Its come up with a really nice edge. About 769786987 times better than I was expecting for the first attempt. Its made it really rigid along its length as well which is good, if I do a good job of it all I won't even need the ply board underneath. That is all for now

I spied the blue beastie atop a hoist in woolston a few weeks ago. Heard you had some troubles with a dodgey repair to your oil pickup?

It has just been brought to my attention that the radio building is going to be rapidly dismantled on sunday the 5th... Pretty keen to not miss that haha

So this is what happens when I have assignments due... In an effort to avoid any productivity in my studies, even my healing gets worked on... This bike is starting to get some pretty good gear on it considering the frame is so shit.

haha I submitted 1 vote and now it says I have voted for four of them! My vote: SUN 5 Browse@pickapart floolowed by lunch at burgers n beer pretty keen on a good floolowing to be honest

Vacuum hose on your mrs nipples? noise meter to measure the 'Oh' repeat for all carbs until they are the same??

wtf is up with that poll!?

How painful was the bill for the panels from the uk in the end? Have been thinking this might be the way to go for some bits for my anglia.

Keen as per my vote in the other thread

lol Just cos your boy is awesome pete! "give them the naughty finger" haha that photo must have been gold

http://www.ebay.com/itm/K-S-TECH-HYDRAU ... 35be5209f8 would this go in place of the banjo bolt on the master cylinder?

Yeah had been thinking of doing something more like lukes triumph for the seat. Just heaps more simple

Seat came out pretty hory but I'm not too worried at this stage. Its not bad for mark 1 and it changes the style of the bike towards what i'm trying to achieve. Got into the shed for a bit of a bike session tonight Got some drag bars off chris to try I really like them, but they are a little narrow and I'm having trouble with that fucking huge master cylinder and switch blocks not fitting. Going to try and find some smaller gear to put on and try it again. In the mean time to try and make it fit I've had to make it a bit moto also made up a blank for the tacho drive hole in the head so I will be able to ride it to bike night again this week