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Thought this might be fun,

many thanks to gav for helping, kelly for staying awake and kim for grub, drinks and giving me permission.

http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/ ... e_0001.flv

nice bit of Offspring there too..?

You got a new frame then

Christ its like watching the Chuckle Brothers at work!


'Ter me,ter you!'

Turned out really well

We finally started around 11am after some 'mishaps' in the town centre managed to get the bike started at 7:30pm but alot of the early time was spent sanding/filing/dremalling the freshly powder coated swingarm. Worked through until 12am that night then a few hours the next morning, even fabricated a super lightweight strong ali exhaust hanger with only a dremal and a hammer

Still got a problem with the front brake, its fine when stood still but loses all pressure when the bike is started! mind you the brake system did spend like 2 months on its side.

That was a good watch! impressed

Heres some pics of the finished article (Click on thumbnails for bigger pics)






And my amazing exhaust hanger...

Hats off to you boys i really enjoyed that watch.

I know whats its like the nervous feeling when spinning over a motor for the first time. The best one i remember is rebuilding my ex boss's Austin Healey after i stripped it 5 years earlier when i was an apprentice. It near enough started on first compression once we bled the fuel system. Amased




Great job chaps and big thumbs up, Well done

Anything that really rattled you and nearly made you throw in the towel ??

Great vid I love it. Good to see you got it all done though I was expecting to see a couple chimps in the video.

Blimey wrote:Hats off to you boys i really enjoyed that watch.

I know whats its like the nervous feeling when spinning over a motor for the first time. The best one i remember is rebuilding my ex boss's Austin Healey after i stripped it 5 years earlier when i was an apprentice. It near enough started on first compression once we bled the fuel system. Amased




Great job chaps and big thumbs up, Well done

Anything that really rattled you and nearly made you throw in the towel ??

No towel throwing as such, confusion about the front brake not working but that turned out to be a bent disk. Apart from that it all went together fairly smoothly. Took it for a spin last night and all seems to be ok. Fingers crossed.

Top respect guys very smart end result well done

That was brilliant to watch, can you build me one please. and what is the bike

georgie_d wrote:That was brilliant to watch, can you build me one please. and what is the bike

Cheers georgie, its my old r1. If you have the bits its like a big jigsaw, only trouble is it still goes together even if you don't have all the pieces.

the bike looks great....

the vid was a great idea....

but....



i think the benny hill music would have worked better

beautiful result as well, thats one pretty bike