$95,000 for what? How does the rear suspension work?

[inorganic]

make it slow... make it noisy ... make it ugly ... and they will come grasshopper

[BIG DOUG]

Try and build one I'm 3/4's of the way through building my rigid bobber,you start with a frame and have to fill it in which means making most of the parts to get it to work having a lathe and tig welder and other equipment helps,it might cost you 20k or so and if you factor in about 50k in labour I work most nites and weekends on it,you make something that takes you 3 hours only to scrap it as it doesn't look right,tony's bike on trademe will be nice as I have judged his previous bikes at the magog's easter show and he builds nice bikes and conquiztador I hope when your friend has his bike finished he enter's it in a few show's so people get to see it.

[AllanB]

you make something that takes you 3 hours only to scrap it as it doesn't look right.

Darn right there - I've a small alloy muffler shield lying in the shed I did just that with the other weekend. Mark 2 is looking much better

[cs363]

you make something that takes you 3 hours only to scrap it as it doesn't look right.

I think many of us know that feeling, however you can't charge (or at least in my book, you shouldn't) for that time, I for one would be bloody pissed off if I found that the price of a Ducati 1198R was justified because Luigi couldn't decide on how to make some of the components....

[SMOKEU]

Ignorance is bliss. There is always going to be some idiot that will pay 5X more for something than what it's worth.

[Brian d marge]

Try and build one I'm 3/4's of the way through building my rigid bobber,you start with a frame and have to fill it in which means making most of the parts to get it to work having a lathe and tig welder and other equipment helps,it might cost you 20k or so and if you factor in about 50k in labour I work most nites and weekends on it,you make something that takes you 3 hours only to scrap it as it doesn't look right,tony's bike on trademe will be nice as I have judged his previous bikes at the magog's easter show and he builds nice bikes and conquiztador I hope when your friend has his bike finished he enter's it in a few show's so people get to see it.

This is why we have computers

get it right 1st time on the computer then print the working drawings

Stephen

[mynameis]

Just looks like a bigger versoin of the annoying thing squids ride on, whatever they are called. Mini footpath motorcycle I think.

[jonbuoy]

This is why we have computers

get it right 1st time on the computer then print the working drawings

Stephen

Take me longer to draw it on a pc than to make a cardboard one.

[2wheeldrifter]

What would that make Macauley Culkin worth then?

not sure, he may have more rear travel though.......! lol

[chef]

looks a bit tinny for 95k, does it come with naked women?

[AllanB]

This is why we have computers

get it right 1st time on the computer then print the working drawings

Stephen

OK if you are planning on making 2,000 of them on your CNC machine. Or designing two Fire-fighter bike wheels on a unlimited budget!

It's very rewarding taking a plain flat piece of metal and shaping it into something 'special'.

Hand forming petrol tanks - nows there's a skill. I watched a DVD with Jesse James making a copper tank - he beat it up and formed it them decided it looked like crap so chopped it up and reshaped it until he was happy.

[lankyman]

Maybe there just aren't any decent engineers in Ashburton

[Brian d marge]

OK if you are planning on making 2,000 of them on your CNC machine. Or designing two Fire-fighter bike wheels on a unlimited budget!

It's very rewarding taking a plain flat piece of metal and shaping it into something 'special'.

Hand forming petrol tanks - nows there's a skill. I watched a DVD with Jesse James making a copper tank - he beat it up and formed it them decided it looked like crap so chopped it up and reshaped it until he was happy.

No I am making, one ,

mine

The computer cost nothing in materials and I can chop, shape, paint until I am happy

Once I am happy I can just print out , the drawings , ( in an Ideal world no tidy up~ tui moment )

No expensive software ,just Blender ( cgi) and Cad and Calculix

aat the moment ( when I get a chance ) I am working on the layout deciding tyres , shocks, tanks , seats , lights ( the front light is going to be a problem )

Cost to date ( excluding time ) $ 0


Stephen

Ps

Some ( quite a lot) of the parts will be hand made , depending on the finished layout

[BIG DOUG]

my best computer is my brain,I know how it will look in my mind don't need to waste time drawing it on a computer and I'm more a hands on person oh well of to the garage for another few hours.

[Brian d marge]

my best computer is my brain,I know how it will look in my mind don't need to waste time drawing it on a computer and I'm more a hands on person oh well of to the garage for another few hours.

but you would throw the part in the bin if it dint look right

that being said , if my shop was equiped with a lathe ( have one in NZ but not here,)
I would be in the shop as well, making ,,,stuff

Stephen