Bucket rules (or lack, thereof)?

[Henk]

Free to come and watch. Bring your gear (if you have some) and you might get to blag a try on somebodys toy.

[scooute]

Free to come and watch. Bring your gear (if you have some) and you might get to blag a try on somebodys toy.

I will deff come and watch, Ta. no leathers atm though...

[Pumba]

Another option is if you give John Conner a call (his number is in the AMCC website) the club slut may be avaliable for you to have a ride on over the weekend

[scooute]

Another option is if you give John Conner a call (his number is in the AMCC website) the club slut may be avaliable for you to have a ride on over the weekend

Thanks for the tip Ihave the site saved to my favourites so may just look into that!

[bucketracer]

... so I'll see you there are there any entry fees at the gate?

Entry fee is for riders only, $35 for Sunday, $50 for both Sat/Sun, $20 Sat afternoon only and no fees for spectators or helpers anytime and your first ride or two to try things out is usually free too............

BTW....this very quick rider started with a pit bike.

[woodyracer]

darn mt wellington is on the same date as the vmcc round 1!, The honda is giving me a sad look in the garage

Next month.....hopefully
Have a good weekend.

[bucketracer]

I will deff come and watch, Ta. no leathers atm though...

Leathers not required for a bit of a put around. But must have/borrowed good riding gear, helmet, gloves, boots (work boots OK) leather jacket, jeans and overalls. The object is to have gear that will save you from getting gravel rash if you slide off. So no bare skin if your jacket pulls up when you bend over and overalls over jeans and jacket holds everything together in the event of a spill.

[scooute]

Leathers not required for a bit of a put around. But must have/borrowed good riding gear, helmet, gloves, boots (work boots OK) leather jacket, jeans and overalls. The object is to have gear that will save you from getting gravel rash if you slide off. So no bare skin if your jacket pulls up when you bend over and overalls over jeans and jacket holds everything together in the event of a spill.

Wow... I really appreciate all the advice, I think this month will be a spectator helper event for me on sunday (working on family farm saturday now as I just heard my lil nephew will be there, he loves bikes already and hes only 2 wish Id started that early!) with aim to jack somthing up for a possible blat next month, will be riding my road bike there so will have my gear with me...lol... who knows!!! but I predict an exciting future in bucket racing

[gatch]

Choice, I'm back in the workshop again after loads of on site work.

Started roughing out some "rearsets" today. 12 pieces of 6mm ally. Screwed together ready for the milling to start. Only using 6mm because that's what I found in the shorts rack at work.. Will stick 2 pieces together on each side, once they are all machined up. Thought I'd make extras as I'm certain I'll chuck it down the track a few times..

Also decided on manufacturing my own brand of folding pegs. Probably won't be as light as most aftermarket ones, but I know they will be stronger..

Hopefully I'll be able to spend a whole day in the workshop soon working on my subframe. On that note I've learned the perils of attempting to bend thin wall chromoly with a pipe bender.. Wrinkle wrinkle.. So I guess I'll have to make a tube bender too hahaha.

And I've found a bit of 100mm round ally as well that I'll turn down for a neat tacho pod. Should sit nicely in between the top of the forks.

Still have no motor, as I still have no money hahaha. But with only one big bill to pay off, a shiny wee loncin should be delivered by the stork in time for my birthday in march..

So there's no way I'll make the TRRS on the spada bucket. But with 4 maybe 5 other events on the dominator coming up I should have my hands full anyway.

Choice.

[bogan]

Choice, I'm back in the workshop again after loads of on site work.

Started roughing out some "rearsets" today. 12 pieces of 6mm ally. Screwed together ready for the milling to start. Only using 6mm because that's what I found in the shorts rack at work.. Will stick 2 pieces together on each side, once they are all machined up. Thought I'd make extras as I'm certain I'll chuck it down the track a few times..

Also decided on manufacturing my own brand of folding pegs. Probably won't be as light as most aftermarket ones, but I know they will be stronger..

Hopefully I'll be able to spend a whole day in the workshop soon working on my subframe. On that note I've learned the perils of attempting to bend thin wall chromoly with a pipe bender.. Wrinkle wrinkle.. So I guess I'll have to make a tube bender too hahaha.

hardout! if you come up with a mean good rear-set design you should open source that shit, I need to make some new ones eventually.

You try filling the pipe with sand before bending? helps heaps.

[gatch]

hardout! if you come up with a mean good rear-set design you should open source that shit, I need to make some new ones eventually.

You try filling the pipe with sand before bending? helps heaps.

Ha my rearsets will be pretty basic. I'm going for strength over style.. Function over form as it were.. Still I'll post something up when all is done.

And no I never thought to fill the tube before bending it. With the right bender it shouldn't be an issue..

[gatch]

Stayed behind at work today, made a cool tacho pod. It's very very light. Ran out of time however so will have to remove the excess material from the screw on base tomorrow.

Will make a mount out of either nylon or ally that sits on the top triple clamp between the forks.

Next on the menu, rear sets.

[TZ350]

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Nice work, looks good.........

[gatch]

I tried to use the convex glass front from the old instrument cluster. The plan was to hold it in the lathe and attack SLOWLY with a super hard tip tool. But muppet me dropped it the floor in front of the lathe..

So I cut a bit of clear plastic from a donor cd case. Choice.

[gatch]

Got back to work this afternoon just after 4pm. Asked my foreman if it's ok to use the machinery as usual for a 1/2 hour or so. "No worries Dan" says he.

About 6.30the only light turned on is the one above the mill and there's only one other guy aside from me in the machine shop. He's only there cause he's waiting for me to go hahaha.

Anyway, made an industrial looking mount for the tacho to sit on the top triple clamp. I have to say, out of all the machinery parts, repairs/rebuilds I've ever done, this has to be the coolest piece I've made. Can't wait to rip into the rest of the bits and pieces I have in mind.

If only I had the same gear at home..