Bucket rules (or lack, thereof)?

[bogan]

I ground the disc flat a while back, new pads will be a cinch, getting a hydraulic line made.. Going to try make a silencer out of some ally pipe, I'll turn up some caps for the ends, get some perf tube or roll some heavy mesh for a core and smash some steel wool in there.

Any better ideas ? (that involves minimal transfer of legal tender)

I have about 400mm of 38mm perf tube left over from my muffler if ya want that? bout 2.5mm thick so not lightweight racing though.

[gatch]

I went to "2 wheels engineering" here in palmy to see if they had any ali tube (as I heard they were bike friendly ). The man there gave me a bit of 75mm tube about 400 long for the wicked price of "a pack of chocolate biscuits". So big ups to 2 wheels. Cheers fellas.

I have about 400mm of 38mm perf tube left over from my muffler if ya want that? bout 2.5mm thick so not lightweight racing though.

Cheers for the offer man, but I found some 1mm perf sheet at work. The holes are about 8mm sq, so all good and light. I rolled a bit around some 32mm bar and tig'd the seam. Will use woven fibreglass for the packing as it will take a while to fall to bits and shoot out the end. Should even look the part when its all riveted together.

[speedpro]

I went to "2 wheels engineering" here in palmy to see if they had any ali tube (as I heard they were bike friendly ). The man there gave me a bit of 75mm tube about 400 long for the wicked price of "a pack of chocolate biscuits". So big ups to 2 wheels. Cheers fellas.

The main man there is Colin Wheeler, ex Air force, used to race buckets himself and had a trick hub centre steering bucket with a Kawasaki 100 engine. Built the whole lot himself.

[bogan]

I went to "2 wheels engineering" here in palmy to see if they had any ali tube (as I heard they were bike friendly ). The man there gave me a bit of 75mm tube about 400 long for the wicked price of "a pack of chocolate biscuits". So big ups to 2 wheels. Cheers fellas.



Cheers for the offer man, but I found some 1mm perf sheet at work. The holes are about 8mm sq, so all good and light. I rolled a bit around some 32mm bar and tig'd the seam. Will use woven fibreglass for the packing as it will take a while to fall to bits and shoot out the end. Should even look the part when its all riveted together.

I did pretty much the opposite for mine, bought the perf, and tig'd the can using sheet, twin pipe oval short can makes a wicked noise bit of silicon on the joins never goes astray

Never heard of two wheels engineering, sound like my kinda place though.

[gatch]

I did pretty much the opposite for mine, bought the perf, and tig'd the can using sheet, twin pipe oval short can makes a wicked noise bit of silicon on the joins never goes astray

Never heard of two wheels engineering, sound like my kinda place though.

I'm going to turn up some caps for it tomorrow, will make them a good fit so there SHOULD be minimal leakage. Might put a smear of gasket sealant in there anyway. Good idea.

[gatch]

So, here's my new muffler...



Going to pack the empty space with some woven fiber glass material. Came out looking pretty cool I thought

[Henk]

Nice work. 10chars

[gatch]

So, here's my new muffler...



Going to pack the empty space with some woven fiber glass material. Came out looking pretty cool I thought

Sounds very dirt bike-esque now. Still louder than stock but nowhere as offensive as it was with the open megaphone.. Stupid rain is putting the damper on me working on the bike. Trying to tune the bugs out of the carb is no good unless you can ride the blardy thing around.

[gatch]

Sounds very dirt bike-esque now. Still louder than stock but nowhere as offensive as it was with the open megaphone.. Stupid rain is putting the damper on me working on the bike. Trying to tune the bugs out of the carb is no good unless you can ride the blardy thing around.

So it starts easy enough and is now mobile. Just ordered a few bits and pieces that are hard to find/excessively $$$ here in NZ, from wemoto. Namely spare levers, I broke one just moving the bike around in the shed..

The (ever revised) plan is to get the front brakes working WELL again. New EBC pads, new braided lines and fluid. And give the forks some new life as well. At this stage, new seals, fluid and maybe some spacers for a little preload. Not going to bother cutting/spacing the (ugly progressive rate) springs just yet. Also need to deal with the clutch, it slips like a soap on the shower floor. Some "precision ground shims" to go in there I think.

Looking good for the KoK final round. I'm coming for your scalp Richard Hayes. You're a dead man.

[koba]

So it starts easy enough and is now mobile. Just ordered a few bits and pieces that are hard to find/excessively $$$ here in NZ, from wemoto. Namely spare levers, I broke one just moving the bike around in the shed..

The (ever revised) plan is to get the front brakes working WELL again. New EBC pads, new braided lines and fluid. And give the forks some new life as well. At this stage, new seals, fluid and maybe some spacers for a little preload. Not going to bother cutting/spacing the (ugly progressive rate) springs just yet. Also need to deal with the clutch, it slips like a soap on the shower floor. Some "precision ground shims" to go in there I think.

Looking good for the KoK final round. I'm coming for your scalp Richard Hayes. You're a dead man.

But he has the CB, if its in good health he should be at least a bit of a fight.

[gatch]

But he has the CB, if its in good health he should be at least a bit of a fight.

Na he's a homo and I'll kick and punch him till he cries.

[F5 Dave]

I hear he keeps that front wheel out of round just to give him a thrill.

[gatch]

I hear he keeps that front wheel out of round just to give him a thrill.

That's not too far from the truth actually hahahaha.

[husaberg]

So, here's my new muffler...



Going to pack the empty space with some woven fiber glass material. Came out looking pretty cool I thought

Looks great as a tip for others the best easy sourse of thin wall like 1.2mm or something.
Its irrigation tube mainly used one market gardens now not real farms ask around if your have rural mates but cheap as by the meter at Mico's comes in 75 and 100mm if memory serves me.
I used to just buy the fibreglass packing wool string not cloth at the car mufler shop
$10-15 will do all the mufflers you are likely to ever use in a lifetime of racing.about 1 kg

If you want to get real trick the rotary guys use stainless steel turnings from a machine shop lasts forever even with a pp20b.
For the bafle I just used to spend a few minutes with the drill and a bit of exhaust tubing.

[gatch]

So I had the spada out in the wet at Kaitoke today. Not exactly ideal conditions for a shakedown run, but I was happy to be circulating at long last.

A new coil/condenser cured some last minute lack of spark issues. The muffler was shooting pieces of fibre glass all over the show, so I may look at actual muffler packing (as I am aware it exists now). Also said muffler came loose from the header and ran like a bag of shit. A pivot screw disappeared out of my front brake at some point, stoked I had spare levers.. My kill switch went from the intended on/off function to on/on... I ran out of gas in the "tuning session". Front tire may as well be made of wood..

Otherwise it was ok, no oil leaks. Brakes are good. The motor didn't fall out of it's mounts. My butchered CRC cap seemed to keep water out of the carb mouth fairly well. Suspension sucks ass, but that's not going to change for some time.

All in all not too bad a day. Looking forward to some tweaks and getting out there again.