FXR rearsets. These will not break.

[jasonu]

[QUOTE=Henk;1129807065]Up here in Auckland we've given up on fast so we're going for pretty instead.
Although it's mostly for laughs it does have one upside. People coming along for a look seem to be more tempted to join in and get involved in racing things that look like small scale racebikes rather than piles of old crap. Sounds a bit like bullshit I know but I think there has been at least one new bike turn up every month for the last year.

Mate I was pushing this exact theory 15 years ago. Nothing worse for the class than someone new showing up for a look and thinking of having a go and seeing some shitbox with a beer crate for a seat and beer can catch bottles winning. That sort of thing made buckets look more like a joke than actual road raceing.

[Henk]

At Taumaranui this year some locals turned up for a bit of a gander, dad and son got talking to me about getting into it and the 12ish year boy was indignant that he wanted one like mine, even though I was insisting that it wasn't fast and that I had been made to look stupid by most other bikes there for two days (amazing how incorrect cam timing will cause an engine to run like crap and eventually expire).
The appeal was apparently the fact that it looked like a racebike, not a commuter hack, all done with an aftermarket tailpiece and a couple of rattlecans, it's not hard to make them look sort of OK. Making them look really nice as Arrons will no doubt turn out and Connors number 69 already is isn't something I have the skill or patience for, anyway I'd be too scared to crash anything that pretty.

[bogan]

Your choice of material... Stailnless, Ali or steel.

notice you done a bit of milling on em too, does the laser cutting cause it to work-harden at all, as stainless is already a prick to machine! The guys I work for get quite a bit of water jet cutting done, nicer finish and tigther tolerances iirc, bout the same pricewise I think.

[Henk]

I spoke to North Shore plate cutting about getting some done in 10mm ali, but never went any further than that. Would probably do them in 8mm ali now but Pete did say that at 10mm they would water cut.

[hayd3n]

one thing with unbreakable rearset is that you may brake the frame instead

[bogan]

I spoke to North Shore plate cutting about getting some done in 10mm ali, but never went any further than that. Would probably do them in 8mm ali now but Pete did say that at 10mm they would water cut.

yeh, 8mm ally would be a lot lighter, and perhaps some 6 for the kick plate as it looks like the kick plate sticks out a bit extra, may lower ground clearance while cornering?

[gatch]

I've found some 5mm ally at work. Pretty cheap and nasty idea, but I'm just going to cut some triangles on the bandsaw, pin about 12 pieces together and machine, drill and tap etc as a stack. Then use 2 pieces per side. Then make some of my patented footpegs, lol.. Screw some nylon knobs on the end and voila..

[Henk]

Pretty much what I did. Two bits of 5mm ali, cut out with a jig saw and cleaned up with an angle grinder. Didn't bother with the kick plate, bit weird to feel the back of your boot going up and down with the swingarm the first time but no big deal. Not sure how they would reduce cornering clearance though.
Mine are bolted together by the mounting bolts and footpegs, would be better if they were tigged to join the layers together, hasn't caused any issues yet though.
I just used the standard peg pivots and Emgo cheap and nasty aftermarket pegs with nylon screwed to them. Sticking with pivoting pegs since the rules call for them (I think) and they still deck out on occasion and when that happens I'd rather they pivot than dig in and pitch me off the high side.

[Buckets4Me]

would be better if they were tigged to join the layers together, hasn't caused any issues yet though..

Araldite glue ???

[TZ350]

I've found some 5mm ally at work. Pretty cheap and nasty idea, but I'm just going to cut some triangles on the bandsaw....

No, not such a bad idea, screw and glue them together like Buckets4me suggests if you want to, cleaned up, I think you could make really good brackets this way.

[gatch]

We have some Ultra ridiculously strong loctite 680 somewhere in the secret goodies cupboard in the machine shop, a few drops of that will do it..

I messed around with it once, glued a pinion gear to a 30mm shaft. That shaft operates the x travel on one of our little chain hoists. Still going strong.. Glues fingers together a treat too..

[F5 Dave]

. . . Then make some of my patented footpegs, lol....

Many kart tracks insist that they fold. There are arguments that straight pegs with secure nylon ends would be ok or even better, but if the track rules say folding then it's a dumb argument to have. My hangers have just been ally plate & a trip to my mate's bandsaw (let him do the scary cutting). Emgo pegs have been a little hard to find of late, just the silly slash cut angled ones. But I use Honda brackets, drill a hole & file it square on an angle. Job done. You can either have levers off those pegs or turn a bush & push it into a hole on the plate & a spot of weld to secure.

US site, I usually cut a section off them to make em shorter & turn up some nylon ends. I'll probably make my next set, I have some ally bought for the job.
http://www.powerpartsplus.com/pages/...egs-front.aspx

[Henk]

It's the silly slash cut ones I'm using. They have the bottom open so it's super easy to attach nylon using sodding great wood screws.

[F5 Dave]

oh well if you can keep the screw out of the way.

[Buckets4Me]

Many kart tracks insist that they fold. There are arguments that straight pegs with secure nylon ends would be ok or even better, but if the track rules say folding then it's a dumb argument to have. My hangers have just been ally plate & a trip to my mate's bandsaw (let him do the scary cutting). Emgo pegs have been a little hard to find of late, just the silly slash cut angled ones. But I use Honda brackets, drill a hole & file it square on an angle. Job done. You can either have levers off those pegs or turn a bush & push it into a hole on the plate & a spot of weld to secure.

US site, I usually cut a section off them to make em shorter & turn up some nylon ends. I'll probably make my next set, I have some ally bought for the job.
http://www.powerpartsplus.com/pages/...egs-front.aspx

I removed my foot pegs and inserted nylon sliders shapet like foot pegs
gets around the folding foot peg rule (I dont have foot pegs) just straight nylon rod groved so they arn't quite so slippery in the wet

you dont need folding frame sliders now do you