ducatilover's squidtastic pile of crap

[ducatilover]

that looks mint bro! I know what I'm doing on my aprilia now.. polished lips with black centers hehe

the frame and swinger on the aprilia are already polished so should be tight.. especially with the sweet gold Brembos for bling

Do it man!
Got pics of the 'prillia?

looks fookn mint

Cheers!

[AllanC]

Sand paper, two hours of sanding the prick of a thing per side. I ran out of Autosol when I did the rocker cover

Sandpaper - man that's devotion. I found the atosol good but it also seemed to damage dull the paint if i overshot the rims slightly. Maybe I just hadn't left the paint long enough to fully cure before polishing the rims

[ducatilover]

Sandpaper - man that's devotion. I found the atosol good but it also seemed to damage dull the paint if i overshot the rims slightly. Maybe I just hadn't left the paint long enough to fully cure before polishing the rims

I did the polishing before painting the rim, but I'd just mask it up or be careful. It takes fucking hours to take back paint and polish alloy, the result is great though.

[ducatilover]

Bit of an idea for the subframe.
The lower bar (red line thing) is the original top bar.


If any one feels like being genius, whip up a subframe idea

It seems I will be drilling through the frame, as dodgy as that may sound, it'll be fine I mean, what can possibly go wrong?

[bogan]

My guess at it, red lines are all on the same plane, green ones go to the shock mount. Advantage is we can just grind all the undeeded crap off your current subframe and use that for half the work, unless that is wheelie fucked too?

I think the cross bar is probably too far back in that sketch, should be just in front of the back of the seat.

[ducatilover]

My guess at it, red lines are all on the same plane, green ones go to the shock mount. Advantage is we can just grind all the undeeded crap off your current subframe and use that for half the work, unless that is wheelie fucked too?

Nice idea! That'd be light and hidden (like my missus )

The subframe is the good one, I cut up this one instead of the bent one so it's straight. Fuckin' ugly though, will definitely have to get the grinder out

I'll try dig out my spare shock/linkage bolts. The top shock mount is quite a bit skinnier than the other parts

I might go stick the front wheel on now, have filed down those little bits that were fouling with the speedo drive

[Fast Eddie]

theres my new Aprilia RS250.. shes getting stripped right down though. Needs some serious TLC

[ducatilover]

theres my new Aprilia RS250.. shes getting stripped right down though. Needs some serious TLC

Sick! Build thread or GTFO

[Fast Eddie]

haha waddya mean, stay on topic with your build or you want me to start a build thread for the ape? don't think I can be bothered with either option.. so sleepy.. I think I got coolant in my eyes

[ducatilover]

haha waddya mean, stay on topic with your build or you want me to start a build thread for the ape? don't think I can be bothered with either option.. so sleepy.. I think I got coolant in my eyes

Start a build thread lol

[Fast Eddie]

Start a build thread lol

yea I'll start one tomorrow.. might be busy for a while!

made a ghetto waterblaster, pinched the weedkiller backpack sprayer and just filled it up with degreaser and water. pump it up and its making things easier already haha.

[ducatilover]

yea I'll start one tomorrow.. might be busy for a while!

made a ghetto waterblaster, pinched the weedkiller backpack sprayer and just filled it up with degreaser and water. pump it up and its making things easier already haha.

Good shit!

I got my front wheel on again.
Might start finishing the tank, it's fuckin' ugly and crap at the moment.
Tail unit will follow that, I needs to get some primer though, I'm more or less out of painting shit in general

The list:
Front brake lines.
Fork rebuild.
polish/paint rear wheel.
Take a fuck load of length off the loom.
Battery/loom box under the tank/carbs.
Exhaust system.
Steering bearings.
Headlight cowling.
Speedo set up.
Body work stuff/paint.

I think that's all?

What I want to to if I stumble across one of those things that pays me in return for doing stuffs,
Sexier swing arm, maybe a 'Prilia one or Viffer SSA.
Wave disks and Tokico gold calipers.
Lighter wheels.
Alloy subframe.


And an idea I had today,
Twin tank using the tail unit

[Fast Eddie]

Good shit!

I got my front wheel on again.
Might start finishing the tank, it's fuckin' ugly and crap at the moment.
Tail unit will follow that, I needs to get some primer though, I'm more or less out of painting shit in general

The list:
Front brake lines.
Fork rebuild.
polish/paint rear wheel.
Take a fuck load of length off the loom.
Battery/loom box under the tank/carbs.
Exhaust system.
Steering bearings.
Headlight cowling.
Speedo set up.
Body work stuff/paint.

I think that's all?

What I want to to if I stumble across one of those things that pays me in return for doing stuffs,
Sexier swing arm, maybe a 'Prilia one or Viffer SSA.
Wave disks and Tokico gold calipers.
Lighter wheels.
Alloy subframe.


And an idea I had today,
Twin tank using the tail unit

sounds mean, def bang a single side swinger, I had a vfr400 ss and rim on my cbr600 fighter. gotta find matching front wheel too.

haha two petrol tanks? that sounds like fire.. you could make a fuel cell and mount it as low as possible to bring down center of gravity and just have a dummy plastic tank up top prob have to put the fuel cell where ur batt is tho. and just flag the battery, use one of those bettery eliminators.. flag the push button start.

[tigertim20]

second fuel tank sounds awesome!

[ducatilover]

sounds mean, def bang a single side swinger, I had a vfr400 ss and rim on my cbr600 fighter. gotta find matching front wheel too.

haha two petrol tanks? that sounds like fire.. you could make a fuel cell and mount it as low as possible to bring down center of gravity and just have a dummy plastic tank up top prob have to put the fuel cell where ur batt is tho. and just flag the battery, use one of those bettery eliminators.. flag the push button start.

Rig up a kick start on my high compression 4 stroke!
I would really like a Viffer swinger with a 17 inch 750 or 800 rim.
Fuel cell? it'd be small under the tank, cool idea though!

second fuel tank sounds awesome!

I kind of like the idea...
I'll think about it more.
There will be absolutely nothing in that tail unit except for the wiring to the lights, I'm going to stuff the whole loom under the tank