Race chassis

[husaberg]

Yes it is amazing

The mystery monocoque bike i posted last week was a 350 converted Suzuki Gt250 in a frame Terry Shepard 1976.

Adjustable offsets Yokes.

[husaberg]

Hey Scott.

Can you whip me up one of these swingarms


PS the price added is obviously a typo it should be $69US so your budget is $100NZD

This one is the MUZ it was based on the tigercraft chassis it was glued in place with a Loctite product which if it sounds doggy consider tha's how the Eurofighter was made?

[Grumph]

I've got a pic somewhere of a Husqvarna works crosser which came unglued very publicly.
Titanium tube glued into machined junctions.

If you want a swingarm like that one - and why would you ? - better start work with your junior hacksaw and battery drill...

[Brian d marge]

I've got a pic somewhere of a Husqvarna works crosser which came unglued very publicly.
Titanium tube glued into machined junctions.

If you want a swingarm like that one - and why would you ? - better start work with your junior hacksaw and battery drill...

Dont buy a lotus elise then , if I remember it was Aluminum glued together

Like most things , there is a time and place for things , when things start to unfold , is when the material is used outside its design parameters.

Falure to understand the stresses or the medium , usually is the cause

Stephen

[crazy man]

Hey Scott.

Can you whip me up one of these swingarms


PS the price added is obviously a typo it should be $69US so your budget is $100NZD

This one is the MUZ it was based on the tigercraft chassis it was glued in place with a Loctite product which if it sounds doggy consider tha's how the Eurofighter was made?

lovey l have made some front forks like the brittion the same way . just need to finsh my f3 bike of to fit them to.

[husaberg]

lovey l have made some front forks like the brittion the same way . just need to finsh my f3 bike of to fit them to.

Some more stuff
In answer to Grumph have a look at the brake setup that's partly why, plus it is shinny.

Re the glue, Well if used properly it holds multi million dollar fighter aircraft together for 1000's of hours...........

[husaberg]

Sundays Monocoque

It's Seeley Really.............1974....

[Grumph]

Didn't the restorer of that one get Sheene to parade it a few years back....his comment apparently was to the effect that the restoration was very accurate - it handled like a bag of shit originally and still did....

[husaberg]

Didn't the restorer of that one get Sheene to parade it a few years back....his comment apparently was to the effect that the restoration was very accurate - it handled like a bag of shit originally and still did....

No idea but super ugly compared to last weeks Monocoque. (The Shepard)

Would you believe i have at least three other Suzuki monocoques to post. The Heron plus another 2 mystery monocoque's.
Were Suzuki frames that bad?

Unsprung weight....for it.....

[Grumph]

Were Suzuki frames that bad ? Well, yes the 500 std frame wasn't that good - although better std for std than a Mach 3...
The reason you see so many aftermarket frames for the 500 was availability of the motors. At the time they were cheap as chips compared to the real GP exotica.
Frames - Steve Roberts did the best but outside NZ you could't buy them so the euro frame builders had a field day. Mike Sinclair while at Tommys in ChCh did a batch of 3 race 500's in modified std frames. Wonder where they are now - collectors items.

[husaberg]

Yeah,er no i was meaning Suzuki's in general, the T500 was ubiquitous, fair call,
but a heck of a lot of other monocoques were Suzuki engined.
The old man had a T500 Titan long a bit wallowy. It had some funny long expansion chambers and huuge induction noise from open carbs.

[Grumph]

The very long chambers were typical Suzuki of the period. Peak power of the air cooled TR500 was at about 8500rpm and it want bang at anything over 9000...Even the TR750 was limited to a ceiling around 9200-9500.

[cotswold]

Yeah,er no i was meaning Suzuki's in general, the T500 was ubiquitous, fair call,
but a heck of a lot of other monocoques were Suzuki engined.
The old man had a T500 Titan long a bit wallowy. It had some funny long expansion chambers and huuge induction noise from open carbs.

I had one of those as my work bike and it was a fat lazy bugger, but I loved it

[husaberg]

The very long chambers were typical Suzuki of the period. Peak power of the air cooled TR500 was at about 8500rpm and it want bang at anything over 9000...Even the TR750 was limited to a ceiling around 9200-9500.

Yeah long for revs. the 8E Villiers was super long for the er....7500rpm peak.... but the ones on the Titan basically were all taper (homemade) but no mid section at all. no external silencers yet not that loud really. The induction was way louder.

I had one of those as my work bike and it was a fat lazy bugger, but I loved it

I remember them as being super torquey.
I think the gearchange was adaptable to either left or right in hindsight?

[husaberg]

Brakes mmmm...... Shinny old stuff old but still shinny.