ducatilover's squidtastic pile of crap

[ducatilover]

I ride far too slow to crash it and I'm all out of spare wheels/frames/swingarms.

Might just re-loom it and repaint it.
Cough... then cam it 'till I can afford to turbo it.
Fuck it, might start to pull it back down this week

[ducatilover]

Killed all the 'zorst leaks today, jetting seems happier now

Was leaking around the mid pipe (my bad)
Around the rear of the can
Hole under the headers...again.
Sorted that, re-riveted the can.
Goodness, it's much nicer sounding! It's quieter, but much tastier.

So, that's a good excuse for a ride! Off I strolled, out to Alfreton and up some of the epic roads I know.
Lovely bike
Tail light mount fucked out, great excuse to make the pretty one.

Now I'm compiling a list of to-buy things.
Full gasket set
ZX6E/ZZR600E radiator (bolts on, better looking and has different top pipe mount)
ZX6E Cams (why the F not?)
SS pipe for noms headers.
Fuck loads of wire and terminals, re-loom.
Rear shock (maybe)

Should be raping my eBay account soon then!

Almost forgot, still have a small hole in the mid range, so I'll raise the needles and she should be happy.
Running 146 Keihin jets, standard needle height and pilots out 2-3/4 turns.

[DrunkenMistake]

Ebay must love you man haha,

what happened to the tail light mount?

[ducatilover]

Ebay must love you man haha,

what happened to the tail light mount?

Ebay is my biiiitch

It has one small leg on each side bolting to the tail unit made out of alloy, one snapped around the bolt to the tail. Oops...
Speedo isn't too secure looking at the end of third gear either.

[tigertim20]

if youre gonna look into doing carbon fibre stuff later on, why not buy a small kit, and start your learning curve on small items. really when you look over the bike, you will find an endless number of little small brackets and bits and pieces all over the show that you could make out of CF. be a good way to shed some weight and practice on things that probably wont get seen before you make an expensive fuckup on something big

[ducatilover]

if youre gonna look into doing carbon fibre stuff later on, why not buy a small kit, and start your learning curve on small items. really when you look over the bike, you will find an endless number of little small brackets and bits and pieces all over the show that you could make out of CF. be a good way to shed some weight and practice on things that probably wont get seen before you make an expensive fuckup on something big

Steps ahead, I have taken them.
I can lay carbon.
Big bits like tank/tail will be kevlar reinforced and vacuum bagged.

Please don't start me on making little bits out of carbon, you don't want to see my carbon love get out of hand
Carbon headlight, handle bars, airbox, intake trumpets, carb tops, engine cases, rocker cover, speedo housing, every bracket, exhaust can.

Fuck you, you started me.

[ducatilover]

I've got a new phone coming with a nicer camera.
So my mission when that's here is:
Shorten the muffler, get sound clips/pics.

It's nice as it is, quiet on the road, sexual when at full noise.
Where's the fun in that? As if any other aspect of this thing is sensible.

[tigertim20]

go to the fuckin warehouse, or jb hifi or something, basic, decent cameras cost fuck all.

A guy I know is going to strip his bike and make anything he can out of CF to save extra weight, he's maniacal - reminded me of you, thought youd love the idea!

would be cool though, little one-off hand made bits here and there, thats what its all about!
do you realise I have gone through four projects in the time youve fucked around with this? latest one should be road legal this week.
get a wriggle on!

[ducatilover]

go to the fuckin warehouse, or jb hifi or something, basic, decent cameras cost fuck all.

A guy I know is going to strip his bike and make anything he can out of CF to save extra weight, he's maniacal - reminded me of you, thought youd love the idea!

would be cool though, little one-off hand made bits here and there, thats what its all about!
do you realise I have gone through four projects in the time youve fucked around with this? latest one should be road legal this week.
get a wriggle on!

I wanted a new phone, so I got one with a 5MP camera. Should be fine, current one is 2MP with an incredibly fucked lens.
If you haven't noticed I hate spending money on anything that's not bike related

It already has little one off bits
My project is better than your four, just sayin'.

I will be making CF parts, lots and lots of them.

[ducatilover]

Got a nice lot of alloy sheet today (thanks dad!) so I'll be making that undertail, battery case and mount all the electrics to the undertail then re-loom the bastard
Will make a better speedo mount too
Oh the possibilities for polished bits!!!!!
Fun times

[nzspokes]

So when you gunna make me a hugger?

[ducatilover]

So when you gunna make me a hugger?

Are you more of a kisser currently?

[ducatilover]

Spent all day sorting the mess Kawasaki keeps telling me is a loom and making the alloy under tail thingy-ma-jig.
Got my new temp gauge, let's hope this fucker works.

Couldn't resist a 9:30pm shit quality pic of it

Today was incredibly time consuming, started at 8, only just decided to give up for the day and go in to the warmth for a cuppa.
Hopefully the tail thing-whats-it turns out okay

[ducatilover]

I'll just leave this here.


Hopefully I can get a decent vid/sound when the new phone is here


Took 4 inched off the muffler, because I bloody can (hah, can, pun)
Finished all the wiring.
As you can see the temp gauge works, yay!
Finished the under tail unit, it follws the subframe, not the fairing, but it looks a lot better than it did.
Mounted a PC fan to the reg/rec from an old power supply I had in the garage, mounted the reg/rec in a clever place, will post a pic one of these days.
Made a battery clamp.
New exhaust mount, mounts to the rear master cyl mount, rock-fuggin-solid.

I'll make a new spacer for the seat too, the one in it is ugly (yeah you can't see it, it's under the seat...but still)

Very chuffed with what I got done today

Ordering some little bolts online as I type (sort of) so I can put my tail light on it's new bracket, the make a new number plate mount too

[banditrider]

Sounds pretty good. Where do ya buy ya nuts and bolts online?