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23-02-2015, 10:33 PM | #1 |
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Wow, that is one tidy motor, nice job indeed!
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24-02-2015, 10:35 AM | #2 |
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Great job on the engine looks awesome
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24-02-2015, 10:45 AM | #3 |
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The whole bike will be awesome.....I've seen Dookbob's work before.
Anyone looking for a decent 600 would do well to put their deposit down now. But I was still stunned by the appearance of this engine .....Ducati never made them look that good in the first place. |
01-03-2015, 10:04 PM | #4 |
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Absolutely stunning !!
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10-03-2015, 06:31 PM | #5 |
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10-03-2015, 11:53 PM | #6 |
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Fantastic build quality so far
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11-03-2015, 09:00 AM | #7 |
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They are really poor those original plates. Cheapo rubbish!
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24-03-2015, 07:08 PM | #8 |
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It,s got half a rolling chassis now, waiting for the front wheel to get back from the powder coaters.[/IMG]
[/IMG] [/IMG] Last edited by Dookbob; 24-03-2015 at 07:10 PM.. |
24-03-2015, 07:15 PM | #9 |
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24-03-2015, 07:19 PM | #10 |
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24-03-2015, 07:32 PM | #11 |
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The hoop blends in quite nicely in the same colour as the swingarm, doesn't it ?
Those rose joints look like they're screwed a long way out though. Any news on the tank ? |
24-03-2015, 08:13 PM | #12 |
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Yes they do look a bit that way , but the safe limit for a 10 mm bolt is a 10 mm insertion length, which is where they are, and with the front forks sticking through the top yoke by 20mm I get just the right feel of the steering that I am looking for with this set up. I have always been amazed at how much difference can be obtained by such small adjustments.
Re. your old tank, all the filler is in place now and has been kept indoors in the warmth, I will give it a few more weeks before I go near it with the spray gun to make sure that any shrinkage that could occur will do so before I paint it. I put a camera into it to check on its internal condition before I started work on it and was very surprised to find that there is no sign whatsoever of any corrosion or even staining in it. So it will be on the road again one of these days, just a case of choosing the colour, I have changed my mind a dozen times so far, I really like the white, but I did that on the last one so It could get a nice coat or two of the silver titanium as featured on one of todays posts. Thanks for taking an interest Utopia, ride safe. |
24-03-2015, 08:36 PM | #13 |
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Looking very tidy Bob, I love following these build threads. It's like our dogs - lucky to have found a good home!
Oh, I'm erring on favouring the silver titanium FWIW. |
24-03-2015, 09:40 PM | #14 |
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Titanium grey/silver and red frame should be a great combination
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25-03-2015, 01:30 AM | #15 |
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I was just thinking today that, with that frame and engine colour, your most likely choices for the tank would be either red or white.
In which case I was rather hoping that my old tank would become white, as I'm not a big fan of red. But the silver titanium option sounds perhaps even better. It matters not really, I suppose, but nevertheless I'm pleased. I thought the tank was decent inside. For information, since I've had it (which has been nearly always) its been kept largely empty over winter but, crucially in my opinion, in an UNHEATED shed with good ventilation. Its good to know that the strategy seems to have worked. Downside is I freeze my nuts off in there when that cold east winter wind blows ! My thoughts on the rose joints was not so much that there might be insufficient thread engagement but more that the end of the hoop was now effectively a lengthy bit of fairly thin threaded rod. Probably not a problem unless maybe the joint gets stiff, in which case it'd perhaps only hasten a failure that would happen anyway. But the stress-raising effect of the vee thread, over that extended length, it just kind of caught my eye. |
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