monday night, time to give the pig-ugly front pulley casting some therapy, i'm ditching my rearsets and going back to mid-mounted footpegs so need to keep the footpeg mounting lug, the brake lever mounting and the master-cylinder bracket, [even though i'm scrapping the big, ugly harley master cylinder and reservoir and using a little brembo item off a cagiva mito], still leaves a lot of redundant aluminium to cut away though, so, out with the trusty hacksaw and rough out to shape, the back of the casting has strengthening lugs cast into it so you have a good idea what to chop away, dangerous dropped the work on the miller and saved me loads of time hand filing to shape, going to take a lot of work to smooth everything back and get a nice shape to it but i reckon it will complement the cut-down timing case nicely, i spent a couple of hours last night cutting cardboard cut-outs and trying to make a pattern for a new cover but, whichever way i tried it, the pattern would just have been a slab of aluminium, this standard casting cut down should look much more interesting.
Excellent mate i'd just took mine off to do the same as the top bit of the casing really bugs me..it draws your eye to it's stickyouttness..!!
ReplyDeleteJust seen the message you left on Weird old bikes. Just to let you know that there is a new blog moreweirdoldbikes.blogspot.com which will chronicle the disposal of Marks collection
ReplyDeletethank's for letting me know Neil.
ReplyDeletestickyouttness!, brilliant stuka!, your'e right though, it really sticks out. like a pimple on a pig's arse!
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