It truly is an honor to be nominated here by our fellow builders and to be here with such a beautiful bike built by brother jpmobius, as always all of your support for our work truly means more to me than you will ever know. The carburetors and front brakes are not on the bike in the photo as we are replacing the factory carburetors with new Mikuni flat slide racing carburetors and drilling the front brake rotor for added performance.
It has truly been an honor to work with brother bluesmokey on this RD350 build, here is a link to the build thread http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=42508.0 and a photo of the bike that we started with!
We decided to do some custom frame work so I removed the rear frame section and instead of just running bars from the rear down tubes to the new rear frame hoop I built I built a pair of new frame rails that start at the front of the frame, bend around the cylinders, connect to the rear frame down tubes, and then end at the rear top shock mount on the frame and boxed in the shock mounts!
I also built a mount to put the ignition switch in the front of the frame, built rock guards out of aluminum to go in the rear of the frame, moved the kick stand to the left front of the frame, and plated the top of the frame for extra seat support and so that I could build a battery tray to go under the tail section that I hand built out of fiberglass.
I drilled speed holes in the outside fins of the cylinder heads, polished the chambers, then had them powder coated and smoothed the edges of all the cooling fins. The cylinders were bored to fit the new 358cc Wiseco big bore forged racing pistons and we installed a new Vito's light weight racing crankshaft!
We had the factory hubs and rim hoops powder coated black and I assembled them with new stainless steel spokes.
My brother Jason painted the tank and tail section that we built Starburst Whole Earth Mettalic and Black with gold and silver pinstripes!
The frame and swingarm were painted the same color and you can see the custom chain guard I built for the bike in this photo!
All of the electronics are mounted under the tank and the tail section so that we could keep the bike very clean looking!
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I love before and after photos!
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Here are a few photos of the steering stabilizer and the rear sets!
We added a Rivera Primo Hedled headlight system with integrated turn signals.
After I built the seat pan we had it covered in some nice material that matches the color of the paint.
I built a steel front fork brace and a side tag mount.
The new carburetors should be here before voting ends so I will add some more new photos soon!