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Been Around the Block
I woke up about 3:30 am Friday morning to a massive storm of neural synapse activities in my brain relating to my SR500 street tracker project. I realized I had like a ful week of time at my parents' home (read as reasonably equipped heated garage) to help my college attending daughter living there to find a car since she totalled hers a few weeks back. I had brainstorms of things I could do up there since I knew where everything I needed could be attained, with the exception of convenient welding... that's another matter I'll have to deal with.
I figured out my seat/number plate side cover mount and also was working out some ideas on mounting the fender and license plates. The actual dirt track number plates are going to mount over the shock rather than at the center area of the frame like stock side covers. The trick is to make a good mounting system that will allow me to tuck in the license plate and tail light set up where it won't be visible from the side, yet have enough strength to hold tight and not crack/break due to road/bike vibration. The ideas came to me between 3:30 and 5:00 am. I went to school and drew up the bracket I wanted in CAD.
The plan now is to load up the bike, parts, angle grinder, and some other hardware/tools to take advantage of the massive downtime I will have at my parents' place. With heat, brews, and maybe some friends coming around, I may just be able to put a serious dent into this project in the next week. I want to rought it out, then tear it down grind the junk off the frame or weld on then paint everything... maybe during the spring break
Here's the first evo when I was thinking "Brit bike look":
to imitate this:
Then I wanted flat track. This was brought about both by racing in my late teens and by the few times I got on ice with the guys. I figure the street tracker would allow playing with it on a dirt circle and on ice with studded tires. When I started the trend was just starting, but then when it kind of blossomed everything had a "plastic tail section", so I abandoned the look I had to that point...
and now want to do something more like this:
or this:
with the small cobra head sort of seat/bouce pad (but I want it one piece) and the front fender mounted on the rear. Just to do something different than the current crop. Hopefully I get there before the masses do... I didn't on the original flat track look nor did I with a bobber back in the 80s. Maybe this time.
Oh well, now off to the parent's place Sunday for the week.
I figured out my seat/number plate side cover mount and also was working out some ideas on mounting the fender and license plates. The actual dirt track number plates are going to mount over the shock rather than at the center area of the frame like stock side covers. The trick is to make a good mounting system that will allow me to tuck in the license plate and tail light set up where it won't be visible from the side, yet have enough strength to hold tight and not crack/break due to road/bike vibration. The ideas came to me between 3:30 and 5:00 am. I went to school and drew up the bracket I wanted in CAD.
The plan now is to load up the bike, parts, angle grinder, and some other hardware/tools to take advantage of the massive downtime I will have at my parents' place. With heat, brews, and maybe some friends coming around, I may just be able to put a serious dent into this project in the next week. I want to rought it out, then tear it down grind the junk off the frame or weld on then paint everything... maybe during the spring break
Here's the first evo when I was thinking "Brit bike look":
to imitate this:
Then I wanted flat track. This was brought about both by racing in my late teens and by the few times I got on ice with the guys. I figure the street tracker would allow playing with it on a dirt circle and on ice with studded tires. When I started the trend was just starting, but then when it kind of blossomed everything had a "plastic tail section", so I abandoned the look I had to that point...
and now want to do something more like this:
or this:
with the small cobra head sort of seat/bouce pad (but I want it one piece) and the front fender mounted on the rear. Just to do something different than the current crop. Hopefully I get there before the masses do... I didn't on the original flat track look nor did I with a bobber back in the 80s. Maybe this time.
Oh well, now off to the parent's place Sunday for the week.