Dirty Goldie_76 GL1000 cafe racer
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JustinLonghorn
No Purple Hearts, No Blue Ribbons
I am on board.
Ok guys some news....
The upper part of the tank is really dirty... holes... rust...
The lower mock up I made with paper have a bad shape and I lost a lot of volume with it...
For the lower part the solution is to directly shape it on the frame (with something to ensure a 5mm gap around it)
So during next weeks with a friend we will try to make a fiberglass tank
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First time for me, and for him!!! But he know how working the fiberglass so why not ???
May be some funny pics in a few days or weeks !!!
The upper part of the tank is really dirty... holes... rust...
The lower mock up I made with paper have a bad shape and I lost a lot of volume with it...
For the lower part the solution is to directly shape it on the frame (with something to ensure a 5mm gap around it)
So during next weeks with a friend we will try to make a fiberglass tank
.First time for me, and for him!!! But he know how working the fiberglass so why not ???
May be some funny pics in a few days or weeks !!!
SoyBoySigh
Been Around the Block
Leave it to a Frenchman to reference GODIER GENOUD on a friggin' HONDA project. Ha-ha. I should think it far better to style a Goldwing after a Japauto Thalia or Melpomene RCB 750 or SOHC 999cc - or at the very least, the Swiss DLF-1000 or Rickman "Wing Thing" more to the point. I mean, THAT stuff ALSO took place in Europe. Not JUST the Godier Genoud Kawasaki stuff! Sheesh.
Either way, I see some awesome skills in your project. You've laced that front hub to an UN-DRILLED 2.5017" D.I.D. OEM Honda rim? Or was it a used rim, pre-drilled for the bigger REAR hub?
'Cause when I enquired about that very same combination with Buchanan's Spoke & Rim in California, they said that this was "impossible". Mind you, they gave various answers about the combination in my avatar pic, then finally got around to building it for me: GT750J 4LS drum in 3.00x16" Borrani drop-center shouldered rim. For Maxi-Scooter tires 110/70-16 & 140/70-16 on the "KZ440LOL" I'm building for my Ex-Daughter here.
I agree with what you said about matching rim diameters. 16/16, 17/17, 18/18 - these all make the best sense to me. Though I'm also making a set for my "CB900K0 Bol Bomber" with a 3.50x16" Super-Akront front combined with a 4.25x18" Akront rear. I've got a couple of those rear rims, one drilled for the big Honda rear hub, and one drilled for the Harley rear hub, so that I can swap out to a "front hub trick" with the bolt-up cush-drive etc. At which point, I want to take a crack at my OWN replica of that Swiss DLF-1000, maybe even with the weld-up rear hub like 6pkrunner did for his GL1100 wire-spoke project. If I can find somebody to build me a weld-up rear hub, I'll take a crack at either a GL1200, or GL1500 - or another shaft-drive Honda I'm obsessing over, a VF1100S/VF1100C Sabre/Magna based "homage" to the '60s Czechoslovakian Grand Prix V4 racer the "CZ Type 860" - 'cause let's face it, if the CZ team had ANY backing at all, they'd have blown away Giacomo Agostini on his MV Agusta AND Mike Hailwood on the RC-181 - at which point the public's imagination/conception of a super-sports machine wouldn't be an INLINE four cylinder, and instead of the CB750K0 Sand-Cast, Honda would've made a sand-cast "CZ860" in 1968!!!
Either one of 'em would be worth TEN of my "CB900K0 Bol Bomber" - despite using more or less the same running gear, probably even the same gas tank and seat and bars and everything. Just the rear hub and the frame and engine would be different between all three versions. Picture the Sabre with an Interceptor type stance, 16/18 rim-set, a fixed 1/4-fairing slash 1/2-fairing in the Interceptor slash Katana style, but modeled after the fairing off of Geoff Duke's '57 Gilera Rondine, all rounded like a proper bubble fairing but the short low fly-screen on top, with nothing over the bars to get caught on the back of your hands etc. Might even work with a high up "Superbike" style handlebar atop the yokes, with mid-point foot pegs rather than rear-sets.
Either way, I see some awesome skills in your project. You've laced that front hub to an UN-DRILLED 2.5017" D.I.D. OEM Honda rim? Or was it a used rim, pre-drilled for the bigger REAR hub?
'Cause when I enquired about that very same combination with Buchanan's Spoke & Rim in California, they said that this was "impossible". Mind you, they gave various answers about the combination in my avatar pic, then finally got around to building it for me: GT750J 4LS drum in 3.00x16" Borrani drop-center shouldered rim. For Maxi-Scooter tires 110/70-16 & 140/70-16 on the "KZ440LOL" I'm building for my Ex-Daughter here.
I agree with what you said about matching rim diameters. 16/16, 17/17, 18/18 - these all make the best sense to me. Though I'm also making a set for my "CB900K0 Bol Bomber" with a 3.50x16" Super-Akront front combined with a 4.25x18" Akront rear. I've got a couple of those rear rims, one drilled for the big Honda rear hub, and one drilled for the Harley rear hub, so that I can swap out to a "front hub trick" with the bolt-up cush-drive etc. At which point, I want to take a crack at my OWN replica of that Swiss DLF-1000, maybe even with the weld-up rear hub like 6pkrunner did for his GL1100 wire-spoke project. If I can find somebody to build me a weld-up rear hub, I'll take a crack at either a GL1200, or GL1500 - or another shaft-drive Honda I'm obsessing over, a VF1100S/VF1100C Sabre/Magna based "homage" to the '60s Czechoslovakian Grand Prix V4 racer the "CZ Type 860" - 'cause let's face it, if the CZ team had ANY backing at all, they'd have blown away Giacomo Agostini on his MV Agusta AND Mike Hailwood on the RC-181 - at which point the public's imagination/conception of a super-sports machine wouldn't be an INLINE four cylinder, and instead of the CB750K0 Sand-Cast, Honda would've made a sand-cast "CZ860" in 1968!!!
Either one of 'em would be worth TEN of my "CB900K0 Bol Bomber" - despite using more or less the same running gear, probably even the same gas tank and seat and bars and everything. Just the rear hub and the frame and engine would be different between all three versions. Picture the Sabre with an Interceptor type stance, 16/18 rim-set, a fixed 1/4-fairing slash 1/2-fairing in the Interceptor slash Katana style, but modeled after the fairing off of Geoff Duke's '57 Gilera Rondine, all rounded like a proper bubble fairing but the short low fly-screen on top, with nothing over the bars to get caught on the back of your hands etc. Might even work with a high up "Superbike" style handlebar atop the yokes, with mid-point foot pegs rather than rear-sets.
I really dig the mockup so far, updates?
