Good thing you gave him a nice big picture to copy from.
Honda cb350 cafe racer project from the UK
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Nice! I need to make one of these also. Hoping to next wk. Thanks for the detailed pictures!
Keep at it
Keep at it
Andy,
I'd get a new spell checker unless you mean that Clarence is really OK and then we would want to know who the heck Clarence is.
On a more serious note, the work you are doing there is really nice, but you may want to lower those pegs unless you have very short legs. If the pegs are too high, the knees are bent at an acute angle and that tends to cut of circulation pretty quickly. A "normal" height is roughly level with teh swingarm plus or minus an inch.
Yours may be high to create enough clearance to the pipes which is part of the compromise that's often needed with rear sets. That's why rear sets are often mounted very wide or a better solution is to bend the levers - but I think yours may be cast and if they are, bending would probably crack them.
We came up with a similar linkage to your on our CB160 race bikes and in a later iteration, we changed to a cable set up which was a much better arrangement and worth considering.
Keep calm and carry on.
I'd get a new spell checker unless you mean that Clarence is really OK and then we would want to know who the heck Clarence is.
On a more serious note, the work you are doing there is really nice, but you may want to lower those pegs unless you have very short legs. If the pegs are too high, the knees are bent at an acute angle and that tends to cut of circulation pretty quickly. A "normal" height is roughly level with teh swingarm plus or minus an inch.
Yours may be high to create enough clearance to the pipes which is part of the compromise that's often needed with rear sets. That's why rear sets are often mounted very wide or a better solution is to bend the levers - but I think yours may be cast and if they are, bending would probably crack them.
We came up with a similar linkage to your on our CB160 race bikes and in a later iteration, we changed to a cable set up which was a much better arrangement and worth considering.
Keep calm and carry on.
Also expect the cast aluminum shifter mount to snap at some point. I ended up taking an original steel shifter lever, cutting it down and drilling it for a 6mm bolt to attach the linkage to. Much stronger than the cast aluminum part and I also made it a bit longer to improve the leverage applied to my stubborn XS650 transmission. Travel is increased a bit of course but not a big deal.
Those levers have a smidgen of offset cast in to them. But, where they are, is where they stay.teazer said:Andy,
I'd get a new spell checker unless you mean that Clarence is really OK and then we would want to know who the heck Clarence is.
On a more serious note, the work you are doing there is really nice, but you may want to lower those pegs unless you have very short legs. If the pegs are too high, the knees are bent at an acute angle and that tends to cut of circulation pretty quickly. A "normal" height is roughly level with teh swingarm plus or minus an inch.
Yours may be high to create enough clearance to the pipes which is part of the compromise that's often needed with rear sets. That's why rear sets are often mounted very wide or a better solution is to bend the levers - but I think yours may be cast and if they are, bending would probably crack them.
We came up with a similar linkage to your on our CB160 race bikes and in a later iteration, we changed to a cable set up which was a much better arrangement and worth considering.
Keep calm and carry on.
