Recent content by brad black

and now it's red.

a local waterjet cutter who's a customer made them for me.

got the engine back together except for the clutch - it's going to have a dry clutch all exposed with a cable actuator, and that won't get through local road worthy inspection. so it might start out with a std wet clutch, or a dodgy cover over the exposed dry stuff. and now on one of my new...

3 and a half years! fuck me. so version 2 of the custom cafe racer ish paolo tex fairing bike is waiting for the frame to come back from the frame man, and the 659 engine for it is all assembled, so i'm at a bit of a loose end play time project wise and i figured i'd drag this turd out from...

got back into it - replaced the crankcase bearings.

cool as. has it got the bracing under the seat from the later year models? stops them cracking. i bought some a few years ago for a customer's bike.

no idea, never used it. i did these just to see what it looked like and see how it lasts over time. i think irk posted a comparison at one point between traditionally blasted and hydro/vapour blasted. hydro/vapour blasting is sand blasting with water instead of air.

a single leading shoe it wouldn't worry as one shoe is trailing anyway, but wouldn't a twin leading shoe become a twin trailing shoe if the rotation was reversed?

the vapour blasted heads. really does shine in a way sandblasting just doesn't. the spare parts man i've followed around a couple of dealerships has left the industry, which motivated me to get the engine bearings ordered before he left. some are on back order. the mains are pretty...

i got my gears. so now it's up to me to get my shit sorted and get the engine back together, then get the bike together. next is cutting out the primary drive cover and ordering all the engine bits i need. going to replace the bottom end bearings, and the mains are pretty pricey. need to get...

cool. love the waterjet. the router table is one tool i don't have.

a fellow put an original rear section of frame that everyone cuts off on a facebook page, so i bought it to return the frame to original (apart from the bracket welded on the front). i cut off and drilled out the aluminium bits that had been stuck in the ends of the frame and then cut the frame...

that stand is a great fab project. learning's a lot better when there's cool applications at hand.

he doesn't care in the slightest.