An NZ TR1 project

[Jack R1]

Just revisited this and was thinking about your battery placement. How are you intending to route the cables from the battery without them being an eye sore ?

[gs58]

Just revisited this and was thinking about your battery placement. How are you intending to route the cables from the battery without them being an eye sore ?

Yes, this will be an issue, but I will do the best that I can to make the wiring unobtrusive as possible. I've had a good look at what other people have done so have some good ideas.

It's been quite a few months since I posted anything on this forum, and it has not been because I have been inactive, I've just had other things happening in my life. Things like surgery on my right shoulder, an eight week, 20,000km ride around Australia, a holiday in the 'States where I found out that I had cancer in my jaw bone which I've just had removed by surgery (the cancer that is, some of the jaw bone has been kept for the meantime).



But the good news is that work on the wiring has started again. It will probably be a few more weeks before it will be completed but the 'to do' list is getting smaller and smaller.

At the moment the main points are;

• fabricate mount for speedo

• fabricate mount on rear caliper mount for speedo sensor

• fabricate mount for front mudguard

• fabricate rear mudguard and chain guard

• mount air filter

• replace fork seals

• powder coat

• reassemble

But in the meantime it looks a bit of a mess.

[faffi]

Sorry to hear about your cancer situation, hope you will heal fully!

[Hellgate]

Man, I'm sorry to hear of your health issues. I hope all is well now. I love seeing all of the photos you've posted. Keep it up!


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[gs58]

It really has been a year of ups and downs, but with hindsight they are really all ups. My shoulder is better than it has been in years, and they found the cancer and hopefully it all has been removed (I find out in another two weeks if more bone needs to be removed or if radiation treatment is necessary). I've had great care, and am on my way to a full recovery - things could be a whole lot worse. The only lingering down side is that there is another four weeks of eating baby food to go. YUM!!!

But it does give me a bit of an opportunity to get back into the project bike. Will try to post photos as work progresses.

[gs58]

Although I haven't been posting much, stuff has been happening. I've had an idea about a modification to the tank which will make this build a bit different to most of the others. Because I have cut the rear part of the frame off the original air filter location was no longer there. This gave me a couple of options. One was to use pod filters, or the other was to relocate the air filter location. I chose the second option because the routing of the exhaust makes a pod unsuitable for the front cylinder, pods can cause difficulties with tuning, and I believe that there is better performance to be had with an air box.

Hopefully the photos will explain themselves.

[faffi]

I missed your last update, but that sounds like good news - hope things are still looking up! Cannot watch the pictures now (thanks to Fortinet) but will have a looksy later. Good choice using an air box

[gs58]

[gs58]

After a lot of measuring and adjustments I'm pretty happy with the result. I did a quick calculation about how much fuel space this modification would take up and it worked out at less than 2.5 litres. I'm thinking that my butt will need a rest before this tank will empty.



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[Hellgate]

That is pretty damn cool!

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[faffi]

[gs58]

I initially was trying to fit the filter on the side (like the MT01) but that would have made getting the tank off more difficult.



Here's another couple of photos from different angles. I'm pretty pleased the way it has worked out.

[rantingsmith]

That looks pretty neat! Considering the amount of cut and weld you've done on that tank that is very impressive!

I would have been tempted to make the 'intake mouths on the front of the tank a bit funnel shaped also maybe considered fitting some fly screen mesh..?

For the top of the filter bolts I'd get some domed Allen head bolts..

Cheers,

Rant.


Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

1983 XV750SE CAFE/BRAT - 1981 TR1.1NCENT PROJECT - 1982 XV750/920 upgrade SIDECAR PROJECT w. WATSONIAN MONACO CHAIR

[gs58]

I do have some dome headed nuts which I'll fit later Rant. I'm also considering getting another stainless plate made for the filter cover do get the K&N off it.

[gs58]

It has been quite a few months since I've posted photos of my progress but things have been happening, even though they are small things.

If you've read the previous pages of my posts you'll know that late last year I was diagnosed with cancer in my jaw of which I had surgically removed. It was decided earlier this year that I also needed to have chemo and radiation treatment for this, so although this sounds reasonably serious I thought that it would give me time to work on the bike. I pretty much underestimated the effect that these treatments would have on me, so although I had the time I just did not have the energy to do much at all for a few months.

Then I had to move my bike and all the parts that I have accumulated over the years as the workshop where I kept it all was moving. I didn't realise that I had so much sh*t stored. It' took a while to get things sorted, and then a good mate said "let's go to the Motogp at Mugello if your health is up to it". What could I say? And what a trip it was. If you haven't been you need to. It puts a whole new perspective on the racing, the atmosphere, and the passion of motorcycle racing in Europe. I've been to the Motogp meetings at Phillip Island a couple of times, but Mugello was so much more.

So that leads me to the last month or so where I have been able to do some of the minor things that are on the 'to do' list. The speedo has been relocated behind the triple clamp where it looks a bit more discreet, I have fabricated the mounts for the front mudguard and fitted it (I have no idea what it is off - I found it at Deus Ex Machina in Sydney a couple of years ago), I found a suitable back mud and chain guard combination that I have adapted to suit, and I have cut and modified the front sprocket housing to align it with the chain guard.

There are some more things under way but I'll post those as they are completed.

[Hellgate]

Looks good! I'm glad to hear you're doing better. [emoji3]

[gs58]

I'm still plodding along with this project and it seems that there is an endless list of things to be done that a, I hadn't considered, or b, I'm not happy with the way that I did them the first time so need to do again. One of the things that I hadn't considered was the larger variance in drive chain tension due the swingarm being at a steeper angle. I had to put an idler wheel on my GSX1100 race bike after I increased the angle of the swingarm on that so I should have realised, but still. It was just one more thing that needed to be done and although it increased the time required to complete the bike I enjoyed the calculations and fabricating aspects of it.

Because I have moved the front sprocket outwards to align with the sprocket on the wider rear wheel I needed to make a spacer to move the sprocket cover out also. I used this spacer to also create mounting points for the idler wheel. Firstly I made an MDF pattern.





Then the final thing out of 10mm 5083 aluminium. The photo below is still in the mock up stage and there is a bit of tidying up to do, but otherwise I'm pretty happy how it has turned out.

[gs58]

I have not been particularly happy with the mounting of the headlight, and although I wanted the forks to be clean between the triple clamps I came across some very well made headlight mounts and so decided to go the usual route.

Before



After

[faffi]

Cannot see the pictures, unfortunately.

[gs58]

[quote="faffi"]Cannot see the pictures, unfortunately.[/quote]

Faffi, I have posted the photos in the same manner as all my others so I am not sure why you can not see them. They are okay on my home desktop, my work desktop, and my phone. Is anyone else having problems seeing them?