Rear brake torque arm

Rear brake torque arm. I turned up two big washers on the lathe and ground down some flats on this piece of 16mm bar. Took inspiration from the fender struts I've done.

Then I got them in place on the bike and tacked up.

As far as I got tonight, need a bit of cleaning up but I'm happy with the way it's turned out. Think I'm going to aim for sorting the chain tensioner out next

Rear brake linkage

Made good progress on the rear brake setup today. Measured the pivot tube on the stock frame and turned up a piece to match

The next challenge was mounting it on the frame. I was going to make another little tube to sit underneath the one I've just made, but my dad came up with the brilliant idea of just mounting it in a plate. So I chopped one out of 10mm

Beauty of this was that I could mount the plate centrally on the frame rail and then very easily offset the pivot tube to put the brake lever in the right place. Not to mention the fact that it was a lot easier to make than what I had in mind!!

There was the usual dose of lining it up and finding ever more elaborate ways to get a spirit level on it.

Just got it tacked on for now, I'm a little concerned about how it will effect getting the engine in and out but looking at what other people have done I think I'll get away with it.

I also started on the torque arm for the rear brake. Drilled a hole in the frame and made a bung to sit in it. Tapped M10.

Tacked in the frame. There's an ever growing list of things just tacked onto the frame, I can see many an hour is going to be spent finishing all these jobs on the frame!!

Foot peg mounts

Foot pegs. Spent a good while at work trauling xs650.com for decent examples of mid-controls. Then I abused the colour ink in the printer and pinned them up in my shed to help me figure out what I'm aiming for.

I had already cut down the cast piece off the original peg mounts, borrowing an idea from others, and planned on mounting this from the stock exhaust mounts on the frame. By now your probably thinking that I'm running low on cardboard - you'd be wrong!!!

Cut and drilled two matching plates out of 5mm sheet.

Then I bolted it all together on the bike. My main concern was the pegs clashing with the kickstart, so I double checked clearance and just tacked the bits together on the right hand side.

Taking it all off the bike, I bolted the bits together so I could line the left side to match the right, and tack it in place. Then I welded them both up

You can see that the plates overlap too much on the top edge, stopping me from finishing the welding. So I trimmed them down a bit and welded up the last part

Hopefully they should do the trick!

Speedo mount

Ok so while u was in that area I thought I'd mount the speedo. I started off by trimming the top yoke down.

TC had kindly donated a little old speedo for me to play with, so I made a cardboard template template to get me started as per...

Skipping over a lot of cutting and flapping and looking I ended up with this squiggly 3mm thick bracket

Now I know you lot will be pointing out the massive weak point in the middle of the bracket, so I may have to upgrade things to 5mm in the future, but it will do for now. The fixing points on the speedo were knackered so I welded some new ones on

Pleased with the result. Next I indulged mylsef to a little mockup session. Basically I bolted on everything I've got so far..

The next job is tackling the space between the engine and the rear fender. Battery box, electric box, pegs and brake linkage, chain tensioner. I know roughly where the pegs are going to go. So I think next thing to do is to finalise those and sort out the rear brake connection.

Fireblade for sale

Sharing for a buddy of mine. Its a beautiful bike in fantastic condition, I know this because he rides like a granny...

2008 CBR 1000RR FIREBLADE

My pride and joy is up for a very reluctant sale because it appears its just not affordable to own two bikes in England (who knew?!) So, until I can move/win the lottery, here it is...

Immaculate 2008 (08) CBR Honda Fireblade (Still same model they're selling brand new now). Always garaged, never sees the rain. Extremely well looked after. White and black colour scheme. Approx 23K miles. A fortune spent on extras.

Extras

Datatool alarm, Gear position indicator (!) Full R&Gs throughout (barends, front, engine, rear), R&G radiator guard, dark double bubble screen, full quill exhaust system (sounds fantastic). R&G tail tidy. Carbon fibre hugger & custom carbon fibre belly pan. Custom rearset guards, custom black / white seat. Official Honda Race Cowl.

Recent new purchases have been a new Renthal Chain and Sprocket set, new brake pads (rear) and a new battery. Full oil and filter change approx 100 miles ago.

Its currently sporting a pair of Pirelli Diablo Corsas but the new owner would probably want to change these in the not too distant future.

I also have a motogp paddock stand for it, and the original exhaust, both of which I can throw in if I get what I'm wanting. I also have a complete replacement black / white fairing kit, which cost 400 pounds + shipping, which, although I can't give it away - I'm very negotiable on!

Fully serviced, at Jordan Bikes in Gildersome and P&D in Wakefield.

Taxed and Tested until June.

If you give me your email address I'll drop you some pictures and I'm sure you'll fall in love the way I did when I first saw her.

Any inspection welcome

£5250 OVNO.

Call / Text Will Stokeley on 07850134869 or email william.stokeley@gmail.com

Little and often

I've been enjoying short stints in the shed recently, I feel like I gt a lot more done in an hour and a half than I do in four some times!

So last night I wanted to get the headlight mounts in place. I thought a lot about how I was going to line it up, and decided that I should tack something between the plates to maintain the spacing and squareness.

I spent ages lining this contraption up! Basically I'm holding the plates square while I tack a 170mm long bar in between them, to replicate the width of the headlight. That made things a lot easier when I held it up to the bike, but even then it was hard trying to get the thing central and level. Anyways after lots more faffing I committed and tacked the mounts to the fork sleeves.

Then I chopped the bar out so I could try the headlight in place.

Tonight I took them off the bike and welded them up. The inside seam towards the headlight went ok, but welding up the other edge was tricky as I had put too much of a chamfer on it so there was an awkward gap to fill.

That's it for now, next time I've got a date with the dremel and some carbide burrs!

Headlight mounts

Been working on the headlight mount this weekend. I'd made some rough bits out of thin sheet ages a go, so I took the measurements off them for the overall layout and decided to have a play with the design.

To start with I made some lugs out of 5mm plate, I wanted a layered effect so I made another set of mounts out of 3mm plate.

Didn't take much heat as they were so close together, hardly had to add any filler rod. Then I used the angle grinder to split a 10mm bar down the middle. I wasn't sure if it was going to work but it turned out better than expected. So I welded them on too.

Then tonight I spent ages with the tungsten grinding tips in my trusty dremel cleaning the welds up before finishing them with a quick flick of the flapper disk.

Next job is to fix them to the bike!!

Engine top mount

Got the top engine mounts welded up!
Then I cleaned them up and got them on the bike. The welding had warped the brackets a bit so it's a tight fit but I managed to squeeze it on.

Then I tried it with the tank on, was a really tight fit round the nuts and bolts so had to cut them down a bit.

Still needs a bit of tweaking but managed it get it in position and fix the seat on too.

Starting to look like a bike now!