Rise up!

I've spent too much time on the floor. Taking inspiration from a thread over on DoTheTon I came up with a couple of work table designs.

I like this, but I can't weld, and I don't have any steel

Next was this

Because I could actually make it with 3/4 plywood, I know it looks like a coffin which is a little weird. It was a function of the shape of the bike, I wanted them to take up as little space as possible and be able to nestle... to again, take up less space. I'm working out of a two car garage.

As I started to cut the wood for the coffin one it ended up being square because, that's just so much easier to do with our table saw. Might even be more stable in the end.

contact cement... too much contact cement

you never have enough clamps

These will form the top and bottom surfaces, I used too muct contact cement for it to dry in the 24 hours that I was able to give it, so I had to re-enforce each with 38, inch and a quarter screws.

Setting the carriage bolts for the casters. I really want to get leveling casters but that wasn't in the immediate budget, so these cheapie non locking 300 pounders will have to do for now.

Two sheets of 3/4 ply and two 6 foot 2x4s. All the strength will be along the centerline where it's needed most. This is one whole sheet less than my original design would have needed, much less waste, and you can directly access all the storage space, sweet!

Now I just need another, and I'm half way there because I've got a left over sheet of 3/4. I think I also want to add pegboard to the middle sections to hang small parts and parts bags.

Clocks (Part 1)

The VFR750F is a touring bike and it's got the design to prove it. The dash is built like a brick. The RC30 on the other hand had a very different layout looking more like a cluster of individual gauges. Even though the dash had been removed from the bike when I bought it, after rummaging through some boxes in the garage the previous owner pulled it out and asked me if it was part of the bike. So I've got it, the casing was a little smashed up but the internals all seem to be intact. I have no idea how long the thing's been off so the 33k miles that it shows doesn't amount to much, but it will be nice to be able to keep track from here on out.

This is the beast...

...in exploded form

Is omittion of the truth really a lie?

Yes!

It's a little daunting at first glance, but each of these copper lines will just have to be replaced with a wire

I need to buy myself a new wiring harness to harvest the printed wires so that everything can match in the end.

I snipped the wires off and kept them in place so that I can trace colors later when I have to rebuild the thing.

This is what I'm going for

And this is where I'm at right now

The PCB for that stupid clock is ridiculously huge, I'd love to just leave it out, but I've ridden bikes without them, and they are super nice to have. It will stay... where exactly it will go I can't be sure yet.

SixtyNines' seat

I've been working with a friend to get the fairing for SixtyNine worked out...

...and I managed to come up with a seat that I like

This last few days I've been working on the mold for it

With this MDF base I will hopefully be able to make a nice clean mold.

But it will take a lot of primer to get it all nice and smooth.

more primer

Filling in the holes to help with the molding process. I could've machined a new one without the underside detail, but that would've been a waste of materials.

Failed clipons

More practicing :\

I tried to make them as simple as possible and use just 2 M6s to clamp them, but the off center tension on the bars does not work. Also my 7/8" trough ended up undersized so they don't really fit. They work great for now for pushing the bike around the garage, but when I get closer to riding it I'll have to knock out a stronger set.

Rearsets

Made myself a practice rearset:

It wasn't intended to be a practice piece, but it doesn't really fit, so there you go. This one was broken off the bike when I got it. I think the next one I do will have a more stock style peg mount... that will require a much fatter piece of stock though.

RC30

Starting in on the RC30 goodness

I'm not a great modeler so this will be a challange, but "don't try 'nuthin, won't learn 'nuthin" I'm not entirely sure what function the model will serve other than good practice because I might just go ahead and use the fairings I bought right out of the box, but at the very least it will be good for fitting up parts, and at the most if I find that I do need to redo it wholesale I'll have a head start. I'd like to do an updated RC30 (along the lines of the '05 Mustang) but as of right now I can't come up with anything I want to change, and I'm not going to force it.

Picked this up locally

very excited to see this show up: