Saturday, July 4, 2009

Finishing up


Today I took care of a few last details on the suspension upgrade. Primarily, this means cutting the tie wraps I was using to hold the ignition cylinder to the upper triple clamp, and fabbing something up.

A poster at ADVRider.com who did this same upgrade put up some pictures and drawings, but since my triple seems to be of a slightly different design, so is my upper plate. I didn't take any pictures of the machining process, but at least I have the final unit captured.

It's made of three main pieces, a top plate and two connecting rods. The top plate was bored for the lock cylinder, and drilled for the three bolt holes. I also put a tab that matched the shape of my triple tree.
I also got the beak attached, which required four new mounting holes. It sits a little farther back than it used to, but not by very much. I need to try and compress the suspension, to see if I need to add washers to adjust the angle of the thing.



Now if I can just figure out why my stupid horn stopped working... I've got to pull out the multimeter and see what's going on in there.

1 comment:

  1. Hi! What forks are those? Do you have a post somewhere detailing the fork mod? Thanks!

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