seat and tail combo.

i made a seat and tail combo for Toxic.
first i cut up an old sportster tank..

after that it was time to make a cardboard template and making the template into sheetmetal. once cut and formed it could be welded to the tank.

time to make some supports and mounting brackets..

now time to make a new template again!
this will be seat base and i will make a slightly smaller one which will be the actual seatpan. so the seat can be easily removed for access to the room in the tail section. what this room will hold is still uncertain. i could put the battery in there, or make an oiltank out of it, or use it just as a storage compartment for my bike lock and stuff.

test fitting with my big ass is important to!

the tail section has to be finished. the bottom lines are just a rough cut and the filler opening is still in place.
but i can finish that all once i know what the rear will house. if it's going to be an oil tank i can let the filler opening exist and close up the tank. if it will be a battery housing i have to make a battery tray inside, an acces hole behind the rear of the seat and after that i can close the bottom.
if it's just storage i have to make an access opening behind the seat and make a flat floor inside the tank above the mounting tabs, and a second bottom on the underside of the tank.
or i make the exhaust exit through the tail, that could be cool to! i always loved the tail of the aprillia rsv4.

ow.. i also ordered some pre bend welding pipes, or who you might call those things.. but i ordered the wrong inside diameter.. my bad, but i can't send them back.. and frankly they were pretty expensive. (stainless cold pulled and formed with polished inside..)

ground contact.

got me some fresh parts for Toxic. some stuff to make his feet more nimble and light!

 

the swingarm including the wheel and brake are as heavy (light?) as the stock swingarm with nothing!

saweet!

and a nice Buell front end. fully adjustable and brembo caliper.
but just standing in a corner they wouldn't do much for the bike right?
so in with the parts  already!
the swingarm came with a Brembo caliper, but to mount it the left shock absorber has to be off set. i'm not sure i like that, so first i tried another bracket and a GMA 4 piston caliper..

looks nice, and true custom!
but the Brembo will look da Bomb to.. so i'm not sure which one i'm going to use..

after that in with the front end!

offcourse the orange will go..black and green is the way to go!

told you so!

at the Mooneyes Expo in Yokohama, the real cool stuff for the biker cult and hot rodders is shown.
what is on display over there in Japan is the stuff that is cool or will be cool in the cult. no 330 tire OCC style crap, but real bikes and real cars.
remember i told once i started my digger build (Daddy Cool) that the diggers are back. well look what draw a lot of attention at Mooneyes.

be prepared! a lot of diggers are being build right now!

cardboard time..

the Savage from thijs is just a bare roller with some left over engine in it.
as seen as thijs wants a somewhat prostreet look, although i don't really think it suits the bike, i got cutting some cardboard.
first some preliminary tank lines.

just to get a little looky looky of how it would look like with more metal on the frame i cut some more cardboard.

wow, that looks like shit!
now it's up to thijs to find a donor tank that i can cut apart. and after the tank is one the bike we will look at the rest of the metal work.  i like it to be as bare as possible, because in my opinion it's the best looking option. just a tank and some fenders and that's it for the metal department! but it's not my bike... so it's up to thijs.

design stage rear end XR883

got fed up with the intake/exhaust clearance issues for the XR883 heads, it so fucking tight!
to change my mind set i had to do something else, time to get a little thinking about the seat tail section.

so out with the cardboard and make some sketches and cut some shapes.

i grabbed an old sportster tank from the stash pile and this will become the rear section.

as you might know, i'm a sucker for correct flow of the lines, and to see if it all had a pretty decent flow i checked the lines.

but actually i can't go with these lines, the swing arm will be swapped for a longer one and the front end will get a usd sports bike front end (or Buell) so the lines will change.

purpose build Buell

at Zen Motorcycles they are making a Bonnevile racer.
they want to break the 1000 A-PG class land speed record, this is the class for less than 1000CC gas powerd pushrod engines.
basis is a Buell XB 9 engine in a single loop rigid frame. the engine has no gearbox, just the engine and a clutch.
the bike isa tribute to Masayuki Morimoto’s boardtracker Harley.
and the bike looks actually killer!

sporty trikes

to be honest.. i don't like these (sportster) trikes, but i thought i would share this with you all.
i like to chop, hack and cut frames and parts, and hate bolt on shit.
but the boys at Trikeworks have just done that! these sportster trikes can be build without cutting anything!
it's just a bolt on rear end..... so for the RUBs who do not want to void their warranty (pathetic), and still have done something else to their 48, Nightster, Iron or whatever blubbermount sporty they might have. it's all reversible!
and if you cough up enough dough, the Toxic Garage can do it for you within 3 hours! (1 if i can use my grinder!)
nah, just kidding.. it's a bolt on thing... we don't do Fucking bolt on!

i guess it look all better if it had smaller wheels and a little longer wheelbase, and if i can Chop that Fucking Sportster!

more brainfarting...Evo XR 883...

it was getting busy inside my head, ideas overflowing each other and all involved the XR883 brainfart..

ah well.. i guess i have to get it out of my head and try to make Toxic into a XR883.

my biggest problem is manifold/exhaust clearance in the "V" of the engine.

i dug up another front head (it's a BT head, but for size and comparison the head will do) and put it on Toxic.

with some PVC plumbing i could look how my clearance would be.. or the lack off..

hmm. that is just to tight..

i hacked up an old exhaust to see how tight of a bend i could make to get a little more room for the manifold.

now that saves a little more room!

i took a little side step and want to see how it would look as a 2-1 exhaust..

kinda cool....

but on with the XR setup. time for more PVC pipes to check and see what i can do..

if i use an oval piece of tube i can pull it of.

now i was somewhat content with it...

and i wanted to see how it would look as a complete setup. with both carbs sticking out.

so back to the stash pile and dig up some carbs! and put it on the bike for more looking and measuring..

looks bad ass!

but i still have a manifold that is very close to the exhaust.. and that could give problems..

and why do i still keep intake and exhaust on the same side of the engine?

the real XR's have the exhaust on the left and intake on the right. so.. why shouldn't i do a left and right configuration? the exhaust still exits to the right side and can't exit to the left like XR's do. but i can make the intake manifolds exit to the left. this will eliminate the exhaust heat issues almost complete! also in the lines of a true XR i have something on the left sticking out the engine and something on the right.. it's just mirrored..

so next up is getting the carbs on the left!