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FUBAR pilot

You only need two bikes in life-an S1 and a Multistrada!

You're a pair of sick bastards There was no delugging involved just a bit of anal intrusion and injection of radioactive material.

Lucky the two of you bear no resemblence to the fronts of your motorcycles.........or maybe you do

Steve

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Back on the road again!

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2001 X1 2009 1125CR 2006 Uly X3 2010 Uly a fully Maz'd S1 and a 1991 RS1200 Westwind.

Its lovely that Steve, its not as nice as this though.



Thats the Holtworks Aluminium tank by the way.

Andy

Ceiling in. Insulated and base coated plus now have lights. Sockets and consumer unit next. Progress still glacier slow but its still moving.

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Buell S1
Buell S3 (Topless for now)
Buell XB12S
Piaggio X8 400ie
Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere (x2)
Suzuki GSXR750WR
BSA B441VS
FJR1300

Got to admit, I thought there would have been a whole load of Holt tank inspired renovation/ tart up threads going on. Is everyone keeping it under hat for a big reveal later in the year?

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Today my pet mouse Elvis died ..................He was caught in a trap
There are two types of people in this world, those that can extrapolate

I'm still waiting for my tank...

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08 Specialized Langster

Same here

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Today my pet mouse Elvis died ..................He was caught in a trap
There are two types of people in this world, those that can extrapolate

In fairness you only ordered yours about 6 months ago.

I don't think that many have been delivered yet, I know Whitey got the first and then me but I don't know if any others are out there yet.

Andy

Not complaining, I'm expecting to be near the back of the queue. Hoping for end of May/ June time. Just thought there would have been a whole bunch of excited people posting plans of their Holt inspired renovations/ tart ups.

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Today my pet mouse Elvis died ..................He was caught in a trap
There are two types of people in this world, those that can extrapolate

Here is the ceiling all insulated and now needs boarding out (this was a few weeks ago) almost finsihed boarding it out this weekend. The glacier moves on.

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Buell S1
Buell S3 (Topless for now)
Buell XB12S
Piaggio X8 400ie
Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere (x2)
Suzuki GSXR750WR
BSA B441VS
FJR1300

Yeah man

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Partial to a bit of both

all boarded out ready for all the junk to be stashed. Next job finish the ceiling filling and painting and then grind the ridges in the floor for floor tiles to go down.

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Buell S1
Buell S3 (Topless for now)
Buell XB12S
Piaggio X8 400ie
Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere (x2)
Suzuki GSXR750WR
BSA B441VS
FJR1300

I think I have to stretch myself a little more, I am getting to the point of boring. All I talk to my friends about is bloody Brembo calipers and brake brackets, so I think I need to put a stop to it all... This, is maybe my last step...

Started off with a ten year old version of AutoCAD:


Which gave me the co-ordinates to run to on the Digital Read Out (DRO) on the milling machine. A printout and some scissors gives me a shape to cut out of my bit of plate:


Then, to bolt my bit of plate to the table and start cutting out. Some drilling, boring and cutting of big radii:


Note the parallels... As with most stuff that has any metal in it, parallels are quite a price, but a set of secondhand bearings (6204RS) do the job admirably. Anyway, I got it on the rotary milling table:


Cut the bore for the axle spacer and the radius:


Then a bit of admiration as I moved the bracket on the rotary table:


Then cut the radius for the torque stub:


Then when all the radii were cut, a bit more admiration against the cutout:


Then a trial fit:


And a new design of stub to work with Metmachix and steel swing arms (which I actually made for DaveH but was too late):


And then a photo in the middle of the floor:


Don't ask me to make another, it took ages, but I enjoyed every minute of it. CNC is fine, you just tell the cutter where to go then make the tea. For this I needed to show the cutter where to go, find ways of doing stuff etc. Very rewarding...

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08 Specialized Langster

Very rewarding Pash, unless you have to make a living doing it. I still like knocking out one offs on the mill or lathe though.

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.