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The completed first chassis, with internal ballast, weighs 43.9 lbs. At this point, the incomplete second chassis, weighs 39.2 lbs. The next time it c...
Another mock up day, the upper mounts were the last parts that had to find their place. So a lot more pieces to add, and it's gonna get heavy now. Tom...
I wear a lot of hats around here, but found some time for this. I needed to find my groove with the MIG, playing with the auto set, and then my own se...
Due to the excellent input from @2FLTC, to which I completely agree, the zoo bike (the Dyna) will remain on two wheels. So while I do like the Dyna's ...
You know, I hadn't even thought of that, but I can definitely see how it would now. Thanks for that great info.
Ok, I'll go next. It's not awesome, but it is um..."special". Since two wheels doesn't look like it will ever happen again, putting the little trainin...
Current activity. After the bazillion TIG welds on the top and bottom came out so well, filling in around my giant tack welds on the verticals with th...
Thanks. I tried to get as much weight near the wheel as possible. In a pocket directly under the axle block I hid a pile of steel bar stock, and in th...
Now the axle block. I wanted this to be as heavy as possible, so it is mostly 1/4" plate. The axle tube is 1" ID .188 wall that I honed to be a snug s...
Probably not, the style of the bike now is close to what builders in Japan are riding. I may return the bike to what it looked like in 2008 though. ...
While the front mounts are crude, the rear mounts are barbaric. There was no way to make it look, even remotely, good. Again, using existing mounting ...
Here is the upper front mount. It uses the stock crash bar mount on the frame. Utilizing the bolt holes and the mount itself to lock it in place, alon...
All the hardware you see is just setup stuff, things I had laying around. Before it got assembled to hit the road, all that hardware was replaced with...
Made progress on the chassis, all the vertical welds are done. I couldn't come up with a way to TIG weld them, so I used the MIG, and boy are they ugl...