It’s been a hell of a long time coming but Dangerous’ bike is finally off the ramp…
We’re getting there. It’s one bit at a time (literally), but the Moto3 bike’s build is slowly starting to pick up pace. If you’re up-to-date with our tale of woe so far then you’ll know we’ve had more conundrums than a fat kid in a sweet shop, but we’ve made some bold decisions and the results are paying off. We went on a bit of a wild goose chase with the yokes, but since deciding to settle with the stock GSX-R600 units, a lot of the potential problems have disappeared; such as wheel spacing. That was proving a right nightmare, owing to the fact that the Gixer forks’ radially mounted caliper was determining the distance permissible between the fork legs and the wheel’s spokes.
Anyway, without wishing to sound like a parrot and go over it all again, we figured our best path and I’m pleased to announce that we now have a functioning spindle (complete with spacers) machined and looking dapper. Hooray! Clive, who’s been the brains behind this build, did all the workings out and came up with a design that saw a boss, with an internally tapped thread, machined into the far side fork leg bottom, into which the threaded end of our spindle could locate. It cracked me up when I saw how he’d drawn it on some old scrap of paper, but it did the trick and the unit works a traet–so much for CAD and all that.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Fast Bikes.
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