YamaHarley returned to Macs garage yesterday, Heisenburg has done an amazing job on the old girl but she needs to be dry built to work out where all the tabs and brackets need to go for the exhaust, battery box etc. – so on went the front end, next to fit will be the engine to see where the forks should be after introducing the weight of the engine.
Well , engines in – either Sportster engines are getting heavier or I’m getting old – Bl**dy heavy on your todd! Straight away saw our first problem……. Knew it’d be tight – the tank but the two tabs on the bottom of the tank hit the top of the rear cylinder………….. oh Mr. Heisenburg………….. how’s your ally welding??
Mac popped up Heisenburgs for ’20 mins’ (as he told his missus) to take a look at the frame mods and discuss the seat (too big – not a good idea building a bike around a seat – easier the other way round) and ended up watching Heisenburg doing his thing until the witching hour.
After bending the bottom rails the Discussion was how to make the top rails flow nicely into the frame without loosing any structural integrity
Lovely Oil tank supplied by mate Hobbit (who’d bought a spare for his chop??). This’ll go on to get the bike fabbed up then we’ll re-visit the fire extinguisher idea
And this is what Heisenburg came up with – pure art……… inter twining tube wrapping around the main frame then flowing out to meet the rear axle plates – beautiful! Shame is – no one will see it as the seat will sit on top!
just to make sure you’re paying attention!
Starting to take shape, Oil tank mount going on.
What we didn’t take any pictures of was the next few hours of Heisenburg shaving down some stainless bar for a Harley sized head stem to mate into the FZR yolks. The Yamaha stem was cut off, then a stem was made up and pressed into the bottom yolk. His talents never cease to amaze me….. after a few measurements it was made and the bearings just slid gracefully over the stem. He then went on to make a brass bolt which will top the yolks like it’s been there for years! Brilliant!
