Really naked bike :]

Tank holders

At first I thought I was lucky and will not have to do anything with the front tank holders because they fitted perfectly. It turned out that in order to maintain an appropriate tank-frame line I have to lift the tank about 3cm, so I made a nice pair of mountings, which will also be used to hold some electric stuff.

Visualization

Made some serious progress recently. I finally managed to put the wheels together – I painted both rims, put on new bearings, new seals, new tube for the front wheel and tires of course. I also lowered the front suspension – in summary the front of the bike is now about 10 cm lower than originally. Now I have to slightly raise the front mountings of the fuel tank and modify the whole sub-frame. That will be a challenge, I’m excited.

Currently the bike looks like that:

And this is a future visualization:

Out of the blue

I have tens of things more important to do with the bike than this, so it’s not the most appropriate time to mount mirrors, but who cares. I accidentally found a pair of nice mirrors and a sudden idea bumped into my head on how I want to mount them. I got down to work and made a pair of holders. Came out great in my opinion – take a look:

Aluminum balls enabling mirror rotation were made of the remaining part of recently cut off ignition switch mounting – that’s what you call recycling :]