Naked frame

Final disassembly went smoothly, but I started wondering if I will be able to put it all back together.

Engine is out!

Finally managed to take the engine out. If I have enough time to prepare everything then on Saturday most of the parts will be taken for painting. So psyched! :]

Toolbox

It turned out that I have plenty of free space under the fuel tank.
I'm a kind of guy who always likes to carry some tools on the bike, just in case.
This two combined resulted in creating a useful toolbox mounted under the tank.
The box itself is made of a PVC pipe, an idea already tested in my previous bike and working well :)
This piece of metal on the bottom serves as a stopper for the pipe and at the same time is a fuse box holder.

Battery on place

Coolest thing done so far

Have you wondered if your old PC will ever be useful again? Here is the answer:

I love welding!!!

I love creating things from scratch! :D

Birth of a new seat

I made mountings for a new seat:

And then prepared a base for the new seat:

Happy man after hard work

The tail

The tail of the frame is finished. I also managed to fabricate a rear tank mounting. Take a look:

Work goes on

My welding skills are getting better every hour :]

Frame puzzle

Useless crap left after cutting the frame:

Frame welding in progress

Up to this moment welding is definitely the most difficult part. I wish I had more skills and a better welding machine. Anyway, so far so good.

Fully professional tools for frame modification

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 :]

Aluminum shaping

Today I modified the steering top bridge. I needed room to place a new speedometer right between the clip-ons, so I decided to get rid of the ignition switch mounting. The new speedometer will probably be an Acewell :] and the ignition switch will be located on the left side of the bike, under the fuel tank.

Ignition button

Can You see a little blue spot in the middle of the picture below? This will be the new ignition button.

I also made a holder for this button:

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Front mix

Honda NX650 is an enduro bike, so originally it comes with a 21 inch front wheel. For my purpose it obviously had to be changed…

I dreamed about a new Excel rim, but I couldn’t afford it so I figured out a different solution and...bought a second rear wheel. The idea was simple – take an original hub from the front wheel, take an original rim from the second rear wheel and put it back together. Great job with mounting new spokes done by Paweł Król from Bielsko-Biała!

This way I now have 17 inch rims both on the front and on the back of the bike.