Topic: Squirrel 3.0

[river]

Thank you. I was just trueing the wheel. Normally they are always the other way.

[Stev-o]

I’d try to explain but I know the mere thought of fish slime getting on your dainty hands probably repulses you.

Great comeback, Riverman!   

Looks like you had a good time with Uncle Gene, those are memories you will always have.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Oh Don. You do enjoy inserting anecdotal comments but it’s got nothing to do with trying to be hip and more to do with simply making sure that I always have those two flies whenever the opportunity presents itself. I’d try to explain but I know the mere thought of fish slime getting on your dainty hands probably repulses you.

I don't mind a little fish slime -- just not a jar of it like you recently offered.  I take my fish slime in moderation.   

[river]

I'm sure they exist but I don't really know any hipster fly fisherman. Maybe you should design skinny waders and take over the hipster world Don? 

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

I'm sure they exist but I don't really know any hipster fly fisherman. Maybe you should design skinny waders and take over the hipster world Don? 

I couldn't rock those but I'm sure you'd sell a bunch to the Denver hipsters.

[river]

Well Squirrel continues to be her usual temperamental self but I wouldn't expect anything less. I picked up the front wheel from having the tire mounted yesterday but it would not go on. The tire was hitting the brake caliper. I pulled that and then it hits the fender bracket. I took the bracket off the fender so I could see everything better and started trimming it a bit. I relocated the mounting holes a little higher up but the bracket will not clear once its mounted on top of the caliper. Can't put the bracket under the caliper either as then the caliper hits the rim. Here's how I left things today to get some lunch. This is the left side.

84 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

Caliper side.

85 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

Not sure what I'm going to do just yet but I have some options. I could order a Tarozzi brace and temporarily put that on and run no front fender. Sure like to have at least a shorty fender on though.

I could find another fender bracket and reinstall the 19" wheel and run the fender and braces exactly as I had them. Right now this is probably what I'll do in the mean time after finding a bracket (mine is too short to work on the 19 now).

Cal had a good idea of cutting the bracket down the middle and widening it a bit so that the legs are completely vertical.

Think those are my options right now although I'd like to see pics of the Motolana fender bracket as that may be an option as well but they're out of stock at the moment.

The offset sprocket is supposed to arrive today. Once it shows I'll be able to install it and see if the sprockets will be inline and whether or not the chain clearance is acceptable. If it is then I can put the majority of the bike back together and get everything tightened down.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Get off the river and get back to finishing this upgrade so you can still ride the bike this year!

[Kelly E]

I used a Tarrozi fork brace and mounted the fender to the bottom of the brace.

[Godffery]

 Good heavens... That's a brilliant idea!!!
I wish I'd thought of that.   

[Stev-o]

Park Racer dont need no stinkin fender!

[river]

Get off the river and get back to finishing this upgrade so you can still ride the bike this year!

Sheeeeeeiiittttt. Between the home projects (got another set of those stupid bi-folding doors primed this morning), Squirrel, and work getting ready to crank back up I'll be lucky to get on the water this fall. 

[river]

I used a Tarrozi fork brace and mounted the fender to the bottom of the brace.

Kelly do you have any more pics of how you skinned this feral cat?

[river]

Good heavens... That's a brilliant idea!!!
I wish I'd thought of that.   

I'll be giving all props to you Sir if I can pull this off. But I might also open up a side hustle where I'll make these and claim the fame. If they look half as good as yours do I'll be right as rain. And I'll steal part of your business name but put a fish spin on it and go with Codffery's.

[river]

Park Racer dont need no stinkin fender!

Yeah but that things sexy. Squirrel looks like a busted Daytona stripper.

[river]

Got the brace installed late last night and laid the fender on the tire. I have some fuel line between tire and fender now and it gives 12mm clearance. I will be chopping the fender a bit. Real happy with how things look right now. Definitely more than one way to get the fender attached to the brace but I'm getting most of my inspiration from that Godffery character at the moment.

86 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

87 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

[river]

Been pushing real hard to get as much finished on the house but every bit closer I get, she orders more stuff or adds to the list.  We have four sets of these ugly folding doors and this was my solution for making the look less fugly.

88 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

89 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

[Kelly E]

I used a Tarrozi fork brace and mounted the fender to the bottom of the brace.

Kelly do you have any more pics of how you skinned this feral cat?

I do but they are too big to post here. I made two 2" X 3/4" x1/16" metal strips with a hole in each end to hold the fender to the brace. I drilled and tapped holes in the angled face on each side of the brace and attached the fender with stainless button head screws. It takes a little finagling to get the holes located on the brace and an extra set of hands helped a lot.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Good heavens... That's a brilliant idea!!!
I wish I'd thought of that.   

I'll be giving all props to you Sir if I can pull this off. But I might also open up a side hustle where I'll make these and claim the fame. If they look half as good as yours do I'll be right as rain. And I'll steal part of your business name but put a fish spin on it and go with Codffery's.

Codffery's sounds much better than Lamprey's.  River: did you get those lampreys to let go of your legs?

[Godffery]

I used a Tarrozi fork brace and mounted the fender to the bottom of the brace.

Kelly do you have any more pics of how you skinned this feral cat?

I do but they are too big to post here. I made two 2" X 3/4" x1/16" metal strips with a hole in each end to hold the fender to the brace. I drilled and tapped holes in the angled face on each side of the brace and attached the fender with stainless button head screws. It takes a little finagling to get the holes located on the brace and an extra set of hands helped a lot.

I've done one like that as well, and I can confirm it was a bit of a bugger getting everything in the right position, but did make for a rather simple solution.  Although I did notice some issues with installing & removing it, so that method made things like brake / fork / wheel maintenance more time consuming.
 I eventually settled on a method that has the ability to separate the brace from the fender, threw the top.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Alright already! Put a front sprocket on this bike and ride it!!

[Stev-o]

Alright already! Put a front sprocket on this bike and ride it!!

No kidding!  Is he stuck out at the river?!  Now his excuse will be school starts soon...

[RAFster122s]

It already has restarted in AZ and 581 cases of Covid in schools as of the other day...

[RAFster122s]

How is your wife doing River?

[river]

Fender is back together. Turned out really nice.

90 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

Since I won't use the fender braces any longer, I installed spools up front.

91 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

92 by Chris Neumann, on Flickr

I have 12mm of clearance between the tire and the fender and a touch less than 4mm of clearance between fender and brace. Really happy with how the front looks.

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Looking great!