Well today has been a fun day off work and into the garage.
First up is the Top Yoke. After cutting off the handlebar mounts and clock mount with a hack saw.
I started fileing down the bare as so that they would blend into the yoke.
After that I started using a sanding drum on a Dremel.
Once it was all smooth and blended in. I Wet and dry'd it using P400.
And then onto the polishing mop using some Brown Compound.
Half way through
Most of it polished, just need to get the rest of the paint off.
With the parts that were cut off.
Now just need to design the bracket for the clocks.
I am still deciding whether to make the yoke perfectly flat with no bumps from the original mounts. The bumps are slightly more noticeable in the pics then when you hold the piece. Also it looks quite nice, almost organic. I am planning to either fill the 4 bolt holes with ally bolts and then get them welded in and smooth and polish them so you hardly see them. But my preferred option is to get 4 different colourd LED's and with some modified lenses fix them in the holes and use them as the indicator oil, Hi/Lo and nuetral warning lights.
Next up was making the footrest hanger mounting plates for the frame. I managed to blag a piece of 5mm steel plate from a local fabricator and started cutting out the hanger mounts.
I then drilled out 2 holes per plate to mount the footrest hangers from and then tapped them for M10 bolts.
Next up is to get some 1/2" x 3/4" bar and use two pieces of this as fairing bracket mounts to be welded to the headstock tube. Then once I get a Gordons frame kit and cut it into the frame I can then weld it all up and send it off for painting.
Lastly, I had a bit of a play on Photoshop last night. Just wanted to see what the 4 into 4 pipes would look like, also changed the stripes a bit, still not sure If I will keep to that colour scheme.
