we're just curious about how he's going to make some of these things work, like what kind of swingarm bushings he used and how he bushed the reinforced conduit to the 750 frame. Why he used a gixxer 600 fork instead of a 1000, when a 600 fork is made for a 350# bike and a 750 is closer to 500#... How he made the gixxer fork fit in the first place. I want to know how he revamped his gearbox and transmission to adjust for the massive increase in rear wheel/sprocket size and what speeds he's anticipating with the change, if the modification doesn't toast the tranny in the first place.
What's the swingarm travel allowed and what's the worst-case-scenario if it bottoms? How did he improve on the heavy, outmoded '70s design of the framework? How much clearance does he have between the gixxer front wheel and the headers? How does that change when the air shock is pumped up? What's the end result geometry; will it corner safely? How does one fill the propane tank oil bags? Will the design constrict oil flow and starve the engine?
There's a difference between all the Craigslist Throwtogethers we've all bought from previous owners and carefully designed and fabricated machines, that's all. All these things get taken into account. There are a lot of real artists on this board. IC's gixxer front end is a work of art. It flows so well it looks like original equipment.
The projects we see on here, everyone will do their own thing and explain exactly how they did it to others so it can be questioned, pondered or repeated. We like the technical details, it's what a lot of us are all about.
I think the problem some of us had was that he didn't come on saying "This is what I want to do- how do you recommend I go about it?" We would've all been keen to help. Instead he started off by being defensive, then started calling people douches etc. Not cool. I'm waiting, as well, to see a video of this thing in action. I'm curious, now, and would like to have these first impressions proven wrong.
