Café Commando build thread
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Jeandr said:
I have no idea where you would find that.
:mrgreen:
My back fender, basicaly finished in the back, the front adjuster will need to be rethought due to clearance issues. The fender moves front and back with the wheel to adjust the chain and it follows the swing arm so the clearance is more than enough.
This is a picture with the suspension fully compressed, plenty of room to move and not touch anything.
Now I have to get going on sanding everything. I have to make a chain guard and chain adjusters.
Jean
This is a picture with the suspension fully compressed, plenty of room to move and not touch anything.
Now I have to get going on sanding everything. I have to make a chain guard and chain adjusters.
Jean
Cheesy said:
Mine is a numbers matching bike, and it is a JPN to boot, unfortunately no one was willing to buy it for what it was so for me it was cheaper than to get another bike and do what I did. I have no remorse, the value of the other JPNs went up because that is one less on the road and it is one fewer rolling cigarette ad.
It doesn't look like it will be nice out for a while so I sould have some more tme to work on it rather than train my cycling legs :wink:
Jean
That's okay we all really appreciate the photo's that you do post. intresting chain adjusters though. I meant to ask you about your handle bar controls earlier in the thread. What make are they and where did you pick them up/and about how much? I'm in the market for a new set for my MK3 and was thinking of going with used japanese off of e-bay, but your look choice/tidy. Cj
cjandme said:
I got the controls and the tail light from e-bay, take a look at the vendor's store at http://stores.ebay.com/OZG-Powersports They have the same stuff on auction and on buy-it-now, usually the auction goes for half the buy-it-now price, but you must be saavy and patient in your bids. The controls are about $12 to $15. The left hand one is as it came from e-bay, the right hand only has the control, there is no throttle "drum" and no cable ferrule, ortunately I had some leftover parts and cobbled up a correctly working unit.
What's better then, a single picture or 20 pictures of a taillight :wink:
Jean
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grandpaul said:
What would that have looked like?
grandpaul said:
Technically, that would have been better, but the brake backing plate would need to be modified, then there is the problem of finding room for an attachment point complicated by my muffler brackets, add to that the fact that the rear brake for me is used very sparingly, then you understand my choice of a swing arm mounted attachment point.
Jean
grandpaul said:
It doesn't have to be parallel just as long as the torque from the brake is fed into the frame rather than the swing arm. Doing that prevents the torque from the backing plate loading the suspension allowing better better wheel control. All this is good on an all out racer, on a café racer, it would only make it more espresso rather than latté :wink:
Jean