Nudie
31-12-2017, 09:37 PM
Not Streetfighter, but may be useful to someone else.
On my Scrapheap bike I'm moving the footpads forward and down to make a GS500 more of an offload bike (along with longer suspension and knobby tyres). I've made mock up brackets out of plywood to get the position about right and now its time to make up the real thing.
At first I thought I would make them from 10mm alloy flat stock since there is no welding (that I can't do), just drilling and tapping a few threads here and there. But looking at them I started to think they could be made from mild steel a bit thinner than the alloy. A little bit of weight mounted down that low isn't going to make fuck all difference and I'm not building a GP bike or a land speed racer.
So watchchu think?
https://i.imgur.com/pSQKuN7.jpg
On my Scrapheap bike I'm moving the footpads forward and down to make a GS500 more of an offload bike (along with longer suspension and knobby tyres). I've made mock up brackets out of plywood to get the position about right and now its time to make up the real thing.
At first I thought I would make them from 10mm alloy flat stock since there is no welding (that I can't do), just drilling and tapping a few threads here and there. But looking at them I started to think they could be made from mild steel a bit thinner than the alloy. A little bit of weight mounted down that low isn't going to make fuck all difference and I'm not building a GP bike or a land speed racer.
So watchchu think?
https://i.imgur.com/pSQKuN7.jpg