Yesterday was a frustrating day on the SBS bike.
Went to install the Sproter I ordered...does not fit. Here's a pic of Devin just looking at it in disgust. We tried many different ways of making it work...to no avail.
After we finally swallowed the fact that we are going to have to send this one back, and start looking all over again, we went ahead and thought some more about the 2" extended forks that we installed.
They definitely changed up the looks some, and we're discussing if we want to add about 3-5 degrees to the rake.
A look at the top of the fork tube extensions-
Next was cutting the fender to get it closer to the size it will be.
Checking out some different mounting points for the seat...
...and seat shock angle and mounting points.
Did not take the time to get some hose on the tire for the fender to sit right, will do that another day.
Spent so much time trying to fit a round peg in a square hole with the Sproter, did not get near as much done as expected.
I am liking the look of the spoked rear wheel instead of the mag one that was on there before.
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Today we did no work on the actual bike, but we did spend a bit of time at the computer, looking at parts, and then at our list, deciding how to proceed.
The new tank should be here next week...finally got a tracking #...it was supposed to have arrived here a couple of days ago, but they were a week later in shipping it than promised.
Next week we are going to put the engine back in the frame for chain alignment and top motor mount fab work.
We are still looking at options of Sprotors that will fit.
We ordered a Vulcan Engineering 3 degree rake kit, along with the tools to extract the current fork cups and install the new ones.
After we install that, we will decide if we want to use the 2" fork caps or some 1" fork caps.
We ordered a front brake caliper, that will be mounted on the right side.
That, along with whatever Sproter we end up with, will leave the left side of each wheel clean.
We also looked at some front turn signal options, and some idiot light options (oil pressure and neutral).
Everything is sitting for now.
Tomorrow it may snow (a relatively rare occurrence here), if it does, I am going to get out for a ride in it, and take some video.
Kevin