big bird !

Gr1mm4 · 06-27-2009, 6:27 AM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

ok...been some time...so here's whats happened.
not much actually!
Project Dolebird...the spend available at the moment is...er...next to nowt!.
I need to buy an ignition switch. but can't justify it at the moment...life sux!
so...I might be hotwiring it:nocomment:

last update saw the engine in the frame and up on its own legs..
I had a box of wires but no idea where anything went!...kinda like a jigsaw puzzle with no box lid.
so I joined a blackbird forum..got some info and downloaded the service manual.
long story>short...
The engine carbs airbox coils and everything in the main engine area is in...
everything is plumbed and wired up...and ready to be butchered at the front and rear ends.
need a subframe welding...and sorting the lights etc at the front. and sort an oil cooler mount bracket
kinda coming together now!
all thanks to having no friggin job!!

lots of engine stuffed in..looks kinda ugly but brutal
I can see the finish line...wanna ride the frikkin thing:nodyes:

Looking good man, I know your pain of the dole aswell, just been hit with that one myself! (being skint sucks when bike stuff is quite pricey

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radiobloke · 07-02-2009, 3:32 PM

so todays news...

I got a new job...start on Monday

spent a bit of time in the garage...playing with the stringy bits

decided to mount the battery inside the engine bay...

its going here...lots of room for the other leccy bits...
I spotted an old Fireblade battery box and undertray thingy in the back of my garage. simple...rip it to peices and fit it in the engine cavity...using the threaded holes i the side of the frame and a cunning fixing solution elsewhere. should get it all sorted tomorrow all being well.

also bust the original angel eye lights...picked these slanted shaped one up the other day...they'll have to do for now

lots of other small jobs...once the electrics are sorted I can get the subframe sorted and we are closer to getting it on the road.

Sideshow bob · 07-02-2009, 3:37 PM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

so todays news...

I got a new job...start on Monday

spent a bit of time in the garage...playing with the stringy bits

Congratulation on the job

hope it all goes well

Does this mean build work will start progressing again

Twincam · 07-02-2009, 7:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Sideshow bob

Congratulation on the job

hope it all goes well

Hope things start looking up for you.

pdxbret · 07-03-2009, 12:50 AM

Way-to-go on the job man! Can't wait to see more of the bike. Keep 'er going.

radiobloke · 07-03-2009, 6:30 AM

cheers all...

LoopyLee · 07-03-2009, 9:16 AM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

so todays news...

I got a new job...start on Monday

Congratulations on the new job.. And good luck with the rest of your build

radiobloke · 07-03-2009, 6:43 PM

spent some time i the garage today.

got the battery box in...but couldn't work out how to get rid of the alarm thats wired into it...or how to fit it if I leave it in...its wired like a box of noodles!

someone could work it all out in 10 mins I'm sure...but I gave up coz it was frying my head.

so I sat there...looking at the seat unit...and set about the subframe to prep it for welding..attacked it with an angle grinder!

and it looked kinda cool...

but the lines weren't right...so...

bottom subframe support in line with the frame angle.
seat in line with the top line of the frame.

I reckon the bike might look cool as **** all stumpy!

I reckon I'm gonna go stumpy...maybe the cbr6 tail is too long??!??

sounds like a bloody good excuse to spend hours searching ebay and buying more crap that ultimately ends up thrown in the back of the garage!
and while we're at it,...

the mudguard is ugly...need to cut it down...work in progress!

Sideshow bob · 07-03-2009, 7:16 PM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

I reckon the bike might look cool as **** all stumpy!

I reckon I'm gonna go stumpy...maybe the cbr6 tail is too long??!??

Stumpys good

only problem I found shortning my gixxer was standard ones now just looks wrong

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

sounds like a bloody good excuse to spend hours searching ebay and buying more crap that ultimately ends up thrown in the back of the garage!
and while we're at it,...

.... I have garage space if you wanna chuck some unwanted junk* away

*when I say junk..... I mean GOOD junk not empty beer cans, dead Cats & the rest of the stuff that collects in garages!!

Westers · 07-09-2009, 5:58 PM

Stumpy is good - me likes stumpy tail's.

What's the seat unit on your Spondon? Looks like a Honda 250 race seat to me, or possibly an Aprillia job. Like it.

Me is fighting the urge to do a fighter - I know it's the way forward for me to start riding again, but I also know what I'm like with my ideas, they just end up as half completed/learnt things.

929ADAM · 07-10-2009, 2:29 AM

plan your build out first, then figure out how and what you have to do, make a list, figure out what you can do and what you need help with then DW.

and yes Bobbers FTW!

radiobloke · 07-13-2009, 6:41 PM

**** planning....just have a shape in your head that you want to create....then just run with it...let it develop...trial and error...

the back end has changed again this weekend!....and I've just seen some new pics of the Spondon ( its gone away!) looking gooood!

Westers...severerly cut down RS125

Westers · 07-15-2009, 1:11 PM

Thought it looked like an RS unit.

Anyway, I have a cunning plan ('cos I like planning

). Bandit 1200 base. Strip it completely, take the angle grinder to the sub frame and cut it off. New sub frame to fit either an RS250 RSW seat unit, or one of the 08-09 CBR1000 race seats (if I can find a supplier in the UK. Found one in the US, but not exactly cheap). GSXR USD forks, one off yokes, Harris rearsets, new set of clocks (I like the Acewell units), paint and powder coat.

Stripped down, simple and not at all like a rat with a gold tooth.

Not the cheapest of plans, but you get what you pay for.

Now to get my butt in gear and finish changing the chain and sprockets on the GSXR and then sell it.

Some links to components that you might find useful:

Cheap and compact switchgear: http://motorcycleproducts.co.uk/cata...6857ae6c 6b6f

Not so cheap, but tidy, clocks: ACEWELL Digi Dash Speedometers > Motorcycle - Road / Custom / Race Replica

I like the one at the bottom of the page on the left ACE-2856AB. Everthing in one small unit. Sod the cost

radiobloke · 07-16-2009, 5:31 PM

cbr1000 seats are rocking horse mate...was after one for ages. only expensive carbon ones around at mo.

I had an acewell....flogged it...bought a motogadget...you want small? go motogadget (google it!)

I had a blade fighter with a zx10r front end..stop talking...and build it!

latest photo's

BigBird

will post a pic in the Sponny thread too.

Westers · 07-16-2009, 6:41 PM

Talk about squashed nuts

And yup, no blade tails in this country so scrap that. Anyway, I like the idea of an RS250 tail.

Motogadget looks nice, but £450..... Feck me.

And if I keep talking I'll have to build it

radiobloke · 07-17-2009, 4:44 PM

£450 !!!!!

which one are you looking at!

this one... bout 180

Sideshow bob · 07-17-2009, 4:53 PM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

£450 !!!!!

which one are you looking at!

this one... bout 180

I want one!!!!

.... you fitting one to the spondon too?

radiobloke · 07-17-2009, 5:36 PM

its been sat upstairs for months....waiting to be fitted.

too good for the big bird tho...that ones getting a cheapo cycle speedo

Sideshow bob · 07-17-2009, 5:54 PM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

its been sat upstairs for months....waiting to be fitted.

too good for the big bird tho...that ones getting a cheapo cycle speedo

Snap!! I running a "Halfords" super cheapy on my gixxer

wouldn't mind one them spangly little ones for Next project tho

dick hurtz · 07-18-2009, 8:24 AM

WTF! i just discovered the fighter section.... that build is savage, i've been drooling over the pics for an hour. that last pic of the tail looks like a middle finger waving in the air...... I approve, good stuff.

radiobloke · 07-18-2009, 10:03 AM

hahaha...SAVAGE....like that!

radiobloke · 07-18-2009, 6:33 PM

not much progress today..

re-fitted the exhaust..got the can to sit right.

fitted some new rearsets, and modified the brake so it fitted the rearsets (they aren't made for the bird,...so I bought em of ebay and modded them)

then played around with the oil cooler mount..the 3rd try at making the brackets so far. the cooler is on the botom of the rad...but I have to go to version 4 which has a few issues to work out!!

and before I could do that I had to straighten out the cooler...was a bit ...a lot...twisted.

so..floor...plank...big hammer....its not flat, but its nearer than it was thismorning!

and hows about THIS for a 'German inspired' seat unit

Sideshow bob · 07-18-2009, 6:41 PM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

and hows about THIS for a 'German inspired' seat unit

... wouldn't it need some spikes to be truly german inspired

Bucko@buck88.ka · 07-19-2009, 8:40 AM

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Originally Posted by radiobloke

and hows about THIS for a 'German inspired' seat unit

Pillion on that would would be a scream ! Love it in a strange way

Westers · 07-20-2009, 1:11 PM

I was looking at this one, the Chronoclassic.

Any particular reason why you ditched the Acewell, or was it just 'cos you wanted a really tiny dash?

My eyesight isn't what it once was, so I like the size of the Acewell, but if it's naff then I don't want to spend the cash on it.

Twincam · 07-20-2009, 4:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Westers

My eyesight isn't what it once was, so I like the size of the Acewell, but if it's naff then I don't want to spend the cash on it.

Neither is my hearing

Westers · 07-21-2009, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Twincam

Neither is my hearing

Say again.

:r otfl:

kpj98 · 07-22-2009, 9:06 PM

Just ran through the entire thread. Very cool project. I at times want to mod my 98CBR but it is just the way I like it right now. I have been thinking of finding a used 919 and trying my hand at customizing it. This thread has got me fired up! Now if I could just get the missus as excited about another scooter in garage...

radiobloke · 07-23-2009, 11:38 AM

MAN UP !!!!!

do it.

radiobloke · 08-02-2009, 7:05 PM

this weekends progress...

well...the few hours I had on it

bled the front brakes

bled the bastard rear...fecking thing took ages...ended up bleeding the cable without the caliper on the end...that got the bugger!

made the oil cooler mount...then made it again....still shite. will have to make V3 next week.

need to make a little chain guard thing...cos the rearsets are damn close to the chain.

tried designing something...but it looked naff...work in progress!

took the seat to peices and cut it up...getting there...will need to trim the seat foam down cos at the moment it drops away in the wrong place. should work out ok.

wanted to get more done this weekend...but got obliterated on Saturday night...head still mings!