NOS TS1

[gpts1]

thanks speed demon, going to make the caliper floating, will be removing the old mounting brackets and putting pins on the back of the caliper for it to float on.

[gpts1]

Just a quick update, panels are just about ready for a coat of primer having had all the panel work done on them, have spent a lot of time on these as i intend to paint the GP gloss black, my main inspiration for this lammy was grumpy225's old frankenbretta

i love this bike and wanted my own version of it, with out copying his. I like to draw lots of ideas from different things i see, Hotrods, vintage race cars and classic bikes. this 32 Ford roadster has been a great source of ideas.

I especially like the look of the wheels, so i am going to try and reproduce the look on my GP

Got a new coating in at work which has a very similar look, so tried a test sample on an old rear hub i had lying around, very happy with the look, just need to order my new set of AF alloy rims for my project.

[gpts1]

haven't been able to do a lot lately, as I'm moving house shortly, but i got some new rims from Andy Francis and a fork from scooter center koln
Had to have the rims refinished in a polished finish as i could only get the black with a silver lip.

[soulboy]

is that fox vinilla shock off a d/h bike very very clever work

[guygrrr]

Let me just see if I got this straight. You made a 3 pot caliper out of a 6 pot? Very clever. What was the donor? And if I may, was there any tricky bit or was it fairly straight forward?

[gpts1]

Hi guygrrr

Its buell XR1200 caliper, its not straight forward, I've still not finished it as i got so far and realized even with machining all the rear pots off the back of the caliper it was still to deep so i am now going to have make the back half of the caliper from scratch, so still heaps of work to do, but ill get there when i have some time. the main reason for doing it was i couldn't justify spending a massive amount of money on a Beringer caliper, there like $750 here landed in NZ. Ive only got about $150 in this one plus my time.

[gpts1]

Small update its been a while and since moving to our new house ive not had a lot of time to work on the GP but got the hub back from the machinist so i can now start drawing up the back of the caliper for fabrication.

[Micky Tapp]

The most anticipated return to posting on this site!

[gpts1]

cheers man sounds like i better hurry up.

[gpts1]

So have managed to get a few bits done in the last week, forks are now together, they are new stainless Scomodi unit with MB internals, forks were sent to the chrome platers and given a brushed finish to tone them down, MB bolts got speed dimples put in the end and currently have some titanium fasterners on the way to add a bit more detail.



Also made some more bits for my disk brake and now the forks are together i can start working on getting these finished.