Busy Two Weeks

Progress has slowed down a bit, as we have put the house up for sale. To get it ready I had to spend a bit more time doing house stuff, instead of bike stuff. It all paid off, as we had an offer on the fifth day. As long as I get my posting message, the house is sold!! Now back to the bike.

The seat has taken shape really well, I thought I had some photos but I don't. Photos will come tomorrow as it is in the curing stage again tonight. The back frames got epoxied on this evening. The seat is a bit rough, but I think I got a pretty decent shape considering the rudimentary process I followed to make the thing.

If you can recall back to the small bottle cap filled with epoxy to hold the nut that will be the attachment point for the idler, this photo shows the piece CF'ed into the frame. I used some regular epoxy and some thickened with filler. The position is good and it feels very sturdy.

I have the new seat mounts built and installed. They are pretty good and very sturdy. I needed to use some scrap pieces of oak hardwood flooring. It added some chunkiness and alot of weight. but I didn't feel the pieces that I had were strong enough for the shock and the seat. The beefed up ones are definitely strong enough.

The rear shock mount at the swing arm is really ugly, in fact the entire swing arm is ugly. It looks to be functional, but I think I may be in for some cutting as it is starting to look like the shock housing is going to hit the arm when I hit a good size bump. I am going to give it a try for now. The most important part I want to happen in the next week is to ride it on the streets. From there I will fine tune to suspension issues.

The adventure continues......