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A little more progress. I now have it down to the frame, and time to weld up tank and seat mounts, also some mounts for the rearset brackets. Once that is done and all the remnants from the tabs I eliminated are ground smooth, I'll get it to the powder coaters and all purdy'd up. I think I want to add a lower loop brace on the swing arm, any sugestions for size/shape? Pictures? I'm also going to "X" brace the frame on the down tubes above the swinger pivots.

I have decided to stick with the cop theme and paint the tank/seat white and black, with gold pinstripe to seperate the colors, and gold lettering on the seat that says "To Protect, and To Serve". Whatdya think?

I have never been a real Kawi fan, but this project is really making my socks go up and down

That bike has a awesome stance to it, at first I couldn't see it with all the cop clothes, gonna be a good "ject" keep post em!

Got to a little more grinding this weekend, also cut and fit the X bracing and tacked in place. Hopefully I can sneak in some time to weld it solid, and also weld on the rearset mount tabs. With all the stock bracing and gussets on the police frame, this rear X brace should give it a lot of lateral stiffness, making it one stiff mo fo!

Good job on the X brace! I take it you aren't planning to run the stock airbox anymore?

Thanks, and nope, no stock air box. This bike is going to very minimal looking, going for the "see through" look. I'll prob run K&N pods, all the electrics will be mounted flat and under the seat, the battery will be mounted under the bum stop on the seat as well. I want very little showing I also have figured out how I want to do the under loop brace on the swingarm, but I'll finish doing the frame work first.

A couple more pics for your viewing pleasure. I now have all the work done on the frame, tank mounts/seat mounts/bracing/inner fender mounts/de tabbed/ground smooth, etc. and mocked it all up to make sure it all works. Next is to get the frame to the powder coaters. Do a removing of the fender strut mounts on the fork lowers, and remove the handle bar mounts on the top triple clamp (going with clip ons)and I'll get those to the powder coaters. I also weighed all the parts, and came up with a total bike weight at 432 lbs! I was hoping for somthing in the 450 range, and it looks like I am going to be well under that! Yee haww!

Looks promising

I really like your seat pan. Do you have any pics on the process?

this is going to be a cool build.
looks good so far.
here is a members kz650 swingarm that i added an under brace to.






i also built my own swingarm outta cromo that is underbraced.



keep us posted,

leon

eeltree wrote:

I really like your seat pan. Do you have any pics on the process?

The pics of the seat proccess are on page 1 of this thread

531blackbanshee, that swinger looks fantastic! I played around with mine, and didnt really see how I could make it work without doing a funky bend on the left side for chain clearences. Am I missing something? And does the "black banshee" mean that you have a Yamaha Banshee that is painted, well, black?

the chain goes through the swingarm.

the 531blackbanshee means that i have an old banshee that i used to tt and short track race,that has a black fullbore race face,white rear plastics with a black and white checkerboard seat cover bringing both ends together.531 was my race number .

just seemed like to long for a screen name to list all that,so i went with 531blackbanshee .

keep us posted on your progress.

leon

Crap! I don't know how I missed that. Where do you find your supplies at?