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Had to modify the Yamaha axle to fit the Kawasaki tubes, but the front wheel is on.

Umaku wrote: I thought I would share another project while waiting to complete another installment of the Oni build. This is my fathers 1965 BSA Lightning that has the front and rear off of a RF900. This bike is awesome and incredibly comfortable. You wont be keeping up with the crotch rockets, but with the large tires and wide bars you don't require the brakes much. The right side shifter takes a little getting used to.

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I know that damn thing is loud! Ed

Believe it or not it is not too bad, but that is comparing it against our friends 58 Harley drag bike with straight pipes. The incredible thing is that engine has never been opened. It was in such good shape that it wasn't worth opening up.

that is a very nicely done bike right there.
you guys did a great job on the old beast.
thanks for posting,

leon

I figured I would share one of the many amazing scooters that are out in the wild here in Japan. Believe it or not this one is pretty demure.

So a couple of updates for posting. I will admit I have been a bit busy to post updates so this will be split up a bit to accommodate. Wheel is now mounted. It took my lead engineer a bit of time with the lathe to make the Yamaha axle work with the RF900 rear but it is attached securely for now....... we shall see at 100+ how I feel about my desire to use the R1 wheels for aesthetics. Front and rear brakes mounted as well.

Lead Engineer (my oldman) finally got the rear-sets I tracked down and mounted them. After some artistic direction he re-mounted them in a more aggressive position for me.

Luckily my oldman and I make a good team and regularly check concepts off each other. This ensures that the engineering and the design are working in concert with each other, otherwise the bike would be a cruiser with shit welded all over the place. After careful debate the pegs were adjusted more to my liking and a horrible chrome front fender was mounted. This will not be a permanent fixture.

those tube junctions really kind stick out.
it's nice to cut em out and cap em off.

this is a kz 750 i done.



this is a shaft drive frame that arnold done,








just a thought.

leon

531blackbanshee wrote: maybe an aluminum z1r tank.

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leon

i have an alloy filler out of late zx?? to braze in to my Z1R tank. I'm so going to check alternate positioning now...

So after a brief hiatus from the build, the bike is back on the engineering floor for work. The initial rear frame rails were determined to be too low and needed to be raised to correct the line of the body. This group of pictures shows the original frame rail setup and the initial seat pan construction.

The new raised frame rails and seat pan.