single sided swing arm project

[Watty]

A bloody good step forward today i recon Lloydie, how the hell did you get your pillion hangers that shiny

[lloydie]

They ain't it's just the light .
But a good polish brings them up great

[Bleh]

Interesting post which I will watch closely... Have a full VFR 750 swing arm, hub, wheel and a super blackbird caliper just sitting in the garage waiting for me to decide if I want to sell or keep for future project(s).

Just a possibly handy suggestion, with you increasing the wheel base (even by a few mill), the Centre of Gravity (CoG) position will be effected marginally (and height if the rear is raised), a good way of counteracting the negative effects would be to lower it slightly (lowering springs are available for front and back). It won't do a great deal in terms of CoG distance from the front, but the height change of CoG will most definitely be beneficial so not only will it look amazing, with the right tyres, it will stick to the road like s**t to a blanket.

[AMCQ46]

good work there lads, and great idea to use the spare frames and engines in lloydies parts cave to allow you to work out all teh issues without having to take a bike off the road.

I agree its much easier if there is 2 of you, as you keep each other motivated and problems get brainstormed and fixed so much faster. Lucky we have a friendly neighborhood Lloydie

will look good when its done

[Jamoi]

You really don't muck about do you lads!

Nice one, for taking on the challenge, it doesn’t look straight forward and there will be plenty of head scratching and cups of tea but that's what it's all about!

It's going to look ACE CK

[Ckennedy]

Cheers fellas

We had thought of making an adjustable linkage using rose joints and a strong steel tube so we can adjust the ride height easily without having to dismantle everything. We still have to get some more clearance from the bottom shock bolt to do it but we should get there.

Just had a thought though.... Would the diamenter of a rose joint be enough to not bend the linkage bolt that goes through the engine? It would be a lot of force acting on one area of the bolt. We are getting spacer tubes made to meet what ever linkage we use so would this strengthen the bolt enough or would we need to rethink our approch?

[Jamoi]

My shock has a rose joint at the bottom, with sleeves that slot into the hole and the bolt passes through.

Could you form a sleeve to go over the bolt to spread the load out?

[gl_s_r]

Had a look into this before and know of this product here..

http://soupysperformance.com/honda/supe ... -link.html

My thinking was to buy the rose joints with a 12mm hole and then turn the two pieces of steel down to just under 12mm diameter at each end and so each go half way into the rose joint and meet in the middle.. the two parts would be the overall length you need to fit in the linkage bit. You would just then have the 8.2 diameter hole all the way through both of them so it clamps up both sides, the steel spacers are held rigid and in place and the rotation is handled by the rose joint rather than bearings in a dog bone. You can also decide where you want the linkage to be or move it left and right by changing the length of the steel spacers either side.

sound any good or do I have the wrong idea of what you wrote?

[lloydie]

Had a look into this before and know of this product here..

http://soupysperformance.com/honda/supe ... -link.html

My thinking was to buy the rose joints with a 12mm hole and then turn the two pieces of steel down to just under 12mm diameter at each end and so each go half way into the rose joint and meet in the middle.. the two parts would be the overall length you need to fit in the linkage bit. You would just then have the 8.2 diameter hole all the way through both of them so it clamps up both sides, the steel spacers are held rigid and in place and the rotation is handled by the rose joint rather than bearings in a dog bone. You can also decide where you want the linkage to be or move it left and right by changing the length of the steel spacers either side.

sound any good or do I have the wrong idea of what you wrote?

That sounds spot on

[Ckennedy]

Yeah that's the kinda thing would also help with the clearance issue with the swing arm and the linkage triangle as with this methods you suggested the overal width of the linkage would be narrower (i would imagine) sorry if iv got that wrong and all back to front, I think better with the bits infront of me so I can have a play.

[lloydie]

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[bigtwinthing]

Silicon! what kind of mechanic are you? ........



Gaffer tape all the way

I hope those WP shocks are good, I've just stripped cleaned and painted mine, not sure yet where to fit the remote adjuster though.

[lloydie]

Silicon! what kind of mechanic are you? ........



Gaffer tape all the way

I hope those WP shocks are good, I've just stripped cleaned and painted mine, not sure yet where to fit the remote adjuster though.

When you find out let me know
And yes they are good :-)

[Ckennedy]

Silicon! what kind of mechanic are you? ........



Gaffer tape all the way

I hope those WP shocks are good, I've just stripped cleaned and painted mine, not sure yet where to fit the remote adjuster though.

If you don't want the adjuster lost me know. I'll have it off you

[Jamoi]

I found this dudes.. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.vi ... 1226708418 I know just "buying and bolting" isn't the idea here, just to let you know these are available incase you missed it