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Maz
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
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Bikesandfires wrote:Nice pattern on that garage floor Maz...Looks like it doesn't show dirt easily either...
yep, its called concrete....... :hand: :shifty: :dance:
jonester123 wrote:Maz, now that is what i call a cool wicked looking frame design nice work. :D :popcorn: :obscene-drinkingcheers:
Thanks Thomas, just doing my thing....... :banana-dance:

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SELF INTRODUCTION: Hello guys and gals, working on my 1979 honda cb750 bobber chopper build plus many other projects etc. I have two workshops at home that i built so i can build bikes and all sorts of parts, and i mainly do auto body work and restoration repairs etc.
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By the looks of your cool frame design, going to be alot of fun figureing out the right gastank design to suite the look you want. But thats what makes custom bike building real fun and challenging. :clap: :dance: :popcorn:
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
Location: South West Coast of England
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jonester123 wrote:By the looks of your cool frame design, going to be alot of fun figureing out the right gastank design to suite the look you want. But thats what makes custom bike building real fun and challenging. :clap: :dance: :popcorn:
Don't worry Thomas, I designed the whole bike before I started the project..... :think: .....its how to actually fabricate some of the parts that may take some time and extra thought :doh:

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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
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Ok so I had a couple of hours off to celebrate New Year with some good friends.... :obscene-drinkingcheers: and then I went back out into the workshop and finished fabricating the motor mounts and decided to mock up the front end :think: I've used a prototype diamond girder that I made last year (to test my design work and jig etc) and I've got a nice skinny front wheel that I think will look just right.... :shifty: anyways, here's the latest progress guys, judge for yourselves............ :snooty:
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front wheel just placed alongside to "get the look"....
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this last ones a bit shaky cos my phone rang just as I was taking the pic.... :doh:

I will be starting into fabricating the new girder soon...and it will be wide-glide like on the GS550.......but twin shock this time...... :hand:

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SELF INTRODUCTION: Hey...I live in South Jersey (the Super Fund State) work as an Operating Engineer local825.Besides bikes I love to fish the surf.I have my current & seemingly endless project a BSA 750 Rocket3, a 72 Honda CB750,79 Kawasaki KZ1000, 48 Simplex, & a 62 Norton Atlas engine
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Looking good Maz....looks like some major sparks been flyin in your shop
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
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Jeff L wrote:Looking good Maz....looks like some major sparks been flyin in your shop
Thanks Jeff, I'm hoping to have this one on the road for spring....... :pray:

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Maz wrote:Thanks Jeff, I'm hoping to have this one on the road for spring....... :pray: Maz xx
With the current rate of progress spring might be a late target date for ya..... :D So long as ya don't run into any :angry-cussingblack: :angry-banghead: :angry-cussingblack:
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nice maz lookin sharp
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Maz, looks like you are making fast progress. Going to be a real cool bike when you are done with all the fabrication stuff. :D :popcorn: :clap: :dance:
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
Location: South West Coast of England
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Thanks guys, I'm just working at my usual pace, as well as doing the day job and all the other things that I do......

Today I've been fabricating the split sections of the front frame down-tubes which will allow the lower half of the frame to be detached for motor removal....... I'm not planning on taking the motor out too often but it would be almost impossible to do in a conventional design frame and you just never know....... :hand:

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I caint remember where I saw this setup , but it seems to me to be something that would set off yer wide glide diamond girder quite nicely .

Instead of 4 separate links make the top and bottom pair into a single unit each and run them inside of the girder legs , you could make them "on the diamond" as with the rest of the girder .

The one I saw had the bottom set fixed by a shaft run thru bushings held in the tube welded to the steering stem and thru short tubes welded to the linkage , when the nuts on the ends were tightend the shaft moved with the linkage . The other end of the linkage had a bushed tube and a shaft that was captured in the girder leg and it too moved with the linkage !

Both linkage units were wider at one end that the other and were set up opposite to each other(bottom had wide end forward and top had narrow end forward) !

The spring and shock passed thru the opening in the top linkage unit to mount at the stem !

Hope this helps !

Bob King
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
Location: South West Coast of England
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gearhead1951 wrote:I caint remember where I saw this setup , but it seems to me to be something that would set off yer wide glide diamond girder quite nicely .

Instead of 4 separate links make the top and bottom pair into a single unit each and run them inside of the girder legs , you could make them "on the diamond" as with the rest of the girder .

The one I saw had the bottom set fixed by a shaft run thru bushings held in the tube welded to the steering stem and thru short tubes welded to the linkage , when the nuts on the ends were tightend the shaft moved with the linkage . The other end of the linkage had a bushed tube and a shaft that was captured in the girder leg and it too moved with the linkage !

Both linkage units were wider at one end that the other and were set up opposite to each other(bottom had wide end forward and top had narrow end forward) !

The spring and shock passed thru the opening in the top linkage unit to mount at the stem !

Hope this helps !

Bob King
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Thanks Bob, not a bad idea and one I must admit I was thinking of for a future project....here's a couple of :banana-gotpics: of what I understand you to mean....
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the biggest issue for me is getting enough clearance for the twin shocks I will be running on this project...... :think: but I'm sure I will come up with a design that works at some stage :banana-dance:

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i like the top one nice lines would look real hot in diamond :popcorn: :popcorn:
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SELF INTRODUCTION: The Biker Mistress, Blonde, blue eyes, English Lady bike builder and previously a member of the CBH. I run my own custom bike and chop shop (MazChopz) on the south west coast of England. I have been building custom bikes for over 35 years and have built some 130 bikes so far. I am happy to share my knowledge and "expertise" and also hope to learn from the other forum members. I look forward to meeting up with many of my friends from the CBH and especially to seeing how Dan got on with his Knuck.
Location: South West Coast of England
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I agree, would look real nice in diamond and with a single coil-over....

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I dont know if I can think of enough to say to reach the two hundred charactor minimun set by the mods , but I will persevere
Location: Greenock Scotland

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The Tony Foal girder is the one I as talking about ! It has been a long time since I laid eyes on that !

I totaly agree on the single coil over , any time you got 2 shocks in tandem one is doing all or most of the work !!

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