Tv bike

Ok.. The frame

The frame has went quite smoothly here at e-fab. Bending tubes and Welding them in place isn't the difficult part. The difficult part is going to be all the forgings I am about to tackle in the next week. You can see on the back bone what seems to look like a sleeved forging. I am going to get pretty carried away with it all, hopefully sometime next week I will have it finished up to show you what it really should look like. Stay tuned. We also have camera crews coming to e-fab this week;) stay tuned!

My first magazine spread. IRONWORKS

Frame adjustments

In this photo you will see what almost looks like a nice, elegant Harley neck that was cut right off by some retard. Well you're seeing it right. As I thought more about it, I realized that the Harley neck was not going to achieve the look I was shooting for, nor was it going to allow me enough clearance to make the bike fully ridable. So I have decided I am going to machine my own neck and place it 2 inches forward and one inch higher then where the Harley neck was. I will be giving the down tubes a goose neck effect as well. Keep posted next week I will probably have the process done. Also I will be making my own front end now which I am very excited to do with the help of Lock. It will be bitchen!

Screen

I decided to add some screen to the holes I put in my front drum backing plate. Simply because when you're riding down the road there is nothing to stop gravel and small pebbles from jumping right up into your braking system. The screen is copper screen antiqued to give it a nice look, I also did the same affect to the washers next to each of the holes.

Waiting...

The last week or so there has not been much to post about around the shop. My wheels and hubs are off getting plated, I can't do anything else until the bike is a roller. Mean while, Lock and I have been working extensively on a few business proposals. Stay tuned in the next few weeks to see if it all pans out. It is starting to get cold on the East Coast and I don't like it, it reminds me too much of home back in the Midwest. I am ready for winter to come and go, the faster the better. I will be going back home for a few weeks over Christmas, hopefully I can post a picture of a roller before I get on a plane. It is all on the other guys at this point.

Both front and rear hubs are now complete

I don't know what it is about fabrication. Once you know how you just want to change everything ;) I felt guilty about just buying these drums and lacing them to a couple of wheels... I had to do something!

Front hub

So I decided I wanted to concentrate on some areas that typically get over looked, like the "hubs". There is 3 days worth of work in that little guy. Next it is off to the plater. Stay tuned in the next day or two I will be doing the rear :)

My front hub complete

You can see a before and after shot of the Triumph front hub that I altered.

Sub museum!

Submarines have come to fascinate me the more I learn about them. Imagine being a U-Boat crew mate, 3 month missions at a time, maybe only getting to see daylight 2 hours of the entire 3 months.

Kully's kustom made fins!

The objective to making fins is very simple. The reason you see fins in various places is for heating purposes. Fins allow areas that heat up to stay cool allowing more surface area. The more surface area you have the cooler the area will stay. So what I did is build up welds for rows (fins) and grind and sand very tediously and eventually I had what are symmetrical fins. I decided to do this inside the scoop of my front hub to keep heat down and most importantly I think it looks quite elegant.

Look mom ;)

I was feeling the need to do something edgy. I needed to cast something and blend it in somewhere on the bike to show a little craftsmanship;) this is what I came up with. Look mom I put a skull with a horn on my rocker top!

Fins are done!

As you can see I smoothed the welds out and began building the fins.

Fresh out the mold

Mr. Lock Baker and I are perfecting our casting abilities. This is awesome! It is totally on now! Watch out!

You can't get this from S & S :)

As you can see I have moved my exhaust port over about 2 inches and canted the other direction. This is what use to be my intake port. Keep posted I will be smoothing it and building fins up to it. I want it to look like it was cast that way :)

Twin carb shovel

The twin carb conversion is a process. As you can see the front head will stay exactly the same. But the rear head will be highly modified. I will be reversing the duties of the intake and exhaust valves. Also, both the intake and exhaust ports (flanges) will have to be changed and moved. You can see in the picture that I ground out the new exhaust port which was the stock intake and I will be moving it about two inches for clearance purposes. I will post more pictures of the process over the next few days.

Mr. Lock Baker

E-fab in house casting

Drilled clutch housing

Rocker shaft oilers.

I decided I wanted to go out of the ordinary with the upstairs oilers. So I tapped into the cross tubes on the inside of the rocker tops directly on the front. I will be putting two banjo fittings on each rocker top creating a 1 into 4 as it leaves the case.

Yo where can I get one of those !

Lock Baker at his best. Over the course of an afternoon I watched my teacher cast a ring blank in house and then carve out a skull entirely with a few dremal tools and his imagination. He did not cast all the detail, he carved it, which I think is much more rad! He is an artist!

Have you ever been carried away with a rotary file?

I decided I wanted to shave my cases a bit to give them a Kully millage twist, I did just that and then some. ;)