Today, I got (some) shit done!
I decided today to have a crack at the single sided swingarm. Out with the spanners!
There hasn't been a pic of the bike up yet, so here are a few:
Project Fazer donor bike 1 |
Project Fazer donor bike 1 |
Project Fazer donor bike 2 |
Project Fazer donor bike 2 |
So, after a bit of a battle, I fought off the stock swingarm:
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Fazer swingarm |
And compared it to the Honda:
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Bros swingarm |
A first glance, it looks like the Bros arm may be slightly longer!
It's certainly narrower, though. It's not as bad as I though, but I would approximate it being about 10mm out. To boot, the bearings were too small to take the swingarm pivot, so I was unable to bung it in place to meaqsure more accurately. Bollocks, that's going to be something ELSE to do before I can fit the Bros arm. As I was fiddling about, I also noticed the swingarm came a bit close to the left hand footrest, so I'll have to keep an eye on that during the build
I then had a look at suspension. The Bros uses direct suspension, and the Fazer (as we all know) has a linkage. Due to the position of the shock mount on the frame, I cannot use direct suspension, which means I'm going to have to find a way of fixing linkages to the Bros. I'll probably use the Fazer shock as it's shorter.
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Fazer and Bros shocks |
I then noticed that the Fazer shock looked a wee bit weird: certainly not the same as the one I had on my 2001 bike!
Can anyone identify it for me?
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Fazer shock |
I'll hopefully get some more work in tomorrow.