Clown Gang

 

Image - Akira (1988)

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Yeet

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#DonGarlits #FlyNavy #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Rat Zed

Image - via Pipeburn

#MGNest #RatBike #KawasakiZ1000 #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Garage Day - Ducati Sprint Bike

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#DucatiSuperlight #Ducati1000DS #DucatiSprintBike #DucatiDragRacer #DragSuperlight #Superscura #DucatiSuperscura #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage 

Lost Cosmonaut

 

Illustration - nightjar-art

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Weird

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#HubSteering #RatBike #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MerceanryGarage

Range Anxiety

Image - via lowbrowcustoms on Instagram

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Space Princess Saturday / Discosphere

 Warm up my Egli, I'm leaving for the Discosphere...

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Tunnel

 

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Accelerate

 

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#NeoNoir #TechNoir #Cyberunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercearyGarage

Kustom

 

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#KustomChopper #Panhead #Chopper #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Garage Day - Ducati Sprint Bike

 Some updates on the Superlight Sprint Bike...

Front view - It's pretty low profile and decidedly Old-Skool

Front fuel tank mount

The fuel tank holds about 2 litres and is very light

Fuel tank and fairing, loosely in place

Rear fairing mount

Struts hold the rear of the fuel tank firmly in place

The fuel tank struts are asymmetrical to allow a velocity stack to be fitted to the throttle body

Lightweight aluminium struts hold the fairing firmly in situ

Struts as seen from above

Where we are now...

Tune in next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel...

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Hold My Beer

Danger's my middle name...

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Bomber Bikers of Shonan vs. Molchat Doma

Contributed by Element Leader

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Fuck

 

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#Fuck #Glitch #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Discosphere/Casual Friday

What's so great about the Discosphere anyway?

Image - Francesco Scavullo, Esquire Magazine, December 1978

#MarenJensen #BattlestarGalactica #Discosphere #CasualFriday #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Raid71

Image - Raid71

#Raid71 #Akira #KanedaBike #AkiraPowerBike #GoodForHealthBadForEducation #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

HDATMM

Image - Japanese Chirashi Flyer/ Movie Poster

#HDATMM #MickeyRourke #HarleyDavidsonAndTheMarlboroMan #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

VØYΛGƎR

 

Image - Kotutohum

#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorccles #MercenaryGarage

Garage Day - Ducati Sprint Bike

Suzuki RG 125/250 nose fairing from the mid '80s

It doesn't look like it, but there has been some progress on the Ducati Superlight DS project. 

Despite using mostly Ducati parts from ostensibly similar bikes, nothing fits together particularly well. The stretched steel swingarm is off a 750SS and this fitted easily to the SL motor. However the Multistrada DS motor is different in the way it fits its swingarm and the 750SS swingarm doesn't just bolt up!

This would have been a difficult problem if the bike was running rear suspension, but this bike is going to have a ride-height adjustable lockup strut and so the swingarm doesn't need bearings or bushes 'cos it's not going to be moving.

So the swingarm is held in place (side to side) by two cylindrical spacers with a slight interference fit. The swingarm and spacer sit on a titanium pivot and the pivot is held stationary by two M10 titanium pinch bolts. It worked out much better than I was expecting and I'm confident in it.

At the other end of the swingarm, the chain-adjuster setup has been redone. It used to have one, and it used to work okay, but it was built in a hurry and I wasn't really happy with it. There's nothing very radical about the new design, it's just built better.

The other issue with the DS motor is that the engine mounting bolts are diameter 12mm  while the SL ones are 10mm. So I drilled out the mounting bolt holes in the SL frames and expected the DS bolts to fit. They didn't.

Initially I thought this was 'cos the flange under the bolt head was too wide to fit the recess in the SL frame. So I turned down the flange in the lathe and then discovered that the DS engine bolts were just too short...

So the solution for this is two 330 x 12 round steel bars (I have some titanium stashed away to remake these at a later date) threaded M12 x 1.75 for the first 20mm at each end, and some 30 x 20mm spacers to position the M12 Nyloc nuts outboard of the frame recesses' (the M12 nuts will fit inside the recesses but there isn't room to fit a tool in there as well, so the nuts couldn't be tightened - hence the spacers).

This is a brutal solution given the effort put into removing weight from this bike, so it might get revisited if I can think of something more elegant/lighter.

Oh, and I picked up a nose fairing off a Suzuki RG 125/250.

So tune in next week for more progress.

Stretched steel swingarm from a Ducati 750SS

Freshly made chain adjuster assembly

Weird-ass locked-up swingarm pivot arrangement

This is going to look deadly in matte black with shark eyes

Ratty 1000DS motor with titanium bling and new chain rollers. New belts are on the way

Swingarm again

330x12mm diameter engine mounting bar with M12 Nyloc and 30mm long spacer. Not happy with the weight of this arrangement!

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Maximum Force

Illustration - Ian Pesty

#MadMax #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Syber 13

Image - Aaron Beck / Beck Kustoms

#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Synthetic Dawn

 

Images - swordspeed on Instagram

#Swordspeed #SyntheticDawn #Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Perfection

 Look at this little piece of perfection. Just look at it!

Image - via Pez Motorcycle Riders

#SuzukiGSXR #GSXR #Slabside #SuzukiSlabSide #Slabby #Streetfigter #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Guardian of the Discosphere

 

Image - Smuggled out of the Discosphere at great risk

#Discosphere #DiscoFuturism #1980 #BuckRogers #HondaElf #TimeTravel #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage 

Harris Slabside

Image - via Toadypuff on Tumblr

#HarrisPerformance #SuzukiGSXR #SuzukiSlabSide #GSXR #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Kaneda

Illustration - via Monark on Pinterest

#Akira #AkiraPowerBike #KanedaBike #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Wasteland Warriors

 

Image - laguzphotography via wasteland_warriors on Instagrm

#WastelandWarriors #Apocalypse #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage