Happy chappy day.

[Bubb]

See you’ve got Andreani cartridges inserts….. the original top indicator mounts don’t work with the Andreani tops as you well know,
I used Motone Clamp-its to put indicators on with the Andreani inserts….. just need a small piece of rubber inside to take up the extra size as they were 1mm too big for the forks.
Maybe I’m teaching granny to suck eggs, but thought I’d say it anyway.

Build is looking great and progressing rapidly……. Please keep posting as we all like to see your builds.

 

[mikeyboy]

Fitted the engine bars,started to fit new cables throughout

 

[mikeyboy]

Yay,new fork stanchions and bushes have arrived

 

[mikeyboy]

I’ve just built them up dry for now as I’m waiting for the shorter bottom bolts.
I can’t understand why they are not supplied,along with the correct installation instructions,given the cost of these .

 

[mikeyboy]

Forks installed for now,
I want to get it mobile so I can move it up to the “ work “ workshop.
I need to fabricate indicator brackets as pointed out previously.

 

[mikeyboy]

Big disc installed.
Undecided whether to fit a 4 pot ,which would need machining.

 

[Paul Young]

Big disc installed.
Undecided whether to fit a 4 pot ,which would need machining.View attachment 457891

The 4pot later style Brembo caliper from the right side of a two disc bike worked really well on my old R80GS. It worked so well that I ended up getting a call from Mr Murphy of PFM, to check on whether it was true that a BMW had caused the carbon to precipitate out of one of his cast iron discs. I ended up with a new disc and half a dozen pairs of AP Racing pads so it wouldn’t happen again.

 

[mikeyboy]

The 4pot later style Brembo caliper from the right side of a two disc bike worked really well on my old R80GS. It worked so well that I ended up getting a call from Mr Murphy of PFM, to check on whether it was true that a BMW had caused the carbon to precipitate out of one of his cast iron discs. I ended up with a new disc and half a dozen pairs of AP Racing pads so it wouldn’t happen again.

I’ve fitted a few 4 pot ones with this disc set up,it’s a doddle as it’s only necessary to machine the disc mounting spacer to make it all fit.

 

[Paul Young]

I’ve fitted a few 4 pot ones with this disc set up,it’s a doddle as it’s only necessary to machine the disc mounting spacer to make it all fit.

Sounds great. Mine needed 5mm off the caliper mounting faces to sit on the normal fork mounts and centre around the disc. I love doing stuff like that, as you might have seen with the fork conversion I did

 

[Bubb]

Go with the four pot Mike.
Nice fork brace too from what I can see of it

 

[SIM]

Can’t beat having a skyhook,View attachment 457421

We I was a junior at the architects I started out at a sky hook and long stand were common requests for me to purchase

 

[Bubb]

Tartan paint, glass hammer, new bubble for a spirit level……..all classics!

 

[mikeyboy]

Where were we
Picked up the freshly painted bodywork today

 

[mikeyboy]

Lovely job
Need some spacers for the front mudguard as the switchgear wiring routes between the lower yoke and muddy on the basic and kalahari

 

[mikeyboy]

Had the low mudguard done at the same time

 

[mikeyboy]

Also had this R45/65 tank painted ,
The big tank is expensive/hard to replace/ heavy when full,delete as required.

 

[mikeyboy]

Waiting on a few bits now so I can start to “ button “ things up as a final assembly.
As a by the by,
Some one was asking about badges?

 

[Aidan1150]

An exquisite build. Thank you very much for taking us along @mikeyboy

 

[Tinytim]

Tartan paint, glass hammer, new bubble for a spirit level……..all classics!

Bucket of steam and while you're there a 5/8ths David key.

 

[rocky burns]

Looking great Mike.
Can you remember the ral code for the frame powdercoat please. Cheers