LDT bike anyone?

[mikeyboy]

They are gazi shocks,
Not linked,

 

[timeandtide]

They are gazi shocks,

Is that like a cross between a Guzzi and a Nazi?

 

[mikeyboy]

Made a start rebuilding the carbs,

 

[Santa-2512]

Are the headers equal length, or do they induce a bit of burble

 

[mikeyboy]

Are the headers equal length, or do they induce a bit of burble

No idea,
It’s a styling exercise on a 70’s bike,
The only thing the motor has to do is produce nice power from tickover.
It’s being built as a LDT bike.
It has heavy flywheel,small port,small valves,small carbs.
All about the bottom end,
The only change to the original spec at this time will be the fitting of later nikasil barrels and pistons, which are slightly higher compression.

 

[mikeyboy]

That’s the dry build pretty much done
It can come apart again now,so I can prep for powder,build the engine,rebuild the forks and wheels,rebuild the driveshaft and bevel.
phew not much then
Anyone seriously interested in buying the bike should shout up now if they want any input on the final spec
If not I’ll keep it ,,,,I love it

 

[mikeyboy]

Last few

 

[Beemerboff]

Every exhaust will have a sweet spot, even uneven ones, and the short high level 2/1 uneven ones on British parallel twins worked particularly well right where you you used it most, in the 2500 / 5000 rev band.
Long equal length headers will probably show a couple of horses more on the dyno when you get over 7500 revs , so depends on how you ride the bike on what is best for you- most airheads seem to prefer long equal !

 

[mikeyboy]

New main bearings are fitted,so crank can go back in

 

[mikeyboy]

New oil pump

 

[mikeyboy]

New timing chain kit,and crank sprocket

 

[mikeyboy]

New big end shells and bolts

 

[mikeyboy]

That’s the short motor built
It fits here

 

[mikeyboy]

That’s it for today,
It’s BEER o clock

 

[tuftywhite]

Love it in red. It looks great.

Have you thought about doing the forks in BRG?

 

[timeandtide]

Love it in red. It looks great.

Have you thought about doing the forks in BRG?

It does indeed - all adding up to a seriously tempting bike!

 

[tuftywhite]

Go on, you know you want it.

 

[Majesty]

Lovely......

 

[mikeyboy]

Got a bit more done today

 

[Joe narvey]

When you build these how difficult is it to get registration documents and insurance . How do you describe it to insurance company?