Keef
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Hi, haven’t posted for ages,…………due to some bad health news last year I bought my dream bike, an HP2 Megamoto. I got my first GS, a 2011 boring grey colour in 2016 after a few years of Harleys as my crumbling spine would no longer endure the Harley suspension. I was absolutely blown away with every aspect of the bike, the engine, the handling and the shaft drive, but mostly the handling. I was a motorcycle cop and track day addict a long time ago and this bike truly did it all. Around 2012 I saw what I later found out to be a MM at a set of traffic lights near where I used to live before my divorce. My jaw hit the floor and after a bit of digging online found out what it was. Then my heart sank when I saw how much they were going for.
Fast forward a few years and with a bit of money in the bank and like I said a bit of rather bad health news I started looking for a decent example to have some fun on and by November last year I had one and I love it. Suspension is rather taught, but no where near as harsh as a Harley. I have softened everything up until it started getting choppy and then gone a couple of clicks firmer and the ride is not plush, but not firm either. Part of my poor health means that a lot of wind blast on my chest and head is undesirable so I set about making a small screen. My experience of naked bikes has shown how much wind blast can be avoided by even adding the smallest of screens. So I bought one of those slidey things for doing tiles around corners or doorways and took a profile of the fairing on the MM by the speedo/tacho and got my wife to cut out a card template. (I am rubbish with scissors). I then made a balsawood form to shape the perspex on and covered it with foil tape. Then it was just a case of heating and bending the perspex blank I had precut to my dimensions so I borrowed my FIL’s heat gun and set about trying not to burn myself or set myself on fire. I got a couple of small distorted bits as a result of bending it around the two way curve, and as looking through it is not a requirement I decided to cover it in carbon wrap.
Will post photos shortly once my graphics arrive from the printers.
First ride is encouraging, just a little less wind blast and no buffeting. Enough to mean I can ride for another half hour before the pain in my neck and back means I need a break.
I have a spare blank piece of perspex so I might try again at bending it with no deformation or optical distortion but I have never worked with perspex before this project.
My poor old GS has hardly turned a wheel lately, and now the screen is on the MM probably won’t. The light weight of the MM is addictive and I certainly notice the extra kilos when I swap over.
Fast forward a few years and with a bit of money in the bank and like I said a bit of rather bad health news I started looking for a decent example to have some fun on and by November last year I had one and I love it. Suspension is rather taught, but no where near as harsh as a Harley. I have softened everything up until it started getting choppy and then gone a couple of clicks firmer and the ride is not plush, but not firm either. Part of my poor health means that a lot of wind blast on my chest and head is undesirable so I set about making a small screen. My experience of naked bikes has shown how much wind blast can be avoided by even adding the smallest of screens. So I bought one of those slidey things for doing tiles around corners or doorways and took a profile of the fairing on the MM by the speedo/tacho and got my wife to cut out a card template. (I am rubbish with scissors). I then made a balsawood form to shape the perspex on and covered it with foil tape. Then it was just a case of heating and bending the perspex blank I had precut to my dimensions so I borrowed my FIL’s heat gun and set about trying not to burn myself or set myself on fire. I got a couple of small distorted bits as a result of bending it around the two way curve, and as looking through it is not a requirement I decided to cover it in carbon wrap.
Will post photos shortly once my graphics arrive from the printers.
First ride is encouraging, just a little less wind blast and no buffeting. Enough to mean I can ride for another half hour before the pain in my neck and back means I need a break.
I have a spare blank piece of perspex so I might try again at bending it with no deformation or optical distortion but I have never worked with perspex before this project.
My poor old GS has hardly turned a wheel lately, and now the screen is on the MM probably won’t. The light weight of the MM is addictive and I certainly notice the extra kilos when I swap over.
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