Spritepost 9

The wheels have now returned from the wheel builder and its coming together as you can see in the photo.

We noticed when the wheels went in, that the rear suspension didnt work as well as expected and noticed that the swinging arm was fouling on the frame so a modification was needed to shave some off the outside of the swinging arm and a plate welded in to give the necessary clearance. Whilst it will be away at the powder coaters to be re-coated I have decided to also get some longer shocks (360mm Betors) to give a little more clearance around the exhaust when under load and also lift the rear end a little.

We are now waiting for a rear sproket from Talon/Samy Millers so that we can get the chain on and make up a chain guard and refit the chain tensioner in the correct place as the universal Sammy Millar tensioner will need cranking over to meet the correct chain line.

The brake anchors have been made but the cable routing need to be sorted out on both ends as the front arm fouls on the bottom of the forks currently and I dont like the way the rear cable has to pull across from the pedal through the shock spring to the arm - perhaps the best way to go on this will be a cranked rod??

We managed to get a petrol tap from the Malvern show at the weekend so it is highly likely that the bike will get it's first trial to check things over this weekend at the BMCA trial at Bewdley.