Outdoor workshop

[andy120t]

Amazing riding weather today, but the kids have been booted off to their grannies in Suffolk for the next two weeks (meaning no-one hammering a football against the garage wall...it's like being in a drum...., or asking me to play 'first to three goals'; and my wife is at the Latitude festival, also mile's away in Suffolk and won't be home today.

So I thought I would make use of my outdoor workshop, under the apple tree, as I put a new front end on my bike (swapping from a mix of cb650 forks, 400 wheels and Kawasaki brakes to a more original set-up). Absolute silence in the garden, virtually nothing driving through the village...and no-where I need to be apart from here. I feel a song coming on!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Interesting starting point mix at the front end Andy.

[taysidedragon]

It sounds idyllic.  Should be out riding somewhere though. 😎

[andy120t]

Yes! It was largely what I had sitting around at the time and gave me twin discs. It has barely been used so I thought I would put it back to standard and then maybe a twin disc using 550 parts.

[andy120t]

...should be riding - yes! but I rarely get a day to contemplate what needs doing to get things on the road again. Today I've been through my entire collection of long / disc-mounting bolts and worked out that they are all either too long or too short. - and found out that the long ones (even the only slightly-too-long ones)  catch the fork leg on the disc side.  Then I had time to think about cutting them all down to size....but they all have flange heads too, so won't fit without fouling the speedo drive cover....so I could grind off one side of the flange to make the fit, but..... should I just buy some new, correct ones..Which leads me to the conclusion that I might have to buy the correct ones...and spend money! Time well spent,!

I've also worked out, I think, that dual discs needs long bolts which will foul the speedo drive - and I'm sure all the posts I've read about twin discs talk about removing the speedo drive. It all starts to make sense, and nobody has challenged me to do 20 keepy-uppies either🙂âš½

[Bryanj]

Yes you need longer bolts, no they dont foul, yes you need to modify the drive plate and throw away the chrome cover

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

You are probably aware there is an article about the twin disc conversion in Aladdin's Cave for the 500.