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what different/modern front ends can used
hunterso:
The bike that Steve posted is truly awful. :o
These however are in a different league
First bike is the cognitomoto 550 with gsxr front end.
The next is (I think) funjimmys bike off sohc US with an R6 front end
Both very nicely executed
mickwinf:
Everyone to their own, we are entitled to do what we wish to our own bikes its just to me the pleasure in owning an old bike is the fact that it is old and looks old, so I don't see the point of making it look like a modern bike as it will never handle as well as a new one due to the compromise of using an old frame. Anyway a proper bike should have two shocks!! I do like to look at custom bikes and admire the skill and workmanship involved, so if that's your bag then go for it.
hunterso:
I do agree with you oddjob that the work that's gone into that bike is quite something.
However it's not about the engineering or the style of the bike it's about the execution and how balanced the bike looks.
The bike above has no sense of balance -the back end looking completely disconnected from the rest of the bike and I think the less said about the seat angle the better.
The engineering skills to fit all of those bits together, well yes, i doff my cap to that.
But for me it's in the design where that particular bike falls down. For me is just a collection of parts thrown together with no apparent thought as to how well it all sits together.
It's not about preferring one particular style of bike over another - I personally like bobbers, scramblers, racers, well all bikes really, but they have got to look right.
For example. I have seen a lot of cafe racers and essentially they are all the same. Tank, racing seat, rear sets etc.
But, while some of them just don't look quite right, some of them look horribly wrong and leave me wondering what on earth the builder was thinking - it's all about balance for me.
There is a relationship between the tank and seat that has got to be right for me.Yes, you could build a lovely cafe racer with all the right bits but if you put a seat unit on that sits higher than the tank or overhangs the rear end too much then the balance of the bike is ruined and the whole package suffers because of it.
Of course this is all just my opinion. If we all liked the same thing blah blah blah :0)
stuartni:
--- Quote from: mickwinf on November 11, 2014, 09:44:45 AM ---Everyone to their own, we are entitled to do what we wish to our own bikes its just to me the pleasure in owning an old bike is the fact that it is old and looks old, so I don't see the point of making it look like a modern bike as it will never handle as well as a new one due to the compromise of using an old frame. Anyway a proper bike should have two shocks!! I do like to look at custom bikes and admire the skill and workmanship involved, so if that's your bag then go for it.
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--- Quote from: hunterso on November 11, 2014, 10:03:58 AM ---I do agree with you oddjob that the work that's gone into that bike is quite something.
However it's not about the engineering or the style of the bike it's about the execution and how balanced the bike looks.
The bike above has no sense of balance -the back end looking completely disconnected from the rest of the bike and I think the less said about the seat angle the better.
The engineering skills to fit all of those bits together, well yes, i doff my cap to that.
But for me it's in the design where that particular bike falls down. For me is just a collection of parts thrown together with no apparent thought as to how well it all sits together.
It's not about preferring one particular style of bike over another - I personally like bobbers, scramblers, racers, well all bikes really, but they have got to look right.
For example. I have seen a lot of cafe racers and essentially they are all the same. Tank, racing seat, rear sets etc.
But, while some of them just don't look quite right, some of them look horribly wrong and leave me wondering what on earth the builder was thinking - it's all about balance for me.
There is a relationship between the tank and seat that has got to be right for me.Yes, you could build a lovely cafe racer with all the right bits but if you put a seat unit on that sits higher than the tank or overhangs the rear end too much then the balance of the bike is ruined and the whole package suffers because of it.
Of course this is all just my opinion. If we all liked the same thing blah blah blah :0)
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I agree there a lot of builds where the tank and seat either dont line up and or not in porportion with each other. of course everyone has there own taste in what they think looks nice and correct.
Here pictures of my first bike build, some of may have already seen some not but for me it was important to make sure the seat pod would tie in with my tank and still hide my electrics and battery
Here is the bike in question 1977 cb550 k3 with a 650 engine in it, as said it was parked up in 1988. For what eve reason the rear section(mudguard area) was quite bad in rust and removed the rear piece the internal rust round the shock mounting point was quite bad. Not going to lie part of me wanted to challenge myself and do the mono shock conversion so seeing the level of rust around the shock mount set in stone for me.
Still not sure what tank I'm going to use
mickwinf:
I do like that one, 2 shocks are better than 1 !!!
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