Maarten Timmer Design: assembly

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Monday, 24 March 2014

Update | frame and tank welding

The last 2 weekends I have been at WiMoto, the workshop of Wido Veldman. He is an awesome skilled welder who has been helping me with the subframe of my cafe racer. The steel tank has been made of sheet metal, clean TIG-wedling!

The body and tank will be mounted on the frame with slim tank mounting rubbers; to eliminate all possible vibration problems!

More detail about WiMoto on this site.

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Update | fitting tank cap and rear light

The body has been trimmed; the rough glass fiber edges have been trimmed off. Even so the cuts have been made to fit in the fuel cap and the rear light. Using a lot of paper templates made in Solidworks; digital CAD modelling.

The body and the frame will be joined soon! Some brackets and flanges will be welded on the frame to bolt the body on the frame.

Monday, 23 December 2013

Video | The Delivery by Old Empire Motorcycles

The Delivery from Old Empire Motorcycles on Vimeo.

Thanks for sharing @pipeburn

http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2013/11/21/the-delivery-by-old-empire-motorcycles.html

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Update | Mold making

The three molds for the MTD café racer are finished! The glass fiber molds have been made following the hand lay-up glass fiber laminating. Over the HD PU plugs; which are the CNC milled positive parts of the final motorcycle body.

The plugs have been sanded super smoothly and finished with a clear coat. On top of this coat 7 layers of mold release wax have been added.

All the layers and patterns for all the glass fiber fabrics have been cut with care, and fitted on the plugs before adding the polyester resin. After which the laminating started, merging the fibers with the resin over the plugs.

After the polyester completely hardened the rough edges of the molds have been trimmed, releasing wedges were slammed between the molds and the plugs,… and finally air pressure and two large chisels released the molds from the plugs!

Now these molds will be bolted together for construct the large mold in which the body kit will be made. Keep in touch for more footage..

The first body kit of the custom MTD Ducati café racer will soon be made. If you have interest in this body kit send an email to info@maartentimmer.com

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Update | Sanding the plugs for mold making

The last two weeks I have been sanding the HD PU plugs. These parts need to be super smooth before I send those over for a coat of 2K-paint. 2 coats of spray filler have been added and many hours of sanding.
Looking for the right company for the paint job now..

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Update | Plugs for mold making back from CNC milling

Last week the plugs for mold making have been CNC milled at Solid Shape! After clay modeling the body, 3D scanning the clay model and 3D CAD modelling in Solidworks, the pllugs are ready.

These plugs will now be sanded, painted and polished. After which the glasfiber molds will be made around these plugs. In the resulting glasfiber molds the final café racer body will be made, using a mix of carbon fiber and glasfibers.

More information about CNC milling and Solid Shape, please visit http://www.solidshapes.com/

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Rizoma factory visit

Last weekend I have been visiting Milan, with a colleague of Spark design & innovation, for the Salone del Mobile. On our way home we visited Rizoma as well! They are sponsoring my café racer project, and I know them for quite few years now, but I was never able to visit the factory.. till now!

Main impression is awesome. The packages of the Rizoma product reflect the company very well; nicely designed, clean and well organized! The tour around the factory passed 19 CNC milling machines and many other machinery the “after care” of the milled parts.

Even the assembly line, packaging and storage systems are impressively well organized and highly efficient. All together an interesting tour around their factory, thanks guys!

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Update | Starting for the first time!

Last Saturday I picked up my Ducati café racer at Star Twin. After the Motorbeurs Utrecht, the motorcycle fair, they took the bike to their shop to adjust the exhaust slightly and to connect the gas cables correctly.

Some fuel of the first test run was left in the Dell'Orto carburetors so we were able to start this loud Ducati to shoot this short clip. Unfortunately with awesome voice-overs..

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Update | Headlight mounted

Last week the headlight is mounted on the café racer! The CNC milled brackets are fitting on the stainless steel brackets perfectly. On top of the stainless steel brackets the speedo meter is located, altogether a very sweet looking front of the bike.

From Thursday February 21st till Sunday 24th I will be at the Motorbeurs Utrecht; the largest motorcycle fair in the Netherlands. At the Men@Work stand I will be making the exhaust manifold! http://www.motorbeursutrecht.nl/nl-NL/Bezoeker/Activiteiten/Men-at-Work.aspx

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Update | 3D scanning the body

Last week the body of the 4Nol motorcycle has been digitalized at GEOpoints. The clay model was taken of the frame and sent over to Geo Points in Culemborg, the Netherlands.
Over there Nico Velzel of GEOpoints used the flexible hand scanner to translate the clay model geometry into a 3D nurbs model. Using CAD software the body of the motorcycle has been positioned onto the frame to define the exact mid plane. That eased mirroring of the body; to create a perfect symmetric 3D model of the motorcycle.

Currently I am checking and smoothening the body in the 3D software before milling out the plugs for the glass fiber mold making. This would most likely take a couple of weeks since I will be working on this great motorcycle only in the evenings and weekends..

End of February I will be at the Motorbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Which is the largest motorcycle fair in the Netherlands. Over there I will work together with the guys of Star Twin, at the Men @ work area, on technical issues on the bike. A custom stainless steel exhaust manifold will be designed and finally the 4Nol will start for the first time during the fair!

More information about GEOpoints http://www.geopoints.nl/