Update | technical updates

Last Saturday I have been working on my motorcycle project, and I mainly focused on some technical issues. Before starting the clay modeling I want all the parts to be mounted on the motorcycle, especially the larger ones; head light, exhausts and oil cooler. Since these parts really contribute to the overall look and feel of the bike, and the balance of the visual weight distribution.
The Spark exhausts are mounted on the frame, but I am not happy with the look right now.. the exhausts are mounted to vertically and I will continue tweaking the final position the coming week. You might have seen it on the photos already, but the exhausts do not fit the manifold right now, some home-made adapters should solve this.

By the way, the cool scenery of these photos is the Spark design & innovation studio in Rotterdam. The studio where I am working during the weeks, and where I can work on this motorcycle project in the weekends!

Update | the motorcycle on its way to Star Twin

Here a short update about the development of my café race to be. Like mentioned before two boxes with Rizoma parts arrived last week and some of these have been mounted on the motorcycle already; like the dry open clutch, this became a real eye-catcher on the engine! Later on the aluminum milled time belt covers and oil plug will be the icing on the cake for the engine.
At the moment the motorcycle is in the workshop of Star Twin. They will install the wiring, Dellorto carburetors, oil cooler and exhaust system. Hopefully it will be back in three weeks, so I can continue with the preparations for the clay modeling. Hope to start with the body shaping in July..

The motorcycle in the van, in its way to Star Twin. The short rear end of the motorcycle is clearly visible and the part of the frame pointing out will be trimmed; so the bike will be shorter and lighter!

Already shared in a Tweet last Saturday, but what an impressive dry clutch!

Some exhaust like this!

The Boomtubes would add a rough sound to my motorcycle! I really like the loud and and bulky sounds, but "looks-wise".. I prefer the Laser Xtreme GP; what a briljant welds on these megaphones!

http://www.laserexhausts.com/