7/14 katana project .....

by **FBJ admin** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:44 am

So have you got a hole straight though the top yoke? An left the lip in the top to fit a spacer mate?

by **SBeachill** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:32 pm

Holes straight through mate, yoke locates around 3/4 of the way through stem just want to add a stepped spacer or stepped bolt to make sure the top yoke stays located and locked down

Thinking of shortening the seat on the Kat project too, not going to be any pillions on this and personally think the rear of the kat seat looks too long in stock form, had a bit of a play with some photo jiggery and here's a before and after shot??

Stock

Shortened

Steve

by **FBJ admin** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:34 pm

Make the pics like for like. Hide the rear guard

by **Captain Chaos** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:37 pm

Excellent Photoship skills

(compared to mine anyway)

by **SBeachill** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:51 am

Have done some work finally on getting the chainline finished and the frame boxed up and strengthened

Steve

by **lpoolkat** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:54 am

Was wondering if you did the doubler plate thing on the outside of the frame were the chain cut outs are, and how it turned out?
What thickness plate did you use?
Thinking about doing the same to mine.
Cheers, Brian.

by **gixernick** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:21 pm

Following this build with interest its going to be a belter.
Have you checked the full travel of the chain, when l did mine I was surprised how big the chain cutouts had to be, better to big than too small, keep up the good work.
Pic of mine

Nick

by **SBeachill** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:02 pm

Thanks Nick, yes mate have checked clearances with what I'm using etc

Put the bike back together to check chain line etc and clearance.

And today I started work on the shortening of the seat unit and seat etc

Steve

by **DEANOTEK** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:23 pm

Kat seats look much better, with a bit taken out of the rear passenger seating area. They should have made em like that, when the bike was designed,... my view anyway,... but its suprising how many people cut their Kat seats down in this area. Nice

by **SBeachill** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:42 pm

Thanks Deano

Put all the bodywork back on today to make sure I didn'y cut too much from the seat and make it look over balanced!

Also started positioning footrests today

Steve