First Step

[gareth136]

you should see my misses face when I showed her where it was Classic !! Looking forward to watching this come together keep ii coming

[Molehusband]

Banished outside today.

I cut up all the pieces which I tacked together before, and laid them out on the old kitchen top again. I wanted the front radius's to be angled at 70*, so I cut another bit of wood for the front.



I screwed some more bits around the end to give me a solid backing for fitting the headstock.



Tacked some cross bracing in.



Cut and tacked a shorter one.



I was going to weld one bent tube to the brace, and have two bits either side, so that only an upper and lower tube connected to the headstock, but I might use two, as in a normal frame.

[Doc.]

Coming on nicely!

I presume you fitted a nice new Worktop for your Missus, or is she now struggling with an old Door resting on a couple of Chair backs?

[Molehusband]

Doc.

I did build a couple of units, and those were the left overs. Nice and solid.

[Molehusband]

Back to raining again today. I hope that's not the end of the building season.

[Molehusband]

I managed a few more hours, which were mostly spent grinding and fitting one side to the headstock. I was hoping to get both top rails done, but the fitting took ages.



While it was dry I laid some bends around the engine, to see what the cage would look like.

[Molehusband]

Dry again today, so I got some more done.

Cut and positioned a second 1 inch dia round bar slug at 70 degrees to locate the second top rail.



After a lot of farting about, I tacked on the right hand top rail and bottom rail.



Frame so far.

[jinjachin]

Looking good and keep banging in the hrs its the only way they get done

[Molehusband]

I finished tacking the front end, and put it in front of the car.



I then laid the forks against it, and while it was there, looked at the trail again. When I made the forks years ago, the frame had a different rake. This one is 40 degrees, and gives me a negative trail of nearly 12 inches.



After much head scratching, I chopped up the swing arm on the forks, and added and extra six inches of tube. Have to finish the left hand side.



I bought some more tube this week, and started on the subframe to hold the engine and suspension.



All tacked up.

[gareth136]