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Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project (Read 5200 times)
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
Reply #30 -
07/25/12 at 11:58:27
I considered that when making it. The angle of the linkage from the pivot point to the pedal make is so that any movement in the swingarms travel results in little to no effect on the brake pedal.
When I first starting thinking of ideas I almost scrapped this plan because of that consideration until I started doing a bit of testing.
As you can see in the pic the resting point of the pivot is against the swingarm. The swing arm will travel up and down a few inches but the angle of the swingarm doesnt change as drastically and that is what affects the pedals movement more.
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Reply #31 -
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I think its been mentioned on the site before but what used for the speedo was a 75' GT550 tachometer cable. It fit perfect. I bought it off of ebay for 10 bucks. It was used, but you can still get new ones for 18 bucks.
http://www.suzukipartshouse.com/home.aspx?aribrand=SUZ#/Suzuki/GT550_(1975)/S...
Part # 34940-34030
Getting a new speedo for the bars so I went to order the new cable from the link above, the cable is $17.18 but the shipping is an additional $16.53! Yikes!
Found a new one on Ebay for $21.98 including shipping
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
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07/29/12 at 06:14:57
I really like your build. I have a question about the rear brake. I've seen a couple of brakes with a bend in the linkage. When you put a lot of pressure on the peddle, such as in a panic stop, does the linkage spring and you don't get full stopping power? Carl
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
Reply #33 -
07/29/12 at 08:13:33
With any luck that kink in the brake linkage would soften the pedal action enough to keep the brake from locking up so easy.
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
Reply #34 -
07/29/12 at 08:21:16
Hopefully you've made that linkage from spring steel rather than the steel the shift linkage is made of.
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
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07/29/12 at 19:46:07
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I really like your build. I have a question about the rear brake. I've seen a couple of brakes with a bend in the linkage. When you put a lot of pressure on the peddle, such as in a panic stop, does the linkage spring and you don't get full stopping power? Carl
The rod I used is thick enough that it doesnt seem to straighten out when pulled on. I tried to use as slight of bends as possible also to keep it from doing that.
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
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07/29/12 at 19:48:09
I fabbed up the seat pan and mounted it. Its not the best engineered device but it will serve the purpose. I find as Im getting closer to the bike being done I am less and less picky with what I do. There has got to be a name for that.
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07/29/12 at 19:53:39
A few days after that I made an upholstery pan for my cafe seat. When it was dry I padded it and made the seat cover.
So today I took her out for a little 20 mile ride and she performed great. Out of the 7 or 8 street bikes Ive had I think this is my favorite to drive so far. Its not standing up wheelies or chromed to the hilt but it rides soo darn smooth and has such a nice sound its a blast. Also it gets more looks and questions than any bike ive had before.
Next is the paint job. Im really torn on the color scheme. Originally I wanted to do an off white with a red and blue stripe like Steve Mcqueen had on some stuff.
Then I wanted to do a red, black and white color scheme.
Now Im kind of liking the retro look of the Black with gold accents.
Maybe Ill do Black and Red with Gold accents. I just dont know, time to fire up the photoshop (actually Corel).
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07/29/12 at 20:46:03
THAT LOOKS AWESOME!
I'm glad you got to take her out for a ride!
Cheers!
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07/29/12 at 21:56:01
These are some quicky mock ups, but Im considering some paint schemes like these.
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
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07/29/12 at 22:22:12
If it was mine I'd do the black & gold, & find some old school chrome tire hugging fenders.
Reminds me of my Norton Commando with the interstate gas tank.
I like it!!!
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Reply #41 -
07/30/12 at 03:30:05
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If it was mine I'd do the black & gold, & find some old school chrome tire hugging fenders.
Reminds me of my Norton Commando with the interstate gas tank.
I like it!!!
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07/30/12 at 06:28:48
How far is the fork leg from the tank @ full lock ?
I am hoping to do a different front end with a tank swap ... I am dying to not use a savage FE. I am thinking like katana or something similar with a lot less offset. 1.5 inch or under against the 2.5 of the savage.
The tank off an older honda like yours - if I can fit it would be the ticket.
Cool.
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Re: Spamy's Cafe LS650 Project
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07/30/12 at 06:35:35
Spamy wrote
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I find as Im getting closer to the bike being done I am less and less picky with what I do. There has got to be a name for that.
I built a house a few years ago....and it took 3 full years of constant work. And yes.....the standards I had at the beginning were softened a bit as I got to the end. I found that it was impossible to make an entire house "perfect".....and at the end I accepted "nice" as a good standard.
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Re: Spamys Cafe LS650 Project
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07/30/12 at 06:56:19
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How far is the fork leg from the tank @ full lock ?
Cool.
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The fork tubes are say maybe 1 inch or perhaps 1-1/2 inches away. The clip-on itself is about 1/4 inch away. But I mounted the tank that way on purpose because I wanted it as tight and clean as it could be at the front. Im not crazy about seeing a bunch of the head area of the frame.
Many of the Suzuki cruisers models have a ton of the head showing and thats kind of an eyesore to me.
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