Dave wrote on 02/04/20 at 06:25:30:With my GT550 tank I modified the steering limit to reduce how far the steering can move. I can still turn around in a narrow two lane road and it does not affect the steering at riding speeds.
The gt550 tanks on ebay are rather crappy, I think I can get away with this generic gn125 tank I got - or I will be buying a CB125 generic again to play around with. I'd probably have to figure out how I'm going to fit it first, the gn125 tank is short front to back, so allows to fit further back with some creative denting of the frame tunnel it literally can be fitted on the original mounts in the back. The problem with doing that is, it exposes the neck which isn't that attractive but let me see where it all fits and go from there.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-Cafe-Racer-2-4-Gallon-9L-Vintage-Fuel-Gas...Looks like this build -
http://suzukisavage.com/yabb2.2/Attachments/FullSizeRender_005_001.jpgUses that tank, but ofcourse he's modded the back 1/2 of the frame so it looks perfect. I don't have that option however I can figure a mount no issues as long as it will not get hit by my GS500 front end.
And another problem with the monoshock - if the bike is meant to take twin shocks the swingarm isn't used as a cantilever, fit a mono shock and it is now a cantilever. Now by turning the bike into a café by fitting clipon's or clubmans, you change its weight bias to the front, but would it still load the swingarm to the extent where it starts to tear and it would tear right at the brace starting with the underside ,and once that underside gets a little rip even on one side, the stress concentration will cause it to rip like a sheet of newspaper, will be a very very painful failure and it will never get noticed till too late. Mono shocks bikes have thick wall deep swingarms. Even a huge heavy Harley with monoshock tends to have round or oval section swingarms. So any monoshock conversion without a swingarm swap to the monoshock style swingarm is basically suicide.
PPS:
Never mind, he used FZR, but that katana build used the belt drive from the savage in the katana's rear wheel.
Cool.
Srinath.