Saturday, 5 December 2009

SB Project FT Progress Report

Honda championed pressed steel frames, starting with their world famous step-through Cub. They made sense, price and production-wise, but aesthetically; well there there is no aesthetic, they're plain sinful. Also as they were designed very specifically for a particular model, trying to interchange parts from other bikes, is pissing in the wind. But our Carl has Houdini piss, and has made new top rails for our FT which has a mix of pressed sections and tube. It was never going to be an expensive one-off framer, we just wanted to cutomize what we had with minimal cost, maximum ingenuity. The Gilera tank is now sitting pretty. Bravo Carl. BP
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13 comments:

  1. Angostura Bitters5 December 2009 at 16:31

    looking great, now that you have the frame mod and lines correct with the tank, everything else should fall into place.

    you gonna put that starter motor out of its misery and make this thing a bump start only machine?

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  2. Captain Highside5 December 2009 at 17:18

    Hey I figured out this blog thing.
    I once fitted a full kickstart setup on an FT off a CB250RSA. It started easy but I fell off it anyway. Good job it wasn't mine.

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  3. Giannis5 December 2009 at 17:50

    looks good now

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  4. Unknown6 December 2009 at 02:52

    I hope to see the square headlight and comestar wheels on the finished bike! Haha.

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  5. Sideburn Magazine6 December 2009 at 08:03

    Hey Travis, you're in luck. This budget project will have the original headlight and wheels. Just wait... G

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  6. SonicSeb6 December 2009 at 10:50

    not sure for the seat but tank looks great !
    great lowbro project :)

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  7. Austin6 December 2009 at 18:26

    said it before and i'll say it again, my brother is a clever bastard and makes the coolest bikes ever

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  8. Skylar6 December 2009 at 18:52

    Square headlight will fit in fine with dirt guard/numberplate. I suppose if you blacked out the comstars they'd look okay. I like that tank alot, good to see the progress gentlemen

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  9. outtacontrolla6 December 2009 at 22:15

    They don't have comstars but interesting mag sytle ones !
    Ditch the headlamp ladies , it's a rotter .
    #59

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  10. Sideburn Magazine7 December 2009 at 10:05

    You're all wrong about that headlight. Mark our words. G

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  11. Sideburn Magazine7 December 2009 at 10:12

    Outtacontrola
    ☐ is not ☐
    BP

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  12. Marcus_of_MarcusMotoDesign8 December 2009 at 08:50

    Great work on fitting the tank there! Looks different and cool! Me and many are curious about the square headlight so you just might start a trend with those headlights as you have done with the SB

    -Lead instead of follow!

    Cheers, Marcus

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  13. Anonymous21 January 2010 at 22:32

    Anyway to get a pis without the tank/seat? Like to see where the cuts were made and what was welded in.

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