Ohlins and Brembo Update...

Pretty cool idea.

Yep... not to mention it lowers the parts count which is the paramount reason
for the single disc idea...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
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If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
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A Google search for "aluminum axle" +motorcycle turns up 201 results but
most of those are for aluminum axle spacers. I could only find one
reference in the first 50 or so results that actually mention using an
aluminum axle on a motorcycle. I can see using an oversized tubular piece
of aluminum for an axle, but not a same size as steel replacement. If you
have any links to specific information about this, I would like to read it.
I was just thinking off the top of my head in the previous post, I'm not a
metallurgist nor do I have much experience with aluminum except in bicycle
parts and frames. I did find some links to oversize aluminum axles on
bicycles. I will try to do some more research.
Rob

 

To the rim itself.

The application I was thinking of was a motorcycle brake. What application
are you thinking of?

ab

 

stock...


Thats getting to be one of the worlds sweetest motorcycles...a
hand built special, now you need a CF fairing. does CF
require extensive equipment.. it would be neat if you could
make it yourself using the originals to create the molds.




Phil Scott

 

Hey, free is a hell of a price. I like free. How come nobody told me about
the open house? And I'm calling YOU an old timer. I'm always going to be a
good 20+ years younger than you! In all seriousness, I don't mind growing
old chronologically. I just don't want to get old upstairs and turn into a
grumpy old bastard like some of the walking dead I see in the office every
day. Only 22 years until I am eligible for my pension!

Jason W

 

Fortal is not yer ordinary aluminumiumum.

 

Larry is a good example of how the elderly can ride, even
if very slowly.

I myself still ride but I need a walker and a step stool to
get a leg over the flat tracker, thankfully it has electric
start.


Senility avoidance is an exciting study.. by the time you
need a solution there will be one. Sport riding will also
stave off disaster and keep you sharp of wit until then.... as
will learning about digestive enzymes... its the partial
protiens leaking from the gut to the blood stream... from
processed food .... that create an overload of plaques that
pervade the nervous system and brain, inside the cells and
out....stiflin' yer brain function, crimpin the neurons so
they die... and that also cuts nerve flow to organs by
mechanical choking off axons and microcapillary blood and
lymph vessels...... thus that near dead look at the office you
refer to.



If alzheimers or various dementia is in your family, you need
to pay attention...if its not at all in your family you
probably will not have the problem before there is routine
prevention available (5 to 10 years...our govt may want to
put this development off until 50 million or so baby boomers
die off, no way in hell can we afford the social security if
these all live to 95).



Phil Scott. age 98 worlds oldest flat tracker.

 

.. If you

Aircraft have been using aluminum axles since WW2... and they typically weight a
lot more than a motorcycle and get slammed hard on the runway when the pilot
goofs and falls out of the sky...
http://www.groveaircraft.com/axles.html

I did find some links to oversize aluminum axles on

I'd only make a hollow titanium axles for use on a bicycle...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
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I thought you joined DFR??? that's where I leanred about it...

And I'm calling YOU an old timer.

Not ME... I don't hold my farts in... old people do... and it's dangerous
because farts travel up your spine and enter your brain and that's where shitty
ideas come from... just look at old Phil... I don't think he's farted in the
pass ten years...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/pics11-3-03/imagepages/RC45_QBcarbonHRCpart.html

I think Larry needs to fit an adjustable tilt up wind
screen... so that he can cruize out of the wind if he wants,
then tip it back down for parking or hauling ass on the track.



Phil Scott

 

When you are flat tracking at age 98 then you can go on about
old farts..... in the meantime... if you take yer enzymes you
don't have the problem.. you just keep getting smarter and
better looking.

Phil Scott

 

I figured as much. It's not like the bearing surfaces are directly on
the aluminum shaft, although Honda is quite familiar with the concept.

nb

 

Larry,

That's just pure, unfettered alloy pr0n.

-Beth

 

Try leaving off +motorcycle. My search turned up two extensive
motorcycle racing sites on the first page of results.

 

Marchesini magnesium tried rim brakes back in the 80's... but they failed to
find favor with the racers... large diameter dics were deemed too heavy and ran
too hot buried behind the wheel and so they longer make them... but you can
still find them on Ebay... perfect for a Buell though...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=89463&item=4540753145&rd=1

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

Larry xlax Lovisone wrote:

Godammit, Larry, you didn't make enough for *everyone*?!?!?!

Very nice. I've been debating where to go with forks, and have
decided on the interim Shohlins approach -- add Ohlins internals
to the Showa fork, along with the Brembo radial caliper kit.

I notice you use the cast, rather than billet, calipers -- I
couldn't see spending thousands instead of hundreds, for
what is the same performance, essentially. BrakeTech ductile
iron rotors? Very nice. You use organic pads?

 

Hadn't seen one of those. Nifty!

nb

 

Thanks Steve...Your compliment means a lot to me because you have first hand
experience and know what you go through to make a part solely by hand eye
coordination... I can't cry about it because I use to make parts by Jig Saw...
Band Saw... Drill Press and hand files... like these rear sets...
http://www.fox302.com/userdata/netters2/files/ShopPics/Belt_O_Ceptor.JPG

Oh I wish...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

You should be on build or bust instead of these muldoons they keep kicking
off the show.

I want to see a harris framed V4 with all kinds of trick bits. I doubt the
guy from exile cycles would go for it though.

 

That's always a problem around here...

.. BrakeTech ductile

Yes.. they are Brake Tech's 6 button superlites ductile iron rotors... and No...
I'm using the stock Brembo copper backed sinistered pads that came with the
calipers...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
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