Not Christmas this time. I have enough Old Triumph
motorcycle parts floating around my shop
to come very close to building a complete running bike (I think). A few months
ago I started assembling said parts to see about actually building a bike. I
have a Ceriani 45mm road race front end I salvaged off of a 1987 GSXR750 super
bike that was raced by my friend Larry at the Isle of Mann before he decided
that all that was crazy business and he wanted nothing to do with it. Years ago
I machined the parts to mount that front end onto a 1977 OIF Bonneville frame
and tonight I made a brake disk carrier to mount a KTM 310mm semi floating
rotor to an 19 inch alloy Suzuki wheel. The rotor had to be offset enough so
that the Brembo Gold line 4 pot caliper would clear the spokes. In the picture
the rim and hub are a bit weathered and the spokes are completely rusted. Once
all is mocked up this wheel will go to Buchannan's Spoke and Rim for polishing
and new stainless steel spokes. All this really should be in another blog but
one is turning out to be too many for me, so here it is.
