I see the the same old shit all the time, I pritty much got my AMD bike mapped out BUT !!!I need to know what Australians want to see, as this bike will be represintig the country against the worlds finest, this aint OCC they dont even compete they wouldnt stand a chance!! I know this country is full of talented, creative , resourcfull people, shit some of the most amazing things have come out of old mates back shed after a few beers! I need all the help I can get on this one, hopfully the knuckle head is a keeper but If not ill have to change the plan slightly, went up i the loft at work the other day, found a supercharger and nitrous kit, and my bosses old shovel drag bike and a heap of fuel injection stuff too! the guy who done the air over nitrogen suspension on Seth Enslows bike is jumping on the team to do some radical stuff, a hand made girda is on the cards and yes rear suspension too, want to be able to ride the shit out of this thing! hoping to score some post season parts from the guys I work with as they both work for aussie SBK teams! if you want to offer a thought or even get involved let me know ozzy, ozzy, ozzy
What kind of look are you after? If you want old school it has to have apes and a sprung seat and a low look, but if you want modern and fast, its got to have T bars and twin discs. But it has to look like a Harley, you see some that have too much plastic on them or too way out, i like that it has to be able to be ridden. There was some realy nice Harleys in the last Heavy Duty Magazine. Good luck, if you want a test pilot...me, me, me,...
the bike will be themed along 40/50's inspiration but the tech stuff will be very well intergrated into it, there is no orange county crappers type stuff going on here, this shit is serious! the americans havnt even one this show for years, Rodger Goldhammer one last years with his land speed record bike, this thing is a harley twin with the back cylinder removed a supercharger in its place a big bottle of gas and all aluminium fairing! I will be competeing against the best ofthe best, this is the show where motorcycle manufactrers come to get ideas, my mainsight is on engineering do somthing like it could of been made in the 50's but with a bit of todays resources
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yep have allready looked into mechanical injection just to keep in the era, guy who I work with has had a lot to do with speedway outfits and knows of some vintage endrale methonal injection pumps, as with frames and such, pritty much not one standard or shelf brought item would pass, it almost has to be all one off stuff , so lets say I run a methanol pump, if it was a periodic style I would detail the shit out of it and try and make it look like it was brand new, I would probably make the throttle body myself using bits an pices from a late modle efi body with a nice big volocitiy tube on a nice 45deg angle outa spun alloy, headin in the right directin though, the super charger I can get acsess to is a vintage unit so it would look right at home and is brand new and been well looked after, it would be nesled in where the oil tank would usally sit
