FlightCycles' latest Custom Monster! The Dirt-Track Special! NEW PICS pg5

[1KDS]

Looking at the pics again...No temp sensor? Looks like the front valve cover that houses the sensor has been replaced with a blank.  I like the simplistic look of it, but is there anyway to keep an eye on temp?  Yes, I noticed the oil pressure sensor delete also, but I have seen that on a couple bikes.

[Duck-Stew]

Oil temp sensor is an unneccessary thing so it went bye-bye...  Cylinder head temp is a necessary input but doesn't have to be on the H head so I moved it to the V head input.

[1KDS]

Cool, that's a nice touch.  I keep finding more things about it the more I look.

[Duck-Stew]

No one has mentioned the slash-cut and capped frame ends yet...  Did everyone miss those?

Maybe all eyes were on the gauge placement and 'hidden' oil cooler...

[sbrguy]

stu, i saw the capped frame ends on the tail chop. but bc it was the tail chop it wasn't my thing.

the fork gaiters were a great idea really made it have that "dirt track" sort of feel look to it.

[Privateer]

No one has mentioned the slash-cut and capped frame ends yet...  Did everyone miss those?

Maybe all eyes were on the gauge placement and 'hidden' oil cooler...

didn't notice it until you mentioned it.  Nice detail.  something I always like about the bikes you build.  Seems like there's always a new subtle detail to notice.

[Scottish]

I saw it too, in the pic where the poster askes about the plugged exhaust I actually thought that was what was going to be mentioned. Clean and subtle boys, clean and subtle(penguins of madagascar voice)

[NorDog]

No one has mentioned the slash-cut and capped frame ends yet...  Did everyone miss those?

Maybe all eyes were on the gauge placement and 'hidden' oil cooler...

No, I both noticed them and thought they were way cool.

[The Bacon Junkie]

Maybe all eyes were on the gauge placement and 'hidden' oil cooler...

Funny story about that....

At the time Stu was building this bike, we were sharing a house, so I saw the bike knits original form, completely disassembled, and built into the awesomeness it is now.

Every once in a while, Stu would ask me to hold something in place so he could look at it from a different perspective or determine which placement/angle/location the part looked the best.  I did this with the 'hidden' oil cooler. I remember when he showed me the pregnant dogin' oil lines he procured for the project.

Here's the funny, yet really cool part of the story.

The bike was almost finished, Stu was just fabbing the exhaust, I was just looking at the bike and drooling.  Words that actually came out of my mouth  -->  " I know that 620's and 750's don't really need an oil cooler, but I can't believe a DS1000 can go without one. " 

I don't know if this goes to my A.D.D., lack of bacon intake that day, or Stu's skills...

But, I'm gonna go with choice #3.

The bike just looked so good, like that's the way it was just "supposed" to look.  I can't believe it, but this bike had that much of an effect on me. Wish it was mine.     

[Speedbag]

Every once in a while, Stu would ask me to hold something in place so he could look at it from a different perspective or determine which placement/angle/location the part looked the best.  

And that right there is key - scoping various things out from every angle and pondering every detail, and taking all the time in the world to be sure it matches "the vision".

[the_Journeyman]

Curious, what brand/type/size tires are those?  I traverse many gravel roads with my Monster and those might be work looking in to. 

JM

[Kopfjager]

Curious, what brand/type/size tires are those?  I traverse many gravel roads with my Monster and those might be work looking in to. 

JM

Avon rain slicks.

[The Bacon Junkie]

Avon rain slicks.

You only get maybe 15 miles out of them on the street...

On gravel, you wouldn't even make it out of your driveway...

[Duck-Stew]

Front is an AV49 and rear is an AV50.  He's already scheduled to replace one of them next week.  Yes, that's right...a tire replacement already...

I pushed my fingernail into the rubber and it made an impression.....that never came out.*



















*(only a slight exaggeration)

[Duck-Stew]

Check into the Dunlop D616 tires...  They could work for you JM.