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Author Topic: DS1000SS Nekkid Roadster Build  (Read 48963 times)
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« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2015, 04:44:00 AM »

So I finally got a little time to do some work on the bike.  I apologize in advance for the poor quality photos.  Taken with my cell phone camera, most of them in a rather dark garage, at night, with flash, they certainly aren't the best they could be.

First, I had to clear some space to work, as the garage has been filled all winter with crap.  Here, my dog Penny looks out and wonders why I'm not playing with her:

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After clearing space to work, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I first had to "de-content" some parts off of my S4Rs:

(Here it is shown with the carbon fiber headlight bucket and carbon fiber headlight ears removed, but still sporting aftermarket bar risers and the MV Agusta Brutale handlebar, and the custom length brake and clutch hoses that were required to make the higher bars work.  Looks distressingly like a chopper or a Ducati Indiana!)

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With the stock headlight bucket, headlight ears, handlebars, risers, and brake/clutch lines reinstalled:

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The S4Rs still has a carbon fiber flyscreen, custom painted by DucPainter, and matching custom paint on the oem CF front fender.

So, I put the S4Rs back in the garage and got to work on the project DS1000SS.

This is the back end of the bike with the 916 monoposto carbon fiber undertray and rear fender, plus oem turn signals installed:

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The front end of the project now has the headlight and instruments installed:

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The "rider's eye view:

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Lots of issues to still resolve, and plenty more work to do, but making progress and it's starting to look like a motorcycle again!
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« Reply #61 on: April 08, 2015, 03:50:41 PM »

Good to see this back on track.
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« Reply #62 on: May 17, 2015, 06:32:06 AM »

Any progress? 
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« Reply #63 on: May 21, 2015, 10:27:31 AM »

Any progress? 

Hey Lars; thanks for inquiring.    Unfortunately, there is little progress to report.   I have been consumed with lawn and yard renovations this spring, and with the project crammed into our tiny existing garage with no workbench, I am loath to work very long out there.  (I find it VERY frustrating; no bench, no vise, no drill press, no grinder, no proper lights, etc.)

So, I discovered that my custom top triple tree assembly is actually 13mm taller than the stock S2R/S4R/S4Rs triple, and thus the oem headlight mounting hardware needs to be "stretched" 13mm to make everything fit.  I have done half of that work myself, by hand .. photos to follow.  I have the second half of the work at a machine shop near my son's auto shop, hoping some cutting and welding will be complete in a week or so.

I also found a set of Norton Commando replica handlebars that seem to have the rise, pullback, and bend that I am looking for.  They are installed on the bike now.   Sitting on the bike, I think I'll have to fabricate brackets to lower the footpegs a bits, since the Superbike tail is lower than the stock Supersport saddle.

In the meantime, the new garage construction - much delayed - starts on Tuesday, and I'm VERY excited about that, because when it is complete late this summer or early this fall, I'll finally have a proper workshop again!
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« Reply #64 on: May 21, 2015, 10:53:59 AM »

Nice job. Looks like its going to be such a fun bike to ride.
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« Reply #65 on: May 28, 2015, 09:31:39 AM »

Thanks, with construction now underway for a second garage, I expect that the build will not really pick up steam until the fall when the workshop is up and operational.  

However, today I am picking up the lengthened instrument/air sensor bracket from a local machine shop, and that should mean that I can complete the installation of the headlight, front turn signals, instruments, handlebar switchgear, and the bar-end mirrors.

After that I can work my way back to fabricating a duplicate of the bracket I made for my other 1000SS to support both the fuel cell and the seat/tail unit.

Micro progress beats zero progress, I guess!
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« Reply #66 on: May 29, 2015, 05:11:32 AM »

The modified brackets and associated bits:

The white nylon "spacers" at the top of the U-shaped main bracket were fabricated to bridge the 14mm gap; replaced the "top hat" nylon oem spacers that were in there:

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The "short and long" of it.  This bracket provides support for the instruments and holds the air flow sensor; it had to be lengthened 14mm:

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Reinstalled headlight and instrument cluster:

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« Reply #67 on: May 31, 2015, 06:02:15 AM »

Looks good.  Hard to finish  a project  like  that with all that you have  going on.  Is it  up and running yet or is there more to do.
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« Reply #68 on: June 03, 2015, 10:04:20 AM »

Looks good.  Hard to finish  a project  like  that with all that you have  going on.  Is it  up and running yet or is there more to do.

Hi Lars, no it is not up and running yet.  Not sure when that will happen, between work demands and building the new garage.  I can try getting it running using the old 1000SS gauges (which match the ecu and the ignition key), but ultimately I am going to need to get the new (European GT1000) instrument cluster flashed/synced/programmed (what ever; don't know the correct terminology) to the existing ECU.   I also have a not insignificant amount of small part and bracket fabrication to do before I can fire it up and ride it; and that's hard to do (though not impossible) while sitting cross-legged on the floor of my existing, overcrowded garage, with one dim overhead incandescent light-bulb, and no ventilation!
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« Reply #69 on: August 11, 2015, 04:23:44 PM »

Surely there has been progress?!?!?!!!!!??!!!!!! Huh? Shocked Huh?
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« Reply #70 on: August 26, 2015, 04:49:15 AM »

Surely there has been progress?!?!?!!!!!??!!!!!! Huh? Shocked Huh?

There has been progress.  On building the second garage.    In fact, we're also having the house re-sheathed and re-sided, since it looked so shabby next to the new garage.   Also had a dry creek put in and all our gutter downspouts buried (under the driveway, the driveway now looks terrible) and drainage redirected to the back of the propery.  

I expect to be moved into the new garage by early October, and perhaps in January or February find some time to actually work on my project.    Sad
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« Reply #71 on: October 08, 2015, 04:39:05 PM »

Finally moved into the new garage this week.  Building a workbench Saturday.  If all goes well I'll be out there working on the bike in a couple of weeks!
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« Reply #72 on: October 12, 2015, 04:55:29 AM »



Finally have a place to work on the project, after more than a year and a half of being a garage gypsy.   Tuesday we'll be working on my brother-in-law's MZ 660 Skorpion Sport (on the left) with the stuck choke cable, and then after that, I'll FINALLY be able to get back to the roadster project!

I built the workbench on Saturday, then bought the used cabinets off Craigslist on Saturday evening.  On Sunday I hung the cabinets, organized the rest of the garage, and am pretty much ready to go!
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« Reply #73 on: October 12, 2015, 09:09:06 AM »

What a great place to work! Where is the beer fridge??
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« Reply #74 on: October 16, 2015, 03:57:26 AM »

What a great place to work! Where is the beer fridge??

No beer fridge, but there is an original, unrestored Vendo Model 39 Coke machine (behind me in the photo I posted) that holds 8-ounce Coca-Colas and keeps them ice cold, for when I need a refreshment.   I actually inherited the machine from a close friend and fellow lifelong rider who died in 2012.

I finished the work on my brother-in-law's MZ 660 Skorpion on Tuesday, and he rode it off into the sunset.  So now the 1000SS project is front and center again.  FINALLY.

Wednesday I brought home a used rolling tool cart that my son found for me, and yesterday I hauled the project parts cache down from the new garage's attic and sorted the parts and laid them out to start work on the bike.  I cleaned the bike and got it on the rear stand.

No work this weekend, as I have a funeral to attend in South Carolina.  Cancer sucks.  
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