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I was supposed to go to Lime Rock Park today to watch the Porsche Owners Club flog their cars around the track.  While I’m usually up for anything to do around a racetrack when I [...]

Over the past few days I was able to get more machine time in on the swingarm pivot plate.  I made a lot of progress but didn’t quite finish up.   For the first time in a while I [...]

Here’s a little update on the fundraising front.  T-shirts have been going out to the twenty or so people who generously contributed at that level. I’ve also had one taker of the [...]

It feels food to have gotten some of the front suspension linkages completed.  For the next part to make I’ll switch from the front of the bike to the back and do some work on the [...]

Good weather and motorcycle parts, almost a perfect combination.  It would be perfect if all those motorcycle parts fit together to make a complete bike you can ride around in this summer [...]

The CAD software I use, Pro-Engineer, has an assembly mode where you can create simplified representations of the assembly you are working on.  One simplified rep I have defined is the [...]

Ahhhhhhhhh.  Machining and fabricating sweet parts is nice but doing it for your own bike on a nice sunny day just seems to be that much better.  Something about the sun, sky, and the [...]

Wow.  That’s all I have to say after finishing the first sample set of cases.  I went from this: To this: And only broke one drill bit and slightly dented a boring bar.  Not [...]

Well, that was an extended absence.  It was not too bad from my perspective since I was working on a motorcycle-related project.  Now that the first stage of the TZ250 engine case [...]