So the front was looking pretty good to me, and I'm this far... a little more won't be a big deal. Overtime weekends and top raman, baby. Her rear is getting the treatment. No pun intended.
The Breakout is getting the rear brake, drive and stance changed. DNA's Brakster was the choice for this project. I was becoming more and more into the factory Gasser 10 spoke wheels on the Breakout as I removed the parts that hid them.

 

You probably noticed the rear brake moved. Yup. I went with DNA's Brakester and a 66 tooth sprocket to keep the gauges reading right. The kit is top notch, beautiful plating, and excellent finish work... I just wasn't digging the caliper mounting position. from the design perspective, it is the best possible mount. For a guy with free time and no money, I though I'd give the 'cut and paste' a shot.
After a lot of different ideas on paper, and holding the caliper against the swing arm more often than I care to admit, I figured out the direction for my project and finalized a plan.

 

So... here is my bike with 988 miles on her... I'm thinking my warranty is pretty much Fu**ed at this point, so here goes nothing... literally.
There was quite a bit of measuring and rechecking before I punched the 1/4" pilot holes through the rear fork. Obviously a commitment to direction here. The hole saw used to notch out the frame worked pretty good. The last 10% of each cut did kinda sucked as you'd probably imagine.

 

Rear caliper in position. This took my forgetfull a$$ about 3 hours to mount the wheel, get the belt tensioned, and tracked correctly at droop, then measure, and measure some more, then measure the measurement...

 

I guess while I'm in the cutting mood...

The Breakout rear fender struts are cast aluminum. Easy enough to grind on. A little less easy to weld on. I am no longer going to be running the OEM rear signal lights or the license plate flapper thing (there is an engineer out there somewhere that needs slapped for that design). The struts are going to be cut down to omit the last holes where the signal lights were mounted. The wire harness slot machined into the back of each strut needed (for me) to be addressed.

 

This is the rear complete with giant holes in a $1,200 swing arm. Some machining, welding and a little luck... She'll be ok. The caliper is hanging from the bracket that comes in the DNA kit. This is the position it was supposed to be mounted in.
time to make some parts to pull this all together. And yes, strength and durability are key for such a structurally significant part.

 

I turned some 1" round bar down about 0.030" for some play to position the lugs into the notches when everything is assembled. The lugs were then spot faced to accept the socket head fasteners and then they were drilled to size (1/2"). Using 1/2"-13 socket head fasteners to mount the caliper... let the tack weld and checking begin. It turned out to be a bit of work (ok, a lot of work) to get the DNA rotor to sit square on a properly set rear wheel. Now was definitely the time to make it right. I would NOT recommend this for a chain drive (stretch and adjustment issues). The belt drive gig is pushing it.

ps... cover your chrome REALLY good. One stray spark/spatter caused me a bunch of polishing rework on the rear rotor surface. F**k...

 

The rest of the fork was smoothed off, old brake caliper slider on the RH side was torched off and ground. I also got rid of the mounts for all the OEM parts I knew I didn't want on the finished bike. Fork pulled, bearings removed, and off to sand blast and powder coat. I'm thinking bright pink would look nice.

 

So, more time with sh*t weather in the great Pacific Northwest (and for you guys in the Midwest... You're freakin' tough... I'll keep my 40F and drizzle. At least that can't kill you in 10 minutes of exposure.
Back to the bike: I hate to do it, but my Navy derby cover is getting the axe. I guess my primary outer and derby will look good bolted to the wall in my shop. I've to much time to dwell on different ideas while waiting for powder coating to wrap up. OCD for the win! My primary is ending up on the scrap pile. It was pretty much cashed anyways, 988 miles on the drive.

 

Its not too late, the weather suggests that I'd be better off building a snowmobile. I'm half way there...