Have a safe and enjoyable trip. Will wait for the next installment.

FWIW, I am retired and work at THD, part time. I work my azz off satisfying customers, and enjoy doing so, which I believe you and your people do too. Damn shame that you got the runaround from a company. I cannot imagine doing something similar to any of my customers. Could easily cost me my job, and I respect people, well at least their purchases, too much. tp dd50

 

Have a safe ride Kevin and enjoy.

 

Thanks guys!

 

We've done a bit of work recently. Should have a report of the newest stuff up tomorrow sometime.

 

 

So...we've been interrupted by various other responsibilities, and then a lot of the stuff we've been doing has not been picture worthy.

But we did get a bit done recently that is picture worthy.

We tacked a bracket together for relocating the regulator. When we pull the bike apart for paint and powder we'll finish welding it up.




At the same time we'll remove the top factory bracket for the regulator....going to leave the bottom one in place for structural integrity.



Right side view of the new bracket.






On the solid mount Sportys, there is a bracket on the backbone that is for the top motor mount. It goes from the backbone to a bracket that bolt to each of the cylinder heads.

I really wanted to do something different, and to leave that space open between the backbone and the top of the engine.

While we are not going to tie the to cylinder heads together with the DLX Coil Relo pictured here, we are going to tie them together with some sort of bracket. Then, as pictured below we have a motor mount going to the backbone behind the tank.

I've never seen a top motor mount like this, but cannot think of any reason that it will not work well.

Here's a couple of photo's of it, and it is also visible in some of the shifter photos below.












On to some photo's of the Jockey Shift. We have futzed around with more variations of this than I can remember. We finally have it down to the simplest, cleanest form.

That is a Hurst Shift **** on it. That may change, there are lots of choices, but I sorta like this one.













It seems to stick out quite a ways...and maybe it could be a touch taller, and a bit more tucked in...






...but it is pretty comfortable while sitting on the seat.










There's a bunch more stuff we should be making headway on over the next week.

 

It's looking good, can't wait to see the 'finished' product, if it's comfortable for you, don't change the shifter, I think it looks that way.

 

Amazing how well is come together in the last couple weeks Kevin. When do you estimate paint?

 

when I first saw the picture I thought that the lever stuck out too much.
But with someone sitting on it, it does seem to be in a very comfortable position

 

DK, I got to thinking about your top mount. With the head bolt going through both the mount and the switch bracket that's a pretty long bolt, with the load at the end of the bolt. With the fore and aft forces at work there, are you concerned about movement? I hate bringing it up after you commented about how many times you'd already changed the design, but it concerned me.