Coast to Coast Rally

This is a treasure hunt type event running from Flamborough head on the east coast to Barrow-in-Furness on the west coast, mostly on tarmac. This allows lots of playing on Yorkshire B roads, with lots of humps and bumps and dubious surfaces. Fun, fun, fun. It was the first outing for the suspension rebuild (literally, bolted together and MOT'ed Thursday, leave Friday). The new suspension was fantastic, the handling on tarmac transformed, which I wasn't really expecting.

 

 

 

Tony, Andy and Les at the prize giving in Barrow

Tony

Rigg and those bloody braces, they were cheap apparently.

My mate Steve Thomas gets the against all odds prize. He is a little bit of a fashion victim.

Hafren and Dyfi rally

 

After all this work the idea was then to complete in the Dyfi and Hafren rallies, which I did, the Dyfi was a tiny bit harsh....

The Dyfi, despite this shot, in the shadows of the trees, very sunny, hence the body armour and T shirt. I'm looking happy so I think this must be the second lap, on Sunday. It was so bad I only did one lap Saturday and one lap Sunday.

The Hafren rally. Top of the hill, above the Motocross track, just before the clutch fell off. Must get those torque settings right.

Sumpguard and Pegs

 

Next new addition, a sump guard,
this is the prototype in card

 

Another view.

The fabricated version, in 4 mm Ally plate.

 

Another view

 

 

A close up.
The front monts will require small tabs to be added

 

This is the guard with mounts added,
but not yet welded on.

 

As you can see the rear mounts bolt to the footrest hangers,
the inner spacers on the footrests have been removed,
and they will have solid metal bushes, next week, when they are made!

 

Hopefully, this arrangement will actually make
the sub frame stronger, as it cantielvers off the footrest
mounts. This is good as the subframe has cracked a couple of times.

 

 

The guard on the bike, not yet welded!

 

 

The standard Elefant footpegs were a bit small and narrow, so I determined to convert them to comfy 'wide pegs'. Also to get rid of the rather wobbly rubber bushes that the bracket were attached with.

So, I (with help from 'Jeff the Welder') cut a loop of steel strip, as above,

Serrations were cut with a hacksaw, and the depth trimmed off. Then the loop was cut to length.

They were the tacked on at the tip.

And the space filled with steel scrap and welded.

The brackets are bolted to the frame through rubber bushes (left). These are, I think, meant to reduce high frequency vibes at speed.

So I had some aluminium turned to the same size, took the bushes out, and pressed the Ally replacements in.

Like this. The foot pegs are now great, and I don't notice any more vibes!

Below are pics of my latest, Sumpguards, in heavy duty Aluminium Alloy