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i have bought a to put a busa front end on a cb750.
so i am familiar with the wedge lock but had never seen the sliding cylinder type clamping system of your triple.
this bike is very nicely done.

how does this mount not turn with the turning steering stem ????

leon

There's a bearing recessed in the clamp to the fairing stay so the stem can rotate independently of the mount. You can see the grub screw that holds the outer race of the bearing in.

Yeah I like the design, I'm not sure it provides as much "clamping" strength as a traditional as it's effectively a point load on either side of the tube. Should provide the same strength as the wedge type would, Will see if there's any flex between the top and bottom yokes during testing, but I doubt there will be.

BTW that cognito moto is amazingly clean. Would love to see pics of the CB with the busa front.

a bearing makes sense now,your buddy is a tricky lil feller now ain't he!?!?!
the cognito stuff is very nice and reasonably priced.cheaper than me making it and sweating the details.i can just buy theres and then mod it for bars gauges etc.
the cb isn't much to look at yet.i still have swingarm to build,seat pan tail piece to fab etc.it's getting a list of motogadget goodies,c-5 ignition, some posh switches with an acewell,and one of carpy's yosh replica headers painted black.
i'll have to post pics as i get further along

He certainly is, and would be very pleased to hear that. Some really nice details he's put in, and I'm pretty particular but he just takes it that little bit further

Yeah the cognito stuff is great, but shipping to Australia is killer, hence the need to locally fab a lot of stuff. That sounds like a sweet little package for the CB

i get the shipping deal.
i have shipped parts all over the globe,except to Australia.
just sent some 58 vette parts to sweden for kzr member arnold

i prefer custom built parts !

my motto,
"make what ya can,save the rest"

leon

kretchman wrote: Yeah it's pretty clean. The cam lock action holds the tube up top, and the traditional bottom yoke does the heavy lifting so to speak. There's a few designs out there for a similar setup with adjustable steering head angle etc.

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Yep, I just had a set of clamps made up for a Honda project that have the same cam system on the top clamp, very clean and works great, my set up is similar to Black Banshee's...

Re shipping, I get stuff shipped from the States regularly, even with the shipping cost, most things ends up cheaper than being made here, I've shipped suspension parts including forks, wheel sets, custom throttle bodies, triple clamps, engine blocks, piston kits, 4 into 1's and piles of other stuff, manufacturing costs in the USA blow Aussie prices out of the water....

Post paint assembled and exhaust done. Just waiting on my forks to come back and then it's a roller!



Then wire and tune and test ride!

That is one sexy bit of gear, exactly the sort of bike that gets my juices flowing, very nice work...

This isn't a criticism, just an observation, In my opinion the bike would look perfect with a squarer, Z1000MK2 tank, you can actually by them to suit the Zephyr frame too.... {just being picky, Ignore me}...

Funny you mention that, I spent ages looking for a z1000 tank and the prices were eye watering, so I went with what I had.

I would prefer a squarer tank, but I think as it is, the lines from different angles flow well enough for me. Different shades on the paint highlight the angles too, but it's such a small issue that I'm happy to live with it

Front end in soon! Stay tuned.

A few more pics of the exhaust setup

Looking good! sub'd

kretchman wrote: Funny you mention that, I spent ages looking for a z1000 tank and the prices were eye watering, so I went with what I had.

I would prefer a squarer tank, but I think as it is, the lines from different angles flow well enough for me. Different shades on the paint highlight the angles too, but it's such a small issue that I'm happy to live with it

Just in case,

750 zephyr 750FX tank {same as z1000MK2} $600 aussie dollars, if you can buy another 50 bucks worth of parts with it, shipping is free, I could help with that, i need some parts too...

japan.webike.net/products/22056216.html

PS, in case anyone else read my post earlier, I put in the wrong link...!!!