Simpsonmotorbikes next project

MotorbikeMike · #1 05-07-2009, 10:55 PM

Hi all, I am hoping to get this bike re-configured this week-end for an upcoming show. This is NOT the Red 09 with the white tires, this is another Prototype.

Mike

eDJ · #2 05-07-2009, 11:52 PM

Is this a different frame than what was in the other thread ? It looks like the front forks
are raked out further ?

I think you'll do good with it as it does look like some of the old vintage boardtrackers
and could be dressed up like regular motorcycles of the times too.

azbill · #3 05-08-2009, 12:54 PM

love the springer !!!
looks like it sits lower as well ?

MotorbikeMike · #4 05-10-2009, 12:13 PM

Hi all, sorry to be so late back to this. I am very busy with a schedule that is not very well thought out apparently.

I need this bike up for a show next week, and so here goes?

This is my original prototype bike from several years ago, it had some terrible front-end problems due to a misunderstanding at the Bicycle Factory. It had almost no rake, because he ordinarily built BMX bikes, and that is how they are.

This bike went back into the shop to be chopped twice, and at the second chopping I had asked for a bit too much rake (it does give it a mean look tho, doesn't it?). When I got it back, I assembled it rode it a mile or two, and 2 days later it went off to another shop to be a pattern for the Model 10 Racer.
Did anyone notice the cool Bungee cord Drop Stand Holder I made? This was actually the first day that this bike was back from "surgery" re-assembled and back from her first ride.

This bike IS low!

A long time passes with old Number 8 sitting in the shed, disassembled, and forlorn. I shot it with a phosphatizing flat black primer, and will be loading an EZ Bike kit into it today for initial fit. It has been an unwelcome challenge finding the parts that once were this proud bike!.

I am unsure of the wheelset that I will use, I have 117's with Sturmey drum and Shimano coaster, Used Worksman 129's with thier drum and Shimano, Grube Drum with 105's (last choice will sell these cheap!) and some other stuff out near what I call "The Wall of Shame".

I had wanted to go belt-drive on this bike, and might, tho I lack the pulley that I want for the task, so it will probably reincarnate this first time as a chain-drive bike.

Here is a pic in the shape it was when I was riding it originally. I took this pic near the end of it's first life. Compare that to this one.

Mike

lennyharp · #5 05-10-2009, 12:30 PM

That is looking really classy. I showed my wife this one and she liked it too.

MotorbikeMike · #6 05-12-2009, 01:25 PM

Hi All! build on Day 1 sadly i did not get as much done as I had hoped!

Mike

iRide Customs · #7 05-13-2009, 05:36 PM

Looks like you got the rake spot on there Mike...VERY COOL!!!

MotorbikeMike · #8 05-14-2009, 01:07 AM

Hi all, well under tool-bags, scrap iron, cardboard boxes and flotsam and jetsam I found most of the pieces of the Model 08. The things I could not find I either dummied up, or made outta junk!

I spent the time I had available, after going to Vegetable and fruit at Flea Market, and Tractor Supply. It was warm and I seem tired, but on I trudged!

I still have some stuff to do, I used a variety of "homemade" tools including when I bent the left pedal crank, I could not find a pipe, so I used an old bumper lack to slip over as a lever, that thing is CLUMSY!

I made a manifold out of a two-stroke pipe, and a piece of pipe for diameter, a seatpost is the tip. You MAY be able to identify the exhaust clamps? I found my axle adjusters, bobbed a fender that was smashed flat on the ducktail, the old brace would not work, and I need to cut, and drill this one as I do not like them on the axle, I like the brace on the dropout.

Here are the pics form build day 2, and, I admit, if I had stayed home and worked all day, I would have ridden it today. BUT I did fire the engine tonite!

Thanks Bill, I designed that springer, BUT I need to adlust it so that the rocker is just a bit above level. Yes Bill this bike is a couple inches lower than the Red 09.

Thanks Lenny, my wife seems to like it too!

Dan, I was learning at this time. Rake is 26 degrees, it should have been right around 22, but, this was how I learned, and it does "Flop" a bit

eDJ the rake is a bit more than it should be, but id looks kinda "Mean" this way?

Mike

HoughMade · #9 05-14-2009, 11:21 AM

As usual, great work! Some people just have an eye for what looks right- and you are clearly one of them....and plans to make that cover look...well ....less.....plastic?

lennyharp · #10 05-14-2009, 03:55 PM

I am not sure why people are not liking the cover? To make the same thing from any metal would be much louder just from minimal vibrations. The material is strong and looks like it will serve well as a cover even in the desert where I live. One of the beauties of this kit is the quiet and clean aspects to the drive system.