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2004/12/26:
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6 inch risers were not going to be enough, and nobody wants
to sell 8 inch risers for a reasonable price (6 inch are 80 bucks,
but 8 inch are around 200 bucks! It's a simple metal rod!). So
I figured it would be better anyway to reuse more of the original
bike and make risers that functioned as an adapter between the
stock Yamaha risers and Harley's riser bolts. I figured why weld
when you can just screw things together? So here's the design I came up with: |
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Jared helped out a lot on this one by drilling all the holes, which was mostly a challenge
in eyeballing "straight and centered" using a drill press where no two pieces were exactly
parallel and nothing was quite level. While he was working on each riser, I tapped the holes
in the other riser so the bolts would simply thread in. To get this done I just needed the appropriate taps, a tap wrench, etc... Oh, and a thread comb so I could identify the thread spec of the bolts I needed to match in the first place. Here's all the information you could need about threads, fasteners, tap hole bit sizes, etc, (metric and imperial): BoltDepot.com Fastener Info With the risers on and tank in place, here's how the cockpit is looking: |
| So here's how the bike looks so far: |
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