The bike has been sat on an ABBA stand at work for the past few weeks whilst we have had the swingarm out for measuring. This only means one thing - the trellis swingarm is finally being designed!
Due to continual demand (everyone seems to love the swingarm on the original CAD drawings) we have finally got to the point of beginning the design work on this element and below are some early ideas of how the design is developing.
We feel it is important to ensure the swingarm is designed to allow flexibilty and different combinations of rear wheel setups to be used. As we have designed the frame to be capable of taking either the early or later generation SV650 swingarm, it is important that we do the same for the swingarm, to allow riders the option of purchasing the swingarm to fit onto their standard bikes. With this in mind, both generations have been roughly modelled in CAD, in order to optimise the design of our swingarm we are planning to go with a machined aluminium dropout design in order to offer customised wheel options easily.
These are all early design ideas and we will be refining them over the coming months ready to make a prototype, so any suggestions are more the welcome.
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