The now welded front subframe, mounted on the bike with all the parts fitted to it. I did intend to get photos of it before putting it on the bike, but forgot to do so.
Instrument panel mounted. Still have to make a surround for this - thinking of deep foam, reminisent of '90's sportsbikes.
The adjustable haedlight and LED sidelights fitted. I still need to develop a mini wiring loom and work out how to mount the LED's, so thats one of the next stages.
The LED light guides are still only temporarily mounted. The wing like brackets are made and ready to mount to the main subframe body, but the final position of the light guides may still change. We'll have to see with the front fairing and air inlet ducts fitted.
The Morimoto ballast pack for the HID headlight, neatly designed to mount in the side of the subframe. It comes with two M4 mounting bosses, but two cables ties seem far more suitable.
Trying to hide all the wiring loom behind the instrument panel so its out of sight when the fairing is fitted. Hidden most of it, but space is tight.
In other important news - we have rode the bike for the very first time.
Only up and down a straight ride, just to run everything in. It all
felt good and behaved as it should, so we need to finalise a few things
now as we are keen to take it to a track!
Be interested to hear what you think of the HID projector. I ran an HID in the stock reflector and found it way better than stock, but then decided to mount a projector. Last week I rode it for the first time after dark... and it was woeful. The very sharp horizontal cut-off meant that as soon as I had a bit of lean, I had no light where I was going.
ReplyDeleteIt was aimed a bit low, hopefully it will be better with correct aim, but not super confident.