It's a fact, ANYTHING with holes drilled in it, AND displaying some alloy mesh is faster, it just IS.
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| Template quickly made from card, centre and spacing decided, ready to drill. |
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| I still had some Stainless mesh, looked good, at first................ |
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| but, Black 3mm Alloy mesh worked better, and a lick of paint! |
Having molested the rear guard with a hole saw, found and fitted the size mesh I wanted I had to get it close to finished. Simoniz Hard Black Satin is my chosen finish, straight out of the rattle can, and, at the moment, that will be the same for everything, bar the wheels and possibly the tank.
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| Well, I love it (so does my son, which matters) and after a thumbs up from a few mates, I'm chuffed. |
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The front mudguard is still giving me grief. I've cut a couple of versions from the remainder of the steel trailor guard used on the rear, but without a rolled edge, I'm just not sure. I've got some plastick beading bought to edge the seat pan which I'll play around with. This would also give me a method to fix some mesh under the front as well.
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| Both the unfinished front guard and the two stroke oil tank are now Hard Black. |
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and, while I was at it, the stainless mesh has gone from the seat pan, replaced with more 3mm Alloy Mesh
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| I've also started to fill the small dents on the tank. |
Next, back to the exhaust. I've had an idea on how to route it over the cylinder head, which, will look a bit different. Not sure what it will do for gas flow and harmonic's though.
