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After receiving the front wheel back from the machine shop in January I was quite surprised at how they had managed to botch the job.

Part of me wanted to get the tools myself and another part sai ...

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In my previous post I was trying to get my rather compact inner hub placed inside the wheel. The inner hub was originally intended to go inside something like the Aprilia Shiver wheel.

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In my post-mortem of today's events I am coming to the conclusion that the machine shop must have measured from the surfaces where the brake discs were originally mounted and simply planed off a certa ...

The machine shop finally finished the work and I picked up my wheel today.

I suppose my briefing and Fusion 360 drawing was not enough to make sense of because despite my best efforts to say that t ...

Just a quick update as I have practically done nothing for a month other than wait ...

Still waiting for the machine shop to finish the wheel. Have been after them a couple of times to hear when I ...

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Finished drafting caliper mounts. They will clear the brake discs by about 5mm.

Caliper bolts are M10 and the bolt for attaching steering mechanism is M8.
The thickness of the material most places ...

Axle-holding-whatchamacallit are in.
Someone please recommend a more suitable and technical sounding name for these Mr. Green

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They are Aluminium 6061 T6 with al ...

you said "The downside (of using titanium)is obviously the 5x material cost"

NOT TO MENTION finding a suitable machine shop with experience in Ti machining. Cutting depths and feed rates ...

Hi everybody, I am new in this amazing forum.

steff_dk your work is great!

One year and half ago I started with the design of my HCS bike.
I used as basis for my design a Gilera KZ 125 (1986) ...

Calipers have arrived. I ended up with some stock Brembo / MV Agusta F3. They're not Monobloc but I think still sufficient for what I am trying to do here.

The foot is the proper measure for a sho ...

Amazing work - I'm super-impressed at what you're doing. I've been using fusion360 myself recently, so it's great to see what it's capable of beyond the little things that I've been producing.

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Brembo Serie Oro floating discs arrived today.

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Snapped a picture and put as background in Fusion 360.

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One of the things I had initially thought I would try instead of just copying Bimota was to make an axle that did not rotate in the front swinging arm such as the Tesi.

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