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This afternoon I spend some time machining this small part. It can be placed over the cross member of the sissy bar. This way the bolt which holds the rear fender up, can sit flush. Tonight I will be in the workshop so I can take a picture when it is mounted.

Like your eagle eyes 🦅. And the table is only 100cm x 60cm. Still, a small steel table top provides many possibilities when welding.

You know engines. It is a CB 250T and a CB 400N. Still planning to build one motor out of it. I like the looks of the 250 better. It got the 70ties roundness and most important, it got the kick starter. The 400N is 80ties styled. Many years ago I made this drawing of what the bike could look...

Sissy bar progress.

Last June he turned 4. They grow up so fast. My dad is 70 years old and still works fulltime on the farm. My son wants to go everywhere his grandpa goes. Having 3 generations together on the farm is absolutely amazing.

Lekker bezig!

Building a sissy bar is a first for me. Going forward I already learned a lot. Stuff I would definitely do differently next time. Nevertheless, the sissy bar is moving in the right direction. Last night I made the mounting plates and formed the curved crossbar. About the sissy bar angle, I'm...

The length of the sissy bar still needs to be determined. First I will figure out what the ride height of the seat will be.

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Sissy bar time! I used a piece of round bar to mock up the sissy bar and get a feeling for the angle. I ended up with 3 options. 1. Straight up vertical. Looks good, only concerned about the space between my back and the sissy bar. 2. Eye balled / free angle. Looks okayish. The thing is, it is...

The tires are on. For the rear wheel, the question is: with or without dork disk? I like that it gives the rear end visually a little more weight, making the front end looks sleeker. I also shortened the stem. Now it goes in all the way. A small thing I need to do is make a notch in the chain...

That is a good solution as well! Did not think of that. I know they build car wheels like this.

Yeah, you are so right. For me personally, the details are very important. I'm not able to cut corners. And sometimes that is frustrating during the build, but in the end, it always benefits the end result.

Next up was extending the front-end spring mount. I used the originals mount and first chopped it in half. The only thing to do was welding a piece of flat bar in between. The "tricky" bit was getting the threaded hole aligned with the spring bolt. Long story short, it turned out great.

The bottom ring of the headset, that goes on the steerer tube did not want to fit. I know it is a press fit, but in this case, the difference between the inner diameter ring and the outer diameter steerer tube was almost 1mm. I chucked the ring in my mini-lathe and tried to increase the inner...

Added 45 mm. to the steerer tube. Plenty length now. Maybe even a little too much.

Last night was final round of hay. Over the last 3 days we managed to harvest 1610 square bales and 67 large round bales. This weekend I have time to work on extending the steerer tube and the spring mounting bracket. And the most beautiful part of harvest is having my son around.

And today I found time to clean this wheel. Also switched the internals from another wheel to this one. The quick release was not going to work with the front end.

Round two! 730 square bales.

Round one. 520 square bales.