Top bracing is sooooo last year!

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Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by phuk72 » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:49 pm

What you want is a nice bottom braced swinging arm :D

When I got to work this morning, a nice big parcel was waiting for me.

Sorry for the crappy mobile phone piccy but it's all I've got at the moment

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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by trixynut » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:55 pm

Very bling mate 8)

Wossittoff? or did you have it fabricated?

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Post by phuk72 » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:59 pm

trixynut wrote:Very bling mate 8)

Wossittoff? or did you have it fabricated?
The work was done by JMC (as a one off) and then coated by the same guys who did my frame.
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by honkdawillydahonk » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:00 pm

That looks rubbish! :^o :wink:
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by Omegaman » Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:11 pm

:drool: :drool: :hail: :hail:
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by Killerwhale » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:44 pm

phuk72 wrote:What you want is a nice bottom braced swinging arm :D

When I got to work this morning, a nice big parcel was waiting for me.

Sorry for the crappy mobile phone piccy but it's all I've got at the moment
Damn you´re blinging your ride! ....Guess it´s going to be really nice!
Hope to see some pics soon!

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Post by phuk72 » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:46 pm

Killerwhale wrote:
phuk72 wrote:What you want is a nice bottom braced swinging arm :D

When I got to work this morning, a nice big parcel was waiting for me.

Sorry for the crappy mobile phone piccy but it's all I've got at the moment
Damn you´re blinging your ride! ....Guess it´s going to be really nice!
Hope to see some pics soon!
Hope so - my worry is that it is gonna look all wrong (but watch this space)
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by Killerwhale » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:53 pm

phuk72 wrote:
Killerwhale wrote:
phuk72 wrote:What you want is a nice bottom braced swinging arm :D

Hope so - my worry is that it is gonna look all wrong (but watch this space)
I got MOT 7.20 tomorrow morning and am a bit worried about my parking light....we´ll see...
I got some bling today to...but they are internal bling....
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by phuk72 » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:49 am

They wont stay like that for long
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Post by Quan-Time » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:17 pm

interesting swinger mod there. Surprised you didnt opt for the usual YZF path that most ppl do.. Saying that, you make me proud, i love the custom stuff, SOOO much better.
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Post by phuk72 » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:39 pm

Quan-Time wrote:interesting swinger mod there. Surprised you didnt opt for the usual YZF path that most ppl do.. Saying that, you make me proud, i love the custom stuff, SOOO much better.
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It's the "because I can" answer again! But there were a also a few reasons I didn't go down the YZF route:

1 - I have been fairly opinionated about 5 inches being enough at the rear (ooh err).
2 - I have a spare set of wheels (YZF front and TRX rear) with wets and a garage full of 160 SC Pros
3- I dont actually like the YZF swing arm
4 - (and this is the big one) I wanted something different. I could probably have gone for a top braced custom arm but everyone would still have thought it was a YZF arm.

This way I get to have a complete one off, retain my existing wheel set up and still use the hugger (to keep all the road crap off my epxensive shock)
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by biker_jay » Sun May 18, 2008 7:35 pm

What is the coating?

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Post by phuk72 » Mon May 19, 2008 9:52 am

biker_jay wrote:What is the coating?
Chrome powder coat
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Re: Top bracing is sooooo last year!

Post by jimmiboy » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:48 pm

That looks sooo cool =D> , have you got it bolted on yet? If so please stick a photo up I'd love to see the results.

I was considering fabricating something along the same sort of lines myself, I've noticed the brace loops quite far away from the swingarm to miss the brake arm on the r/h side, any other issues involved??

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