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This shows the side turn signals. They cap off a box that holds the belt and acts as a chamber for some of the wires. I now have a ground wire that goes into the starter cover and attaches to the starter attaching bolt. Also, you can kind of see the aluminum envelope on the back of the battery. The wood on it is a lip so the belt holds it in place and it can't creep up. It contains my registration, proof of insurance and emergency information such as my blood type and contact info.


Notice the turn signals. That's what this thread was all about. Thanks for the help and also, and I really mean this, wise ass comments.

This rear view shows more turn signals, the brake light is in the normal place but there are two more at the tops of the shocks. There is a running light in the hump, just above the mufflers. You would think the hump would get hot because of the mufflers being in there but it doesn't. Still, I keep thinking of putting a pair of vents in it. I like this view because the bike looks so slender. I wonder if it makes my ass look big?

Chuey

Chuey wrote: Thanks for the help and also, and I really mean this, wise ass comments.

It's the least we could do.

Chuey wrote: I like this view because the bike looks so slender. I wonder if it makes my ass look big?

Chuey

Yep.






BTW, very nice.


The bike I mean.

Hate the red.

LOVE the exhaust.

The wood is . . . unique. And, that's what a real Calf A bike is all about.

Also of note, this is Chuey's first pic post, is it not?

Edit, perhaps not. I think he posted pics of his wood before, I tried not to look.

I don't know why those pictures came out so fuzzy. The red looks better in person. I do agree that in the photo it doesn't look that good. Also, I realized that you really can't see the aluminum envelope I was talking about.

Chuey

Please post a picture of the right side showing the exhaust on that side. Is the system 2 into 1 into 2?

Chuey wrote:I don't know why those pictures came out so fuzzy. The red looks better in person. I do agree that in the photo it doesn't look that good. Also, I realized that you really can't see the aluminum envelope I was talking about.

Chuey

Cleaned up a bit for you.

Right behind the oil pan and under the transmission is my first attempt ever at making a muffler. I wanted the bike to be quiet. The quieter the better, in my book. The muffler is made of some sheet steel I bought for the purpose. Each side is pretty similar as far as to how it enters the muffler. Originally I had put flanges onto the muffler and the elbow that joins the headers to it. Then I realized that it would be simpler and nicer to braze them directly on and the only joint needed is the slip joint.

Inside the muffler, it goes like this: Where the pipes come into the muffler (they are staggered) they are attached to pipes that I scalloped. That is, I made short cuts and dimpled one side down into the pipe. You've seen pipes made like this commercially as baffles. I had bought two sets of R1100S mufflers. Stock ones are cheap. One of them I took apart to see better how mufflers work. From that set, I used the perforated lining which is basically sheet metal full of holes. The way it is used in my muffler is as a lining that is held about 1/4-1/2" off the walls of the muffler box.

I had also hoped to make a better and better looking muffler to occupy the same space. Actually, the newer style of mufflers as on Buells, Hondas (I think) and BMW 1000RRs inspired my thoughts along this line. Anyway, in my mind, the muffler would look a lot like a belly pan and come to kind of an elliptical point on the bottom with the long axis running front to back. If that muffler cavity could be made to do the whole quieting job, I had planned to run bare pipe up and have it exit where the R1100S pipes do. It could look kind of raw and would mean a lighter weight up high in the back. On subsequent bikes, I'd just probably exit it near the rear tire. Recently, Matt Richards linked on facebook to a site that had some really cool Moto Guzzis and there was one with my vision of a muffler and it was executed just as I had planned to do on my next attempt with the exception of the pipes going up under the seat hump.

I think it is a good sign that I can cleanly end this post with the word hump.

Chuey