Front shock mounts

Tuesday 23 April 2013, 9.30am

Just a short blog to document the installation of the front shocks. This is a pic of the bracket I made to mount the shocks –

As you can see, I’ve used polypropylene again to mount the end of the shocks, and this is what it looks like mounted in position –

Action is nice and smooth, set the front pressures to 90lb and the rear to 150lb as a starting point.

Fitting the rear wheels

Sunday, 14 April 2013, 9am

I’m still alive and back in the blobisphere, haven’t been working on the Pospedal for a while to give my contact dermatitis (from the epoxy) time to heal, seems OK now.

I’ve built the rear shocker mounts using some bits of polypropylene cutting board –

The square aluminium insert is the threaded nut for the shocker pivot bolt. The aluminium brackets were later rivetted to the chassis. This is the swing arm fitted –

There is a clamp (nearest the camera) fitted to the swingarm pivot tube to hold the swingarm in place. I had to relieve the fit between the swingarm and shocker by putting a small dent in the swingarm tube. I also glued a small piece of neoprene to the chassis to cushion the swingarm under zero load, in the unlikely event that the rear wheel leaves the ground. This is a pic of both of the back wheels fully installed –

The only other thing I’ve done is fit the central bearing mount for the front cross-shaft –

It was a bit tricky fitting the brackets, had to make them twice as long as they needed to be in order to clamp them in place to get the holes drilled, then trimmed them afterward.