Tuesday, 8 April 2025

VØYΛGƎR

Voyager Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop Cyber Cyberpunk Sci Fi Animated GIF Graphic VØYΛGƎR
 

Image - Kotutohum


#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorccles #MercenaryGarage

Monday, 7 April 2025

Garage Day - Ducati Sprint Bike

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

It doesn't look like it, but there has been some progress on the Ducati Superlight DS project. 

Despite using mostly Ducati parts from ostensibly similar bikes, nothing fits together particularly well. The stretched steel swingarm is off a 750SS and this fitted easily to the SL motor. However the Multistrada DS motor is different in the way it fits its swingarm and the 750SS swingarm doesn't just bolt up!

This would have been a difficult problem if the bike was running rear suspension, but this bike is going to have a ride-height adjustable lockup strut and so the swingarm doesn't need bearings or bushes 'cos it's not going to be moving.

So the swingarm is held in place (side to side) by two cylindrical spacers with a slight interference fit. The swingarm and spacer sit on a titanium pivot and the pivot is held stationary by two M10 titanium pinch bolts. It worked out much better than I was expecting and I'm confident in it.

At the other end of the swingarm, the chain-adjuster setup has been redone. It used to have one, and it used to work okay, but it was built in a hurry and I wasn't really happy with it. There's nothing very radical about the new design, it's just built better.

The other issue with the DS motor is that the engine mounting bolts are diameter 12mm  while the SL ones are 10mm. So I drilled out the mounting bolt holes in the SL frames and expected the DS bolts to fit. They didn't.

Initially I thought this was 'cos the flange under the bolt head was too wide to fit the recess in the SL frame. So I turned down the flange in the lathe and then discovered that the DS engine bolts were just too short...

So the solution for this is two 330 x 12 round steel bars (I have some titanium stashed away to remake these at a later date) threaded M12 x 1.75 for the first 20mm at each end, and some 30 x 20mm spacers to position the M12 Nyloc nuts outboard of the frame recesses' (the M12 nuts will fit inside the recesses but there isn't room to fit a tool in there as well, so the nuts couldn't be tightened - hence the spacers).

This is a brutal solution given the effort put into removing weight from this bike, so it might get revisited if I can think of something more elegant/lighter.

Oh, and I picked up a nose fairing off a Suzuki RG 125/250.

So tune in next week for more progress.


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Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Stretched Steel 759SS Swingarm

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Blog Ducati Superlight Superscura Sprint Drag bike Build 110 Engine mounting bolts M12 nuts and spacers


Images - Mercenary Garage


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Maximum Force

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 1980 Alternative Mad Max Maximum Force Movie Poster by Ian Pesty

Illustration - Ian Pesty


#MadMax #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Sunday, 6 April 2025

Syber 13

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 2015 Syber 13 | Black Edition by Arron Beck Beck Kustoms Slammed Matte Black Street Car Stretched Tyres

Image - Aaron Beck / Beck Kustoms


#Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Saturday, 5 April 2025

Synthetic Dawn

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 2025 Swordspeed Synthetic Dawn Cyberpunk City Biker Art 1
 
Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 2025 Swordspeed Synthetic Dawn Cyberpunk City Biker Art 1

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 2025 Swordspeed Synthetic Dawn Cyberpunk City Biker Art 1

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 2025 Swordspeed Synthetic Dawn Cyberpunk City Biker Art 1

Images - swordspeed on Instagram


#Swordspeed #SyntheticDawn #Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Friday, 4 April 2025

Perfection

 Look at this little piece of perfection. Just look at it!

Mercenary Garage Design Custom Motorcycle Workshop Suzuki GSXR1100 GS1200 Bitsa Slabside Single Seater Cafe Racer Streetfghter Pez Motorcycle Riders

Image - via Pez Motorcycle Riders


#SuzukiGSXR #GSXR #Slabside #SuzukiSlabSide #Slabby #Streetfigter #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage

Thursday, 3 April 2025

Guardian of the Discosphere

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 1980 Discosphere 1981 Honda ELF-R Futuristic Streamlined Experimental Race Bike Disco Kitty Girl With Arcade Game and Laser Blaster
 
Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 1980 Discosphere 1981 Honda ELF-R Futuristic Streamlined Experimental Race Bike Disco Kitty Girl With Arcade Game and Laser Blaster

Mercenary Garage Custom Motorcycle Workshop 1980 Discosphere 1981 Honda ELF-R Futuristic Streamlined Experimental Race Bike Disco Kitty Girl With Arcade Game and Laser Blaster

Image - Smuggled out of the Discosphere at great risk


#Discosphere #DiscoFuturism #1980 #BuckRogers #HondaElf #TimeTravel #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage