The Dirt-One and the uselessly over-complicated speedometer pod

Unfortunately I've lost all the pictures of the work in progress...

Anyway, long story short, with the new forks I had to remove the original speedo mechanism, but I wanted to be able to keep an eye on the speed.

So, I've found a small digital bicycle speedo that goes up to 300km/h, perfect, but I really didn't like the look of it. 

So, I started from this:

To end up with something like this:

 

I've made the square hole slightly bigger than the screen on purpose to let some light pass trough from some LEDs underneath the pod 

Visitors from a close planet

My friend Gianfranco with his custom SRX "Supermono" 

and Emanuele with a very frightening XB12s

Cool!

Just two oil caps

One for the Dirt-One...

and one for the Orange Project

The Orange Project rearsets

In order to make some room for the new exhaust, I decided to discard the old footpeg supports and build two proper ones. 

I wanted to make it in two pieces to easly adjust the footpeg position if needed.

Starting as usual from a cardboard model,

then cutting, shaping and piercing some aluminium...

Before:

And after:

 

I have to change all the bolts to the frame because they now have the wrong length, but they are in non-metric size so it will require another couple of hours. I'll also make the recesses in the plate for the bolts heads for a flush finish.

RANDOM

Thanks to:
Chromjuwelen
Sabina Kelley
bar2fer
Chabott Engineering
Motordivision
Speed Hunters
Something to see/hear
Karz n shit