i've got a few extra screws here but i'm not sure what they're for that never happens to you does it
no hi i'm paul brodie we are in my shop and behind the camera be the fa actually i'm not a fabricator
today i'm an assembler we're going to be working on the irimaki race bike i've got a lot of parts
ready to go on to it that's the topic for today look what i got merchandise this is new today
very nice and they're on sale it's 20 off this is the code you put in so if you need some
merchandise for christmas at a good price that's the deal so maybe we'll go over here and look at
uh what we have and we're gonna weigh the frame because we're back on aramaki where we weigh
things on the tiger cub doesn't matter it's just the bike in that sense but the aramaki race bike
we want to know how much things weigh so i'm going that way frame
swing arm i spray bombed it i didn't want to put on one primer two primer top coat clear coat and
all that so this was just a lot easier and it's lighter too because there's less paint going on so
i've got a weighing scale over here so let's take the frame over and just see how much it weighs
this is 100 accurate i want you to know that there we go
oh it's uh maybe 23 pounds i thought it would be a little bit under 20 but i guess i'm off
i think the first thing we'll do is install the headset cups
so that'll be on the arbor press over here so i'll set that up
oh there we go okay
okay
and it looks like we're all the way down good
i think assembly is the fun part after all the work of making pieces i don't have the
engine built i need to take that apart but we'll put it in anyway it'll just come out
i had 57 pieces anodized and something didn't not sure what happened here it's 3003
but it doesn't really matter because all you see is that bit right there so
i will not complain so this is the air dam and the air dam holds this in that holds the spring
i like the combination of the anodize and the paint i think they match
quite well i think they complement each other
it's not a huge spring but there we go
cool it goes into the wheel like that
you can see
feels pretty solid
we'll put on the torque arm next because then that sets the
it sets the hub or the backing plate at the right angle
i'm not going to make everything super tight right now but
it's kind of like a mock-up build and make sure everything fits
see these o-rings i've got unsealed bearings here so i figured out years ago that if i
put these o-rings in between the races it seals it up so that's what i'm doing here
it's a number 133 if that
just in case you have an air mask and you want to do that
so we'll put bearings in these a 3 16 i believe
and you're always supposed to leave space for one bearing you don't fill it up completely
i think there's space for one more there yeah see there's a little space right there
there you go you got one one space there left
there we go that went down yep that's down
i think the anodizing made the thread a little bit tighter so you see how this works this is
the o-ring provides a seal now it's a sealed bearing whereas otherwise you got all the
all that gap there for moisture dirt to get in so this was a good little little trick i figured out
look at that
i'll adjust the headset later won't do that right now because i have to be able to turn the wheel
yeah it's starting to look like a motorcycle
okay so next step i think we'll put on the swing arm and the shocks
and then we'll put the back wheel on what we're looking for is a rolling chassis here
this is a honda xr200 assembly here
this is the hardened axle you can you can see where it got hardened here
probably induction hardened or something and then it got it got ground so this is harder than this
inside can you see inside it's got needle bearings anyway we'll add some grease in there install the
shaft and then we shouldn't have to take that apart for a while and this is waterproof grease
even though i might never ride in the rain but
i can have the confidence knowing that if i ever ride in the rain
the bearings are going to be just fine
i got a job in the bicycle industry assembling bicycles this was years ago actually 1983 and one
of the things i didn't like about assembling bicycles is that my hands were always oily
or greasy i don't mind dirt but not real fond of oily greasy hands probably some people don't mind
these are the honda seals you can see that they're gonna keep all the grit out
that's basically how honda does stuff often one side is 17 one size 19 because you might not have
extra wrenches
we've got work shocks here okay that's what was on on the shark when i ordered
it and then i knew that on the excelsior i had these ones and these ones are a lot smaller
so i thought i was ordering these and what i got was this so it comes up a little bit more
can you see how okay this is the bottom so it comes up a little bit more but i realized
after i got these that i just i use these and i made these out of that
so i made them quite a bit smaller so i'm going to have to modify these but maybe these will work
a little bit just in the meantime so this is what's going on the bike
you can see how it fits like that you know you got to go that way
and then this this rubber bumper slides down then you put on the spacer then the spring goes on
like that and then i had these anodized they were this is way too shiny i gotta knock off a
bunch of that i don't want the big shine so let's see what happens here see if it is going to hit
oh it doesn't hit look at that see that remember last time it was hitting
now there's a little bit of space there so that's that's very nice
it's nice when it all comes together puts a smile on my face for sure
okay we're gonna put the seed on then you can see the orange and the gray
i think that's kind of a nice nice color combination here i have to put the seat on first
and then the fender goes on if i put the fender on i can't put the seat on so there's a sequence here
i'll put some nylocks on here later
i took the axle adjusters apart so we're going to re-lock tight these in here
i got them anodized so everything matches more or less
so these two nuts were locked on there that's how i got this out of there so when i
force it down and the lower nut breaks free then i know that i got it pretty there we go
that should be pretty tight so add some grease
there we go
okay
this piece here is what holds the shoes on the other side so that goes like that
that's a little snug too
just a little bit of sanding because we've added added thickness with the anodizing and
then we added thickness with the nickel plating so a little too close in the fit
there we go okay
i need a little bit of grease on the cam and the pivot
you don't need a whole lot
a little bit of grease just on the
on the shoes where it pivots
this is the air dam
and that's where the cool air can you see that that's where the cool air goes
into the brake shoes so it's all custom and then this hooks under here
and then when when this is where it should be there's a bit of tension for sure
so that's how that works okay i think we're ready for the back wheel installation
oh
that was handy it just popped right through the other side
that's a custom washer made out of stainless steel
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