Pizza anyone?

Time to push forward with some "tech" with the TR-1

After the superbike new front-emd and monoshock, it's time for the brakes ant the transmission.

So, at the front a 4 pot Brembo caliper, machined a bit and fully refurbished...

...with a 320mm floating brake rotor

Machined and spaced up to fit properly

Nice!

At the back, once again, Brembo caliper and support from a Ducati Monster.

Ducati support is for a 245mm brake rotor... I needed to fit a 250mm.

So I had to "drop" it few millimiters down

Same spacing job, but this time I had to also change the bolt pattern

Then, with the fatter wheel at the back there were some interference problems between the chain and the tire... Also the original chain pitch was too big and heavy

So, for this I have to thank Kruger & Junginger that helped me with a custom made offset front sprocket to suit my needs.

A quick comparison between the two:

On the right the original and enormous one, on the left the new offset one in 520 pitch

All spaced and lined up

Chained

The Orange Project brakes

With the new rearsets I had to re-do the rear brake rod to make some room for the new exhaust. Then there was the problem of fitting a second spring for the drum brake and the brake light switch in a "discrete" position

So, I came up with this little contraption

The idea was to connect a double rod at the brake lever, one that pulls the drum brake and the other that pushes (and then pulls) to operate the second spring and the switch

Everything hidden behind the footpeg support and works pretty well.

I've Also modified an old HD lever to work with an idraulic master cylinder at the front and match the clutch's one.

RANDOM

Cosmetic surgery

A new-old fairing to be re-shaped for Emanuele's personal 999 project...

Started from this...

...some cuts here and there...

Finally the new shape.

It's a long way, go Emanuele, go!

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