2 Strokes Down Under

Greasemeup wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2017 8:49 pm Another that's close..



I am more a fan of the candy red and pearl white (as in the other pic) over the solids. Gives more richness and depth.

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Looooooooove that TZ!



Phil are those your pipes on the bike or are they photoshopped?
I hate picking at other peoples bikes because mine is far from perfect.. but I hope you take this as constructive because that's going to be a great looking bike.

I think those stingers need to come up. The upper one almost needs to bend up straight from the end cone and the other one follow it.

Hi Hybrid,

Yes the pipes will be shortened and angled up more.

Here's a go at adding some Yamaha racing blocks.

Looking good, & nearly there..

& yet.. those 'speed bars' could morph a bit more..

Here is a clipping that is a modern interpretation of the speed block.

Personally I really like it..




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I like the speed blocks, but as someone else said, even a nice Yamaha decal could break the red up enough if you didn't want to go for speed blocks.

Or, you could contact Marlboro..
& offer to do a 'tribute' - paint scheme..
..for a 'sponsorship' deal in $..
..to turn up at shows..

Still playing around with concept images. Here's one I quite like. The light coloured bit inside the frame represents the engine.


I've been buying and cleaning up engine parts in preparation for the rebuild and now have all the bits I need to start. Here's a mock up of what the motor should look like when its done.


Anyone in Brisbane got a leak down kit I might be able to borrow in a few weeks?

phil1rowe4 wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2017 9:46 pm

Mmmmmm yummy Nice work, it looks great

But clearly not your building skills, your previous projects are little crackers

Hi BRG1200,

You dont like the lotus seven or xs650 build results?
No problem, that's your view or have I misunderstood?

Sorry, completely a misunderstanding due to my comments being out of sequence.

My comment "but clearly not your building skills" somehow got out of sequence, it was a response to you downplaying your Photoshop skills, I was complimenting you on your building skills.

I still use British vernacular - "a little cracker" is a large compliment, you might describe Dannii Minogue (or her big sister) as a little cracker, i.e. Very Nice.

I think the XS for example was a great project, and you clearly build to a very high quality.

Hope that clarifies, I really didn't mean to offend.

Ah, Phil, I see what I did - replied to the last post on the first page - apologies, must have been half asleep.

Hi,
No problem, no offence taken at all, and thanks for the nice comments. I thought you meant crackers as in nuts/crazy... "Going crackers" lol.

We definitely agree that the Minogue sister's are little (fire)crackers.

you blokes might be crackers, i'm only nuts. i like the image on page 1 with the 500 having a black accent bellow the red speed blocks. Is there any room for a blue number plate somewhere in the red speed signifying a 350 like the tz.

Someone sent me this picture which is very close to the look I'm going for.


Anyway, I've been working on the frame while waiting for engine parts to arrive and got the frame finished today.
I can now start bolting bits on permanently so I'm pretty chuffed!