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[skidlids]

fairly low seat hight at the moment, if I use the seat in the pic I will need to weld up a subframe to go under it.
Foot pegs are on the highest setting at the moment, but I have made some different fitting plates to get rid of the adapters just need to clean them up in the mill then they can be fitted.

[skidlids]

While some of the Desmo Due guys were out at Brands getting in some practice and setup time I am slowly getting mine together, few little jobs done to day including the fitting of my Toby steering damper that cost me all of £50 for the damper and £15 for the fork clamp, the frame bracket I made yesterday at work.
Bike currently has to rear brake levers, once the 916 set up is finished the other will disappear

A few pics from my phone camera

[Jon]

Looking nice Kev. When does it get its first test ride.

[skidlids]

I still have a long list of things to do Jon
here are some of them

Front preload spacers to suit the new Ohlins springs
Fork oil change grade and set air gap
Fit a suitable shock (something slightly longer than the std 328mm)
Fit Suitable rear spring
Fit Shark fin chain gaurd
Fit suitableCatch tank/bottle
New footrest mounts (dont need that Mastercylinder fitment sticking up0
Sort a Rev counter
purchase and fit a rear Diablo
sort some gearing choices
Sort out a race seat unit and possibly a subframe. The standard seat pad feels about the right height to me but is to soft, so if I use a race seat and foam I want to get a subframe made that sits me at the right height.

As the bike stands I could have it ready to ride tomorrow but not ready to race. I have just over two weeks until I hope to test it at Llandow but I'm not sure if that is still going ahead following last weekends accident at Pembrey.

Still I sold one of my ZXR400s on Ebay the other day so now I have a bit of extra cash I can always book a trackday somewhere or try and get in on a Wed afternoon at Mallory.

[Felix]

Looks like you've grafting in the garage, Kev. Seems like it's coming along nicely. Can you not raise the nose of the fairing? It seems low from the pics.

[skidlids]

The Ohlins fork springs with the current preload spacers has reduced the static sag by 10mm and the over all fork travel is now 12mm less than it was with the standard springs (Thats when accelerating up the garden path and wacking on the brake so that it lifts the rear off the deck).

I still have 20mm of fork protruding and I am still want to try different pre-load spacers, air gap and slightly stiffer damping using thicker for oil.

[Felix]

I was thinking more about raising the fairing front with respect to the frame.

[skidlids]

I checked the gap between the front fender and the fairing while sat on the rear paddock stand and found it to be the same as the gap betwwen the fender and fairing on my 998 when also sat on its rear paddock stand so I'm not to worried by it.

After another suuny day spent tinkering in the back garden and workshop the fixing holes for the lower chain gaurd are now sorted as are the footrest and rear brake (now down to a single lever).
But the day has been far more successful not because I swapped the tyres that came with the 600SS for a few spare parts including a 900SS alloy swingarm (in case I want to go that route) but also it looks as if I have sorted the remaing parts needed to get the 998 Hybrid on the road. How happy am I that I didn't put all my money in to the little 600.

[skidlids]

Forgot to mention that the sludge filter bolt and the shift drum ident spring bolt have now also been drilled ready for lockwiring.

[paynep]

Just a few bits left to add to mine too.......

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.pa.../600Frame2.JPG

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