mrmatt

I'm kind of partial to red... but I'm open to see some photoshop suggestions when its ready to paint

Headlight is mounted Just mentally photoshop out all the wires I cut two small sections off of some channel stock I have (1 1/2"x1/2", 1/8" web) and drilled a couple holes and another slot for the horizontal adjustment I also made a couple of brackets to hang the fairing, the ones already there were not quite where I wanted them (yes, the 1/4" web was probably a bit too much, but at least I'll be able to hang the bike from them) For the headlight I might add one more link to the top screw hole on the frame so they won't sink, but I'll have to figure that in when I get the gauges mounted. Next I need to finish trimming the lower/belly to fit around the exhaust and clutch cover, or get all that electrical cleaned up...

Now in living color I threaded the two holes on the forward bracket since there isn't much room behind the headlight dome, but everything lines up pretty well. After sketching it up on the computer I realized I didn't have enough room between the ends of the bracket so I had to move the screw holes in another half inch, and with the slide I have the flexibility for L-R adjustment

I've recently discovered Google's SketchUp, so I couldn't help myself and instead of actually milling my pieces I've been making them in my virtual reality. The program is decent, I've found a couple of problems with objects that have lots of arcs and circles, and a few of the functions are not quite intuitive, but for free it's great. This is about how far the bracket has come in my mind, now if I can just get off my butt and make it

Haven't made any progress on the electrical, but I have been working on the headlight and gauge bracket. For this I envisioned a Y-shaped bracket made out of several aluminum pieces that would attach to the outside of the lights. I got a piece of 3"x4"x1/4" L bracket and cut 4 1.5" slices out with my trusty hacksaw I'm wishing I had a metal cutting band saw at this point, but I do have one of these (I've been working on a different project for a while now, might show it when I'm finished) Squared up the top and bottom cuts and took the corner off Now I need to drill the holes and make the center pieces, the base of the Y. Here I think I'll go for two bars of 1.5"x1/8". So far I've only been guessing on how thick to make everything, I might mill some material away when I have it all bolted up.

I'm not sure on the Triumph wheel, it depends on if they used the same offset as Ducati or not. You will probably have to measure it all again and see what you come up with. The caliper will have to be spaced the same as the wheel since I am actually spacing the axle (which holds the wheel and rotor) so you will not have to worry about interference with the caliper