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Seb, Those bolts are titanium from Yoyodyne. They're worth more than the oil cooler :fing02: . They're only interfering about a millimeter. Magellan was concerned way more than me, and only from a form vs. function standpoint. I'm soooooooo stoked to have this thing almost wrapped up. Keep your fingers crossed for me on the wiring recall. I'm hoping it can be done sometime this week.

The only Coordinate Measuring Machine that I used were Starrett metric rules and a digital caliper. That's "close enough for the girls we go with", as they say in the vernacular. I finally got the front end somewhat assembled: Bling-o-licious Another view from the cockpit with controls mounted: Controls are mounted I had to adjust the mounting for the oil cooler as the lower triple was hitting the stock mounting hardware: Alternate oil cooler mounting The lower triple, ever-so-slightly, hits the oil cooler at full lock. I suppose I could add a piece of tape or two to the back side of the steering stops but I figure there's not enough interference to worry about. Left Side: Minor interference left side Right Side: Minor interference right side Another view from the top: We have controls! I had a minor revelation while mounting the controls on the bars. Since the bars are wider than stock, I'll need new throttle cables. I had a minor "Oh S__t" moment with this until Darth Bling informed me that longer throttle cables were available through the Convertibar company. I'll be taking the bike into my dealer on Monday morning to see about getting the wiring recall done. NOTE: A great & many thanks to my friends Magellan and Darth Bling for all of their assistance with this project. Without their combined knowledge and helping hands I would never have undertook this "little" project.

The bars are Renthal 758-01 Road Ultra Lows. Renthal says the width is 755mm, height is 100mm, rise is 60mm, and sweep is 95mm. Darth Bling recently purchased a set of LSL bars from Spiegler and they are considerably different (but just as nice) from the Renthals. I think that LSL offers a better variety for road options than Renthal. Foto, Truth be told, your post on the superbike bars was a major inspiration for the project :fing02:. Cheers, -T

Spinalator, Your best bet is networking and trying to find somebody that does CNC machining as either a hobby or low-volume manufacturing. Most large-volume production facilities aren't going to want to set up to do a "one off" piece. The best piece of advice that I can give you is talk with your friends, mechanic, etc. and visit some hardware (nuts/bolts supply) stores and ask if anyone knows a good machinist. The material certainly could be provided by your machinist but you could choose to call around and get the best price. We built these out of 7075 T6 aluminum and because of that the material was more expensive and harder to obtain than 6061 aluminum. JZH, Actually my scale read 39.6294275 mm :biggrin: That was after knocking several back. I'm speculating that 40mm is the magic number because it comes out as 94.98 mm of trail and that's somewhat close to matching the Honda OEM manuals spec for 95 mm of trail :fing02: . I've decided to space the bottom race with another snap ring as opposed to grinding material off of the lower to gain clearance. The next step is to get my OEM parts in and start building the bike back up. Getting closer! I still might make it to the Kootenay Hootenanny on August. WOOT!!! Cheers, -T

I'll be releasing the CAD files as soon as I make some needed adjustments including the minor interference shown in the photos. I'll also be raising up the portion of the lower triple where the bearing and seal rest so that anyone else that goes this route doesn't need to use snap rings as spacers. :fing02:

Got the triples back from being anodized & powder coated. I'm very pleased with how they turned out. I also installed the bearing races in the frame and pressed on the lower bearing on the stem. Having done that I decided to see if the thing actually fit and if my measurements worked out. Here's a few photos: First fit. Looking good so far - Custom triples first fit A view from the cockpit - Custom triples - Cockpit View The only snag I hit was the lower rubs on the frame a bit even after using the snap ring spacers. The good news is that I only have to remove about a millimeter to get it to work fine and the steering stop locations are perfect. I do hate to grind away that powder coat but at least it's in a non-visible area - Custom triples - A little tight The ingintion lock works perfect as well. WOOT! This was one where I was keeping my fingers crossed - Custom triples - Ignition lock works! Lastly, a side view. I'm slightly bummed that a set of nifty anodized preload adjuster knobs won't fit with the shorter bar rise spacers but I guess I can live with the sacrifice - Custom triples - Side view That's all for now. I've got to get the bars to the machinist tomorrow to open them up to 16mm diameter so a set of Throttlemeister bar ends will fit.

I exported the models as .DXF files and then the machinist imported it into his Delcam software. He used a program called Power Shape to do most of the tool pathing. That's about all I know about the process. I will make the files available as soon as I get everything bolted into place and make sure that there's no changes that I have to make. I may ask Miguel if he can make them available through the forum. Meanwhile, I also modelled up a reservoir clamp for my Elka shock because I'm not too fond of the hose clamp mounting. The machinist surprised me with some killer handywork on the clamp face. Needless to say I was incredibly stoked to see the finished product. He's a super talented guy and has his own website at http://www.lonerindustries.com The clamp: Reservoir Clamp1.jpg Close up of logo: Reservoir Clamp2.jpg Now to get this gem off to the anodizer. What color? The fastest color of course.......RED!!!!