GS500 Survival/Scrambler Build - EP11 - Top Yoke Mods and Chunky Tires
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- showing you how i go about drilling holes in top yokes for mounting bar raisers, and showing off my new chunky black circles.
plus a look at the agro of buying stuff online, and not getting what you paid for lol
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Bummer about another yoke, but damn I love how you power through, so nice to see handlebars 👏👏! Keep up he progress Rich, hope you and the family are doing well.
Bikes don't have reverse lol. Forwards is the only way. We are all good thanks. Hope you are staying safe. 👍👍
26:30 hahahahahaha, that had me rolling. Seriously though, it's great to see you overcoming these obstacles so don't get disheartened. I'm sure the rest of the build will be easy street from here :D
Onwards and upwards now. Cheers for the support 👍👍
Nice one Rich. I'm liking the ammo cans & those tyres!! I know all about online buying recently...Head wrecker eh!! Awrabesht mate, Al. 😉🏴🤘🙏
Ah thanks, yea you win some you lose some, i must be coming into a few wins soon. Cheers for the support 👍👍
You seem to have the same sh$t luck as me lol. Looking good chap
Just surprised by the amount of dishonest sellers out there. Never mind, rise above and carry on. 👍👍
You won't need to notch the torque arm i have been running a 150 on the back of a gs for two years with no issues. 3mm is plenty. Aamf 2mm is plenty at the most you will have lateral contact when cornering. You will never notice the resulting drag nor will it cause any problems. Hth.
Good to know, thanks for the advice.
FFS hope you get your money back on that, you are not having much luck on yokes. 3rd time lucky. On drilling, your power drill holder is better than a dedicated post drill as it’s typically much higher speed, combined with a stubby drill you’ll get rid of any wander. Good job done on the spacer too, looks very factory.
It was only a cheap thing to get me by, but its come in handy a few times. Yea the spacers came out well, its nice having access to a lathe and a mill lol. Cheers for the support. 👍👍
@@BareBonesMotorcycles Yes I could do with both of those, a lathe more than a mill I think but both would be very helpful.
If/when i can move to a bigger house, the plan it to get all of that in a proper workshop. Then i can really start to have some fun lol
Hi, I would like to see some reliable references to your statement of changing tire rotations. As far as I know, thread is designed to channel the water out, while the tire is rolling. You are just decided to channel it in under the tire. Best grip is rubber to road. If the road is clean and dry, best grip is with no thread. You are just just advising people on potentially dangerous things here...same with the drilling holes through the structural gussets for the handlebar bolts. Did it occur to you, that those things are there for reason? If you drill 4 holes in to the flat part, I would not say a thing, but now you have significantly weakened the steering column... Anyway It is your bike and your life, I hope you will never sell or borrow this bike to anyone. Because if you do and somebody will get hurt and then see these videos, they will sue the life out of you...I am not sure what is your background (certainly not engineering), you have some nice ideas, however badly executed...
Hi, thanks very much for concern on these two points, let me try to address them for you.
First off, the tire direction. You are totally correct about the water dispersal of the tread design, but that is not the only aspect to tire manufacture, there are hundreds of examples of custom bikes out there, where the front tire is a flips rear tire. You get it a lot on bobbers and trikes, because like the GS500, they are not very fast so the tire handles it fine. Just search the web and you will see its a commonly discussed topic. In some cases, like the tire i used on my cb250 build, the tire could go on either front or back, with manufacture recommended direction change. But as i said in the video, its my bike, my choice, people and can chose to do it or not, its up to them.
Secondly, the drilling of the top yoke. Yes ideally the holes would of missed the support webs underneath, but in this case they didnt. Either way, the stepped spacers ive used to bolt the risers on will hold everything nice and secure and retain some of the strength those webs provided. The top yoke actually doesnt offer that much strength to holding up the bile, as most of this is done by the bottom yoke, because while riding, all the forces are being met by the lover set of yoke and bearing, which is why they are so much larger, and often a different material. The top yoke is primarily there to stop the forks from twisting, and holing the handle bars on. There is plenty of strength left in this to achieve that without concern.
And lastly, my background, which i call upon for most of my often bizarre antics. Im a mechanical engineer, i have been on for 17 years, 10 of which have been mechanical design and analysis. Including stress and deformation testing, using FEA analysis and destructive testing.
Thanks for your concerns about safety, its great knowing people care. Thanks for the support and i hope you enjoy the other videos. 👍👍
@@BareBonesMotorcycles Thank you for reply. Back to the tire rotation change. I am not going to search the web discussions with so called "experts" to verify the subject. I will only look for a tire manufacturers information (if the rotation could be reversed and under what conditions). Some tires may be more problematic than others. Nevertheless, the slow speed is not an argument. I can slip on water noddle even with bicycle having much narrower tire. I guess many times said lie will eventually become truth.
For the spacers, yes they could fulfill the structural deficiency, if they are brazed in or welded. Again, it is your bike. The steering column has been changed from different (seemingly) heavier bike, so the weakening may not play significant role in your specific case. However, the bracket is clamped to the shocks (unlike the gs500 original, which just floats in) and therefore it is expected, that impact stresses would be carried through the weakened part as well. We can agree disagree...
I am not sure, If you are referring to static or transient FEA, but as you do destructive testing, it is probably transient. However, I believe that suspension is more an explicit dynamics problem. I am not saying that there isn't relation, but in my eye it is comparing apples and oranges (yes they are both round).
Do not take my comments as under minding or attacking your work. When I see stuff like that, I always ask for justification and credible information source (which is never given - somebody publicly discuses something and now it is a fact). I like to learn new things, but I always question the source...