Another side project

Today, I would like to show you another project I've been working for some time. It is based on 1/12th scale Yamaha Road Star 1600 kit from Tamiya.

The plan is to slam the rear and make add custom wheels and brake discs. I already made the wheels in 6061 aluminum and they are inspired by Harley's Fatboy ones. Think they turned out pretty cool and hopefully they will look even better once I will polish them.

In order to slam the rear I had to make a longer rear shock. I reused some plastic parts from the kit part but had to make most of the parts in metal (aluminum, brass and stainless).

Back to work

Now that I am back from vacation I continued working on the miniature tube bending device. To remind you, this is the device I will be use to bend the brass tubing for the bike's frame (3 mm) and exhaust (4 mm).

Parts are from aluminum and brass. Below a couple of pictures.