my spondon blade

gonna be a long time til its done

going for a deadline of TT 2010

the engine was bought off Griz...hopefully you'll approve of what I'm doing to your old girl!

got the engine out of the blade frame yesterday, what a bastard job that was...the lower engine mount bolt was seized in....took friggin ages..had to get the grinder and a dremel on it in the end!

then sat the frame on the engine...

now here's the thing...
whilst the engine is out....was thinking about thowing a set of cams at it and having a bit of head work done,..just to spice it up a bit

in my racing cbr6's it was just cams and inlet/outlet machining, but it was a good reliable 20+bhp extra.

here's some pics.

You not listening to my post on the other site, or are you just sharing?.
pm me.

PO

The frame does look the business!
Keep us updated with the build radiobloke.

plasticorange wrote:You not listening to my post on the other site, or are you just sharing?.
pm me.

PO

PO...sorry mate,

I can't get on t'other site from work...will have a look in a bit!

Answered on the dark side.

PO

Woohoo that looks great mate!

Sorry to hear u had a job gettin the engine out but it's taking shape now mate, I love the frame & would love to do the same type of project one day!

Keep up the good work mate

Sweeeeet. Wish I had the balls and the £££'s to do a Spondon.

spondon chassis are the bollocks..
have you got the swinging arm too...

ok..time for a few more piccies..

for some unknown reason my phone has decided to take really small pictures...
















close up of the bottom yoke

top one to come later

Keep the updates comming, this build is fantastic

it looks great now i cnt imagine how good its going to look once its finished

Its lookin really nice mate!

I love the swingarm too, is that a ZX10 frontend?

I'm in the process of streetfighting my blade too & will post up some pics soon

yes mate..ZX10r forks, brakes and both wheels.

I have a set of 06 GSXR 750 forks in the garage..spare!

look the same, use the same brake calipers...but I picked the ZX10 front up so I didn't have to change them to fit the kwak wheel I had

gis a shout if you're interested!

Been busy today

started with this..



then did this



then fitted the yokes off the blade ( backwards) so I could fit bars to push it around ( no,...not having renthals!!)



then put a gsxr wheel in just to get it moving ( using ZX10r wheels!)



then took it outside for some air







then played with a few seat units...





not sure about the R6 one...got some more to try





so...good day
and I have more pics of the steering head for yan..top yoke should be on the way soon ( in between his Turbo bits I hope :wink: )

workin on details

update

picking up a Turbo on Saturday

A SPONDON TURBO BLADE !!!!!

Yantosh made me do it!!!!!

peer pressure

he's also working on the top yoke

we did the design accross 2 countries...he sends me a 1:1 Plan on paper...I cut it out and make changes

did it twice

here's my paper yokes!

Making your own top yoke!

You (Radiobloke), Yantosh & Cabbie would make a good team for Scrapheap Challenge!

christmas present to myself!

did a bit today....

OMG you've done some work at long last!!!

Tasty wheel & seat mate, what make are they?

Love the lines of that seat unit.

this project has just taken a bit of a change of direction...

I've just bought a Tuned big bore 1200cc Blackbird engine

lets see if it'll go in...

so the turbo will be going on the blade when I've finished the Sponny

Spondon BlackBlade and a Turbo Blade....that'll do !

Thats great mate! I was gonna fit a blackbird engine in a blade next too! it should go in the spondon frame no problem, although the mounting points are a bit different but I'm sure you'll figure it out!

Well well fancy seeing you here!!!

thought it might be you!!

haha

so..today I checked out the clearance of the frame with the impending arrival of the bigger engine...

should be fine...fingers crossed



and then I unwrapped a lovely bit of billet sculpture from Mr Yantosh

nice innit!








I can get it off the stands when the wheel spindle arrives..and the bars
all by Yan again...

WOW

oh ye!!
looking good dude!
I cant wait to see this finished!!!!!
I hope you like wheelies>>>>>>>>>>>>>

here is a snap from the mag of the frame mods!