Here is a link to my build blog for my AKIRA Kaneda's bike replica. I will be adding more info and pictures as the build continues so check back every once in a while to get updates. http://tinyurl.com/6fejcbb

Here is my FF project bike, close to a preliminary test drive.
Any help as to how to build lightweight body work would be appreciated.
DKE

February 23rd 2011. At the fire station in Valence, in the south of France, Genesis finally meets the ZeroTracer less than 24 hours before completing its circumnavigation of the world in 80 days. The yellow car in the background is an all-electric and British-built Tesla (based on a Lotus) which had been travelling with the posse for the previous couple of days. Both electric vehicles were taking advantage of the 3-phase power available at the fire station, which allows the ZeroTracer to re-charge in 2 hours. See the zero tracer blog for more info.

The 2010 Cmax seat back transport being moved from solo to passenger positions and back, shot during construction.

A short video shot from the back seat of FJ during a trip to the local airport

FJ goes to work, using a variety of local roads

A Voyager moment on late January roads

Some routine camera-on-FF footage of urban usage in Bristol.

I picked up this seat today. Hopefully it will be suitable for my t-max based FF.

This is a picture after my first test ride. This FF bike will be a AKIRA moive bike replica. It is made from a 2003 Kawasaki 500 ninja (GPZ). I changed the fork rake to match the body of the moive bike but i found out that it is too much and i plan on chainging it back to stock rake. And modifie the body to fit the frame. Jeff

The Singleshock Phasar V50 (formerly known as 'Monty's') in mid-2010
- with Bodywork
- Bare from the Left
- Bare from the Right
- Five shots of HCS after reducing Trail to solve weave-on-braking problem - successfully, it seems.

I thought I'd be able to upload these so they'd be immediately displayed but it looks like you have to go through the attachments. Eddie McD

Here the Hossack front end it being held up while the first pieces of the frame are fitted between it and the engine. The rear suspension has been disconnected to allow the lump down to ride height un-laden. The engine is supported by four temporary legs with adjustable feet. These allow the lump to be levelled. The bottom of the sump is set level and the ground clearance set to the T-max quoted ride height. As shown the wheel base is exactly as per standard. You can see that there is room to reduce the wheelbase.

The new front end interferes with the standard location on the air-box. You can see is sitting on top of the engine. The radiator is unsupported - the lump of wood fell over.

Royce Creasey gets into a full-bore drift with the bodywork on the deck in the chicane at Goodwood Motor racing circuit back in 1984. Although ground clearance was obviously not as abundant as he might have hoped for, Royce recalled recently that "The main problem on that demo was the lack of front brakes" .

Introduction to FF two-wheelers

This is different to the technical submissions I've made here about FF's. They deal with specific technical aspects and are based on the development process that started with the Quasar and continues today.

I want to deal here with the response this process has generated from journalists and other people whose background knowledge has come mainly from motorcycles. Some of these people are very knowledgeable about motorcycles, some have engineering backgrounds, others display a level of ignorance rarely found outside journalism.

Renowned and respected motorcycle designer John Keogh has done a quick sketch of what Cedric Lynch's machine could look like with a bit of styling input.
I had hoped that something like this would be built in time for the second Brighton-London economy run in November 2011, but that didn't happen.
Cedric says that the mirrors as drawn would add much more wind resistance than he would like; he would prefer them more like the ones he has mounted inside his existing machine.

This action shot was taken from a stills camera mounted on the back of a Czech Eco by Dan Lexa while I followed him around the Brno circuit. PNB
Photo: Dan Lexa, by remote control, July 2009.

Blez with the beautiful 1994 Dolphin Ecomobile and the first (2007) MonoTracer at a rest area in Germany en route from Switzerland to the Czech Republic for the annual driver training in 2009. I had the rather responsible job of chauffering the new owner of the Dolphin Eco all the way. It was a good run. PNB.

Blez in Mark Crowson's much-developed QuickaQuasar at the Bentley Museum which we visited during the 2010 Quasar gathering. Mark originally bought it off John Malfoy (of Quasar rear light and Romarsh Quasar production fame) back in 1998, in standard Romarsh trim, but changed it a great deal over the following decade.

Cedric Lynch and Julian Bond came to a presentation I gave about electric PTWs at the IMI (Institute of the Motor Industry) near Hertford on November 4th, to which I rode in Genesis. Afterwards we took a few snaps.

Julian Bond had his first ride in Genesis after a meeting at the IMI in November 2010. He reckoned his subtly modified and well-used Burger 400 still suits his needs better. The Burger 400 has a lower seat than most bikes and scooters, and Julian's is slightly lowered from standard, yet is clearly still much higher than that of Genesis. PNB
Photo by Denise Bond, November 2010.