How about a +38cm for a motard...haha. Its a custom made G-craft that you can order.
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I need this swingarm
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How about a +38cm for a motard...haha. Its a custom made G-craft that you can order.
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Heck no, thats awesome. Are you telling me you wouldn't ride that bike?
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better hope theres no tight corners on that motard track :wink: :lol:
Hi Guys
Glad that (most of) you like the swingarm, was just something I did for a bit of fun and to be different. With the 12" mag NSR wheels and Showa shock it handled well as it was closer to the length of a real bike than a monkey ! Took the twitchyness out of it but still turned well enough so it was cool.
I took it off in the end as I was putting a full race 143cc motor in and I was wary of the leverage on the little swingarm pivot. A guy I know put a powerful motor in a Honda Dax (CT70 type) and ripped the swingarm right out of it - that was a tuned 2 smoke motor though. My 143cc ran for 3 miles before a piece came off the edge of the piston in front of over 5,000 people during TT week (but it went v well before that lol !) so the bike is now stripped and being sold off in bits to part-fund a Fireblade.
Always wanted to build a proper motard since seeing G-Craft's one from years back but with the CRF revolution they are fairly common now. Ideally I'd use a CRF250 motor which I know isn't a monkey motor but it would be great fun on our twisty roads !!
Take it easy and thanks again for the kind comments.
Andrew
Isle of Man - British Isles
Glad that (most of) you like the swingarm, was just something I did for a bit of fun and to be different. With the 12" mag NSR wheels and Showa shock it handled well as it was closer to the length of a real bike than a monkey ! Took the twitchyness out of it but still turned well enough so it was cool.
I took it off in the end as I was putting a full race 143cc motor in and I was wary of the leverage on the little swingarm pivot. A guy I know put a powerful motor in a Honda Dax (CT70 type) and ripped the swingarm right out of it - that was a tuned 2 smoke motor though. My 143cc ran for 3 miles before a piece came off the edge of the piston in front of over 5,000 people during TT week (but it went v well before that lol !) so the bike is now stripped and being sold off in bits to part-fund a Fireblade.
Always wanted to build a proper motard since seeing G-Craft's one from years back but with the CRF revolution they are fairly common now. Ideally I'd use a CRF250 motor which I know isn't a monkey motor but it would be great fun on our twisty roads !!
Take it easy and thanks again for the kind comments.
Andrew
Isle of Man - British Isles
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in ebonics...i believe that would be "redonkulous"
yeah, thats the same Isle of Man with the gnarly races !
As for what I want for the swingarm, I have no idea. Cost was about £400 including post but obviously you don't get anything like that when you sell it.
It does only fit NSR wheels though and I'd need to take a few pics to show the condition as I like to be up-front. Its been off the bike for over a year as I fitted a sweet +20cm triple square braced G-Craft arm which I think is sold now (waiting to hear).
If anyone is interested I'll take a few pics tomorrow night and post them up.
Cheers
Andrew
As for what I want for the swingarm, I have no idea. Cost was about £400 including post but obviously you don't get anything like that when you sell it.
It does only fit NSR wheels though and I'd need to take a few pics to show the condition as I like to be up-front. Its been off the bike for over a year as I fitted a sweet +20cm triple square braced G-Craft arm which I think is sold now (waiting to hear).
If anyone is interested I'll take a few pics tomorrow night and post them up.
Cheers
Andrew
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Nice bike, Andrew; i love your s'arm! 
-i gots the +20 on my crf.
-actually, every part from gcraft i have seen i love. it's funny how people here in the States only tend to go for "bandwagon" stuff... there are "sheep" in England too, right? the other issue; gcraft parts are big $.... a lot of people can't afford them.
sorry to hear about the piston issue, but if your Fireblade project compares to your Monkey project - im guessing it will be pretty insane.
Post up some pics when it's completed.
later - z-5-0-r
-i gots the +20 on my crf.
-actually, every part from gcraft i have seen i love. it's funny how people here in the States only tend to go for "bandwagon" stuff... there are "sheep" in England too, right? the other issue; gcraft parts are big $.... a lot of people can't afford them.
sorry to hear about the piston issue, but if your Fireblade project compares to your Monkey project - im guessing it will be pretty insane.
Post up some pics when it's completed.
later - z-5-0-r
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