For all the people worried about the Öhlins TTX rear shock! Exhaust heat shielding ✅ Took a very long time… Simply also because I didn’t like building these shields. 90% less radiation heat! Same method as used in MotoGP and high-end racing cars. Hopefully this...
Just some casual manual milling on a Friday. Needed some extra space for the exhaust heat shielding, so I milled down the sides of the rear shock rocker arm. How I mounted the part on the mill can be considered questionable 😅…… I’m not worried about strength...
The current snapshot state of Project Desmoto… Small changes here and there, and of course the latest largest progress on the exhaust system! It’s starting to look more and more finished by the week, but still in progress and allot of work todo… To bad some of it will...
One of the items on the fabrication list was removable bracing where the seat would rest on. Now the seat just sags when you sit on it, so it needed some extra support to cary the weight of the rider. A Saturday in the shed on the lathe and mill and the small parts...
Experimenting / testing the heat shielding solution I will be using on certain parts on the exhaust of project Desmoto. I know this is not completely realistic but it shows the rough potential! I did multiple tests and got a large part of the exhaust glowing red hot...
