Duke Flattracker Build Update

The Duke Flattracker build is ticking along nicely. The tank arrived from the states (delayed because of volcanoes) and I headed down to Steve at Red Max on Saturday to pick it and few other gubbins up. Rachel was there getting her manicured nails all greazy replacing a cylinder head gasket on her Cafe Racer!

I then headed down to Co-Built Geoff's to pickup the Flattracker with her new exhaust.

Wow! What a great job!

Removing those monstrous cans and having a 'traditional' flattracker style exhaust has transformed the bike.

I was supposed to go crossin' down the field that afternoon to get some Erzberg training in, but it didn't work out so I stayed on at Geoff's and we tackled a few other jobs like lowering and chopping the rear subframe...

Cut the subframe braces...

...give her the 'chop'.

A real 'chopper'!

Measure and weld her back up.

The job's a good 'un!

Next job is to fit the tank (need to get smaller rads for this), some tasty Co-Built yolks, R6 forks and some sicko bling-bling Talon 19" wheels.

Many thanks Geoff for all your help on this project so far. He'll be out this weekend at the next round of ShorttrackUK on Steve's Vertimati flattracker. Looking forward to it!