Enlisting Mufasa for Salt Duty

[Claviger]

Neville you just made my day! I do want to go down that path. I'll find a wheel in AUS to have sent to you.

I'll email you for details, but this is an ideal solution!

I'm going to have to find places for your logo and Justdad's to permanently reside on the bike

 

[ozrider]

Another thought. If you had a rear rim to waste, I could machine the sides off and make a centre and then can get rim halves made to bolt together. IE three piece wheel 17" 18" whatever.

I've got a rim I can donate to the cause Rob @Claviger

 

[Neville Lush]

Hi Les

 

[Idaho Red Rocket 3]

Weather permitting I'll go to lake Gairdner in March. For that salt. No need for brakes it's over ninety mile long.

Neville how good is the salt there?

Bonneville has become unreliable with very thin salt crust. Some years there is barely an inch on top of the mud. And of course this year the salt flats became a lake. Even when the summer is dry the salt can still be wet. Most days I have been out there the mornings are a little dryer but after noon can get quit moist.

 

[Neville Lush]

Folk from USA come out and can't believe how good it is. It can get wet obviously, but is apparently over six feet thick. The dry times I've been on the lake it is certainly very hard. Can't put a mark in it with a tomahawk. Check out the DLRA website.

 

[Neville Lush]

I forgot, I was up there when Valerie Thompson got here streamliner airborne at nearly 300mph. That put a dent in the salt about twenty feet long and three inches deep!!! Scary sh1t.

 

[Claviger]

Yeah, I saw a picture of that...not ideal.

Hoping this year's Boneville events being canceled helps the salt next year.

 

[Claviger]

1/10th of the weight of the past battery setup:


Will find out tomorrow if it has the ass required, Mufasa's a fickle beast about batteries.

 

[Justdad]

1/10th of the weight of the past battery setup:


Will find out tomorrow if it has the ass required, Mufasa's a fickle beast about batteries.

Good luck these batteries seem to like the warm weather better than cold.

 

[Claviger]

Well, the little battery that hopefully could, did.

Unplugged the injectors to get oil lubricated through before starting after a few years, and the single LiPO battery spun it happily. 3 rounds for 30 seconds.

I will retain the SAE jump connector to quickly be able to connect a jump box if needed, but it's successfully cranked it in ~55f weather.

On the metal requirement for battery hold down, I've thought of a trivial way to replace the rubber strap with a metal bar, the base tray is already steel so rule compliant easily.

Lots to do still but this was a nice wake up:

PS: Let's not discuss what is going on in my Garage right now ...lol