Hi everyone! I'm currently making a fun video in which I'm going to make my '85 Suzuki GS450 which has been turned into a café racer more practical using 3D printing.
This bike is missing the indicator lights and I am unable to carry anything with me unless I wear a backpack which I'd rather avoid. So, I bought these classic looking saddlebags.
I have to find a way of mounting these to the bike and I have to make indicator lights. Yes, I can buy that stuff, but where's the fun in that? First, how to mount the indicator lights at the front of the bike?
Yes, I'm going to use the same system as I've shown in my latest video! This is mounted to the fork at the front of the bike. Since it doesn't have to be light, but it must be durable and look good I printed everything out of Luvocom PAHT CF which is PA6 with carbon fiber and I'm using brass tubes. To make it more durable I annealed the segments in an oven for 2 hours at 120°C.
I designed a solution for adding thread to the ends of the tubes which is a bearing and mounting option.
On both ends of these rods I screwed in these standoffs to be able to mount things to it, not to tension it.
These are the indicator lights that I printed out of resin and they can be mounted on the ends of the "gantry". I want them to be more orange though and I'm working on that.
Here I'm putting everything together after which it's ready to be tensioned.
I am using aramid fiber that I bought for the continuous fiber printing idea (and this is probably not suitable for that purpose anyway) to tension everything.
This stuff is so strong that it destroyed the tensioning system! And as I'm typing this I still have to fix that. So I decided to work on the electronics first.
I fixed the blinker! This doesn't sound like much, but I had to dig deep into the wiring to figure out how it's connected.
I am also going to use this "gantry" system, with incorporated indicator lights, to mount the saddlebags. I'm confident that it's strong and durable enough and I cannot wait how this is going to look! This is a bit more work than I expected and the video will be more of an old-fashioned style that I've done a couple of times in the past. I just love the vibe of this old shed!
I hope you like this update and fingers crossed that this'll work! Thanks for your support and have a great day, cheers!
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