Australian Streamliner Bike Build

[Jon]

He's right Wayno
That is the bike I was going to ride to the lake for the February meet before it was cancelled.
It wouldn't have been the first time I've spent 5+ hours to do 100 mile on an inappropriate bike through bulldust and sand, hopefully not the last either.

Cheers
jon

[grumm441]

Hey Wayno
Moto Guzzi people are special
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[Elmo Rodge]

I stand corrected.  Wayno

[DavieB]

[Jon]

Plant must be running ok if you surfing the net.

[DavieB]

Arent you at work too??   

[Jon]

Got the seat belts fitted up today;

Dave is more photogenic than me, especially when he has a helmet on.

Shoulder straps;



Top straps are level with top of shoulder without neck restraint, they will be moved in to 195mm (7.7") centres.
Lower straps are 100mm (4") down from the top ones.
These dimensions are recommended by Bob Stroud and are the same as in the Scroth online manual.
The firewall goes directly against this barwork and will have dimples to allow the belts to pass around the bar.

Lap and Anti-Submarine belts;

Lap belts going down to horizontal rail which is fractionally narrower than my hips.
Anti-Submarine straps go back to the vertical bar.
These will have dimples in the metalwork so that there is more than fiberglass to protect them when it assumes it's natural position.

The straight ahead strap will get it's final position when the front suspension and steering is finished.
All straps will have positive stops so they can't slide sideways.

Cheers
Jon

[Elmo Rodge]

Jon, in the side view of the shoulder strap, do you have enough "wrap"? You say the strap is level with the shoulder. Wayno

[SPARKY]

Jon how are you going to protect the belt that is exposed on the out side of the hoop--maybe run inside of the hoop to a designated strap attachment bar?

[Jon]

Thanks guys;

Wayno; I queried Bob's install instructions several times thinking I had misread them, then again thinking they would be different because of the seatback angle.
The message from him was consistent; " Top belt horizontal from top of shoulder, bottom belt about 4" down from there"
I searched for a manufacturers install manual for a second opinion and found the SCROTH install manual which describes the same and has some very good tables on how wide to have the HANS belts apart and a lot of examples of what not to do, interesting reading...

I have stretched their guidelines a bit, the top belt is down slightly, about 25mm (1") and the gap between the bars is 100mm (4") where Bob said 3-4"" and SCROTH manual says 60mm (2 1/2").
Both of these are from SFI suppliers, the bottom belt "looks right" to me, the top belt is "as per manufacturers instructions.
I have emailed the same pics to Bob Stroud, if you see me moving them you know I have an email from him saying; "You Goose, not like that!!!!"

Pic from the SCROTH manual;


Sparky; I'm putting welded steel cover around them made out of the same material as my rollbar headplate, it will be welded directly to the frame and to the welded in tub liner.

Thanks
jon

[Rex Schimmer]

Jon,
I am with Sparky regarding the side belts around the main rails, a bespoke (now that is a word I never thought I would ever use!!!) tube or solid bar bracket inside the main rails looks to be a much better thought, keeps the body off of the straps and doesn't require some sort of bubble in the body for clearance. Remember "laminar flow"!

I love your "X" members in the main roll hoop, well done!!!

Rex

[Moxnix]

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[Tman]

I see you have the Orange Aid padding mocked up!

[Jon]

Thanks guys

Rex; I'll mock up what im planning on doing next weekend and let everyone have a look, basically a 2mm FMS box over the belt wrap area.

 I think I have enough room, shan't be none of that bubble stuff happening, the email I CCed you on bounced, do you have a working email address for Bruce?

Moxnix; Nice, I haven't ridden a 1000cc Guzzi, a bit tourquier than the 850s I guess.

Tman; yep, definitely not as hard as the other stuff I've seen, wouldn't call it soft though.



Cheers
jon

[Moxnix]

It was a V1000 Convert, w/ 2 speed automatic, tarted up with odd bits from other projects into a sheep in wolf's clothing. 
Very much enjoying your build on here.  Cheers,