One of the problems with using such a wide front wheel is of course you need some custom yokes, I could have bought some Harley ones I suppose but thats not the Scavenger way!  As luck would have it a mate popped in to my shop to get some parts for his van, he has access to a metal store and is easily corruptable so I managed to swap these nice chunks of aluminium for a gallon of oil and a new tow rope.

With the help of my trusty sharpie I marked out a rough idea and started hacking!

Drilled the holes for the forks with the biggest drill I could find.

Set to work with my boring head, got this off eBay for fifty quid about a year ago, what a bargain!

Next up was some tapped holes for some M8 bolts, you can see in the picture they are currently flush to the surface but later when I remove the rest of the waste they will be sunk in further, I’m putting off removing the waste as I don’t really know exactly what the finished yokes will be like, I’m sure my sharpie guess will be close but I’d hate to remove to much, may need some extra for a headlight bracket.

Needed to make up a bar to go through the head tube and found this pneumatic piston rod I’d had kicking around for ages, I knew it would come in handy when borrowed it….. 🙂

Ohhhh shiney new bearing cups!  Got these pressed in today, of course not plain sailing as you would expect, the bearings diddn’t fit the cups so I bored them out an extra half a mil and they fit pretty good.

And finally what it looks like assembled, pretty chunky!

So tonight I had a fettle with the yokes, it’s been a while since I touched these and they are starting to bug me, decided to trim them down a bit so I can finally add the steering stops and mount the tank without fear of it getting dented, it doesn’t look much to cut off but it made quite a mess, I’ll have to get Fruitshoot to pop up and have a quick tidy, theres a good lass.

I marked out where to cut with a sharpie and lined it up straight in the vice and started to chop.

This was supposed to be an action shot to catch all the flying swarf but I think the camera is a bit fast, but you get the idea.

The battery ran out shortly after so thats it for tonight, I got both sides chopped out roughly the same so that will do for now, I’m heading over to eBay now to grab a headlight, thinking something in 8″ to keep with the chunky feel of the bike.

So, I got a little more done tonight, finally got the steering stop added to the frame and some stainless bolts added to the yokes, works pretty good.

Got the handle bars fitted also but I’ll gloss over these quickly as I shamelessly bought both the bars and the risers as we are running out of time, I’ll change these at a later date for something homemade.

Although the yokes still look like bricks they will do for now, they clear the tank and work as yokes so just a lot of shaping left to do.