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Coating or rust?
It was in a soak tank with some phosphoric acid in the solution. So what you see there is a light etch and then a little flasg rust over the top while it dried in the sun. It’s now been blasted and painted.
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First ride today of the new Jester. With its longer wheelbass and slightly slacker head angle, it provides confident inspiring handling. So much so that I was having to readjust my timing and braking points for my usual track. The speed it carries is deceiving and features were coming up quicker than I’m used too. It’s scary to think how much faster this bike could go.
First run down a local black trail with some fast corners, slow corners, big jumps, steep rocky chute and very dusty and slippery and I posted my fastest strava time on it. For what that is worth. 
So the tweaks are made to the previous design has proved to be the right direction for the evolution of the Jester. It’s very satisfying to get this far and the bike is pretty much finalised. Only workshop processes to fine tune so I’m faster at building these. Lots of time and money to invest there in jigs and tooling.
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Well done sir. That is a beautiful bike.
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Thank you.
Wow! Those are some really great looking fillets! I recall at some point you using Harris torches and oxy propane. Correct? Mind if I inquire about what tip size your using mostly? And what Harris mixer?
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Absolutely amazing this one! Nice work!
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Thanks mate. Yea, I use the Harris 19-6 with a No. 3 for fillets and a 5 or 8 for bigger heat soak type stuff like lugs. Have used Oxy/lpg since day one.
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I have an old version of that torch! I need to dust it off and get it back to life.
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Its a great torch. Nicely balanced and a good weight which helps steady movements…but you get used to what you use too.
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those turned out very nice! Will they need any machining on the bearing surfaces?
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