Project Can-Am rolls
By: Tim Britton
As there’s quite a gap between the issues of Classic Dirt Bike here’s a little update on the progress of our enduro Can-Am. As you’ll know from reading in the magazine we’re expecting to get the Can-Am up and running for under a grand – that’s £1000 if you’re outside the UK.
Project Can-Am.
The bike came apart quite easily and there were some easily solved bits to deal with – the main one being the wheels. Can-Ams, ours at least, have a sort of composite hub with a steel flange pressed onto an aluminium casting. The flanges needed removing for passivating – a pleasing sort of finish that fits in with our designs for the bike – and the front one, held in place by a few countersunk screws, came off easily. The rear one was a bit harder to do but off it came.
Both flanges have been passivated – see Old Bike Mart, July 2011 for a feature on this useful process – and the front one went back on easily, the rear though needed more kit than the CDB workshop had… enter Sealey Tools, which loaned a 10 ton press. The hubs and flanges were mated and the result is a pair of beautiful wheels.
The engine however...
Current Issue: Spring 2012
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