Bike Designing

Hello,
After getting bored and looking at a model kit I have of an old school Honda race bike, I have come up with a conctept for a bike i would love to be able to design. I have no experience riding bikes or working with them and I would like to know if any of you can point me to some good Maintenance/Technical Resources for bikes that may help me know what I need and where I should position it. I don't have the money to get acess to a bike or to take maintenance classes so manuals and tech guides will be my next best thing. Thank you,
Jason

Out of 36 people to read this topic, no one knows of a good manual or handbook?

Designing a bike is not as simple as understanding the fundementals of how the swing arm is attached to the lower frame. Motorcycles may have revolutionary designs that break the mold of what a bike should be like. For example the Benilli Tornado(?) has an underseat radiator as oppossed to the traditional radiator positions. Sure the exterior of the bike is cosmetic but again it's engineered to have such a form that will befit how the surrionding air will travel around the bike. Wind tunnel testing is used to depict the design of the bike. You have to think of engine sizes and positions, which affect how other parts will be placed near it. So much more goes into designing automobiles and motorcycles that technical manuals can't provide.

A real good read is Kevin Cameron's Sportbike Performance Handbook. Regardless of the type of bike you want to work on/build, it gives some good info on the different designs of all the individual parts of motorcycles.(chassis, carbs, suspension, etc...)

Posted by Tetsuo - 11-05-2004 at 03:02 PM
Designing a bike is not as simple as understanding the fundementals of how the swing arm is attached to the lower frame. Motorcycles may have revolutionary designs that break the mold of what a bike should be like. For example the Benilli Tornado(?) has an underseat radiator as oppossed to the traditional radiator positions. Sure the exterior of the bike is cosmetic but again it's engineered to have such a form that will befit how the surrionding air will travel around the bike. Wind tunnel testing is used to depict the design of the bike. You have to think of engine sizes and positions, which affect how other parts will be placed near it. So much more goes into designing automobiles and motorcycles that technical manuals can't provide.


This is very true there are not enough resources at ur finger tips to do this. But you can build engines or other mechanical things as that.
Choppers dont need alotta thought in to the fundamentals that sport bikes do.