Autumn Tracket
This was the second rebuild of this Yamaha Diversion 900s, the first time it was due to the fact that either the motorbike was fully stripped down and rebuilt, or would have to be scrapped. So the decision was made to carry out the full rebuild. This included engine being taken out, frame sanded and resprayed, engine cleaned and minor painting, new bearings all round, front suspension fully rebuilt. Tried several headlight units but eventually settled on the twin dominator units, what is special about these are that the internals and lenses are from a dominator but the casing and grill are from a different company (dominator twin headlights only come in chrome).
I also wanted to add some wooden features to this build as a way of experimentation, as I always thought it would be cool to have say wooden bar ends and maybe foot pegs. Which is exactly what happened; the wood is American Walnut, which was a gift from a friend of mine. Bar ends were quite straightforward; taking the internals from one set of bar ends to be used on the new wooden ones. Foot pegs were more complicated. Starting with a plank the rough size and shape, carving out the grooves and recesses for the location of the wooden rests.
Colour change has dramatic looks on anything, but changing the colour on this bike from the rather cool and rat style yellow and red to green and white was spot on. What you might not spot is that the filler tank cover is also white. Along with other changes a new digital dash was added and really helped to minimalise the rather large looking dash and wind shield. However after a few rides, the choice was made to put back the original odometer, somehow. Reason being the bike has done close to 95k, and the goal was to reach 100k (with proof).
I acquired a length of large plastic tubing, which just so happened to be the correct size I needed to house the original clock, once it had been stripped to its bare bones. A dash light was taken from the original to illuminate the gauge. A plate was used to secure the gauge to the plate whilst also fixing to its new housing; the plastic tube. A sheet of 2mm perspex was cut and shaped to fit as protective cover over a slither of large tubing. 2 small dash lights are required for the mot in the UK. 1 for high beam and 1 for turning. The coloured lenses were removed from the original dash, including the bulb holders. I discovered that a large permanent marker pen is the correct size to house the bulb holder, whilst the reshaped lens colour was secured to the marker pen. A bracket was made to house these new dash lights and then required for new headlight and dash lights.
Had a lot of fun remodelling this Divvy 900. Not only does it look beautiful but sounds brutal due to the Black Widow exhaust cans.