The Moriarty MKII, a new project bike for a friend

Praise first: I LOVE IT. I am seriously jealous about your manual skills and mechanical expertise. Chapeau!

Now the criticism (hope constructive): I don't like the exhaust. It reminds me exactly of the taxi bikes, and you want to avoid that. The best, in my taste, would be something that runs parallel to the back part of the seat, this way you would have harmonic lines. However you have never posted a pic taken from the right side of the bike no angles, so it's hard to judge.

Again, WELL DONE and keep up the good work!!!

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Originally Posted by futianshenzhen

Great job mate! Best looking "taxi bike" I've seen by far! Looking forward to seeing your solution to the tricky mudguard problem.

Will you also offer a touring version/kit with rack for panniers etc?

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Thanks! and yes mate, as soon as I find a set of paniers that suit the bike, I'll build them into a "travel addon kit" :)

First priority is sorting the mud guards and then the exhaust!

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Originally Posted by vale46

Praise first: I LOVE IT. I am seriously jealous about your manual skills and mechanical expertise. Chapeau!

Now the criticism (hope constructive): I don't like the exhaust. It reminds me exactly of the taxi bikes, and you want to avoid that. The best, in my taste, would be something that runs parallel to the back part of the seat, this way you would have harmonic lines. However you have never posted a pic taken from the right side of the bike no angles, so it's hard to judge.

Again, WELL DONE and keep up the good work!!!

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I can't agree with you more! I'm really having trouble finding a better exhaust! It seems that I have a choice between either the stock megaphone jobbie, the one I have now or a stupid slip-on crayon exhaust... I'm going to have to find an engineering shop where I can fabricate something unless I stumble across something better on taobao... Thank you for the support! :) I'm only getting started!

How about something like this?
Place the exhaust like in a dirt bike
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Oops.. I think I was looking the wrong place ;-D :eekers:

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Just under the seat

And perhaps this for a mud guard
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Great project

Cutting that old mudguard and using it as a hanger for the light was genius. Great stuff! :thumbsup:

Just when you thought I'd disappeared!

I got hit by a savage bout of the Flu... it knocked me for a 6 and I've been out all week!

Anyway I did manage to still get a little work on the bike done (oh and also build two more bikes in one day... but that's another story).

I've managed to sort out the front mud guard!

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I ground up the original mud guard, much shorter at the front (I eyeballed it so it wasn't perfect but pretty spot on).

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Cut it in line with the mounting bracket... and it looks sweet (Notice my other project in the background)...

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Let me know what you blokes think!

I think it looks spiffing. Clean lines, well finished, has a great 'farting around town' look to it. The vestigial front fender probably won't do much in the rain but sure it looks good and i couldn't make a better one.

The bike looks great.

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Originally Posted by felix

I think it looks spiffing. Clean lines, well finished, has a great 'farting around town' look to it. The vestigial front fender probably won't do much in the rain but sure it looks good and i couldn't make a better one.

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Thanks mate, I rode the bike up to Huizhou (100kms one way) and got stuck behind one of those damn cleaning water spraying trucks for about 3kms... I got mud all over the bike and me... so I decided it needed to be fixed!

With this little guard mud still gets on the bike but misses your boat race (face)... so I'm happy with it, it's muuuuuch better now :)

- SerpentZA

Excellent, then i will shut my goat race.