Keeping cool!
Last month I slotted the big lump into the tricked up frame and started the onerous dry build of this super Zed.
For me this is the most challenging and interesting part of the job, entailing much ‘on the fly’ design work and fabrication using many of the skills I was taught during my long apprenticeship at British Aerospace all those years ago. I delight in the challenge of solving problems with the caveat of making the solutions not just practical and safe but also aesthetically pleasing.
Any bike producing a decent lump of power these days has the oil cooler on top of the engine cooling system, be it air or water cooling. The original Zeds were massively over-engineered and put out only a small amount of their potential horse power and so needed no extra cooling.
When you tune them as
