The photo shows the Morlaco prototype, with a still unpainted chassis. The white part is a first “test” airbox, made using fiber glass just to check that dimensions are ok, that the intake trumpets fit properly, etc.
In this post you can see the airbox, with its cover, already built using carbon fiber.
In the middle-lower area of the photo appears one of the aluminum triangles built to clamp the trellis chassis to the engine. Also, in the steering area you can see several aluminium cnc parts with machined hollows to save weight.
Once the parts were assembled on the bike, I was dissapointed because the steering (the “triple clamp”) didn’t give me a good feeling, the housing area for the triple clamp axle was not stiff enough, and it was possible to feel some deflection if you pressed strong enough the handlebar.
So I redesigned that area and now I already have new parts to assembly on the bike. It will be necessary to cut and weld again into the chassis a new steering axle housing.
You can wath this photo in big size in our flickr photo gallery.
[tags]morlaco, chassis, airbox, aluminium, cnc, steering[/tags]