Handle for 1966 HD M50S

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THERE IS NO LOGO OR TEXT ON THE FILES PUBLISHED! Back in the 60's Harley Davidson purchased 50% of Aermacchi's motorcycle division and contracted them to produce a series of smaller size motorcycles that would be part of the Harley Davidson brand. One of those was the M50S, a 50cc 2-stroke bike which was manufactured during 1965-66 and approximately about 9,000 were made. Many years later, in 2012 one of these found its way to my friend and moped enthusiast Daniel Pero. Needless to say it was in desperate need of renovation and Daniel being somewhat of an expert on the area approached the task head-on. Years went by and bit by bit the M50 was returning to its former glory. There was a problem though; it's always tough to find spares and you have to be somewhat of a detective. And even though Daniel is a good one, the badly worn handles were nowhere to be found. After having given up on the search Daniel asked if it would be possible to reproduce these handles using 3D Printing. As he had one of the old ones at hand this wouldn't be much of a problem. Spending some time recreating it in CAD and making some small changes to make it better suited for the 3D printing process all that was left to do was find a suitable material to print it with. Obviously wanting to get as close to the feeling of an original rubber handle, it needed to be a soft "rubber-like" material. NinjaFlex TPE was the closest they could find. They browsed through the colors available and found a color (concrete) that they felt was as close as they could get. With the material loaded, the file all sliced up and the 3D printer ready to go, all that was left to do was let the 3D printer do its magic! And they think it delivered. Daniel was happy with the result and the 3D-printed handles are in place on the now fully restored 1966 HD M50S. Just recently this beautiful "moped" was featured in Swedish "Classic Bike" magazine with a 10-page story and a front page! Thanks to Daniel Pero for providing the pictures! Like my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/DanielNoreus Subscribe to my YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/Danielnoreus INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/danielnoreus TWITTER https://twitter.com/DanielNoreus GOOGLE+ https://plus.google.com/u/1/+DanielNoreus FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/danielnoreus