tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68443367737160506802024-03-12T16:39:29.980-07:00Dropbars BikeworksKithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-17995721829915826382014-07-23T11:06:00.000-07:002014-07-23T11:51:16.734-07:00Breakdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
She looks pretty good naked</div>
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Progress moved quickly on the Rhino removal at first</div>
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I spent about two weeks working up at least 30 different designs, and I think I've settled on the very first one that I did.</div>
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I still really like this one though. The honeycomb might end up incorporated somehow into the final design</div>
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I found a ton of Bondo on the thing. In areas even that had no detectable damage</div>
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Slather it on nice and thick!</div>
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Without all that junk, the panels are noticeably lighter</div>
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So pretty</div>
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If it wasn't for the four dents in it, I'd be happy to leave it just like this</div>
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But alas</div>
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First step to new perfection, complete</div>
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some of the panels are trying to kill me though</div>
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If the first panel had been half as hard to clean as this one is proving to be, I don't think I would have gone through with it. This one's fiberglass, and the Rhino, just loves it.</div>
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Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-5510301810811748422014-07-22T10:45:00.000-07:002014-07-22T11:07:23.238-07:00Getting outAfter just about a decade, she's back on the road. Since she last ran she's seen at least six owners, two of them were me.<br />
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I took her down to Don Tarvin and Black River Cycles for a little test and tune</div>
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it turned out to be a little less testing and tuning than we had hoped because we were having some software issues, but I know that she's running way too rich and I've got a jet kit on order. It's taking it's sweet time to get here though.</div>
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But that's not going to keep me off the road</div>
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here with The <a href="http://themotogato.com/" target="_blank">MotoGatos</a> RD</div>
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Squid represent. The color scheme is in constant flux at the moment. It's starting to look like a <a href="http://www.silencetv.com/" target="_blank">Silence Television</a> bike with its' random stickers and icons. I'm excited about that.</div>
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So far, I've only run out of gas twice, and electricity once. Other than that, she's been brick house reliable. Time to dig into the charging circuit a bit.</div>
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There's a new addition to the family, and she's a young'n. A friend of mine (www.cafematty.com) is planning on spending a year or more on the road starting soon and is in the purge process. He asked me if I might know of anyone who might be interested in a 2000 R6 with a charging problem that fell into his lap about a year ago. I thought I just might know the perfect person for it.</div>
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The short list reads something like this: Regulator might be bad, rear tire will not hold air (for more than a few days) wheels have been chromed, lots of random missing hardware and clips, it's got some weird aftermarket kill switch mounted, spikes on the fairings and handle bars, and the whole thing has been Rhino lined. But I'll be fixing all of that, and it comes with a clear title.</div>
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American GIs in pacific theater in world war two used to refer to the roundels on Japanese aircraft as meatballs. I think this one will be called Meatball.<br />
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There's a lot of potential here. I'm leaning at the moment towards freshening it up, maybe mounting some hard bags, and riding it everywhere it can take me. I've also been playing with color schemes for it:</div>
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Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-67133979864911026882014-06-06T10:50:00.000-07:002014-06-11T10:23:49.325-07:00Stand, and deliver!I use my Pitbull center stands all the time, and I used one a lot on Squid right up until I put the exhaust on. Because the pipe is so low and long it prohibits use of a typical swing arm stand. Honda of course solved this by mounting one to the bike, and that was well enough, but I'm not one to leave well enough alone. So I chopped it off, and decided to make my own.<br />
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I've been wanting to do a stand for a while, and I've got drawings of them that I've been kicking around for years. This trouble with Squid provided the perfect opportunity to get the project done.<br />
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After taking all the measurements that I thought I would need. I taped out a mockup to scale on my workbench.<br />
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Tape's perfect for quick changes and ideation. After that I used the dimensions off the tape drawing to bring it into CAD and create splines to send to Garland Sheetmetal who does all our waterjet work when we need it. At work we're building a project that needs a bunch oh half inch aluminum parts, so I tacked my four parts onto a batch and asked him to bill me separately for those parts. Total cost was about $185 which is a lot for a center stand so I'm not certain I'd do it again, but custom parts are cool.<br />
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The only post work I've had to do so far is to drill and tap the M6 holes into the ends of the cross pieces.<br />
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I hadn't been able to predict where the kickstand would go or how it would interact with the stand as it rotates. As a result I had to chop out one of the rear supports on the left side, this is a bit concerning, but it appears to be handling the task quite well. I might have to bolt in a vertical strut later.<br />
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My favorite thing about this style of stand is that the whole thing is entirely within the profile of the bike:<br />
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Both bikes in the background are on traditional stands which make them in storage essentially a foot or more longer than they really are, which can become an issue when working with a fairly confined space.<br />
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It's quite a bit of effort to slide it under the bike and there are plenty of things I would change if I were to do another. But over all I'm pretty happy with it.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-64154911572987750162014-06-05T11:14:00.000-07:002014-06-05T11:14:56.292-07:00More is more<div style="text-align: left;">
At Barber I was able to pick up a little Lucas (I think) headlight for Squid. Until now, I've not managed to put it on the bike though, It's one of those last steps that's easy to put off.</div>
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We've been running a lot of 4 axis parts in the shop lately so I took a few lunch hours to finish up this project.</div>
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It turned out to be a full 4 sided part, they ran just under an hour a piece with a big fat 3/4 cutter. This is the whole batch</div>
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At first I had the brackets clipped on right under the triple, but it looked a little too Sportster for me. So I dropped them down about three inches:</div>
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I'm digging them, at some point I'll make some new clipons which should allow me to move the bars forward a bit and everything may shift, but I'm happy to be able to put her on the road (fingers crossed) like this... With new paint, I can't stand the paint.</div>
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By the time we got all the way to Alabama, Squid had still managed not to fix itself. I spent a lot of my weekend like this.</div>
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But not all of it. While I had broken my bike, Kate had broken herself, so I rode here bike</div>
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Matt raced the van. Not sure who won, but I'm pretty sure the van didn't know it was racing.</div>
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Kate threw some motorcycles, and won a motorcycle.</div>
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And eventually, the 3RM bike came out of the boxes</div>
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Can you think of anything better to do on a weekend in October. Next year... riding Sqiud.</div>
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Over on the SOHC4 forums there's a guy who used to make a frame kit for the 750. This kit allowed you to remove a section behind the neck so that you could pull the valve cover and head with the engine in the bike. This would be extraordinarily useful if you were to have a mysterious and massive oil leak somewhere in there after a fresh rebuild. That kit was The Gordon Frame kit, but sadly, it is no more, so I made my own.</div>
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Steel slugs off the lathe</div>
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Slug blank in the foreground, all the rest are finish milled and tapped</div>
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All grade 8 M8x1.25 hardware (I think it was 1.25, whatever "fine" is)</div>
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Tried it with a hacksaw... but then I remembered power tools</div>
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Clearance!</div>
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The front left one needed some cleanup inside the tube to knock down a factory weld bung</div>
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And this is how she went to Barber, pretty, and broken.</div>
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Although I hate to say it, no. I have no plans to make more than one kit. Demands of work and family always push projects like that to the side and I end up disappointing buyers or myself. Also it's a conflict of interests where I work.</div>
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We broke down a lot less this year, let me just say that right at the beginning.</div>
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This year the group grew a little</div>
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Jay, his wife Alice,</div>
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The in flight entertainment CB required constant fettling</div>
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She runs, and runs great. After syncing the carbs though she has developed a major oil leak somewhere around the bottom of the head. One way or another though, this is how she' going to Barber.</div>
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Skyler and Jeremy working, and working, and working on fitting up the swinger. This one should be sweet.</div>
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The only type of beer you're likely to find at my place. But at least there's lots of it.</div>
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Done for the day and a beautiful day to ride.</div>
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Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-9151638292913251652013-07-07T11:08:00.000-07:002013-07-07T11:08:01.036-07:00The morning before the storm....the good kind of storm.<br />
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Since I finally had (Thought I had) all the stuff that I needed to put the thing together, what better to do but get all my friends together, feed them all caffeine, and build an effin' bike.<br />
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Some of you may already be familiar with Junior Burrell and his Green Monster, if not, click (<a href="http://www.retromoto1.com/">www.retromoto1.com</a>) because you should be.<br />
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<br />Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-27606238014749066572013-07-06T10:50:00.000-07:002013-07-06T10:50:00.084-07:00Speed bumpEverything was going great. I was moving forward, the bike was coming together, and all was good.<br />
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...and then, I found this:<br />
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Those dogs are junk, fork is possibly reusable, drum is possibly reusable. I tried to find another one of these gears everywhere. I even bought up a whole new basket full of 750 transmission off ebay trying to get one. Same exact problem with that one.<br />
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But, with a little help from the good folks over at the SOHC4 Forum I've finally got one and after several months of complete dead stop on this project. I'm charging ahead again.<br />
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Life is good.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-33131812653640386542013-07-05T10:30:00.000-07:002013-07-05T10:30:26.986-07:00Red Coat, the other kindI've become just a tad obsessed with the TZ color scheme. I want to paint everything red and white, and I'm going to start here.<br />
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I couldn't get the frame to stop rusting since I've been grinding on it, so I decided instead of touching up all the bare metal with black rattle cans I'd go ahead and shoot the thing red. I have every intention of redoing the paint because I still have to do some frame chopping ahead of me. We'll call this a mockup, a test to confirm the color scheme.<br />
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I was working on a friends bike and went ahead and shot my tank at the same time. Took a few layers of primer and a few days to get it all smooth on the top, but I'm pretty happy with the results.<br />
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Once the thing's mostly back together I'll take a nice side shot and play with the graphics until I get something that's worth shooting on the tank.<br />
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One thing that you don't want to do though is paint with cold paint, or paint a cold surface, it inhibits curing, adhesion, and pretty much everything that you don't want inhibited. That's why I'm heating everything up.</div>
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Most of the parts that I painted got sandblasted, but these lower cases I wanted to keep out of the blast cabinet because I was afraid that I'd never get all the sand out. Instead I used a lot of q-tips, paper towels, rags, solvent, carb cleaner, and patience.<br />
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So apparently it's been orange, yellow, and then red in its life. Why bother removing the decals, just paint right over 'em! (don't do that)</div>
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I harbor a bit of animosity towards chemical strippers, they make a huge mess, and it's all really hard to get rid of. So typically I'll try and do the lions share of the work mechanically. That's where the DA comes in, I've found it's pretty sad running on my little compressor though, but it does work.<br />
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This is where Junior put in the cap from the other 750 tank. He did an awesome job bu there's definitely a bit more work to be done in this area.<br />
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After Junior welded up my tank there was still a bit of crud shaking around in there so to knock it around a bit I added 75 pennies and shook the living daylights out of it. It's a good idea to keep track of how many you put in and try to get that many out again at the end.</div>
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Next up was a good rinse with solvent and acetone, after which I needed to make sure it was good and dry.<br />
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Then the Red Kote went in. This stuff is new to me, but Junior swears by it and he's done a lot more bikes than I have and usually knows his stuff. In the past I've only used Por15s tank coating (that's what's in LoudBike) and have had no trouble with it, but this stuff's a bit thicker, and the 750 tank's a bit rougher. So I'm hoping this will take care of the couple of pin holes that are in the tank.<br />
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And then it all comes out.<br />
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Like red candy in there.<br />
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We went to Barber... and it was good!</div>
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Packed up the van</div>
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And headed out.</div>
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Matt</div>
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Kate</div>
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Skyler</div>
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...and Barb the Barber Barbie</div>
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Got to Kileys in the middle of the night</div>
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And then broke the van first thing in the morning</div>
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Matt didn't mind, mostly 'cause he used it as an excuse to start drinkin'</div>
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Got back to Kileys, and fixed the van.</div>
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Then Kate's bike was broken, so I scribbled on it</div>
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Then Skylers bike broke</div>
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So we went to the races:</div>
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Awesome!</div>
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Damn awesome!</div>
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...and damn!</div>
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Rode a little bit, painted a little bit, and hung out a little bit</div>
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The man to see in Alabama</div>
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I would have just moved onto the transmission from here without stopping,that's the only reason I pulled the thing apart after all. But I found this:<br />
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Note the broken oil ring on the piston, that's what did the damage to the cylinder wall. To get this out I have to go bigger. That wasn't in the plan, or budget, but it's the only way to get this thing back on the road, so it had to happen. After much searching much of which landed on piston kits that were about $650 (which isn't possible) I got pointed to a much cheaper one on ebay that a friend who's opinions I respect told me looked good. So $110 later I got these.<br />
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Also just now I picked up my cylinders, all fresh and clean clean.<br />
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From a local lawn mower shop $165. Engine building on the cheap. Wish me luck.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-38751434932515682612012-11-02T06:08:00.000-07:002012-11-02T06:08:00.817-07:00We can't have anything nice!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Got this bad boy in the mail... and got to work<br />
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This didn't work. I was alone this night, and it turns out I needed less junk hanging off the frame, and more people hanging around the garage. So the next night with a few of the locals recruited the thing practically fell out.<br />
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All I had to do was leave the room for a second, and when I came back, it was out. They wouldn't tell me the horrible things that they had to do to her... but I think it involved water boarding (you didn't hear that from me). I was able to borrow this absolutely awesome bracket from Fast Eddie.</div>
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Now she's sitting o so pretty, ready for the big teardown. I must admit being a little intimidated by all the pistons and valves and what not, but I'll get through it eventually.</div>
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It's good to have friends, one of my buddies that works in the fashion industry was able to score me some tasty peeled cows.<br />
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All of which I dropped off at Rays. This place is just down the street from my old office and I used him for the red vinyl seat that I put on the Bugatti push car that I made for my Daughters first birthday.<br />
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Much of the reason for this was that I had been grinding on it and generally messing with it working of installing the tail lights. I have a hand full of these little LED 1157 bulbs they're super cheap and easy to find at any auto parts store. I've been trying to figure a way to plug them into the ends of the frame tubes ever since I came up with the idea for Sixtynine and I think I've solved it.<br />
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I took a rigid ruler and scraped it across the top of the two tubes to get a center line and then drilled a hole based on the drawing that I made.<br />
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and plugged them in. Right one's not quite sitting right but it seems to be working great. I think I'll still replace the spring bend that I made in the wire with an actual spring because it's too rigid. That might help it sit a little flatter.<br />
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With that out of the way this bike needs brakes. Which starts with a bottle of this stuff.<br />
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Bled, braking, and looking good!<br />
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Not a ground breaking event or anything, but an important step.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-69048730775215680462012-10-09T06:44:00.000-07:002012-10-09T06:44:11.523-07:00Fast Eddie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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He's got a pretty enviably collection in there of ridiculously clean customs (If you look really close at the tank you can see him prepping the tungsten)</div>
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It's time to put them to good use. From one 750 Honda to another. Since Ill be swapping the VFR to an R6 front I think I'll probably end up having to use an R6 wheel too (one of the reasons that project's still held up) So Squid will be borrowing the VFR front roller.<br />
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Everything actually fit except the VFR stem was too long for the CB750 neck so I had to grind the weld off:<br />
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and then have both stems pressed out and the CB750 stem pressed into the VFR tree by Plano Machine for 15 bucks (I actually had the VFR stem loose in hand from the other swap at this point) Then I got a friend of mine to run a bead along the bottom for a little extra reassurance, but more on that in the next post.</div>
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So I may not have a rear brake for a while, but man oh man should that front stop good.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844336773716050680.post-74666055341018776992012-10-09T05:47:00.001-07:002012-10-09T05:47:35.411-07:00Carb loadingOne of the things that Squid gained in her travels is another bank of carbs.<br />
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Skyler (the latest owner before I finally bought it back) had discovered that one of the carbs had the slow jet snapped off inside the body. So he sourced a new set, I just need to rebuild them.<br />
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Not much to this, just take the old ones out and put the new ones in.<br />
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One thing that I discovered about the Super Sport kit that I think is pretty cool are these little individual filters on each valve.<br />
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And something that I found the I don't like is that you have to take the entire slide mechanism apart to adjust the needle. I stopped here so that I could run to B&A Industrial supply for new stainless allen bolts.<br />
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because if I have to take this thing apart each time I want to adjust the needle the phillips aren't going to cut it.<br />
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Back together with all new brass<br />
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You'll just have to trust me on that. I popped them on and I've got a runner, for the first time in probably a decade!Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08026941818592743989noreply@blogger.com0