Category: Motorbikes

Here’s the rear fender chopped and shaped. Will look a lot better with the seat on it. Got a lot of time in, with little visible progress. Session time: 3 hrs. Total time: 28 hrs.

Cardboard Aided Design

The seat pan went to the upholsterer and the tank went to the painter today. Both are thinking around 3 weeks. The triples and the frame were faster than estimated, so maybe these will miraculously happen sooner. Not betting on it. I’m trying hard to use local, independent vendors for this work, and have been…

So the seat from Dime City arrived today. I was very stoked, until I set the seat pan on the bike and saw that the tail-light cut-out hits right on the cross-brace of the frame. No pics, but lots of whining. DCC will take the seat back, and now I’m thinking of just having someplace…

Between grandparents here and other things, I managed to sneak in a solid 7 hrs of work on the bike (thanks Jen!). I did a bunch of cleaning-up of the motor on the floor. Not jewel-like, but good enough. I got the motor back in with the same lay-it-on-the-right-side trick. Then my neighbor came over…

The triples arrived yesterday! I couldn’t help but pop them on the frame for a look-see. OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD! So HAWT! I had to take them off to get the motor in, etc. but you can see some pics about how will shape up. I did have to cut off the old top fork stop – they…

I’ve been thinking about dashboards. The new front-end doesn’t have a normal mechanical speedo post. So, that left me with a few choices. I could use a Sigma cyclometer (they go to 199mph), but that would mean epoxy-ing the magnet onto the wheel and dealing with a pick-up. The other option that occurred to me…

I picked the frame up from the powder coaters today. I’m super pleased! First, a little plug. This was a new gig for Anthony at AP Paints. He’d only coated bicycle frames before – which is how I found him (on MPLS Bike Love). He took this on as a “we’ll see how it goes”…

I’ve now looked at every bike in the BikeEXIF archives. It was in the pursuit of a color scheme for the bike. But really, it’s just colossally absorbing bike porn. I also scoured Pipeburn and countless other sites in the name of “research”. That doesn’t include the eBay work to find some parts (which aren’t…

There’s no pictures for this post. Just an update that I dropped the frame, swing arm, and some other bits off at the powder-coater. Should be next weekend. The triples are getting worked. The frame is at the powder-coaters. And I’m waiting. Waiting is hard. In the meantime, I’ll do some tweaks on the motor,…