Category: Motorbikes

I’ve decided. I think this bike kind of pushed me over. British Racing Green tank and seat cowl and cream frame. Low-key and classy.

I was trying to figure out how I can deal with the various bearing races and bushing surfaces that I didn’t want sand-blasted or powder coated on the frame. I settled on a setup using some threaded rod, wing nuts, and fender washers. I basically used these parts to create caps on the sensitive areas…

This is killing me. I can’t decide between two color schemes for the frame/bike. Duke it out in the comments! Up first, orange frame. I’d do a pearly dark grey for the tank and seat cowl (instead of baby blue) but the main thing is the orange frame. It’s a big statement. Or the silver…

I got some time this afternoon and decided to go after separating the frame from the engine. I basically took bolts off with little care and just made sure to put them in the same place so that I at least know where they all are when it’s time to put it all back together.…

I boxed up and sent off the triples to Classified today. I thought I’d share a view of the difference between the old and the new. You can tell which is which in this pic. Funny thing is that the old triple is about twice the weight of the new. In fact, every single thing…

Tonight I finished breaking down the front. Check out my totally ghetto front-end stand. Yes, I think I pulled a muscle dealing with this heavy-ass old bike like this! Session time: 2 hrs. Total time 5 hrs. Also, the new front-end arrived today! Woohoo! There’s a shocking difference in the size and scale of the…

I stripped most of the front of the bike (electrical and bars) last night. Session time: 1 hr. Total time: 3 hrs.

I’ve got the rear of the bike basically torn down. Starting to look at the front. The instrument cluster looks like kind of a pain. I also was sure that I was going to ditch the airbox in favor of pods like the inspiration bikes below. It appears, however, that the internet is fairly unanimous…

I’ve got a couple of inspiration bikes out there that I thought I’d share. I totally want the overall stance of this bike: As far as details, I really like the re-use of the lower tank mounts for the choke and ignition on the Cafe Racer Dreams CB750s: And I’m totally going to rock the…

I’ll add some pics later, but I’ve got the tank and seat off the bike and I’ll say that the “gently used” comment in the last post is a misnomer. It’s got some notable (surface) rust on the frame and the generator cover was bunged-up and leaky. A new one is on the way. I…