My motorcycle project
- Thread starter DK35vince
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Almost finished. Got the brakes all working and bleed. All new brake pads.
Started the motor today for the first time. Sounds real good. Oil pressure and everything else is looking good.
Still need to install the upper and lower fairings.
Finished project should be around the $1000 area. But it looks like I will end up with a decent machine for the money, and I learned a lot about how these motors work on the project. It was fun!!!
Started the motor today for the first time. Sounds real good. Oil pressure and everything else is looking good.
Still need to install the upper and lower fairings.
Finished project should be around the $1000 area. But it looks like I will end up with a decent machine for the money, and I learned a lot about how these motors work on the project. It was fun!!!
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shinnlinger
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Dk,
SHe is looking about road worthy....is that a leaky gas can NEXT to your tombstone welder (is that why they call themb tombstones??
It seems like your bike project is a little more practical than mine. 10 years ago I bouhgt a beat up old Kawi Police bike for $500 and rode around for a year or so in that condition(down to san deigo even). Then the timing chain started slapping, so what to do? Push the bike over the bank and say that was a good $500 investment for a year of riding?....Go to auction a pick up another in better shape for $1000 ????.....Nah
Pull apart my old motor and go to town, which I did 3 times. Now it has a weisco high domes big bore kit, a machined head and a balanced crank....
oh and new "cop" paint and silly stuff like that. I think I put $4500 in a bike worth about $1500. Oh well....I still have it though but I dont ride it like I did when I lived in Oregon (something about ICE on the roads here) oh and having kids....and building a house.....
Oh yeah, and running my tractor!
SHe is looking about road worthy....is that a leaky gas can NEXT to your tombstone welder (is that why they call themb tombstones??
It seems like your bike project is a little more practical than mine. 10 years ago I bouhgt a beat up old Kawi Police bike for $500 and rode around for a year or so in that condition(down to san deigo even). Then the timing chain started slapping, so what to do? Push the bike over the bank and say that was a good $500 investment for a year of riding?....Go to auction a pick up another in better shape for $1000 ????.....Nah
Pull apart my old motor and go to town, which I did 3 times. Now it has a weisco high domes big bore kit, a machined head and a balanced crank....
oh and new "cop" paint and silly stuff like that. I think I put $4500 in a bike worth about $1500. Oh well....I still have it though but I dont ride it like I did when I lived in Oregon (something about ICE on the roads here) oh and having kids....and building a house.....
Oh yeah, and running my tractor!
Its only water on the floor near the gas can. I had the gas can setting outside in the snow and the snow melted off.
Can't afford to have a leaky fuel can at $3.20/gallon
If you have any pictures of your bike I would like to see them..
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Shinnlinger I was riding a Honda 350 when I lived in Portland back in 1970. They had just started grooving the highways about then. Kind of a 'shimmy shimmy bang bang'
feeling until I started remembering to prepare for it. I bought the Honda for $200. It leaked oil from a big vertical crack in the crankcase which I promptly sealed with JB Weld. It never leaked in the two years I had it.
Hmmm...I had memory problems even back then?
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Nicahawk
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Ride on down here to KS and I'll help you change the oil while we have a couple beverages!
. Good job!
