Everything Louder than Everything else.

got the exhaust finished this morning. Danny called me at 830 on a saturday saying he'd be over in 45 min. by 11 the pipes were all welded up and rehung. when i fired it off to hear it with no leaks it actually shot a piece of slag out of the pipe and blew past danny. when i reved it up i aparently hurt his hearing a little bit. I can't thank him enough for helping me with this. i am a novice welder and didn't have the tools at home to make it come out this good. still gotta wrap and paint the pipes but from a list of things i gotta fix before its drivable i'm down to two. gotta make sure it charges itself while driving and gotta make sure it stops. front brakes are next and checking the generator / vr while i wait for parts in the intermin. then. its done. the last post will be a video of 360 view and startup.

Bath Time!

i've owned this bike for almost 10 months and have never washed it. having starting issues right now so i'm dead in the water until i get it figured out so i figured i would roll it in to the drive way and rinse it down.

now i have to figure out why its not starting. i'm thinking the neutral safety switch has an issue. i couldn't get any power to the wire when i probed it on sunday. i'll hot wire the starter and see if i get a grind or not

why Frisco a tank when you can Motown it?

i realized today after pulling the tank to get to the wiring that i wasnt able to turn the bars all the way before because the triple trees were hitting the lip of the tank at the top. i drained the fuel before so i pulled it off the bike and started playing with where i can mount it to correct this problem. at first i tried to move it back to its stock location. this tank is not OEM for the bike model its a replacement becuase the last one turned into modern art at the sight of a blow torch. this gave me tons of clearnence but,

1.) you could see all the wires i was trying to hide and

2.) there was no way to mount it there because the oem tank didnt bolt thru it just rested on some little tits that stuck out.

so shit... i was frustrated. so i came up with a plan b. the trees were hitting on the pressed lip of the tank at the very front where the top of the tank seams with the bottom of the tank. its meant to give it a definite and finished edge. so fuck that. i laid the tank on the ground and proceded to beat the edge down with a little wooden hammer i got from my dad. its not metal to metal so there were not sparks (fool me once) and its not a rubber or a dead blow so it didn't leave a circular impression. it just rolled the seam under itself and gave the neck of the tank a little tucked in collar. i'm calling it "motowning" a tank because as far as i am aware a "Frisco'd" tank is where the sides are indented. i don't know why its called "Frisco" but I'm calling this style "motown" because i lived in a detroit suburb til i was 14 and i just beat the tank like it owed me money. so thats a copyright right there. snoogins

edit: I finally learned what Frisco'd is... but this tank is still Mo'town'd