little fixes... big progress

Saturday Night check list...

got the battery hold down bracket welded in place.
re tack welded the exhaust spacers and bracket.
wired the taillight back correctly to the brake pedal.
fixed a gnarly run in the clear on the top of the gas tank.
measured and marked the remaining "vents" for the shotgun exhaust pipes

all in about 2 hours off and on. I realize I blew the 2 week deadline I set for myself but i could drive it tonight if the rain had'nt made the ground all slicked up.

its almost done... and yes its loud

Perspective

From this...

to this...

Fuck the Porta Power! on to plan B

Tried to use the shops portapower to open up a trapazoidal opening at the base of the swingarm to fit the battery since it no longer fits in the stock location. a fuckin' 10 ton press didn't budge the swing arm. after an hour of screwing with it i started thinking of a cafe' project i saw on the cc board where the battery was laid on its side. i tried it and low and behold the battery now has a permanent home on its side (its a glass mat battery so it won't leak) on top of the swing arm. i shouldn't even call it a swing arm anymore since its modified to a rigid. i bent up a couple of pieces of 1/8" steel strap to make a cradle to secure the battery to so it won't slide around and i'll finally secure it with an old skool leather strap to hold it to the cradle. i'll hook up the battery and see what happens later. hopefully it starts first try. next weekend i hope to have my co worker "frenemy" come over and help me make the exhaust. then it will be 99.9% finished. i still need a front brake light switch, i wanna ditch the speedo and run off the tac only and i may have to rake it out to get the trail correct for optimum ride

new mod... no pictures

started making a new mod for the bike yesterday. i'm not going to post any pictures of it until the bike is all finished. after this mod there is another, then exhaust and the brake light switch. if all goes well i should be done in 2 weeks. no new posts until the bike is 100% complete.

edit: i realize i just posted pictures 9/19, whatever its my blog and i'll break my own rules. 

A seat Liberace' would be proud of

remade my seat today. cut down most of the padding and smoothed it out at work. was deciding whether or not to use black or white viynl. I went with white and think it looks pretty good. its definetly old skool and i'm not fully finished. i have another piece to add to give it some dimension but overall I'm happy with it.

front suspension is DONE!.

got the front forks mounted today. put everything back together. holds fluid great. not holding air tight. i think i got a leak in the fill ports. painting of the forks turned out great. the brake pad needs to be adjusted cuz i can hear it scrape. fucking brake light switch was the wrong one and since it was a special order i can't return it. may not end up running a switch for it since the rear one works just fine. few more tweeks and it'll be all done. still need exhaust, fix the aformentioned air leak and brake pad adjust cut off a few no longer used brackets, burn 1 weld in and finish my seat modification i started today. not bad for 8 months and 800 bucks