Relocating

Selling all my shit off, packing a van and moving across the country. Thats what Ive been up to. Life is good. Go get your piece of it and live it to the fullest. Posts will continue. Eventually.

Open up your eyes....

...and let your demons run.

CB progress

Getting there. I want to go scrambler style but my ambitions are larger than my wallet as usual. It will be roadworthy soon though.

Make it work!

I need a bike with a clean title to ride some medium distance adventures this summer but the 500 engine is toast and I have no money to resleeve or nickaseal it. So, I made the frame accept either the 400 or the 500 engine. Dubbed the CBslow, performance is considerably less. 27HP versus the 50HP from the 500. I'll nix as much weight as I can to bring it back around.

Slugged the inside at the connections. Pretty stout. (I hope).

Make yer own mounts.

A little tech tip. When spraying a gloss coat, set the can in warm water (not too hot or the damn thing might blow up). It helps the paint flow a little smoother, gives more pressure, and lets the paint relax a little easier on your piece. Make sure your piece to be painted is a decent temp too. Several light coats at about 12 to 16 inches away will mind the drips. But you already knew that.

CB500T Cylinders out there??

Anyone have '75/'76 CB500T Cylinder jugs laying around with some good life on the stock bore? Let me know. Mine has been over-honed by the previous owner and are out of spec. Oversized pistons are ridiculously hard to find. P.S. Im pretty poor.

Bastard. Currently.

El Bastardo as it sits currently.  Gotta do something for a seat cover. Sounds like a raped ape. Its the bane of my neighbors' existence.

Lazy bike

OK OK, I built one. Now I can calm down and relax. Back to the workshop. (Fun as hell to ride by the way.)

Small Engine Love

Pics snagged from the random interwebs.

CB 450/500 and 350(maybe??)

Dont care what it is really. Looks tits. Cruising around on Bubble Visor. Should be cruising around on one of the bikes but, Im stuck at work.

Christmas Wish List

#1) Terminator HK Motorcycle

Can it be???

... A TLR200? Looks like it! Made me laugh. NFK photo via Bubble Visor. Thanks.

Still Alive...

Im still here. Just doing some art and other stuff. No motorcycle work as of lately, but as soon as I get heat going into the garage I'll post once again. (Image stolen from ze interwebs.)

CVCC

So an old 79 Honda Accord found its way back into my driveway recently. Once found a few years back, brought back to life with a top-end rebuild and a new carb, now thrashed and in need of resurrection once again. This car is the equivalent of the TLR200 bike. It will start, get you there surely and safely. It wont do it fast, it wont make 12 foot rooster tails or even chirp the tires. But, they both have some sort of charm to them that makes the rider/driver fall in love with them and miss it as soon as you sell it and will make you buy them back if the opportunity ever arises. Got lucky I guess. A new radiator and a CV axle and this pup is ready to begin it's 3rd out of nine lives. I wish someone would do a nasty engine swap on one of these. I think it could put some old VW Golfs, Datsun Honeybees, and 510's to shame.

(The car in the pics isn't mine. Got the pics off the web. But same body style and shallow-reef-water blue. In case you cared. You dont.)

"The Fang"

One wicked CB500t. Supercharged drag bike. Site: www.thefang.co.uk

Had to modify the foot pegs to get them forward a little bit. Plus they fold for tighter storage. That's important when it takes you a metric ton of months to finish a 6 month project.