It's been a 2,1/2 year work in progress with all manner of interruption, and today was the first time I reached past my neighborhood's threshold, dawdling up Tunnel Road and then Grizzly Peak, stopping briefly at the Wall to look for loose bolts and leaking gaskets. Not the best picture but good enough to document the event!
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That's a Hypermotard right behind with a small group of nice guys regaling each other on the state of MotoGP. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect respite from it all.
Bike still has lots of work to do. Suspension is in dire need of tune. Showa forks came from a 1989 CR-500. OEM shock is clapped out. The bike started out as a 1984 Honda XL-600. I always liked the mid 1980's RFVC dual carb engines Honda made and am lucky to have been able to find a roach and rebuild it into a street tracker:
The whole project is covered here. If you don't mind, I'll indulge with a few highlights.
Here, we start with a roached out Craigslist find, only ran when the dude would spray half a can of starter fluid into the airbox and flail away on the kickstarter:
I had a significant amount of help from James Banke down in Felton who set the chassis up with the right wheels, new brakes, and adjusted suspension (basically all the hard stuff)
I rebuilt the engine
And set to work on the intake, fuel tank, and other body parts. This is my first significant fabrication with epoxy and fiberglass. Learned a lot along the way and I surely would have done a lot of it differently had I the time to do it again. So it goes!
BONUS FOR THOSE STILL PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Here's a cute hack I learned from instructables.com on how to repurpose a used spray can to pump up with air for cleaning parts. When air compressors are not part of your studio apartment's equation:
That's a Hypermotard right behind with a small group of nice guys regaling each other on the state of MotoGP. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect respite from it all.
Bike still has lots of work to do. Suspension is in dire need of tune. Showa forks came from a 1989 CR-500. OEM shock is clapped out. The bike started out as a 1984 Honda XL-600. I always liked the mid 1980's RFVC dual carb engines Honda made and am lucky to have been able to find a roach and rebuild it into a street tracker:
The whole project is covered here. If you don't mind, I'll indulge with a few highlights.
Here, we start with a roached out Craigslist find, only ran when the dude would spray half a can of starter fluid into the airbox and flail away on the kickstarter:
![IMG_0964.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_odYlEehadAs/Riqw-JdJMMI/AAAAAAAAABA/Xw2A6ABQHy8/s800/IMG_0964.jpg)
I had a significant amount of help from James Banke down in Felton who set the chassis up with the right wheels, new brakes, and adjusted suspension (basically all the hard stuff)
I rebuilt the engine
And set to work on the intake, fuel tank, and other body parts. This is my first significant fabrication with epoxy and fiberglass. Learned a lot along the way and I surely would have done a lot of it differently had I the time to do it again. So it goes!
BONUS FOR THOSE STILL PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Here's a cute hack I learned from instructables.com on how to repurpose a used spray can to pump up with air for cleaning parts. When air compressors are not part of your studio apartment's equation:
![aircan.jpg](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_odYlEehadAs/RziBxgbmnfI/AAAAAAAACes/wuc0ZX_ntjE/s800/aircan.jpg)