Well I have posted pics here and there online but haven't really started a build thread mainly because I lost my main computer several months ago along with most of my build pictures.
I bought this bike back in October 2011 and it sat at the bike shop for 6 months because at the time I still had my Yamaha Midnight Silverado and my BMW K1200RS. So I had no where to actually put the bike.
Below is what I started with looks pretty good in he picture and she did run but was a pain to start and was a lot of mixed matched parts.
If you look at the above picture they had used one of the original exhaust mounts to use as the mounting point for the Vance ad Hines exhaust in a not so common set up. It was rigged together in the strangest way. Parts were zip tied.
So I was finally able to transport the bike to the engine builder and at first he said I need the entire bike because he wanted to build it while keeping it mostly intact. But as he found out you cannot take these bikes completely aprt without pulling the engine. So he asked if I would go ahead and take the frame and do my thing and get the rolling chasis how I wanted and then bring it back when I was done.
Well that was about May of 2012 and I just took it back to him almost exactly one year later this past March-April time frame.
Only problem is now it was race season and I had to wait because all of the race bikes were coming in for tuning and set up.
So I have been on the back burner.
So all that is left is installing the engine hooking everything up and making some final tweeks before the Barber's Vintage Festival.
Okay I am adding a few early pictures I did find after having the hoop welded on and have everything smoothed out and test fitted it came out really good.
I did have to really rework the handlebar clamps because they were connected to a huge mounted piece that coverd the original fuse block. I I had to cut that off and grind everything off with a hand grinder. I originally wanted to use drag bars but after getting them in I didn't like them so I did find something from Tarozzi clip ons that would work. But still keeping the stock mounts just in case.
So I finally started getting the bike stripped down and gutted pretty much and then detabbed and shed about a 100 pounds.
No this is where the pictures don't exist the first 6-8 months of work are gone. ;-(
All of the grinding, sanding, cutting, BLEEDING and everything else.
Pulled all of the wheels off and a friend helped me remove all of the bearings and he also helped with rebuilding the calipers and master cylinder.
I am using the front end off of a CB900C just because it's a little beefier with 37mm tubes.
Had new Progressive springs installed and the Race Tech emulators.
Also had to have the tube drilled on all four sides for the fluid dispursement per the emulators.
So the follwoing is kind of a progression of the last 6 months and what she looks like now.
The wheels were powder coated first so I would have a color template for the paint and we have no idea what he did but the color was darker so i had to have them completely redone when I finally had the frame powder coated.
Here are the wheels and frame after powder coating.
FRAME...
SWINGARM POWDER COATED BLACK.....
Here are a few parts I picked up from DimeCity Cycles sometime during all of this...
So I have to run I will continue adding more later tonight.
See ya!
I bought this bike back in October 2011 and it sat at the bike shop for 6 months because at the time I still had my Yamaha Midnight Silverado and my BMW K1200RS. So I had no where to actually put the bike.
Below is what I started with looks pretty good in he picture and she did run but was a pain to start and was a lot of mixed matched parts.
If you look at the above picture they had used one of the original exhaust mounts to use as the mounting point for the Vance ad Hines exhaust in a not so common set up. It was rigged together in the strangest way. Parts were zip tied.
So I was finally able to transport the bike to the engine builder and at first he said I need the entire bike because he wanted to build it while keeping it mostly intact. But as he found out you cannot take these bikes completely aprt without pulling the engine. So he asked if I would go ahead and take the frame and do my thing and get the rolling chasis how I wanted and then bring it back when I was done.
Well that was about May of 2012 and I just took it back to him almost exactly one year later this past March-April time frame.
Only problem is now it was race season and I had to wait because all of the race bikes were coming in for tuning and set up.
So I have been on the back burner.
So all that is left is installing the engine hooking everything up and making some final tweeks before the Barber's Vintage Festival.
Okay I am adding a few early pictures I did find after having the hoop welded on and have everything smoothed out and test fitted it came out really good.
I did have to really rework the handlebar clamps because they were connected to a huge mounted piece that coverd the original fuse block. I I had to cut that off and grind everything off with a hand grinder. I originally wanted to use drag bars but after getting them in I didn't like them so I did find something from Tarozzi clip ons that would work. But still keeping the stock mounts just in case.
So I finally started getting the bike stripped down and gutted pretty much and then detabbed and shed about a 100 pounds.
No this is where the pictures don't exist the first 6-8 months of work are gone. ;-(
All of the grinding, sanding, cutting, BLEEDING and everything else.
Pulled all of the wheels off and a friend helped me remove all of the bearings and he also helped with rebuilding the calipers and master cylinder.
I am using the front end off of a CB900C just because it's a little beefier with 37mm tubes.
Had new Progressive springs installed and the Race Tech emulators.
Also had to have the tube drilled on all four sides for the fluid dispursement per the emulators.
So the follwoing is kind of a progression of the last 6 months and what she looks like now.
The wheels were powder coated first so I would have a color template for the paint and we have no idea what he did but the color was darker so i had to have them completely redone when I finally had the frame powder coated.
Here are the wheels and frame after powder coating.
FRAME...
SWINGARM POWDER COATED BLACK.....
Here are a few parts I picked up from DimeCity Cycles sometime during all of this...
So I have to run I will continue adding more later tonight.
See ya!
