Hi I am Chris, I'm 27. This is my first bike and I have no motorcycle experience whatsoever. Everything I do here is a learning experience. I have been working on the bike for a few months so here are a lot of photos to get you caught up.. I will try to go chronologically.
Dug it out of the garage after sitting forever to take some before shots... put air in the tires and the rear brake even worked. It has the rear sprung hub as well. That's me proud as a mother fucker.
End of day 1... all done with hand tools (didn't have any Whitworth yet so it was a lot of back and forth between SAE/Metic)
End of day 2...
Looks like mice were living on top of the old iron head.
Bagged and tagged.
Then I started cleaning stuff up.
Primary cover
Timing cover
Oil tank
Rocker boxes
This doodad
Then I found out why, maybe my gearbox was stuck in gear...
After waiting forever for specialty tools we pulled the cam gears and shit.
Split the cases
Delegated girlfriend to feather all the scratches out of the tank
She sure can polish too
Also fixed a crease on the side and a dent you can see in the photo of gf with the DA, then primed.
Then bought some parts for when the barrel is back from machining...
Rob from Bullit got me a seat, some bars, and this thing....
You can see in this photo that I've switched to unit forks and front wheel as well as unit rear wheel. I retained the pre unit triples because they are offset and give it a better stance. I will be lowering the front a bit as well. Wheels are going all black, frame all black, and tank will be red/off white like a Stiegl can.
Using these badges, knee pads, and luggage rack...
Then... after I did all that work with stripper/wire wheels... we got a media blaster...
mmmm so good
Other than that, like I said, waiting for the barrel to come back, pistons are stock compression 0.20 over.
Still need to order a bunch of things:
Magneto
Tires
Oil hard lines
Wiring
Headlight
Tail light
Rear fender
Plate all the hardware.... etc. lots of stuff left
Anyhow, I wanted to share with you guys, so I hope you enjoy looking at what I've done so far on my first bike.