davis
Active Member
hey guys I dont post too much, but I figured I'd show you guys my $500 craigslist bike and see what you thought.
I am a 22 year old college student (ROLL TIDE!), and the bike was built on a college student's extreme budget. Almost nothing on the bike is polished or re-finished, partly because of laziness/lack of funds and partly because I kind of dig the patina of the original parts, lets you know its 'vintage' .
Keep in mind I bought the bike in late December and it was where i wanted it to be cosmetically (bars, custom seat, wrapped exhaust, lowered headlight and guages, etc etc) in about 3 weeks. Of course at that point it started to run poorly so i had to clean the carbs and a bunch of other stuff to get it to run right.
I'm just going to upload all the pics at once including some of when i was working on the carbs and what not, some of the first incarnation of the bike, followed by some of the bike as it sits now.
here's the carbs when I pulled them, the bike actually ran ok when i got it, but the carbs def needed a cleaning
heres the worst bowl, definately not as bad as some i have seen
my solution for a couple of fucked up float pivot pins... made out of these
I wonder why the bike was running shitty?
been working on the bike in my buddies freezing garage
the pride of my helmet fleet, goldie
so this is where it was at a few weeks ago, i built that seat from a sheetmetal/rivots pan + foam
Then, during spring break, instead of going to the beach and being rediculous, I trimmed the frame, built a new glass seat finished in truck bedliner, moved electronics to where the tool tray would be, and got me just the cutest little battery which is stashed under the hump, and filled dents/shaved the emblems on the tank and gave it a pre-patina'd paintjob; resulting in this:
Whatcha think?
I am a 22 year old college student (ROLL TIDE!), and the bike was built on a college student's extreme budget. Almost nothing on the bike is polished or re-finished, partly because of laziness/lack of funds and partly because I kind of dig the patina of the original parts, lets you know its 'vintage' .
Keep in mind I bought the bike in late December and it was where i wanted it to be cosmetically (bars, custom seat, wrapped exhaust, lowered headlight and guages, etc etc) in about 3 weeks. Of course at that point it started to run poorly so i had to clean the carbs and a bunch of other stuff to get it to run right.
I'm just going to upload all the pics at once including some of when i was working on the carbs and what not, some of the first incarnation of the bike, followed by some of the bike as it sits now.
here's the carbs when I pulled them, the bike actually ran ok when i got it, but the carbs def needed a cleaning
heres the worst bowl, definately not as bad as some i have seen
my solution for a couple of fucked up float pivot pins... made out of these
I wonder why the bike was running shitty?
been working on the bike in my buddies freezing garage
the pride of my helmet fleet, goldie
so this is where it was at a few weeks ago, i built that seat from a sheetmetal/rivots pan + foam
Then, during spring break, instead of going to the beach and being rediculous, I trimmed the frame, built a new glass seat finished in truck bedliner, moved electronics to where the tool tray would be, and got me just the cutest little battery which is stashed under the hump, and filled dents/shaved the emblems on the tank and gave it a pre-patina'd paintjob; resulting in this:
Whatcha think?
