Recent content by BoneDaddy

I gave my son his first welding lesson yesterday while installing my seat mount/stiffening brackets. I think he'll be ready to strike an arc by his 4th birthday.

Tiny update: I haven't had a chance to mess with the carbs any further but I did get my seat-mount brackets cut out. They are made of 3/16" mild steel and once I holes to through-bolt to the seat base, I can weld them onto the frame using 7018 rod (I'd just MIG them but my machine isn't here)...

Seat base fabricated, frame supports and wiring plan ready to go, shop semi-cleaned, ready for: Weld seat base mounts and fabricate frame supports De-tab frame Seat base and wiring mount Install airbox and fabricate filter bracket Debug carbs and seal boots Brake light mount/fabricate Remove...

I just got the carbs back together and on the bike after cleaning them and replacing some hardened rubber parts. I managed to get it running with a shot of starting fluid but it would only run on full choke and crazy-high idle (sorry, currently no tach but sounds like 3k+). I messed around with...

I've had a couple of days to work on the bike and put the carbs all back together. Tracking down the o-rings for the vents and connector tubes was a pain but I think I'm ready to get this thing going. Once I'm confident that it'll run, I'll start cutting out my seat base from 3/4" plastic board...

I may be down for that.

How do you ride a motorcycle with that stick wedged in your ass? And how did you ever find room for both the stick and your head? :D

Fast and heavy!

Really hard to tell from the pic.

Thanks, Gary! I got it running yesterday, huge step forward. It didn't like to idle without the choke and it dies out at 1/4 throttle so I've got to do a real carb re-build this time. It's a good opportunity to jet up a size for the 4-1 anyway though I'm a little worried that my intake setup...

New seat pan.

Well, the seat idea is scrapped for now. I tore the vinyl cover and I really didn't want to spend any money on it since it's cobbled together from parts I had laying around. While the transition looked pretty decent, I decided to buy a ready-made and go from there. I found an ABS seat on fleabay...

I've been back to work on my GS and I had an idea a while back of converting it to an offset monoshock like the BMW setup. The consensus seems to be that you need a shock long enough to be comparable to the original so it can be mounted at roughly the same angle as stock to decrease the chance...

I did a quick mockup with the new tank, looks like it's going to work out better than I'd hoped.

I know everyone has been checking this thread daily, perhaps hourly, since October of '11 so I figured I'd do a little update. :D I've been stupid-busy with work and sorting out my 4-wheeled vehicle troubles but I finally got the old GS into my shop and did some messing around. I hacked up the...