Recent content by gdavid

This last photo shows the shoulder/collar machined down to accept the coupler from the 920 Then I just pulled it all apart.

I turned down the shoulder on the hub that prevented the coupler from the 920 from seating on the 535 hub. I laced rear wheel back up and scratched my newly painted rim pretty badly with the ends of the spokes. It was a dry run and I was planning on putting some more paint on the rim anyway but...

I've got a question about the 535 rear hub you set up before making your own hub for the disk. I assume you turned the 535 hub in a lathe to remove the shoulder at the mating interface with the splined coupler. How did you secure it to the lathe? Did you bold something to the hub that you could...

My new spokes for my rear wheel arrived so I finally pulled the wheel apart to clean up the hub and paint the rim. The hub looked like oxidized aluminum but it actually had a dull gray paint on it. I am going with polished hubs front and back so it had to come off. This is what it looked like...

I believe that he is playing to his market with the phone mount/charging stuff

Minor update. My new front rim and spokes arrived today so I put it together which is a little foolish because I haven't polished the hub yet so it will have to come back apart.[/

My original tank is fine, I am keeping it and all of the other stock parts so I can put it back stock in case my efforts are a total failure. The RD400C tank is 13 liters and the orginal was 14.5. I would have liked to retain or increase capacity but I did want to change the look and I'm willing...

Long time with no progress but I am picking back up on this project. I am fitting a RD400C tank onto the bike. It looks like it can be made to fit with some minor modification. It has a nice shape and a nice straight edge across the bottom which I think will look nice and most importantly it's...

I made a little progress and got started on my subframe. I will be securing it with a longer bolt for the top of the rear shock and the upper two stock mounting bolts. There will be another vertical support on the right side matching the left and diagonal cross bracing between them. It is just...

I started pulling it apart before I thought to snap pictures, but you have seen plenty of them by now Here is what has come off so far, note the fairing This isn't a spring chicken, I have put most of these on it I started cleaning up the carbs tonight, one done one waiting

I have already come to my first question. I bought a wire spoke rear hub for a reasonable price so I decided to go down the rabbit hole of swapping out to wire wheels. Aside from aesthetics, I want to maximize the rear wheel diameter to increase the effective gearing (lower rpms). My first...

Like others have done before me I am rebuilding my virago xv920. I'll put some pictures up tonight. My background (feel free to skip ahead): I have owned the bike for years and at one point the bike was my primary mode of transportation because I was broke and it was easy on gas. I grew up...