Recent content by Ringo

Dennis, long time! I hope you’re doing well. Following this…I’ve been telling myself for years to move past a drill press and dremel!

I came up with a dash design I like, for the most part. First photo is the final mock up. Initially I was going to weld both pieces together, but I spent a fair amount of time welding similar pieces in a tee joint to see if I could pull it off, and I couldn’t. The gauge plate is .125”, while...

Just catching this, boy that sure came out great! What a beautiful RD you resurrected…I bet she appreciates the new lease on life, and the trophy collection!

I don’t think there will be an issue, but I can’t say for sure. Ideally I’d want to do it on a lathe, but I don’t have one. I used an arbor bit in a drill press and ground it down, cooling it with water occasionally to minimize losing the temper if there was one. If it was case hardened, it...

Much appreciated! The issue I found is in wanting an 18 tooth sprocket. I found many 520 sprockets that will fit, mostly from early 80s 500/600cc dirt bikes, but most top out at 16 teeth; possibly 17 on rare occasions, I can’t recall. With the 40 tooth rear, 18 teeth in front is the sweet...

Hey folks, kinda shit progress lately. No excuses, I’m just low on motivation. I did get the exhaust done. The Hindle system needed some modification. I moved most of the spring hangers, and adapted a portion from I believe a ninja 300 to get the final angle right. The muffler now clears...

Oh awesome, I’ll hunt down a copy, thanks. Hey I’ll be happy if it steers a little quicker, never mind much quicker. It was pretty funny riding it back to back with a KTM duke 690. Apples to oranges I know, but very similar weight. One felt like a toy, one felt like a 50 year old motorcycle!

Oof, forgot all about the disks. Yeah that was substantial. Thanks for the patience / going into the weeds with me here. I’ve never needed to play with geometry to this degree on other bikes! front tire circumference: 78” / diameter: 24.8” rear tire circumference: 79.75” / diameter: 25.4” I...

Those numbers line up with what I found on the sohc4 board. To me, they suggest inaccurate measurements on my part—losing 2 degrees shouldn’t drop the trail by more than 20mm I’d think. Also I’m not sure I clarified above, but the geometry for my “stock front ride height” is still using the...

The bike is mostly assembled now, just missing the gauges and a muffler, so I took last night to get the suspension set up. Doc if you’re reading this, here are the initial numbers. *Just going to note for anyone looking to apply this to your cb550- this setup is utilizing cb650 fork tubes...

What a cool birthday present. That D-box looks really neat too, I’ll have to earmark that for a future project.

Heres the rest of the progress pics- When I got the bike back there was some discoloration/yellowing in places in the clear coat, but one area was different. It’s darker, deeper looking, and has a bumpy texture. Since it’s at a joint on the tank, my first thought was a pinhole leak. I stuck a...

Thanks, February has been a scramble getting this thing road worthy. I’ve got another quiet month to tinker with it before work picks up and I think I might actually finish a little early.

Welcome! I think I read about doing that over on the sohc4 forum—should have just gone with it from the start.

Couple more pics.