Recent content by StoopidEngineer

I feel dumb with all of the aerospace and electrical engineers on this thread, because I'm just a mechanical engineer. I design automation equipment. So all of the hard work that all of us do on our own bikes and the pride that we take in doing things "by hand"? I make it possible for any...

I've always heard stories that if you hit a deer head on (side-on?) at speed on a bike, there's not going to be much left but ground venison. One guy wrote into one of the bike mags and said he hit one at speed (70ish) and split the thing pretty much in half, totaling the front end of the bike...

Motorcycle Classics magazine actually ran a couple of pages on this bike not that long ago - I want to say less than three or four thousand total were ever imported to the US over the course of a couple of model years. They're definitely a unique bike, but even the owner of the one they...

Even using a regular helmet (flip up, position/adjust, flip-down) for long enough periods of time usually winds up irritating my eyes, just because I always want to start my bead while I can actually still see a little bit, so I do the "close my eyes as soon as the arc starts, while flipping my...

I've seen full-time welders in China use setups like this before. Sometimes they customize their cardboard "welding helmets" by drawing faces on them. If this works for you, that's great man, but if you're going to spend any real amount of time welding, I would really suggest you pick up a...

reds - thanks for the info man; I'll probably send them a rough part model for a quote just to see what they come back at. hocbj23 - Do you happen to have a front brake master cylinder/lever assembly? My Radian's is missing, and I haven't had much luck finding an affordable replacement yet...

Thanks hocbj23 - I haven't even begun to get into the bike yet; I picked it up from a guy I worked with who was using it as a commuter, and then let it sit while I worked on my house for a year. It looks like the fork seals are weeping some oil, so I had planned on getting into them anyway. I...

Wow, I figured it'd be a while before I got any responses - very cool that this is such an active forum. Thanks for the advice and the input guys! And if anyone else is skilled/experienced with CNC programming (either based on solid models or just straight CNC programming) I'd still...

Good Morning All! Just to give you a quick rundown of where I am: I’m new to this site, but I’ve been a big fan of the café style bikes since first seeing them start to pop up several years ago. This seems to be one of, if not the definitive source for the café community, and I’m very glad to...