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Sitting in the garage

This thing is awesome

Took it for an initial shake down ride a few weeks ago up into the Sierra Nevadas. Broke down at the top of a mountain and coasted down for about 10 miles. Beautiful place to break down. Starter solenoid stuck on... after disconnecting the starter I made it home. Another shake down last week...

Also what state is the bike in? Is it a runner? Get it running well and ride it a season like said. Keeping getting on here and other forums in the meantime you’ll start to get ideas for what and where to start and gathering the things you need. Advrider.com is a great airhead source, however...

Put some fresh gas in and a hand full of nuts and bolts. Dance around shaking it repeat once or twice and see how it looks. If it doesn’t look to bad put some in line filters on and run with it. I’m a fan of filters I can see into and easily clean. BMW’s have 7mm fuel line usually cheapest on...

Moving on to some small things like making cable holders out of welding wire so I can cut the zip-tie that's been keeping my brake cable from burning on the headers... more than it has. Here's a real short sound clip https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uH5rpWGuKwI Also working on...

Home stretch, she's been around the block a few times. Still lots of little things to work out and tie up.

very nice.

Wow impressive before and after, cool little build. Those tires plus expansion chamber make it look like a blast.

Thanks, it's slow going and my a.d.d. really kicks hard. Was decidedly and happily focusing on project #2... and back on #1 now. Tires ordered, mirrors ordered, and trying to work with this company to get a solution made for the odd sized headlight BMW used... Need to get the front and rear...

Looks awesome, I would save the fork swap for a different build and dial in the stock forks. They look killer with the tank and what else you have going on. I've done a few fork swaps even in the process of doing one now... you're not going to gain much performance or any at all and you're going...

Was in the garage trying to make the electrical tray for project #3 when I got sidetracked... thinking this seat need to be made to work. Started cutting into it and I think it's going to work pretty easily!

Took #2 on a 200 mile ride this morning, let her stretch her legs before I cut them off... Started pulling parts off tonight didn't make it as far as I would of liked. Don't have a big enough wrench for the front end. Time to get everything cleaned and sorted in the stay pile and sell pile...

Decision time my wife dropped something big on me yesterday and now I have to choose which bike to focus on. My 30th is in a year and a few months change and she wants me to take a few weeks and ride up the coast to British Columbia. Ideally I would take project #1 but it has a handful of...

Not the same

Showas for project #2 came in! I'm wondering if they are exactly the same as the legs on my Thruxton. Black would look way better on the triumph...

Parts clean for now, they'll end up getting powder coated black before I'm done. Drive shaft in the mail to be rebuilt. Forks should be here any day, going to get the front end sorted before I touch the back.

eBay scores for project #2 started rolling in today. Got the paralever final drive, swing arm, and driveshaft. Now to clean and start measuring for the swap.

Yep Junior is the man, thing sounds knarly too but it wouldn't let me load the video clip.

Just read through this entire build, great work gorgeous bike!