I thought I would contain my motorcycle-related idiocy to one thread instead of scattering it all over the place. Based on reading the board over the last month, I'm fairly confident that I am the least knowledgeable person on here. So thanks in advance for any help and feel free to have a laugh at my expense and maybe remember the good old days when you didn't know shit either.
Anyway since getting this thing home a couple of months ago I have confirmed my theory that a motorcycle is similar to a bicycle but with a combustion engine attached. Other than that I have torn everything except the engine apart, prepped and painted the frame, arm and a few other pieces, cleaned the exhaust up as best I could and try to keep cleaning whatever I can a couple of hours a night.
At this point my vision is basically limited to aesthetics since I don't know what half the parts are contained inside the frame. Just want to get it running reliably w/ the stock parts, get the basic look I am after and save the rest for later. Not looking to spend much money outside of the seat, bars, tires, and a bunch of tools I need to buy, but here's the current basic plan:
-Clean up everything (lot's of rust removal and repainting)
-Paint Wheels Black
-Clubman bars
-Delete signals (or maybe just run mini ones)
-Delete fenders
-Pre-made Box Seat (maybe the Airtech Ducati 250 or the Clubman Racing version)
-UNI filters
-Maybe set some of the cables off w/ shrink wrap?
-New tires
-Maybe a belly pan?
-Go through carbs, new fuel lines, clean out and coat tank, etc
-Then everything else to get it going (I have never seen it running)
This will be a slow project. Here's what it looked like day 0:
Anyway since getting this thing home a couple of months ago I have confirmed my theory that a motorcycle is similar to a bicycle but with a combustion engine attached. Other than that I have torn everything except the engine apart, prepped and painted the frame, arm and a few other pieces, cleaned the exhaust up as best I could and try to keep cleaning whatever I can a couple of hours a night.
At this point my vision is basically limited to aesthetics since I don't know what half the parts are contained inside the frame. Just want to get it running reliably w/ the stock parts, get the basic look I am after and save the rest for later. Not looking to spend much money outside of the seat, bars, tires, and a bunch of tools I need to buy, but here's the current basic plan:
-Clean up everything (lot's of rust removal and repainting)
-Paint Wheels Black
-Clubman bars
-Delete signals (or maybe just run mini ones)
-Delete fenders
-Pre-made Box Seat (maybe the Airtech Ducati 250 or the Clubman Racing version)
-UNI filters
-Maybe set some of the cables off w/ shrink wrap?
-New tires
-Maybe a belly pan?
-Go through carbs, new fuel lines, clean out and coat tank, etc
-Then everything else to get it going (I have never seen it running)
This will be a slow project. Here's what it looked like day 0: