Recent content by Deviant1

Lovely bikes, both of them! Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Bought a running titled 1978 xs750 yesterday for $600! Came with a full parts bike with a nice set of black bodywork and stock seat. Right now it is a starship trooper with full Vetter kit and awful/amazing king queen seat on the stock seat pan. Radio even works! I’m almost tempted to leave it...

Hard second for the Matchless!

Lots of good info and lots of good positive folks! Welcome and I look forward to following your build.

Nice get! Welcome. We’re a good bunch here. I look forward to following your build thread.

I saw the allthread axle but missed the socket spacers! That bike has had a tough life. And someone gave up their favorite Macho Man t shirt around 1995 to make that rad seat cover.

I did argue that point, but my wife insisted it face us. And this whole thing was for her, so I let it go. Plans for next year’s float have him going on the back of the float facing forward.

Gulf Shores, Alabama

The parade went well. I got shitfaced. Beads were thrown. Beads were caught.

Gotta replace that sweet sweet 7fiddy chop. I’m excited to see what you build here.

Indeed I can.

Very nice indeed Redbird! We’re participating in the second annual Fort Morgan Mardi Gras Parade this Sunday. It was a very small thing last year with like two sort of floats and a bunch of golf carts. We didn’t participate. But this year they asked us to enter again and that night while we were...

Very clean. Nice job.

I love the Black Knight! Looking forward to this one as well.

Got some more shop time in today. Started out with the carbs. The parts bin that came with the bike included a set of stainless sockethead screws (from Stainless Cycles who no longer operate their website but still sell on eBay) to replace the JIS stuff on the carbs. I also took the opportunity...