Recent content by jvandyke

new shoes,

Here's the brackets I made to do it.

Decided to try a front fender on the rear and home made whitewalls. kinda like it

Plates welded up, brake/tail light bracket fab'd (to use old fork bracket holes, can't have holes with no purpose) cable guide hole to become license plate bracket mounting point. Mounting quite skinny rear tire to better fit the fender. It all works in my head. Let's see if it works for...

I couldn't stand the wrist pain with the clip on bars two seasons back, ran super bike bars this past season and that combo was really nice. Almost found the perfect formula for my seat pan (like Goldilocks, first too soft, than too hard, third try will hopefully be "just right" will end up...

Quick report. Rearsets were great all season. Strong enough and placement seems perfect. Only issue I had was occasionally knocking the peg up on take off (or forgetting to lower it) and finding no place for my foot once under way. Maybe I need a safety switch for my folding footpegs? God I...

I rotated the clutch lever way down. Seems more natural. Guess I'd better start working out again, just so I can ride my bike! One more day to scoot around tomorrow.

side view, FWIW

I'll play around with the position too then, rotate levers down a bit more. Yes, buzzing around the twisty roads near home is precisely what I built this bike for and it's freak'n awesome for that. Don't really care about poserism, would prefer to ride alone anyway and not be seen at all would...

Great stuff, will put this on the to-do list this winter (one more day to ride tomorrow and then it'll be put up for the season). This bike has been in the family since '73. In my possession for the last 5 years or so. I can say with 90% surety it is (was) bone stock apart from the shorty...

well, maybe my assumption that my clutch bits are "fine" was too much a leap of faith. I've had it apart, examined the plates and such, cleaned and oiled them, lubed the cable, shortened it, pulled and greased the bits in the engine case, pulled that actuating rod thing out, made sure it wasn't...

Yes, there's a lot of pressure on my palms. Clutch has been gone through. It doesn't feel overly stiff compared to what it always has been or compared to other bikes. I'm pretty sure it's just the new hand position compounds an already (normally) stiffish clutch. I do remember fatigue back...

So after bratting out my '72 CB500 one big issue is clutch hand fatigue. Running clip ons. My left hand has had it after a moderate ride. I have gone through the cable and shortened it, routing is good, I have disassembled and cleaned the inner workings. It is a pretty stiff handle to start...

Well done. Nice pics.

the seat turned out surprisingly well, it's "chunkier" than I envisioned it but since I made it all myself, I can tweak it until I like it, I made it a bit thicker than the traditional brat slab for comfort and to secure my butt, it rides nice. I should have secured more of the stitching but is...