Recent content by Rider52

A glimpse into the chaos of the Garage of Lost Dreams 1969 Triumph front brake cable Mounting hardware for a quick bob gas tank for an Evo Sportster Exhaust studs for the same Evo Sportster

Let the blasting folks know you need medium grit or maybe even fine. Otherwise you will get a frame that looks like an old concrete sidewalk. Once blasted, it needs to be primed or it will start rusting. Also try to keep from touching it with bare hands...the oils from fingers do a lot of...

The headlight ears are very tidy. Super job!

A clean up and touch up will go a long way. Sand blasting and full paint/powder eat up a lot of time and money.

On most Japanese bikes the new model year starts in October of the previous year. Any bike built between 1 October 72 and 30 September 73 would be considered a 1973 model. US state licensing and title regulations made things murky. If you bought an October 72 built bike in October 72 it would...

Nice rear suspension setup!

Watched your you tube channel today.

Frame paint. If you are doing a true restoration the more original the paint/parts the better. Your frame paint looks decent in the pictures. Cleaning and waxing would probably make it look near new.

Hope you can keep the original paint.

A friend in Cleveland restored pinballs. Always fun to visit his workshop.

Perfect!

I really like what you have done with this bike. Thanks for keeping it alive!

We indexed the plugs on our race bikes. I'm not convinced it makes that much of an improvement.

A very nice save!

I really like the tool boxes on "legs".