Recent content by sebwiers

Nice work on the whole thing. Love the hard line front brake. Is something I considered for my own build, since the bike comes stock with a cable actuated front mc which is now located on the bridge of my Hossack fork. In the end I decided I didn't want to blow money on the hardware (or...

Figured I'd pop in with a couple of quick update pics. I put about 4,000 miles on the bike this year and am pretty happy with it. Soon I'll be taking it back into the shop this winter to do a few small upgrades / repairs (I tore up the back fender mounts really bad) and a deep cleaning. Also...

You can make a good guess if you work out the setup in software or even just start with a shock that is appropriate to the bike (from bike with similar weight) and work out a location that fully compresses the shock after an appropriate amount of travel. The later is all I did for the back of...

Any hard / wear resistant steel (ideally stainless) should do. They don't make rotors from cast iron any more because they have other alloys that work just as well and are easier to work with. No reason for drum brakes to be any different. Rather than pipe, an easy (relatively speaking)...

I'm assuming he means the ones that run from the coil to the spark - IE, high VOLTAGE. If you bike has just one coil it is running wasted spark and the problem is almost certainly a bad connection from coil to spark plug. If it has 2 coils then it may be that one of the coils is sometimes not...

As well as altering the geometry (which may actually be what you want in some cases) you want to be sure that moving the fork tubes up in the trees won't result in any parts slamming into each other when you hit a bump.

Built camp and some band lighting at a post-apocalyptic camp out near Omaha.

I actually don't... am not really a regular here, and have a memory like a steel sieve to begin with. You have piqued my interest - link? Course not, but its largely done... at least for this summer. All I currently have planed is mounting a regular (4") headlight opposite the LED and my...

Sounds shitty too. Gives me a special warm glow the way it upsets the local HD riders. I think I'll go over the dealership for some test rides....

Yeah, I've always been a fan and while I was doing the early build I found out about some local Mad Max themed rides and a big Mad Max themed camping festival in CA. Given my fairly crude fabrication skills, I figured I'd just run with it as an aesthetic...

Probably posted before, but WTH. Less a "swap" (though it can be rather easily removed) and more a "scratch build" - a Hossack style front grafted onto a 1981 XJ750 SECA. Is my current daily rider, works amazingly well at chopping up traffic on rough pavement...

Bike is back on the road this spring as a daily rider. As designed for, its a fun traffic carver even with lane splitting being illegal - the reduced brake dive makes constant brake / throttle cycling less obnoxious, and it flicks through lane changes at a thought and goes over potholes at a 45...

Ended up being a bit of both. I got it running in 9/2017 and it rode quite nice, though the shock was a bit soft. But I blew up the engine when an oil line melted (they run very close to the pipes down near the oil filter). I got new engine is in for $500, and I upgraded the shock to a...

Cable actuated master cylinder (a stock part) mounted to the fork so I can run hard lines. Will be using inverted levers to pull the cables. The BMX bars also stay, but will be modified a bit (for ergo and cable exits) - reach as shown in photo is great, but the wrist angle is all wrong.

Steering links are done. So, I took it for ride, soap box derby style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mwcBGgjsw