Recent content by Whitedragoon

New(ish) pistons and new piston rings, seals and gaskets. After a couple months of sitting on the table, engine finally completed and freshened up.

Heads were skimmed, polished and ported. Sadly forgot to take some pics of full assembly. The funny thing, I left my friend with a cheap dremel and went away for a half day. When I came back I found him sitting there since the morning slowly scavenging the ports with the music. I was amazed of...

Quick update. Sadly didn't captured lots of useful pictured during the engine top end rebuild but there are a few. In local bike yard managed to get another same engine for just a few pennys. In some reason, most of the parts for VT500 engines are obsolete or unbelievably expensive or need to...

Yes the engine worried me for a while and few months back I decided to take a deeper look into it. During the first start I noticed small leaks through the cylinder gaskets and eventually got a set of new gaskets and decided to to a quick swap. However, quick repairs usually turns into complete...

Modified bar end mirrors and fitted turn signal LED's into the mirror holders. As much as I hate having indicators, having them for daily use on UK roads is advisable.. So many roundabouts and insolent drivers.. Quite happy with them!

Front mudguard was chopped to fit and tiny rear one was strengthened abit too.

Its been a while I posted the progress here. Will roll back and will try to continue project story. All electrics are being hidden underneath the seat. There's not alot of space, especially with new snazzy and big battery but after few rearrangements things started to fit in.

if you could get another gearbox from let's say Dnepr motorcycle all filter changing issues would be easily solved. Its even stronger gearboxes with reverse. Back here majority of ural drivers changes them. Its identical fit and better gear ratios. Filter housing easy to remove and filter...

Heres my friend Ural Bmw project. You might find something useful :) http://public.fotki.com/-arnas-/ural-m66-custom/

Whats the plan fitting gearbox? Few good mates done same conversions on Urals down here using original Ural gearbox.

Hello again! And sorry for a long reply! Didn't realised that the topic was brought up. Rear breaking set up was left original and just mounted brake disc on the other side with the caliper. Sadly with the lack of knowledge at the time I haven't made a proper bracket for caliper to float. Its a...

So the whole back was repiped and revelded. All rusty pipes were also replaced. Will be less unnecessary parts on the and its finally getting the actual shape :)

Then I moved to a better place where I got own garage and sorted out tools. I wanted to show whole story since the bike buy till the final project which is.. starting again. The previous work did not satisfied proper bike build and I felt it was just a matter of time I will try to do it...

The first bike start after years of lurking outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X7pRKboBAQ&list=UUcOglKjWpr210SZWy4bViaQ

So some more pictures from the previous bike build. Trying not to get into small details because dont have a lot of pictures saved. Since I got the bike I relocated twice and living at previous premises was a bit hard to do any modifications due to lack of tools and equipment. The bike was done...