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I’m also not running a steering damper any more, so I’m not looking to go ham.

All good stuff doc_rot. I haven’t measured trail yet—I don’t have any baseline for geometry/suspension at the moment, other than my initial impression ride when I bought the bike back. We’re still basically in the mock up stage, but luckily I’ve got lots of height adjustability in both front...

Sorry for the lack of updates, I took a few months off when work got busy. But I’m back at it again until April or so. I decided to stick with the stock carbs for the time being—it would be really nice to have this thing running this year. I did pick up an ultrasonic cleaner though, so cleaned...

Thanks irk, lots of food for thought.

Interesting, thanks, I’m going to look into this. Did you guys run pods, or make an air box? Did it alter the intake sound? Got any pics of the set ups?

That’s a neat option. From the photos on his site, it looks like the 2-1 manifolds clamp on to the stock intake runners? How’s the throttle response with that? I’d like to shorten the runners anyways, whichever route I go, so I’ll probably fabricate them. There’s a couple cool setups with...

The stock carbs are really just a clusterfuck, aren’t they? It has me thinking about alternatives. So I’m not going to do anything with them right now, I might not even install the new ITG filter—it’ll just get smashed against the frame down tubes. I hate to say it, but I think I’m going...

I took another stab at the cylinder studs, with a little hatred this time. I bent them over at the base which gave me some solid leverage, and most eventually twisted out this way. A handful snapped off, and I welded old studs onto the ends protruding from the block. Most took a few cycles of...

I was shocked when I got it! I asked the seller for better photos, but they didn’t help, so I took the gamble on it because of the price. Nice little surprise.

You probably already know the answer, but you get what you pay for. That said, I just put a set on my cb! I chose their aluminum body/non reservoir models, because they offered ride height adjustment and are a very cheap stand-in until I decide to throw more money at a “problem”. You only get...

Oh sweet! Sounds like it’s running great, that thing is going to be a blast.

Some accidental progress today. I was never really happy with the position of the foot pegs, originally. They’re too far back, and a hair too high. For this go-around, I had planned on making some aluminum mounting plates with multiple peg mount holes for the foot pegs, which bolt to the...

Damn it, I’m really sorry to hear this Dennis.

The half evil kit was pretty comprehensive! Just fyi your name and address is on that package, if you care about that stuff being public.

That’s like $500 worth of stainless at my local hardware store! Jackpot!

Brakes are almost done. When I pulled the calipers apart, I found one phenolic and one stainless piston. I always meant to replace the heavy stainless one, but guess I never did. So now that’s done. These things are slick—very light and cheap. The rotors came back from Tom at TrueDisk...

Oh man, me too! Thanks, I’m just glad it decided to take me back!

Thanks Justin! It just wouldn’t be right posting this build anywhere else.

Truth! Haha

Thanks Mike, good call. Matt’s done some great vinyl for me before, don’t know why I didn’t think of him.