I'm going to back-fill this thread with a project I started almost a month ago. It's about a somewhat limited edition Britbike that:
1. Will do the ton without a lot of fuss (so it's on topic for the forum)
and
2. Involved some basic, and some advanced "horse-trading" (which just makes it a little more interesting)
Turn the calendar back to late 2007. I caught wind of a package deal, a Triumph trike/chopper project, and some of the late "Oil-In-Frame" Bonneville parts that were left from the donor bike that the engine came from, cheap (relatively speaking, of course). Biggest problem was that it was in the Philadelphia area, almost 2,000 miles away. I worked the deal, made a second deal with a friend of a friend who lived close by, arranged for a custom crating company to build a crate to spec and deliver it to where the stuff was, and made a call to have a shipper pick it up and bring it to me. It didn't take too long for the previous "cheap" deal to turn into a "not-so-cheap" deal.
When I opened the crate, I had my trusty helper/gardener assist with the un-crating that involved an unbelievable number of giant "bread bag ties" and holes drilled all over the bottom and sides of the crate. We had prepared the day before by scrounging all around the shop and stacking up all the parts I thought I could use on it. Here's what we came up with:
I had that seat sitting on a shelf for a couple of years, and the keg was one of two that a local distributor gave me when my wyfe and I used to put on an annual charity fundraiser motorcycle show event (2000 - 2008, those were some great years).
The bike got rolled from the back of my shop to the front slab at least 3 or 4 times, with the most recent stint of about a year and a half on the slab up front...
1. Will do the ton without a lot of fuss (so it's on topic for the forum)
and
2. Involved some basic, and some advanced "horse-trading" (which just makes it a little more interesting)
Turn the calendar back to late 2007. I caught wind of a package deal, a Triumph trike/chopper project, and some of the late "Oil-In-Frame" Bonneville parts that were left from the donor bike that the engine came from, cheap (relatively speaking, of course). Biggest problem was that it was in the Philadelphia area, almost 2,000 miles away. I worked the deal, made a second deal with a friend of a friend who lived close by, arranged for a custom crating company to build a crate to spec and deliver it to where the stuff was, and made a call to have a shipper pick it up and bring it to me. It didn't take too long for the previous "cheap" deal to turn into a "not-so-cheap" deal.
When I opened the crate, I had my trusty helper/gardener assist with the un-crating that involved an unbelievable number of giant "bread bag ties" and holes drilled all over the bottom and sides of the crate. We had prepared the day before by scrounging all around the shop and stacking up all the parts I thought I could use on it. Here's what we came up with:
I had that seat sitting on a shelf for a couple of years, and the keg was one of two that a local distributor gave me when my wyfe and I used to put on an annual charity fundraiser motorcycle show event (2000 - 2008, those were some great years).
The bike got rolled from the back of my shop to the front slab at least 3 or 4 times, with the most recent stint of about a year and a half on the slab up front...