Re: Alex's 72 CB750... Handlin' My Bidness
Thanks for the nice words Joe and troybilt! WB Joe!
Yesterday (Friday) Twisted_Wheelz had the day off, and that motherfucker is the man! While I was at work all day yesterday, he was in my garage working on my bike! He took some parts to a local chopper shop that's owned by a friend of ours and got them media blasted for free! He also taped and painted the swingarm assembly, the brake rotor, and the fork lowers! After that he pulled all of the tape off of the chassis. Then I got home from work and we went to town on fabricating the new seat. I'm very excited about this seat, it came together way easier than the last one! We used a piece of 1/16th aluminum scrap that I found, the outboard cowl, a side grinder with a cutting wheel, a big hammer, and four pop rivets to build what we've got so far. We got it together and mocked up on the frame, then we made a tiny mistake... We drilled holes for my twin taillight setup without thinking about it. As it turns out just a single taillight setup looks much better on this cowl. We're going to fiberglass the circles back in and cut a hole for a single light. We've still got some fiberglass and bracing to do on this seat, but so far it has come together quickly, nicely, and cheaply ;D
Here are a bunch of pics of what got done yesterday:
The painted rotor:
The taped and painted fork lowers:
The taped and painted swingarm assembly (it rained this morning, so there's water on it):
My fork brace. One of the parts that got blasted for free! Big ups to Billy at Gulf Coast Choppers for letting us use his blast cabinet and Twisted_Wheelz for being a bad mofo:
Now for the seat. I'm going to start a thread over in the tanks and seats section when this gets finished.
Here's the outboard motor cowl that I found:
We cut the sheet metal and bent it using angle iron, a vice, and a hammer here's Twisted_Wheels cutting away:
Here is a closeup of how we attatched the cowl to the aluminum pan using pop rivets, this will be reinforced and covered using body filler before the seat is done:
Here's the seat all put together:
And the mockup with the seat tank and sidecover on to make sure it all flows (it does ;D):
Also my clipons came in yesterday, I don't have pics yet because I left them with Twisted_Wheels to run them up to Billy's and get the chrome blasted off of them. The top of my fork tubes were pretty rusted and pitted and after blasting them, we've decided that the only thing we can do at this point is to paint them from where the lower triple clamp attatches to the top. The paint might be the truck bedliner stuff, or some hammered finish. I don't know yet, but it's gotta be a paint with enough texture to cover the pitting. Anyone got any ideas? I've thought of filling the pits with body filler so that I can use a smooth finish paint, but I'm not sure if that's they way to go or not. I've got some small things to paint, and some prep work to do next, then we'll start reassembly! It'll look like a bike again soon! Stay tuned...
there's got to be a way because when I visualize that area open that seat/tank combo really pops. Could he do a battery set up similar to Zonda's 450 where there are several spread around the bike and then put an oil tank under the seat bump? I think we're talking "in theory" at this point. The seat bump might look pretty cool with a filler cap on it somewhere.
