Entered my first bike show yesterday. Mixed feelings...

Next Sunday I'm off to Gold Chainers Hell. El Mirage dry lake. I'd love to bring some of those clean freaks with their trailer queens up there and make them run up and back on the lake bed. You'd have to have a fleet of ambulances with cardiac resuscitation equipment standing by. But it beats the hell out of standing around looking at shiny cars and bikes and a shitload of nervous owners.

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By weslake at 2009-09-19
 
Just an old CB550. I got it in totally untouched, but neglected for 20 years type of shape... I'm just working on half-ass restoring it, enough to satisfy my OCD, and modifying it, enough to satisfy my inner 16 year old who can't leave shit that works well enough alone.

Anyways, nothing particularly extreme.

I was hoping on having it rideable by shrinerfest, but Buchanan's sent me the wrong spokes.. Now I'm hoping by buds show, but I need to learn how to lace wheels, so not real likely ill make it there.
 
Lacing wheels gets easier the more you do it. I learned from youtube! HA! With my cb and KZ projects, I had to lace about three sets of wheels. What part of town are you? I'm in Noburgh. :)
 
Lacing looks cake, Truing looks hard. Did you do that yourself or pay someone?

I'm over on the east side across the street from that state hospital park.

I only know a couple people who are into this stuff locally... Got a buddy redoing a cb750, and another doing a street fighterish cb550
 
The neighborhood around Lombard, Gum, and all that? Truing both wheels was easy on my cb and the front wheel of the kz, but I could not get the rear wheel of the kz true no matter how many times I tried. It had this weird bump. Out of frustration, I took it to Big 4 Cycle and they did it for 80 freakin' dollars! That hurt -my wallet and my pride.
 
Closer to Lincoln and vann, across from manna (droooool)

I talked to Jim's, said he'd do it for around 50 each. That's my last resort though. I gotta finish polishing hubs and whatnot before I can lace anyways.

Who do you use for powder? Strongly considered just getting the hubs powdered... Be a
LOT easier to take care of
 
I used to go to Mike at J&J Powdercoating in Chandler, but he sold it to a guy and it's now located on S. Ky. Ave and is called Tri-State Powdercoating. I brought some small parts over there, but the new place is really out of the way for me. Chandler is less than 10 min from my house. I might try our Envirocoat on Lynch which is on the way to my workplace. I tried Evansville Powdercoating and they sucked. They baked some sort of contaminant into a bike frame of mine and wouldn't re do it! Plus, they kept shuffling it behind larger jobs and in the end, it took 6 weeks to powder a motorcycle frame. I just found a place a few blocks from work that I'd never heard of, R&C Custom Powder Coating off W. Mill Rd. Gonna call them Mon.
 
biker_reject said:
I used to go to Mike at J&J Powdercoating in Chandler, but he sold it to a guy and it's now located on S. Ky. Ave and is called Tri-State Powdercoating. I brought some small parts over there, but the new place is really out of the way for me. Chandler is less than 10 min from my house. I might try our Envirocoat on Lynch which is on the way to my workplace. I tried Evansville Powdercoating and they sucked. They baked some sort of contaminant into a bike frame of mine and wouldn't re do it! Plus, they kept shuffling it behind larger jobs and in the end, it took 6 weeks to powder a motorcycle frame. I just found a place a few blocks from work that I'd never heard of, R&C Custom Powder Coating off W. Mill Rd. Gonna call them Mon.
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I've had some stuff done by J&J (when it was in chandler, had no idea its not the same guy), and it was orange peeled like crazy. Not real impressed. I think he didnt do it himself, had a crew of mexicans. Done SUPER fast, but not great quality IMO.

Evansville Powdercoating was a terrible experience for me as well. Doing a set of very expensive multipiece wheels for me, and it took months to get them back, were done the wrong color, left marks in the powder from hanging the centers, so much stupidity.

There is a new guy on vogel, One Stop Powdercoating... ran buy Joe Bush, dude who owns window world. Havent seen his work yet.

I need to find someone who can do a better job on powder.
 
Mike now works for Tri-State Powdercoating and he appears to have brought his crew with him. Yeah, I heard if the pressure is up too high on the gun, you end up with peel. So far, that has only happened once with J&J. Your questions about other coaters got me to looking around. I saw one on line called ECC Evansville Coating and Customizing, but didn't list their address. Ph# is Nick: 483-9466 or Krista: 480-2596, I'm going to check out R&C Powdercoating down the street from work. It looks to be in a residential neighborhood off Mill Rd. Maybe a garage shop?
 
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