Re: A way to waste money: The evolution of a confused '74 360
Alright kids!
Time for another dose of bike day crack!
Sit down and have a cold one and tell me what you think of the progress today!
I started out early this morning working on the seat right after I got out of work. After a lot of beer, hiding from the rain, cursing and nasty hands, I finally got it done. It needs one more sand down with 400grit and another coat of filler primer followed by a sand down of 600 and she'll be ready for paint. Turned out well I think! fits the contour of the bike perfectly IMO.
After that I went to the shop and started fabricating the mounting rails for the seat onto the frame. I welded them in and then drilled holes for the seat to mount through. Then I carefully drilled the holed in the seat after marking and bolted her up. After that I did a lot of photo shoots to get some profile pictures. I'm trying to get ideas of how she looks with a rider on board, and I like it! I still have to find the tail light of choice that I'm gonna use and cut the hole out for that, but other than that it's golden. This will be a kick only bike, so I'll be using a small battery with switches to turn off all lights but the brake when not in use. I have to fab up a dash panel to accomplish that, bu one step at a time! When I was looking at the bike today I realized that the way i had the bottom rear fender mounts done, it was going to hit the chain when I installed it. So I took a tip from Troybilt and used a center bolt mount which clears the fender up on the sides. Works quite well. I'm trying to decide what to work on tomorrow.
Oh, FYI, I have a nice spade LED tail light with integrated turn signals for sale in the for sale section. Originally I was going to use a tag bracket mounted brake light, so this would be perfect, but now I am looking for a small round one to mount in the seat pan.
Well, here's some progress pics, so please let me know what you think!
The seat mounting brackets:
The new fender bottom mount:
The seat:
Profile shots:
Rider profile:
Tomorrow I'll for sure finish the seat. I need to get the clip ons installed, and I may start on the "dash board". It's about time to finish cleaning and painting the motor as well so I can install it to work out the shift linkage and coil placement. I have a couple of Bosch blue VW coils that I got off of EvilBay that I'm going to try. If any of you can point me toward a nice 2- 2 1/2" round LED tail I would be greatly appreciative.
Let me know what you guys think!
