Recent content by chesterburnet

I bought this for my 77 CB550 and it's a good fit. It is a universal seat and needs a plywood base to adapt to whatever bike you decide to use it for. It's heavy plastic with no slip seat cover with red threads. It can be light sanded to paint. It came from a small European company is is a nice...

There's something very satisfying about de-tabbing and removing unused brackets off of a motorcycle frame.

I just found this thread. A beautiful restoration. I'm working on a 77 Honda basket case that was always garaged. It seems like most of the work is on restoring rusted parts. Knowing what I now know, I wouldn't attempt to do a build that had as much rust and decay as your Guzzi. You really...

Tuffside seats. Lots of styles. I like the combination of seat, tan & front fender all the same color.

I wanted to take a last picture with the tank and the seat laid up to see how it all looks together before I take it back apart.

I've had a bunch of stuff going on that pulled me away from working on this and I haven't touched it except to roll it in and out of the way in the garage. Finally after 2 months I'm back at it. I was nervous because when I cut down the fender it was a tight fit with the larger front tire and it...

Thanks. It was a fun diversion.

I forgot my GF birthday in March and she was pissed at me so I had to come up with a plan. My neighbor had an old bicycle from the 30s sitting in his yard rusting away so I asked him what he was going to do with it. He said take it if you want it so I did with the idea that I'd rebuild it for my...

I appreciate the thought

I'm getting close to doing wiring and I'm trying to get a wiring diagram going. There are a lot of generic ones out there but I'm hoping someone that has a similar list of components might have one done that will help get me closer. My bike is a 77 CB550F This is a list of my electronics going...

That's probably good advice but I don't have that much patience. For everything that I changed, I didn't really change the stock locations. There are almost no brackets. They're all removed. The welder I'm working with is a hardcore motorcycle guy so I have a good set of second eyes on this...

I wanted to post a closeup of this because I think it looks cool. My welder decided it needs a frame under the seat in case someone decides to try and pick the bike up by the plastic fender section. The mock up is pretty much done. The tank, seat, lower rear fender, the foot pegs and the...

I just got bored with the cafe racer look in the middle of the build.

Since I cut down the trees in my yard and there has been almost no rain in the last month, I was able to dedicate a weekend to this project. It is unbelievable how much time goes into fabricating and fitting up stuff. All afternoon in my garage beefing up and re-fabricating the seat fasteners on...