Recent content by OldandBusted

Well I lucked up and pulled a gravy job at work today so I got the whole afternoon to tinker on the bike. I finished pulling diodes and resistors off of the circuit board and found a resistor that had the right value to use with my tail light and a couple of appropriately sized diodes. So I made...

Sorry for the delay on any updates. Between work and a barrage of birthdays I haven't had much free time for the motor scooter. I got my seat finished, nite I just have to find somewhere that will cover my seat that doesn't charge a kidney and my first born. One thing I have been able to do is...

I'll go ahead and warm anybody that's following this thread that I've got a bad habit I'd jumping around from one part of a project to another. Working on one aspect for a little while, stopping that and moving to something else, and so on and so forth. The last couple of days I've been working...

It would be a lot easier to make the axles adjustable. I made them to be non adjustable because to me a non adjustable axle plate gives a bike a super clean look

I'm actually nut directly mounted to the backbone. I'll post up a picture of how I worked it. I didn't like the idea of going directly to it either.. Basically what I did is when I cut out my subframe I cut it all the way up to the 2 "rib bones" , at least that's what I would call them, to keep...

Spokes are the end game wheels. Right now the gsxr wheels are on there to get it on the road and because I had them I'm using hydraulic hose which is a lot stiffer than radiator house. The problem I ran into with any of the shelf kit was that our put the carbs to far back. When I cut the frame...

Yeah I've got a few ideas bouncing around in my head for a chain tensioner. When I did the axle plates I was still planning a hard tail shoo a chain tensioner wouldn't have been a big obvious THING. Now that it's more of a cafe build the one I was planning on building seems a little big for the...

I'm not sure yet. I got it running before I tore into it but haven't messed with the dual carb setup much since I got the manifolds done. I'm doing it more for the look than performance but if it's much more than a minor downgrade I'll probably ditch it in favour of something else. I've been...

I lucked up and found a tank I liked this weekend which meant that now I can get my seat hoop mounted since I wanted to keep the lines on the tank and seat hoop even. The front end is just stuck on there at the moment with no bearings in the stem. Im going to have to spend some time on a large...

At this time in the life of the project it was kind if a work on it here and there thing. Want real sure how I wanted it to turn out, waiting on deals for the parts I knew I would need like usd forks and wheels, had other things going on, and looking for ideas. Well between looking for ideas and...

Got the bike home and started pulling all the non essential stuff off, headlights, gauges, seat, ect, cut the subframe off and I was left with something along these lines

First off, I'll get the obligatory new guy intro out of the way. I picked up an 82 cb750 almost a year ago for a a project since the garage was lacking one I'd those at the time. Gave 300 bucks for it, nothing special just an old bike somebody got to fix up and lost interest in. The original...