heres some pics of my brothers xs850 hardtail Ive been buttoning up a few things on. installed new battery/plugs/Beck grips.
we have a few sets of more “chopper-ish” bars kickin around, found a set I’m gonna slap on tomorrow and make it more comfy haha!
i think a new tank would make a world of difference
Agreed. We have a few old tiny chopper tanks I’m dying to use! But the frame isn’t a single backbone, it two parallel bars under the tank and are pretty wide.
yeah, these yamaha triples are hard to tank-swap because of the way the backbone is, especially since between the tubes is where all three coils mount, and the reserve lighting relay, and a few other large-ish electrical componants…only other way is to run a half-half tank off a harley and make a custom center strip/cover.
oh, and @pirite needs to get in here now that his bike has seen asphalt
I recently heard that Royal Enfield is going to be building Vincents starting next year. Got me thinking of the biggest brass pair ever, Rollie Free at Bonneville on a Vincent.
I hate old bikes.
YOUVE LOST YOUR RIGHT TO GRIPE ABOUT OLD BIKES SINCE YOU KEEP BUYING THEM AFTER YOU GET RID OF THEM CAUSE THEY ARE OLD
Kiss it @XwalkerX
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Re-did the chopper with Checko for the new owner (our tattoo artist)
we stripped it down, ground some of my welds, and painted the frame. Checko painted the fenders gold, and smoothed out the dents/dings and emblems in the tank, and then I painted it black with our shop emblem applied before clear-coat.
Came out REALLY excellent…hate to see it go but it’s going to a good home and I’ll still be able to ride it from time to time if I ask Josh.
Nice job…I like how the paint turned out
here is my panhead currently
I do love the peanut tank. 
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new one is a frisco tunnel narrowed wassell style tank
old one is a frisco tunnel narrowed peanut which is now going to be a wall hanger
for the most part everything changed but the powerplant
I, for some unknown reason, got a shot of ambition yesterday. I got my GS750 running and am pleased with it. You did a nice job with the carbs Nick. I added a set of K+N pods I had and ditched the vacuum petcock for a manual one. Have a new sneaker and battery coming for it. Should have it on the road this week. I also turned a few bolts on my Dragbike and fired that mother up! Felt good to have a few of these piles running instead of just cluttering the garage.
NICE! thanks for the kind words haha. good work swapping that petcock…I HATE HATE HATE vacuum petcocks. Glad it’s up and running well, I have a TON of work into the head on that bike with gennaro…
I helped too! Haha
I’m posting this here while I wait on a text or two… but as some of you may know I scooped a cb500T motor for my 450 frame.
Engine has solid compression and everything looks/feels tight… but after buttoning things up yesterday and firing the motor for the first time (ran second kick) it sounded like marbles in the left side case. Well, sure enough, after shutting down, draining the oil and popping the mag case, the fucking starter chain is either broken or off the gear back there. It looks like it was ran for a short period of time like that, as there was a fairly substancial amount of aluminum shavings.
I am going to talk to the shop I picked the bike up from today, but how fucked do you think it is in there? How the fuck does the starter clutch fail like that? It was definitely not MY doing. I plan on pulling that chain out (since I kick start only, anyways) and filling with new oil, starting, and then flushing again. Do you think this engine is going to see some long term issues with the casing aluminum from that chain schlopping around in there?
