Long bike Matt

and his buddy Matt ( Matt and Matt, easy to remember ) brought his long chop over for a quick wiring job.  Matt has fabricated some cool bits up for this thing and I hope to see him ride it to the Oily Souls show on the 24th.... 

Wednesday stuff in my shop

 
 

 

Greg and the Kid stopped by yesterday to hang out and work on the Kids sporty for a minute.  We stuck the badges on it, checked the charging system and declared it good.  

The Softail with the springer came in because of a weird noise. It ended up having a blown out rear wheel bearing that destroyed the bearing bores on a otherwise nice vato spoke rear wheel.   No fear, Greg brought me some fresh bearings and seals and surgery began. I made some spacers to move the bearings outboard a little so they would seat on some good metal, Made a new spacer tube, packed it full of grease, beat in the new seals and spun it a bit for good measure. 

I also pulled off the cam cover to see if it was possible to remove the head studs on the turbo cb750 without pulling the head.  It doesn't look good for me there. 

And lastly,  Darrin ( the Kid )   was on his way out and his fresh Iron headed trouble steed up and stalled.  upon further inspection we found a total lack of spark.   It was getting pretty late so he left it in the shop and we will mess around with it later today.

For the most part it was a good day with friends in the shop. Thanks for stopping by guys!

 

Chenko Special , Mini-b's Ironhead

I was going through old pictures and found these shots while we were building Mini-b's sporty.

Kinda cool to look back at.

Mini-bs Sporty In The Fall

Mini-b sent me these this morning.

Michigan sure is beautiful in the fall.

Shmoof

Just have to make the mounts for the headlamp and...done.

Mini b's Sportster Ride

More shots of the headlight so far

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Just gotta mount the thing onto the bike and do a little metal finishing and then......

I'm totally playing this part by ear so I'm just feeling out how it looks and functions as I fab it together , kinda fun that way.

The Falice of Night Vision

Greg's sporty headlamp-speedo combo to match the rest of his body work.

This will be a all aluminum bodied machine when its done, that by itself makes it pretty cool .

sportster Cafe Racer Seat Progress

Its all mounted up . Just finishing work at this point. Maybe tweak the lines so they flow better from the tank to the pan. but that's about it.

Gregs sporty, Seatpan from hell

I am not quite sure why but this thing is being a real bugger. I think I have had artist block or something. but anyway , I finally think I'm on to something with this one.

Greg Sportster Cafe project

Huge headlamp mandrel is done , Thanks to Mini b.

Artist rendering of Greg's machine done by Diesel over at the ZON.

I've wanted to do the aluminum headlamp speedo combo for a while.

Excuses, Been to busy to take pictures lately

But I assure you stuff is getting done.

I might make it to Cafe Racer Ypsi tonight if we don't get buried alive under snow.

Choppers Suck, Mini b's Sporty Bobber

I just realized how dusty this bike is gettin.

I saw the choppers suck tail light some where but the points cover is my rendition of it . I apologize for using the idea but it was to cool to pass up.

One Handed Headlight Bracket For XS650 and Sportster

So easy I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.

A one sided clip on headlamp bracket .

So simple and clean that it looks like the light just floats there.

Mini caught a glimpse of it and had to have one for his sporty.

More of mini's sportster

Just a couple of shots that show the seat on the Kremlin Cruiser

Mini B's Sportster Seat , Tooled Leather

Its not so shiny in person. Mini-b is about as much Russian as I am German but we thought this would fit the style of his steed.

Mini's tires are in

Firestone Vintage, made in Taiwan? WTF.
Fuck it they're still sweet.

Mini b's Sporty Chop

The mini beast took these pics over the weekend during some final touches on the pipes.

Thanks Mini.

72 Iron Head Chop Equal Length Headers

I will most likely change this around a bit before I finish weld it but it looks pretty cool so far.

Mini b's Iron Headed Chop-O-Bobber

Notice the original internal throttle still intact. Pretty much just waiting on tires and wires with some minor details here and there.

Again sorry for the shit ass cell phone pics.