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Living with the updated shop. Follow-up on my first Shop Makeover post. One of the largest reservations I had about moving the workbench, was the lack of electrical on that side of the garage. Nothing was originally wired there. In fact there are 8 plugs in the shop, 6 of them on the ‘red wall’ [...] This week, I have been working with my son on the little Kawi. While I was vacationing in The Gorge, this past week, a pile of parts arrived for the Kawi. Along with starting some bodywork on the gas tank, I also performed the first test fitting of a number of new parts: rear turn [...] While filling dings and dents in the gas tank, I applied a few guide coats (primer applied with the intent of sanding all of it all to surface level, which will leave any high or low spots easy to identify) and was relocating the tank on the painting table, at which point the worn out [...] Custom, such an over-used word. What I’m looking for is a non-stock off-the-shelf tail light assembly I can use for the bike. Saw this one on Amazon.. solves a couple of problems. Tail light and license plate mount. Leaning PRETTY hard towards this one: Custom Motorcycle LED Rear Tail Light. It’s $30.00 which beats the [...] Progress continues on the KZ400 project. Today’s work was focused around using my new plastic welder to fill in holes on the side panel. The plastic welder came with a number of welding sticks, to use with a variety of plastics. After quite a bit of melting, and trying the PVC, ABS and PP welding [...] D2Moto had a pretty dang good say going, so I ordered some more parts for the project bike. Parts Ordered While I was at it, I also picked up some blink for the Ducati. In fact, almost 1/2 the order is one set of blingware for the Duc. It deserves a little attention as [...] I’ve been looking at a number of vintage bikes, and some cafe racer bikers. Going to save these for reference, and what about each one I really like. It will be interesting to come back to these articles once I finally finish the bike and see what I was thinking. Bike 1 – Honda twin [...] It was a dark and stormy night….. The amazing KZ400 Somewhere it was, but not here. It was rather warm, and the coolness of my subterranean shop was a blessing. It turned out that I would spend the better part of a weekend in there, wrestling the carburetors into the very tight, very new, [...] Having worked 1/2 the previous night, until 1:00AM, then gettng up again at 7:00 to continue forward with a large development project, I decided to reward my hard work with a little R&R at the top of the Olympic National Park. My friend Bill had the day off so we decided to meet up north [...] Then then there were three (less). One person out with flu, another had a technical issue with their bike and a third simply decided to pass. Myself, I’m going. Tank bag arrived today. Smaller than I expected. HOWEVER, it seems well constructed and for a day bag.. I think it will be perfect. The SW-Motec [...] |
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