Saturday afternoon with the Honda CB 350!
It’s been a few weeks (at least) since I last had any significant progress to report on the custom Honda CB 350, but this weekend I finally did a few things worth mentioning.
First, the exhaust: I’ve never done anything like this before, but my housemate has a TIG welder, I found this website to order pre-bent sections of stainless steel tubing, and I figured ‘what can go wrong?’ » Read more..
In need of some suspension tuning...
The other day I rode the Yamaha FZR 600 to a work gig, knowing that I would have to return, late at night, on the treacherous course called the Long Island Expressway. I have ridden this road many times before – and it is always nasty, but this ride would be after a long day of work, in the dark, with limited visibility for the numerous potholes and bumps that riddle this strip of thoroughfare…. » Read more..
Courtesy of Garage Journal
Came across this web site while looking into some machining techniques. Garage Journal is a site dedicated to making your garage or workspace the best that it can be. Equal parts gadgets and DIY design, this has become my new favorite place to surf… » Read more..
The lonely Honda CB 550 K...
Everyone knows that rule number one to bad parenting is playing favorites. Granted, grandparents can gt away with that shit. But parents are NOT supposed to have a favorite child. Imagine my surprise when I recognized that I had been favoring my new bike. The old 1973 Honda CB 550 K had sat in a corner for a few months, while I poured my energy into the newer (to me) 1993 Yamaha FZR 600. The guilt welled up in me as I pulled the CB 550 out of the garage, to use as my daily rider, for the time it would take me to repaint and modify the FZR 600… » Read more..
Ghosted images...
After hours of cleaning and cutting the rear side fairings of the 1993 Yamaha FZR 600, then peeling decals and cleaning up the larger, front fairings, it was time for the final prep for painting. The last parts to remove were the front fairing (that the lights sit in), the tank, and the fender. The fender and tank came off easy, twisted a few bolts and I was cleaning. The front fairing was another story… » Read more..
