Bike photos

[HobbyMan]

not even the sidewall?

[79XS11F]

Originally posted by audijunky
Hello good sirs,
Love the bikes, but I must ask you, for safety sake please do not armour all your tires. Can be extremely dangerous.

That's REAL good advice and I would add that Armor All should not be used on handlebar grips, seats, brake parts including the disc's, passenger grab points or foot pegs for that matter. Tires is OK so long as you don't apply it to the treads as is seen in the pics of my bike.
Rob

[HobbyMan]

I regularly armor all my tires(not tread). AS for the rest, I have a special conditioner that serves the same purpose as armor all, but it helps the rubber or whatever maintain its friction properties. It protects plastic, vinyl, rubber, or just about anything. I can't remember who makes it though. The bottle broke long ago. It was designed to be put on things that were too dangerous to armor all

[threebanger]

Here's the parts bike I just picked up. Does that count? It's my only 1100.

[HobbyMan]

That about what my new bike looks like, only it has an engine. I have the swingarm all torn apart and there is nothing else on it.. Fun Fun Fun, ... realy

[TomB]

Here's my latest project undergoing a slight tweaking


And post tweak straightened out nice.


I bent it badly years ago and have finally got round to straightening it. Pity I can't do the same on the damage to my body

[HobbyMan]

did any welds brake?

[TomB]

did any welds break?

On my body??

Unfortunately yes! quite a few

None on the frame though, I had already cut the pressed steel bracing from under the steering head to allow the head to be pulled straight. These will be replaced with tube later and braced with plating to make it look similar to original (but stronger, hopefully )

I have just put the full write up so far, on the UK XS forum here

[mason79]

resurect this thread for my resurected bike



i put the glare in to to hide the guy's leaving some dents on the tank for my 400.00 paint job, he cut corners on top of not being a true craftsman, he sold me on his custom color he had laying around, iit's nice but a little bland sometimes lots of micro flakesi could live with the shoddy work, some area do look great tho.

drilled discs, painted, 4 into1, it's coming together, now if i could get it to run right...

[audijunky]

"now if i could get it to run right..."

That my friend is all of our quests...
well at least mine

[joshua]

78 beater rescue

Not sure how to get my pics of my beastbike on here. Once I figure it out you can all laugh/help/feed ideas to me all you want.

[planedick]

Tom's garage

Man, that's what a garage should look like. Just enough junk to do most anything.

[malber]

Re: 78 beater rescue

Originally posted by joshua
Not sure how to get my pics of my beastbike on here. Once I figure it out you can all laugh/help/feed ideas to me all you want.

If it runs that's all that really matters. The rest is icing.

[Wayne]

sweet ride there mason79!

[joshua]

Here's the bastardbike. I just bought it, so this is NOT how it's going to look forever.