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  • #16
    Yeah I know !!

    I put my mouth in gear before I engaged my brain! Happens all the time.
    I was actually in my shop polishing stuff when I took a break and read this post!!!
    78 XS1100E Standard
    Coca Cola Red
    Hooker Headers

    http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...m/DSC00580.jpg

    1979 XS1100 Special
    http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...m/DSC00612.jpg

    1980 XS Standard
    http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...m/DSC01137.jpg

    2006 Roadstar Warrior
    http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/p...um/warrior.jpg

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    • #17
      Originally posted by randy View Post
      Fred, why would you wish evil on me?
      Hi Randy,
      I wish you nothing but good.
      After 27 years my wife "didn't want to be married, not just to you, but to anyone." Then she moved to Winnipeg to share a house with a lesbian.
      A year later hope triumphed over experience and I married a French-Canadian lady 18 years my junior c/w 2 small boys.
      That was 20 years ago.
      Smartest move I ever made.
      Fred Hill, S'toon
      XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
      "The Flying Pumpkin"

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      • #18
        I have a full polishing setup in my garage, I used to do it for a living many years ago but I thing the shipping to New Zealand may be a bit of a problem for you.
        1980 SG. (Sold - waiting on replacement)
        2000 XJR1300. The Real modern XS11. Others are just pretenders.

        Woman (well, my wife anyway) are always on Transmit and never Receive.

        "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be" Albert Einstien.

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        • #19
          Psstt....Randy.........Unless your trying to pick up a new SO, polishing don't make a sh!t.

          Unless you just like looking at yourself.

          LIVE FREE AND RIDE! Or just freakin' ride.

          Besides, if you start polishing....you never stop.

          FRED......I've been through QUITE a few but I never lost one to the " Dark Side"

          Guess I'm just not experienced enough.

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          • #20
            your send me all the sandpaper starting from 250 all the way up to 2000 for the almunim/steel parts and i got 4 tins of eagle one polishing compound, and the arm eating polishing wheel attached to the briggs and strattin motor foot operated.....and ill shine the **** out of them....but im about avarage i polished the brage calipers on my car came out good to me.....i got laid off today so i got a the time in the world....u can send me one piece at a time and if u dont like it i wont charge u only charge u postage to ship it back....sound good
            _____________________________________________ 1979 XS 1100 Special "The judge" mods- K&N air pods, 4-1 mac, 147.5 pilots, 57.5 mains, LED turn signal, cafe bars, HEL translucent yellow stainless steel brake line, dyna coil (dc2-1), raptor 660 mc, r6 controls..(sold)

            1982 gs1100e "all business" cafe project
            1980 gs1000g "stock"
            1982 honda express "stretched 10 inch(my daughters scooter)
            2008 jmstar 150cc Chinese scooter ( wife's bike)

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            • #21
              the briggs and strattin motor foot operated.....
              That sounds kike a real "tim the tool man" tool.

              Would mind seeing a pic of that.

              mro
              BTW, Randy ... surprised tod did not have anything to say about doing the filter cover

              Just the fins


              next one might do the fins on the oil pan too

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              • #22
                I know I could do it but that's alot of work, I do it all by hand.
                79 XS11 Special (Lazarus)
                80 XS850 Special (Old Faithful)
                80 XS11 Standard sorta stock (Beatrice)
                79 DT 100

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                • #23
                  I do it all by hand.
                  Now ..... If you were a foxy female I might ...


                  mro

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by xs11lover View Post
                    I know I could do it but that's alot of work, I do it all by hand.
                    You a lonely Lover?

                    Switch hands........I hear that's just like getting "strange"

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                    • #25
                      Now that MRO saw the rusty spot at the weld on his frame.. he won't be able to sleep until he gets that fixed back up.

                      Yeah.. polished that filter cover on mine to mirrored chrome. I do all mine by hand also..sandpaper down to 3000 grit... so it took me probably the better part of a week's worth of evenings, only to find out.....



                      ...you damn near have to be on the ground at the angle he took that pic at to be able to even see the damn thing.

                      Mine used to look really nice. After a couple fall overs and a slow lay down and asphalt grind.. plus all the riding in the rain I do... not so much. It used to be broke down so much, I had time to polish on it all the time. Now.. since I don't care what the temp is.. .if there's time to polish, there's time to ride!


                      Tod
                      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

                      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

                      Current bikes:
                      '06 Suzuki DR650
                      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
                      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
                      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
                      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
                      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
                      '81 XS1100 Special
                      '81 YZ250
                      '80 XS850 Special
                      '80 XR100
                      *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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