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Those blown up gas tanks can make a real nice café headlight fairing and rear fender.
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"The Hooligan" XJ1100, Virago Gauge Pods, Screaming Eagle Mufflers, K&N Filter, hand made rear fender, side covers, and solo seat, round bar conversion, small headlight, tail light, and cat eye turn signals, chip fuses, rewired the right way.
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It is hanging on my garage wall like a trophy tuna fish!Skids (Sid Hansen)
Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.Comment
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None of the above apply to me but after having my company van serviced in a Ford dealership I had to take off in a snow storm. In the middle of nowhere low on gas no phone I had a flat. One by one all the studs snapped off trying to take the wheel off because they had been over torqued . That last snap put a sense of fear in me.To fix the problem one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.
Rodan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khm6...liHntN91DHjHiS
1980 G Silverbird
Original Yamaha Fairfing and Bags
1198 Overbore kit
Grizzly 660 ACCT
Barnett Clutch Springs
R1 Clutch Fiber Plates
122.5 Main Jets
ACCT Mod
Mac 4-2 Flare Tips
Antivibe Bar ends
Rear trunk add-on
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LoHo! Eighty-tighty lefty-loosey. 8-)Skids (Sid Hansen)
Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.Comment
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Stupid autocorrect function. You know what I meant...Skids (Sid Hansen)
Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.Comment
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........being it's a Yamaha motor would be the good part.....Originally posted by edgo View Post81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.Comment
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Escape has a Mazda engine.Originally posted by motoman View PostGreg
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.
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Third time smart
Tightening a fan belt on girlfriend's Volvo:Originally posted by edgo View Post
1st Use ratchet handle to provide tension. Slips. Smash end of finger on bolt.
Much colourful language.
2nd Try again. Smash same end of finger on same bolt. Much more colourful
language, accompanied with much jumping around.
3rd Go to garage to get appropriate pry bar. Much quieter.1980 XS 1100 Special
Mostly stock & original
Added Yamaha fairing (w/ 8-track!)
Torpedo bags
New paint (still) pending
Stainless brake lines
Tkat forkbrace
Coils from Honda 1000
Previous bikes:
1968(?) 350 Harley Davidson
1977 Yamaha 650Comment
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I decided one night to let my oil drain on a Ford 289 in a 66 Fairlane while I went in and had supper. The motor had less than 100 miles on it and I had spent about 2700 bucks on all the pretty parts. This was a lot of years ago, basically when the first roller cams came out.
My buddy came over and I said I would be done in a few minutes and to hang tough till I finished supper and I would add the oil and we would start it up.
Dumbass went out and poured 4 quarts of oil in and decided to start it up while I was still eating.
You have no idea of how fast you can run until something like this happens!!!
All the oil he added was drained into the drain pan under the motor as the oil plug was sitting on the fender well the whole time. I was one unhappy dude.
Still makes me sick thinking about that brand new motor with all the money I spent only lasting 2000 miles.2-79 XS1100 SF
2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!Comment
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That's cause for an azz woopin.
My most memorable moment was this time in high school when I built a Volkswagen Rabbit. I was working a crappy part time job and had moved in with my dad which was 25 miles away from school so I was pressed for time to finish my motor during spring break. I rebuilt the entire engine in a few days. I installed a Porsche 944 head, a huge pinto carb and performance cam. The mistake was made wen received pistons which were supposed to be pressed pin, except they didn't press, just slid in and out. Being in a hurry, my dad got the bright idea to cut grooves into the pins so we could use circlips. We got the motor together an it ran for about 2 weeks. This MF would do 60 miles an hour in 2nd gear and I as eating up Camaro Berlinettas, Hondas, and everything I could. One morning I was late for school so I ate up the freeway at 120 miles an hour. It was a 4 speed so it was probably turning 8 - 9K RPM. All of a sudden the cab filled up with smoke and I smoked out all 4 lanes on the freeway. That thing blew sky high when the piston keeper came out and shredded the block. It was awesome, of course I was upset.
"The Hooligan" XJ1100, Virago Gauge Pods, Screaming Eagle Mufflers, K&N Filter, hand made rear fender, side covers, and solo seat, round bar conversion, small headlight, tail light, and cat eye turn signals, chip fuses, rewired the right way.
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I think the worst sinking feeling I have ever had with my XS was when I was removing the exhaust that had been on there forever. It went from being tight to, oh there it goes, to the bolt snapping off in the head. Then to make matters worse was me drilling out the bolt and having the easy out snap off inside. Out of all the things I have had happen, that had to be the worst.
Wayne80 XS1100 SG "Phoenix"
"We are the type of band that if we moved in next door to you...Your lawn would die"
Lemmy from MotorheadComment
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Worst wrenching experience for me? Using my time, tools, spare parts, and fuel to help someone get their bike going, only to have them turn around and sell the bike.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
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Hi John,Originally posted by jwhughes3 View Post
that's when the need to ride trumps decades of engineering training and experience.
What IS a great idea is putting a triprail on the front edge of a workbench to stop things rolling off it.
Shoulda done it sooner.Fred Hill, S'toon
XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
"The Flying Pumpkin"Comment
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I hate that. Last summer I helped a coworker with a GSXR600 wiring and carbs only to have him sell it right away for a loss to get some quick cash.Originally posted by trbig View Post82J · 81SH · 79SF Fire Damage · 78E · 79F Parts Bike · 04 Buell Blast
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LOL......bike-b-qOriginally posted by trbig View Post
Greg
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.
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