Topic: 1973 Cb500 poor boy chop

[Gurp]

thank you guys I'm glad I'm finally back to working on it again.

I love the Kooks! traded for them off a forum member
JakeC I want to say, He is from Seattle my old 4 into 4 pipes in decent shape. these where just right for me! Ordered a similar brake return spring hoping it will work... Fingers crossed ill be able to take it out on the roads in the next 2 weeks!

[Gurp]

Gonna take a few days to get this glues and cured. I have the time so now big deal. Gonna look for the brake pedal spring a bit today while I watch the kiddos play outside. Hoping I can find it before I have to try the alternative.

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[Gurp]

Well I figured why waste the day?
So I got the brake side controls mounted, working and tuned.
I really need to start cleaning stuff before I Tig....
But hey it works and I'm happy enough with that. I can always remake it later it I choose.  I still need to add a round to close up the front of the pedal but it's pretty much done.
Next is welding up the lowered front tank mounts.
After that is adding something to pull the little bit of tail light wire that's resting on the tire.
The. The motorcycle chain sissy bar. I have enough chain to do it once so there is little to no room for error. Debating to take it to my buddy's and use his Mig or stay home and use the Tig.

Now to have a easy dinner night with the kiddos. Momma is at work so I'm going to the local McDonald's with a play place. I'm happy time to make them happy!


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[Gurp]

Also on the list of things to do. Add some type of adhesive to the throttle side grip as it gentle rotates under load.
Order the Bridgestone trailwing the knobby is ok for testing and around town but I'd like to have a new tire before it gets out further from the house.
Make a battery strap and mount that.
And last but not least find a small GPS for a dual sport and mount it on or close to the bar clamps. I'd like to have the GPS speedo for trips further from the house. When you've been on the highway for a hour or more speed all feels about the same, at least to me it does. It also usually gives me a trip scale of how much gas I have. Time V estimated average travel speed. Less Important going to work but more when I'm out 100+ miles from home.

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[BenelliSEI]

How does pulling straight ahead on that brake pedal actually work?

[Gurp]

The hole that I tapped for the joint to thread to is in the bottom half and the pedal is slightly off center.
Whole not a effective movement with the slight offset it's enough for it to roll it the way I need to. The Kooks don't lean a lot of room for a more efficient action. I would love to have about a inch more than I do, but that's life.

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[grcamna2]

Also on the list of things to do. Add some type of adhesive to the throttle side grip as it gentle rotates under load.
Order the Bridgestone trailwing the knobby is ok for testing and around town but I'd like to have a new tire before it gets out further from the house.
Make a battery strap and mount that.
And last but not least find a small GPS for a dual sport and mount it on or close to the bar clamps. I'd like to have the GPS speedo for trips further from the house. When you've been on the highway for a hour or more speed all feels about the same, at least to me it does. It also usually gives me a trip scale of how much gas I have. Time V estimated average travel speed. Less Important going to work but more when I'm out 100+ miles from home.

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I'd also like to purchase a small($) GPS.

[Gurp]

Also on the list of things to do. Add some type of adhesive to the throttle side grip as it gentle rotates under load.
Order the Bridgestone trailwing the knobby is ok for testing and around town but I'd like to have a new tire before it gets out further from the house.
Make a battery strap and mount that.
And last but not least find a small GPS for a dual sport and mount it on or close to the bar clamps. I'd like to have the GPS speedo for trips further from the house. When you've been on the highway for a hour or more speed all feels about the same, at least to me it does. It also usually gives me a trip scale of how much gas I have. Time V estimated average travel speed. Less Important going to work but more when I'm out 100+ miles from home.

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I'd also like to purchase a small($) GPS.

Personally I was pretty impressed with how well they function. My Sportster came with a dash that had a 5 inch gauge and I switched it out for an older style they call a cat eye dash. Talk to the guys at work and the cutting me out and adapter to adapt it down to a 3 and 3/8 or 85 mm gauge. And a few thousand miles and over a year out in the sun and the weather the $50 Amazon gauge still works amazing. Just depending on where you are when you turn the bike on sometimes you got to wait a minute for it to get signal but that's not the worst thing ever.

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[grcamna2]

Also on the list of things to do. Add some type of adhesive to the throttle side grip as it gentle rotates under load.
Order the Bridgestone trailwing the knobby is ok for testing and around town but I'd like to have a new tire before it gets out further from the house.
Make a battery strap and mount that.
And last but not least find a small GPS for a dual sport and mount it on or close to the bar clamps. I'd like to have the GPS speedo for trips further from the house. When you've been on the highway for a hour or more speed all feels about the same, at least to me it does. It also usually gives me a trip scale of how much gas I have. Time V estimated average travel speed. Less Important going to work but more when I'm out 100+ miles from home.

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I'd also like to purchase a small($) GPS.

Personally I was pretty impressed with how well they function. My Sportster came with a dash that had a 5 inch gauge and I switched it out for an older style they call a cat eye dash. Talk to the guys at work and the cutting me out and adapter to adapt it down to a 3 and 3/8 or 85 mm gauge. And a few thousand miles and over a year out in the sun and the weather the $50 Amazon gauge still works amazing. Just depending on where you are when you turn the bike on sometimes you got to wait a minute for it to get signal but that's not the worst thing ever.

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Do you have a picture,w/ it lit-up ?

[Gurp]

Only bad thing about it is it gets a little moisture under the glass. Wouldn't be much of a issue of I currently had a covered place to park the bike. On a wlhot day it's all gone though. I bought the Cheap SOG Amazon brand there were a lot nicer ones I could have gotten that I'll assume weren't so bad about that. If these one ever dies I'll get a snazzier one for the sporty.

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[grcamna2]

Looks good 

[Gurp]

Thanks!

After the 500/550 is road ready and had some shake downs the sporty goes back on the lift with a deadline of mid May to get switch over to foot clutch hand shift.
And switching over to a solid rear wheel.



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[grcamna2]

Thanks!

After the 500/550 is road ready and had some shake downs the sporty goes back on the lift with a deadline of mid May to get switch over to foot clutch hand shift.
And switching over to a solid rear wheel.



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Going 'old school'

[Gurp]

Always wanted to try it. I'll either like or take it back off and hang the setup on the shelf.

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[Gurp]

Today ended up being very productive.
Forgot no school for the kiddos so went in the shop to not waste the morning motivation.

Glued another section and moved the clamps for re-foaming the Anti-pod.

Then just decided to see if I could rig up a way to make the chain sissy bar.

Came up with a way using a ratchet strap and running down to vise grips clamped to a piece of wire as a plumb.

It was slow to Tig it. I have to clean up a few of the links. Between the minor rust and the oil/grease I couldn't clean with brake parts cleaner the welds aren't all stunning but that all looks decent.

When the seat comes back I'll weld the bar to mounting brackets and weld the tray to the bar. And probably a tab to the seat as well.





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[Kelly E]

Nice job on the sissy bar.

[Gurp]

Honestly I've been putting it off dreading building it. Today I just hung it up and wanted to see what it was going to look like. One thing lead to another and 3 1/2 hours later it was done.
A lot of times the perceived notion of how something is going to go stops or slows me down and when I actually do it it's easy.

[WhyNot2]

Wow, nice sissy bar. Your notions are as mine......looks hard till you actually do it, then it seems it was easy.

Causes me to put off things as well.

[Gurp]

Wow, nice sissy bar. Your notions are as mine......looks hard till you actually do it, then it seems it was easy.

Causes me to put off things as well.

I'm so bad about it. That's how raking the bike was. I dreaded it. Then one day I came home from work and before I even thought what  I was doing....
I HAD CUT THE NECKKK. I was like well no choice but to finish now.

I probably talk myself out of more stuff than I do bc of this. I'm sure if you're like me you do as well.

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[Shtonecb500]

Nice progress, the forward controls really are amazing, they make a Honda really comfy to ride, the sissy bar looks fun nice work on that. I haven't touched my bikes in months. The end of the riding season was bleak because I had to rebuild my carbs unexpectedly so the last few warmish weeks we had in MI, my bike sat in the garage.The carbs are rebuilt but will need to get synced, the K1 is kinda in the same place and the BMW didn't get touched not even one time, not even a wire diagram for the m-unit was drawn up. I'm in class full time right now learning CATIA, Solidworks, Autodesk 360 fusion and NX...I CANT WAIT TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN CUSTOM PARTS.

Looks good tho, always making me wish I still had a chop floating around...I don't wanna ride one but ill be damned if I don't wanna build and look at one.

[Gurp]

I feel that.
Last year end of riding season the sporty went down I rode home with no clutch and parked it.

What is your major studying all that? Digital engineering? Sounds really interesting and difficult.

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[Gurp]

Kicked the bike over today while cleaning the shop and realized that the kicker was catching on the forward control linkage.

After some aggravated welding I got the kicker reshaped around the linkage.  Unfortunately I don't have the doot rest at exactly the right angle but it's close enough.

May get a gallon of gas and some uni filter oil tomorrow to take it for a ride around the neighborhood.

Right now it's out the Anti-pod on. Retune the carbs. And make a battery hold down.

I ordered a 1973 Ohio plate so I can have a historical plate for it.

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[Gurp]

Picked up some correct Honda fuel line and some foam filter oil. But today is a no sleep day.
Job Interview this morning then when I got home the woman has to leave for work shortly so I'm awake with my toddler to get the others off the bus and cook dinner. I'll lay down for about a hour tonight then back to work.

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[Kelly E]

How did the interview go?

[Gurp]

How did the interview go?

It went great. HR lady said they were all very impressed that I was super relaxed and it came across great.

Panel interview with 9 maintenance and millwright supervisors/managers.
Took my drug test scheduled for my physical next week.

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