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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6300 on: May 20, 2011, 04:21:21 AM »
My 650 fell over because of the piss poor design of the kick stand and my stupidity luckily I only broke the front turn signal and I was replacing it anyway.  Lucky me.  Rode the 550 to workand I love that little bike.


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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6301 on: May 20, 2011, 05:16:31 AM »
...got the speedo housing back from the watchmaker. He polished up the front lens now it is looking much better then before.
 
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6302 on: May 20, 2011, 05:16:37 AM »
Took the chopper out for a shakedown run.

Ran out of gas about two miles from my house. So, before I pushed it home I snapped this pic.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6303 on: May 20, 2011, 05:27:36 AM »
I rolled the KZ750 out of my storage space and rode her here, to the coffee shop.  Its ride your bike to work day at the shop where I have been working.  my back brake lever is sticking down.  I hope its a spring or lubrication issue and not a master cylinder or caliper issue.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6304 on: May 20, 2011, 05:33:53 AM »
Took the chopper out for a shakedown run.

Ran out of gas about two miles from my house. So, before I pushed it about 2 miles home I snapped this pic.





Justin,,,  nice country out there,  looks like you need to carry a spare gas tank to go along with that mini tank.  Does it even hold a gallon?  Any progress on the 400f?  ...Larry

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6305 on: May 20, 2011, 06:00:28 AM »
Spare tank is in the works, sir. Ha.

I had to get this off of the bench before I could start on the 400f. Now all of my shop time will be spent on the Four.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6306 on: May 20, 2011, 09:33:03 AM »
Shoulda put a gas tank on instead of your hip flask!
Took the chopper out for a shakedown run.

Ran out of gas about two miles from my house. So, before I pushed it about 2 miles home I snapped this pic.





Justin,,,  nice country out there,  looks like you need to carry a spare gas tank to go along with that mini tank.  Does it even hold a gallon?  Any progress on the 400f?  ...Larry
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6307 on: May 20, 2011, 09:34:43 AM »
Dropped the frame off at the Powder Coater :)
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6308 on: May 20, 2011, 02:06:28 PM »
...cleaned the next set of carbs and put on the K&N pods at the K0 and drove it.
It is running real good with 140 main jets.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6309 on: May 20, 2011, 03:04:41 PM »
Received the Morgan Cartune Carb. Sync. tool in the mail last night and synced the Carb's on my 550 for the first time today.  Made a big difference in idle and pulls really smooth when accelerating now!  Very Happy.  ;D (Now if I could just get the number two carb. to stop periodically overflowing).
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6310 on: May 20, 2011, 04:22:31 PM »
Went to the storage shed to look and dream. Trying to figure out how to either get fire to the coils or wire them directly w/o burning them up.

Still have to possibly rebuild carbs.

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What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6311 on: May 20, 2011, 06:42:55 PM »
I rode it to work and we all oooed and ahhed over each others bikes at lunch and 330 break. The boss's nephew rode his Jammer frame CB 750 old school rigid chopper. Suicide shift, no mufflers, ape hanger bars, not my thing but a sweet ride.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6312 on: May 20, 2011, 07:09:45 PM »
Adjusted my chain after putting a few miles on it.  Also installed my painted sprocket cover to see how I like it.  Installed some carb drain tubes to protect the paint. 



I'll be painting the stator cover that's not pictured because it's so beat up, it'll be black too.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6313 on: May 21, 2011, 02:37:04 PM »
Paint looks good.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6314 on: May 21, 2011, 02:38:49 PM »
...installed a front fender on my K0
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6315 on: May 21, 2011, 03:31:10 PM »
Valve adjustment, new points and condensers, finished installing Slingshot Cycles braided brake line, then out on the road -- WEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6316 on: May 21, 2011, 04:30:18 PM »
I've decided to build another stock CB750 over winter, I really enjoyed the blue K2 build last summer, but the thing that cheesed me off was crawling around on my concrete floor, so I bit the bullet and bought a pneumatic/hydraulic bike stand on EBay. It's gonna be really nice working on my bikes at a comfortable height for the first time in 40+ years! ;D
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6317 on: May 21, 2011, 04:35:47 PM »
Went out to the storage shed and attached a wire from the battery to the coils wire and she fired up. Played with the clutch adjustment and got it to at least move under her own power.

So, it looks as if the 100 bucks was worth it. Guess its time to start tearing it down and do the rat/bobber build I want to do.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6318 on: May 21, 2011, 04:43:35 PM »
This morning, I finished putting on my clubman bars, hooked all of the wires back up, and went for a 100 mile journey. The bars feel better than I thought, except for the motocross grips that I threw on it in a hurry. They are paper thin and are horrible. I still need to get a shorter brake line and cut back all of the wires, but everything went smoooooth, as long as you don't count wiring up the turn signals backwards. They now blink opposite of eachother. Oh well, I'll get it tomorrow!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6319 on: May 21, 2011, 05:36:49 PM »
I went for a solid ride.

When I got home I happened to come across a nice squashed bug in my beard.  Yay!
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6320 on: May 21, 2011, 06:19:58 PM »
After a years worth of work and parts, rode the hell out of it today. Simply fantastic. The power, exhaust growl, nice solid handling. Thanks everyone for their help. Without you guys, it wouldn't have happened.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6321 on: May 21, 2011, 06:35:40 PM »
I spend most of the day working on the KO. Adjusted clutch, camchain, drive chain. Took the caliper apart to give it a good cleaning and it was a mess. Now I know why frt brake was grabbing so bad. Here's a few pics
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6322 on: May 21, 2011, 06:59:19 PM »
Took the bike up to mountians with Bluezboy (AKA Vern) and tried to carve as many corners as I could, in between showing the Georgia State Patrol my license and insurance a couple of times. ;)  Then took the bike down to the Year One car show, but they wouldn't let me put my bike in the show. >:(  Oh well it was still a fun 160 miles.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6323 on: May 21, 2011, 07:11:19 PM »
Planned on doing a lot of things today.

Replace the crush washers on my forks. (only the left on was leaking, but I purchased enough to do both anyways)
Adjust the valves
Adjust cam chain tension
Clean and adjust points ad timing
Sync the carbs
And after everything was perfect, replace the points with my new Pamco ignition.

But NO! I had to take my daughter to the optometrist for her appointment at 11:15. >:(  So I took her on the Honda, her first ride! :)  When we got back I had to show her how to run the lawn mower. Then I had to help my neighbor with his lawn mower.

When I got back from that, all I could manage was the crush washers on the left fork (the leaky one).  And that took 3 hours! :o And it's suppose to rain tomorrow. :(  So I took a little ride to see if there was improvement. Yes! Much better ride. ;D

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What did you do to your bike today ?
« Reply #6324 on: May 21, 2011, 08:40:44 PM »
I took the rear brake lever/passenger peg mount off the KZ and got it unstuck. The pivot boss was rusted so bad the return spring wouldnt pull it back up.  Leaving a bike in the rain regardless of the cover and tarps is never good. I cleaned it out with some 120 grit then 220 then a nice lube and reassemble.  Pulled my rear MC boot back and rubbed a bit of silicone lube in there while I was at it.  Once that was sorted I rode it around a bit for effect then swapped that bike out for the little Honda.
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