Handsome Rob

I also resurrected a skillset I never thought I'd need again! I haven't had this forge hot in at least 16 years! Turns out, I can still do it!

More fun: Very sexy little Prism Supply tail light arrived & was installed. I also had The Wife take a couple of 'position' shots so I could situate my shifter.

We need a 'handbag club' meetup.....

Every day, it looks a little more motorbikey! @gregintenn You'll be tickled pink to learn that this one is staying shiny. It wasn't going to, but I'm seeing too many ratty chops owned & ridden by 'Johnny come lately' hipsters & manbuns. . . . . . . . . . . I bought a tube of Flitz yesterday. I feel dirty.

And more work....... That raised front end was bothering my eyes. So I took the grinder to it Now I'm much happier with how she's sitting. Today was busy. Raked, slugged & re-welded the front end, fabricated mounts for the oil tank & rear fender & got those bolted up (which would've been simpler if I hadn't ROYALLY screwed the pooch & ordered the fender an inch too small. Lots of slitting, stretching & welding.....) sorted out the sissy bar & mounted it & fabricated the headlight mount. I just got done around 10:30 tonight! And of course, I've got the sissy bar mounted arse-backwards 5 minute fix for tomorrow before work.

Have a look on Poshmark. I just picked up another for a buddy of mine out in Wyoming. New without tags, $28 to my door.

I'm so sorry for your loss man. We had to part with one of our family a couple of weeks ago. It's devastating. There's nothing better than a really great dog.

Aaaaaaand now I have. It's called an Oswego messenger bag. And I love it. It's the perfect size, for me, for EDC with just enough room for my tablet &/or laptop.

Here you go. It's a Keen. Next to my Timbuk2 for size comparison. I haven't looked into the model or anything, but these are the labels inside.

I use a Timbuk2 too.... as a 'carrying extra crap on the bikes/grocery run' bag & I'm so impressed with the quality it's not even funny. Don't laugh, but check out the used clothes site; Poshmark. I bought mine on there for less than pennies on the dollar. I think it was about $8 plus the shipping. It's maybe a bit big for edc use unless you literally carry a watermelon around every day, but they make smaller versions too. I actually just picked up a very similar, same quality, smaller sized bag at a yardsale last week for a buck. I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I'll snag some details after work.

It's looking significantly more motorbikey after yesterday. I'd only planned on stripping, shaving & polishing the forks, but there was an 'unscheduled, gravitational dismount' from the bench, so I ended up having to do a BUNCH of work I wasn't expecting. Rebuilt the forks with 6" over tubes, made spacers for both wheels, mounted & centered them, tacked on my (currently) asymmetricalt handlebars, remove the jiffy stand & mount from the original frame, sandblast that, then drill & re-tap the threads for the spring mount & weld it onto the new frame plus I had to fabricate & weld on the steering stop. I managed to finally get my breakfast at 10:45 last night....... I also found out that the guy who built my frame made a couple of screw ups. One fairly innocuous, one significantly less so There's no way of fitting both the engine AND oil tank in the frame at the same time. The mounts need to be about a half inch lower & 1 inch further back. No biggie, the guy built it without having my motor there & stuff happens, y'know? However, the one I can't live with is that I specified a 40⁰ rake on the front end which, with a 21" wheel & 6" over forks, would put the bottom frame rails parallel to the ground. After I got it all together I sat & stared at it. Pulled out my work book & redid, then double checked my maths. I didn't make a mistake. So I ran to a buddy's house (he was thrilled to see me at 10pm) to borrow his digital angle gauge thingy (one of which I now have ordered) & the neck is 34.8⁰ So, I'm going to chop the damn thing off & redo it myself, like I should've in the first place. I knew I shouldn't have trusted someone else

Not....ummmm.......not great. The $1500 engine rebuild was a kick in the knackers I could've lived without. That was my paint budget

I finished up fabricating the foot clutch & top engine mount today. It's nice to know I haven't forgotten how to weld after a 16 year layoff

Things're moving on a-pace.....

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'preciate it, thanks! I actually just sold her this last Sunday to a lovely old gent who drove up from Muscle Shoals for it. Rode it all the way home with no reported hiccups!

I don't know about the harley crowd, I ain't one of em (me undies generally have Fruit of the Loom on the waistband, not the HD logo. I don't know what a doo rag is for & chaps are for rounding up cows! ) but I picked it up from the offroad plodders.

This is what happens when you put chrome on a motorcycle. See, the Engine Gods know when you're spending money on farkles instead of oil...... 1250 big bore kit & upgrade oil pump on order.

I really don't like to think that 1990 was 34 years ago. We are to 1990 what 1990 was to 1956. Now that one really trips my tits!

Yeah, this was an unexpected kick in the nards, that's for sure. But hey-ho, gives me something to do No epic story ever started with "so, I bought this bike in minty condition....."

Nossir, it's a 1990 Evo 883 with a 1200 top end. It might look weird to you because I've carved up the cam & sprocket covers into a more esthetically appealing shape. The upwards curve & vertical back of the sprocket cover always looked unfinished to my eye. I've always wanted to try rounding one off, then dropping another curve in where the cases meet to mirror the 'swoop' at the back of the oil filter housing. Meanwhile, lurking behind the clutch...... I just knew there was something expensive going on back there. Time to pull the transmission

Like-a-so.....ish.

Weeeeell......... you know how you occasionally just HAVE to have a mooch around on Facebook marketplace. Not really looking for anything in particular, but then you see a very tatty, rough looking Sporty with a clean title for $400? It came as rough as a bear's ass. Owner 'claimed' it was running last year..... the fire ant nest inside the cam chest determined that was BS. I've already rebuilt the top end & installed a set of rocker lockers. I've got to pull the clutch today & see if the generator rotor is intact. I found too much magnetic gravel in the primary case & I'm 99% sure the rotor is starting to break apart. After it's whole, it's going in a low, raked hardtail frame & I'm going back to my chopper roots ✌

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