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Post by sweatmachine on Dec 19, 2008 21:59:40 GMT -5
Sweat - you're the splitting image of one of Santa's elf's ;D Except I'm 6 feet tall and 250 lbs!
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Post by teebee on Dec 20, 2008 6:26:20 GMT -5
Sweat - you're the splitting image of one of Santa's elf's ;D Except I'm 6 feet tall and 250 lbs! That's Santa! Oh, and if I remember correctly there are photos of you with a beard.
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Post by rmak on Dec 20, 2008 9:15:34 GMT -5
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Post by Capo on Dec 21, 2008 7:42:43 GMT -5
Capo, just noticed the skate ramps on the driveway. Nice! Sweat, I'd like to cop to using them, but they're for my son and his set. He's a mean little 12 year old skate/snow board head.
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Post by sweatmachine on Dec 21, 2008 23:17:32 GMT -5
Sweat, I'd like to cop to using them, but they're for my son and his set. He's a mean little 12 year old skate/snow board head. That's cool. I had a bad ass 1/4 pipe and a launch ramp when I was just a punk kid. I used to rock that 1/4 pipe back in the day. We also had an abandoned mall near my house we sort of, um, gained entry to...lots of smooth concrete, stairs, handrails, etc. It was a skater punk's dream come true. One time I took the bigass wheels off my inline skates and mounted them on my skateboard. (tell your son to try this) I could pedal 2-3 times and roll for 100 yards!
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Post by scctrim on Dec 29, 2008 8:18:39 GMT -5
Thanks..7 month's to build it...5 week's to get destroyed by someone not paying attention. It presently sit's in my garage waiting the lawsuit settlement.
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Post by rmak on Dec 29, 2008 9:42:35 GMT -5
Thanks..7 month's to build it...5 week's to get destroyed by someone not paying attention. It presently sit's in my garage waiting the lawsuit settlement. That's a bummer! Probably on a cell phone, right. Almost bought the farm last summer when a woman jabbering on a phone pulled out in front of me. Maybe things will go your way and you'll be able to rebuild. What year is the bike?
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Post by davidc on Dec 29, 2008 10:24:01 GMT -5
[quote author=rmak board=tech thread=17 post=6501 time=1230561755. Probably on a cell phone, right. Almost bought the farm last summer when a woman jabbering on a phone pulled out in front of me.[/quote] Perhaps the woman was having phone sex with her brother-in-law. Now that'd be interesting, eh?
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Post by scctrim on Dec 29, 2008 14:18:32 GMT -5
it's an 89 FXR...the HD they never should have stopped building. A radial bearing kit replaces the original swingarm bushings. I have a pile of money in this bike...and it's killing me that I have to get an attorney to sue the other insurance company. ...Hated by ALL
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Post by propforward on Jan 1, 2009 0:55:10 GMT -5
Well, here's my bike. Pretty basic stuff, in this pic just a basic TOR mod, AI gone kind of thing. Currently in the middle of removing the airbox and installing predators, plus a couple of other mods, which is taking me forever, but that's how long winter lasts here so 'sok.
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Post by Lake on Jan 1, 2009 3:52:22 GMT -5
What about a pic of the Matchless as well propforward??? Here's my old bike at the front, nothing special (a little 1960 250 Crusader Sports) but good fun, when it works that is...
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Post by propforward on Jan 1, 2009 7:40:16 GMT -5
Lake that is an immaculate bike - that is the kind of condition I want mine to end up in, and it's a long road to get there. This is the Matchless on the day I bought it in 1997. I bought it from a guy in Derby in the UK (I was still living there at that time). He apparently was using it as his everyday transport in the early seventies, fitted a chair to it to make it more family useable, immediately lost control of it and dove it into a kerb bending the forks. He parked it in his garden under a tarp and there it stayed until I found out about it in 1997. I dragged it home, promptly got offered a job in th USA and moved overseas.........but I brought it with me! ;D It is in many pieces now, you can just make out the tank and frame and wheels on the shelves in my workshop. The rest of it is in the cardboard boxes there: The picture is a bit dark but you get the idea.
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Post by Lake on Jan 1, 2009 8:00:17 GMT -5
That'll keep you busy propforward, a true British bike to work on. I find getting the time is hard, my bike's not as good as it was in that photo (taken 3 years ago).
The engine needs rebuilt as the head is porous and the studs have worked loose, there's no compression, no spark either (magneto gone I think), the forks needs lining as they have a lot of play in them, the front brake (if you can call it that) needs skimming and aligning, it has no 1st gear, the paint has came off the side panels... the list goes on.
When I get time again, and the money.
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Post by propforward on Jan 1, 2009 8:16:32 GMT -5
Ah yes - that is exactly the problem - time and money. I finally got myself into a job which pays reasonably, now the economy has tanked, so I'm in mega save money mode to get a buffer in case the worst happens.
As Fred Gassit once said "I'm just gonna sit here until the little guy gets a fair deal".
Never happens of course............
Anyhoo - I am hoping that I can get the KZ650 finished and roadworthy by spring, and then towards next winter actually start picking away at the Matchless. I'm sourcing some good shops to do the bodywork type stuff. This machine has to look *spotless*, but I'm still going to ride it when done - what's the point having a bike if you don't ride it?
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Post by davidc on Jan 1, 2009 8:43:22 GMT -5
Hello, Propforward, a name so familiar from TRN. Did not know you visited this site of eclectic motorcycle nuts [take the word nuts anyway you wish]. Your garage looks like mine - rustic, cracked floors, but very functional. Nice projects you have going on there.
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