Friday Night Beer Menu-Sweet Water Edition

Masters

Coil Relocation/Wire Tuck

 Got everything back together Friday afternoon, test rode it for a bit Saturday and a bit more Sunday.

 In my opinion, I huge improvement over stock...

I am debating on painting it later this year or early next, still up in the air about it and debating on doing that or hitting the Shovel first.

Friday Night Beer Menu

Today...

I'll apply the last coat of paint to the tank lift and coil brackets and if it is dry enough (which I doubt, thanks cold front) I may get to final assembly today. Everything else is done, all wires re-wrapped and tied to the frame sitting right in the channel the lift will create. Salvaged part of the old coil bracket to use to mount the key switch more or less in the factory location. Also cleaned the sticky off the front tank brackets left from where they put those odd plastic covers.

Found an old mirror in a parts stash I forgot about and may paint and run it, though it is larger than I want. Might try it out and see how goofy it looks. Need to mask off and throw another coat of paint on my helmet but it needs relining too so I may do it all at once when I have more time and resources at my disposal.

Switching gears, I recently came across this trailer and I think it is time to share. It looks pretty awesome but I am into sicko exploitation blood and gore flicks so it is right up my alley. By the way, this is very, very unsafe for work NSFW. In fact, watch this at the office today if you feel like going job hunting tomorrow.

Goings on...

Since I missed Barber's, I decided to take the day and do a wire tuck and tank lift on the Nightster. The rough draft is done and I've started on the coil relocation. Going to be using a horn mount off a Custom, which is pretty standard for this job, and make the actual bracket the coil mounts to myself. I have all the pieces, all that remains is a little drilling, paint and assembly and we'll be calling it done. It all has to come apart so I can paint the tank lifts as well...

The Shovel is waiting on a new coil. Cheap part I know, but times are tough and extra cash is scarce. The family has been in a bit of flux for the past couple weeks. Everything is shaking out ok but still waiting till month's end for real results and afraid to let any $ go at this point....so there we are. Once I get that coil, it's go time on that bike. Cutting fender brackets off the springer, getting a new clutch lever and cable, reworking the foot shift mechanism, new paint, general cleanup and polishing and the biggest...sorting out the damned transmission.


To get a little extra money to play with, these old split tanks are on the block. Not sure what they came off of (they have been run of the shovel before) but they are in decent shape. Minimal surface rust, petcock included...just real damn dirty. Send me an e-mail if you want to see more or make an offer.

Since season 2 started yesterday, we've decided to start watching this...














My buddy turned me on to the comic and I am current on the trade releases. Two episodes in to season one...it is a good one. It strays a bit from but not so much that it loses the feel if you are a fan. Worth checking out for sure, available via Netflix.