Sunday, January 30, 2011

40度まで....

暖かくなって来たから(暖かい?)
バイクらに乗って遊びました.
    ゆきゆきゆきゆきはまだまだまだまだある。。。。
 
    チムが遊びに来て、それから出発(ハッチさんを探しに..)
Clの新しい後ろ..今日ライトをつけた.。。。

手袋を忘れちゃった俺がちょっと寒かったけど三人と久しぶりに乗って、楽しかった
最後にスピード違犯で警察が俺のガレージまで来て..ナンバープレートの調子と位置とスピードの注意..今回許された..まああ、こんな冬の天気のいい日は遊ばせろよな。。次回気をつけま〜〜す。。。

Saturday, January 29, 2011

熔接の遊び

新しいバイクを熔接する前に設定がいいかどうか確かめなきゃ..
その確かめに。。。。。これが生まれました

誰のよりも可愛い足..
     そして柔らかそうな手

めがねがすてきですねぇ〜  ひげも!
   ハグ ミ〜〜!!

来週、彼にカルフレンドを作ってやろうか

Ramen as I write

Another productive weekend in the Fort.
First Ryan and I mounted the tubing bender to the loft. (Notice we also bent the bender....)
I have hated the way the back of my CL looks for a long time. This isn't perfect(or even really straight) but it looks and feels way better (and the welding won't break.....hopefully)
I also cleaned up the hardtail and brought it home to mock up the tank, fender, etc. before I go up next (weekend?)
And of course I got to spend time with the noise maker. Clicking, clacking, lipspitting....you name it she does it.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Midohio

isn't for another 6 months. We all have to go this year!
I have over 100 pictures from last year. Here is a taste. More to come....

A perfect cl77. The 60's cl77's had these tanks...I love these tanks....... This is one of the only places you can see bikes in this kind of condition besides a museum or ebay auction....
Redneck logic. Makes perfects cents to me, how about you? I picked up a couple cb350 carbs from this place.....just a stack of unmarked carbs from who knows what....



熔接する練習

熔接は楽しいけど正直に言うと俺は。。。。下手なんですぅ....
フレームの熔接をする前に練習のため、兄さんが鉄を切る時の余った部分でこれを作りました.
どうかな?実家の近くに住んでいたら..これにハマりそう




Sunday, January 23, 2011

Rigid frame 350....bad idea?


The welding is done. It took a few hours to figure out what was going on and how I would fit everything where. This may have been a horrible idea... or it may turn out to be what I do to these bikes. It doesn't really matter since it was fun to build.

Had to rebuild the triple tree to figure out where I wanted the hardtail the bike. I am glad I did this. Wasn't as bad as I had expected. The next time will be even quicker.
I used 1 inch DOM tubing and the clevis of the original shock here. This might not look as cool as some other options but it will allow me to drop the wheel done when I want to work on the bike.
This is the part of the frame that swings up to connect to end of the bike, which was cut off last week. I used some air tool my brother showed me to grind this out to the shape of the tubing.
This is what the bike looked like pre-weld and pre-bend on the tubes.
Ryan got the oxyacy torch out and we bent the tubing.

This is what I am working with now. Next weekend I will clean up the welds and bring it frame back home to finish here. As long as my parts keep selling on ebay, I should be done with this by the end of February......the biggest decision now is what tank to put on it.... cl72?

Bro

Ryan's never ending obsession. His rx7. How much of this is stock? Not much I'm sure....
Oxy-Acetylene help of course.

Without this guy I would be lost or unable to do some of the things I try to do with these bikes. Thanks Ryan!

週末


6th period on Friday one of my students girlfriends brought me 3 vegan cupcakes. A great way to start the weekend. Little things like this keep me doing what I do. If you know you know.
Dessie is getting bigger. I can't wait till all my nieces are mini people, walking and talking and old enough to have conversations with. I love this photo........
Happy dad on the drill press. I have no idea what he was doing in the crawl space under the house this weekend but I am sure he finished what he started.

shoeboxes


tell stories sometimes. Found about 8 old boxes with cd cases and pictures that I had forgotten about this weekend. Lost memories found.

Does anyone else think the best skate shoes were made 10 years ago? The emerica JT's and the Creager es's were amazing....and I had about 8 pairs of the original low side wall, minimal padding heretics.....my favorite shoes.. I remember searching for the old leftover gross colors when I lived in Japan. I think I bought all white ones and painted them red then black so as they wear down they look like they are bleeding....

Thursday, January 20, 2011

満月

今日の調子の色々が分かった..
今日は満月だ..

I should have known....full moon tonight. Dancing in the kitchen....I am full of strange energy...

Headlight......... Taillight........


......are you all right? I have a few more on the way. Ebay is the devil and old tractor parts its children.
Starting the fork rebuilding tonight. Wish me patience.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Build #2



I probably shouldn't be trying to build 2 bikes at the same time but it's winter and we still have a long way till the weather gives us anything decent to work with for skating or bikes so what else am I supposed to do?
I have two 350 twin projects. I stripped down 2 cb350's and as I sell the parts on ebay, I buy what I want for my rebuilds. I just got the this tank in the mail. In my opinion, this is probably the best looking tank to come out of the 70's. I found one from a shop that was shutting its doors in Canada and the buy it now price was insane for what arrived at my door today. I think that this bike will be built around the color of this tank.
I need a cl72 tank for my other project. Anybody? Ebay has one for 2,500 right now. No joke.
Does anyone that reads this want to have a bike night soon? I will donate my house. Lets sew seats and rebuild engines!

Monday, January 17, 2011

定休日!




南にこれを買いに、


北に鉄のチュービングを買いに、

それからネットでこれを。。。


じゃ、来週末の支度はもう終了

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Happy dad

Need one......
This and a kerosene heater keeping everything toasty and my brain a little off center.

Dad is always up to something. Right now he is rebuilding/modifying a boat lift. All the cutting and welding is done, time to paint.

Almost done? Let's get some food, cheeser!



Chimp

Dad had the heat on so the frame got scratchblasted and first and second coated. The swing arm will eventually be removed and painted again but need it there for the welding next week.


Triple tree. First time doing this alone. Not too bad as long as you've got a dremel laying around. Time to buy some new bearings.


Tank bottom cut. This smells nasty nasty..... cut the back off next weekend and try to weld it back together?



New coils? Big brother special off his rx7






Sunday, January 9, 2011

That time of year again


冬休み中、木の遊びと家の前の出口の直しを夢中になって
プロジェクトバイクの事をあまり考えなかったけど、
冬休みが終わって、バリバリ
ハードテールにする

実家にフレームを切りに行って、オークションで色々売ったり買ったりして、
そうしてこの二年ぐらい探していたパーツを。。。見つけた!cbやキックオンリーの70年代のバイクに使えるbattery eliminator!バーテリーの代わりになる部品。
来週末また実家に帰って、フレームの熔接をする予定

今タンクを募集中!