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Black cases do look nice, but unless they have been powder coated its pretty difficult to get paint to stay on them, and also quite hard to find a paint thats resistant to petrol.
My '73 850 rebuild..
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Carbonfibre said:
High-temp motor paint seems to work just fine. Dad's bike has been painted just like this for years and has held up very well. Powdercoating would be neat if one had the stuff all apart already.
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DogT said:
Heh
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Yetiman said:
It's getting there!
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grandpaul said:
Dad must have done that after my picture but before installing the assembly. The brakes work great.
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tocino said:
Chrome seamless mufflers and stainless pipes from CommandoSpecialties.
I'm going to sandblast my original exhaust and paint it flat (or semigloss) black, but only because I'm curious to see how it looks.
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Found another $15 or so in parts I need before we can do much more, so I'm ordering those. Hopefully we'll get more done this weekend.
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ksu,
the phrase "after much fighting with tires" is setting off alarm bells over here. changing those tires is easy if you know how and there should be no force required. if you're having trouble, there's a pretty good chance that you could put a pin hole in the inner tube or pinch it or have the sharp end of a spoke rubbing on the inner tube and have a sudden catastrophic deflation of the tire. please be safe- john b.
the phrase "after much fighting with tires" is setting off alarm bells over here. changing those tires is easy if you know how and there should be no force required. if you're having trouble, there's a pretty good chance that you could put a pin hole in the inner tube or pinch it or have the sharp end of a spoke rubbing on the inner tube and have a sudden catastrophic deflation of the tire. please be safe- john b.
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ka041a said:
Oh, we did fine, it just took a while. I think dad drew it out intentionally longer than it needed to in order to teach me what the hell I was doing. Me being involved and doing as much as I could also slowed the whole thing down. We got it taken care of with no real problems, though.
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Jeandr said:
Do it do it do it!!
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Made a little progress today..
Also ordered a pair of NJB half-shrouded shocks from Clubman yesterday. It's getting there. I think dad's going to do a bit more work tonight, but that's where I stopped a bit ago. I also realized that I may be a bit overwhelmed on the '70 Roadster (considering it needs torn COMPLETELY down and the motor has to be put back together from parts).. I'm thinking I may try to unload it on Craigslist for a profit, if I can. I won't take a loss (I'd rather just keep it), but if I can get out of it with extra money in-hand, maybe that's a better plan.. :/
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Also ordered a pair of NJB half-shrouded shocks from Clubman yesterday. It's getting there. I think dad's going to do a bit more work tonight, but that's where I stopped a bit ago. I also realized that I may be a bit overwhelmed on the '70 Roadster (considering it needs torn COMPLETELY down and the motor has to be put back together from parts).. I'm thinking I may try to unload it on Craigslist for a profit, if I can. I won't take a loss (I'd rather just keep it), but if I can get out of it with extra money in-hand, maybe that's a better plan.. :/
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