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Sure.

But if you're that keen, it'll be in BSH.

how about it black jack.. where you at on this one ??

Soo...

I've made some calls, and I've sorted out the tube and the aftermarket parts I need,

I've got a "photochopped" picture of what I'm after (around here somewhere...) which I can scale off of to get the amount of rear stretch and so on that I need.

Stripped the bike to a roller today three boxes of stuff. E-Bay. Electrics. Other stuff.

Tube should be here next week, I can start cutting things then.

another ace project bro.. the way you recycle the old bikes is fantastic..

nice, cant wait to see some more

This is fucking unreal...

My GF rents her house, and the landlady decides that it needs a new front and back door.

So the landlady sends Tony the builder round and tells him that the back door will need a cat flap in it.

Tony turns up to measure up while I'm there, and asks me about the cat flap. I say that she'll want something specific so I give Tony her number to ring and find out.

I say this because her cats will just butt their way into other peoples cat flaps IF they can see through them, so, it ain't fucking rocket science to figure out if she wants to lock the cats in then she needs a cat flap that they can't see through.

So there's phone calls and shit, and the doors are ordered and fitted and I'm suprised to notice that the fucking cat flap is see through...

What I want to know is seeing as there was all this consultation and discussion, and I FUCKING SAID DO NOT GET A SEE THROUGH FUCKING CAT FLAP, how come that now the cats are battering their way to freedom at will is it desperately important that I make something to fix it, instead of getting on with this...

Tins are for effect only and just placed there so I can see that it's going where I thought I was sending it....

If you see what I mean.

There's this thing where, for some reason, people don't seem to feel that building bikes and writing about it is a "proper" job.

And clearly cat flaps are more important.

I mean just because I'm effectively getting my ass paid to build myself motorcycles doesn't make it fun you know? I mean it is, but that's not what makes it fun. Entirely.

Anyway, rolling chassis sort of a deal, swing arm out, things welded to the point where it at least isn't going to collapse in a heap....

wow.. thats looking very nice.. i'm thinking a guy could make a living chopping & selling these type bikes..

You need to go careful with that. In my experience, people who say, "Why doesn't someone make an afforadable *****, because I'd buy one.", actually mean "Why doesn't someone make free *****'s, and give one to me, because I don't actually have any money so I couldn't buy one if they were priced at $5 and two ring pulls off one of these here beer cans."

Then the people that do buy them are like as not going to be complaining because what you got here is basically a 30 year old (ish) motorcycle and it ain't as reliable as it used to be.

wow.. thats looking very nice.. i'm thinking a guy could make a living chopping & selling these type bikes..

Dave I agree i have been really working on this by building these bikes and showing them around here. I am starting to get some good feedback from people and i am building my first customer  bike as we sepped XS 400 i have 4 of these i have built for myself one sold the other three i still have
The cool thing about these is you can do just about anything with them and you can build a bike from about $3500 on up and as you said actualy make money these bikes are a little more time consuming to build because you have to make almost everything unlike some "harley" style bikes where alot of nice parts are already avalible.. I'll keep you guys update on how it goes but im working hard at it (i hate doing srvice work) so if i get these bikes going i wont have to do any more of it

John

Ok, here's a little more...

The mess down at the bottom rear of the motor has been tidied up and I've made brace tube for the headstock.

Got to pull it all apart and finish weld it now.

OK, all fully welded and rolled out in the daylight.

Though it hasn't got the motor in, and that's making it run a little uphill, it's pretty close to the chopped up photo I did before I started on it...

i really like the straight back bones.. most aftermarket frames today are all curved up in the back bone..

Beat on it with a stick for a couple of days, Got the rear fender mounted, the rear light mounted, h/light, gas tank, and speedo hung on there.

No, I'm keeping the stock pegs.

I want to keep this as simple as possible, and out of four stock mounting points for the original pegs, I managed to keep three. Were I double gussetted the rear lower corner of the frame cradle, on the left side I cleaned up the mount I had to cut off (threaded boss) and used the peg as a guide to drill throught the gussets and welded the boss either side of those, On the right side I hole sawed the gussets to fit roud the brake pedal pivot.

Both (folding) pegs fitted, gear change works because the left pegs in the stock position, and on the right side the brake pedal and master cylinder are all mounted up already.

Got to drill through the gussets on the right side of the frame and provide something for the brake pedal position stop to ride against, and sort out a pedal return spring as the original hairpin won't wirk anymore, and find some where for the rear fliud reservoir to live.

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