Dirty bikes

So I am the proud owner of 10 Honda xr's. None of them running. I have never been a motor guy but have always wanted to be. So now I have a chance to become just that. The place that I got the bikes is pretty sweet. Vintage jap bike around every corner. The guy that I bought them from estimates him having 100 right now but 4 years ago had about 800. There are some real gems in the stash.

Have hit a new record of bike fit in the murder van.

My haul.

Lee from Hambone Kustoms

For sale

Nice vintage king and queen seat. Missing 2 buttons and some wear on nose. Text if interested 250-432-5652

Lee from Hambone Kustoms

American Made

Went to ride the Ghetto Glide about a week ago and found that it wouldn't shift. The rear linkage off the tranny shaft was stripped...suddenly. Turns out this is a very common problem if you don't tighten that arm like once a month. So no problem I'll just pop it off and get a new one.....see pictures below

 

 

Turns out there's not enough clearance between the rear primary cover and the tranny shaft to get the lever off. So you need to remove the entire primary drive assembly which means you also need to remove the floor boards, the rear peg mounts, and yes even the starter to access this tiny lever. Now that's some good money making engineering for the stealerships. But I've bested them and done it all myself.

I talked to the guy at Redline when I picked up the overpriced replacement parts and he said I got a bargain. If I'd had them do it it would have been a $1200-$1300 job. Holy crap!!!

Shovels and Rope

Saying Good-bye is tough...

bye-bye baby from J.Epp (I_am_10_ninjas) on Vimeo.

50 times the love

 

Shot a little lasting love for Brian's PanShovel build today. This exquisite machine is moving over to make room for a wet dream of a knuckle, but we figured it deserved a good showing before Brian makes some changes for the new owner. More to come.

Today on Kijiji

Wow. Uhh...these are awesome. Get wolfed out with these 5 gallon shovel tanks. Get'em

Today on Kijiji

Good price on a little '79 iron project with rebuilt engine and pb drag cams. Go get it.

Carlos' Birthday Beer

Happy dayze man.

 

 

Seat template

Lee from Hambone Kustoms

Sastard Sr's Norton 16H

 

Taking a lot of time

Well it seems like I haven't got shit done  and that is why I haven't posted much. But Ninjas is always givin me shit so here you go. The comet Traveller has had some fiberglass work done to it and though I don't have a pic for you the bottom has gotten paint turned out pretty good (I'll get a pic in here when I can).

Above is phase 1

below is phase two.

I took the trailer apart, a good thing too. I found that the one bolt holding the tongue to the rest of the trailer was a bit small for the hole and had worn almost all the way through so I had to replace it with a couple of much larger bolts.

I got it back together a couple weeks back and it's now functional (including lights) and got some help getting the hull back on the trailer last week.

I've pushed back the christening date a few times but I've only got phase 3 to 14 left to go. I really only get  and day every couple of weeks to work on it cause it is in toon town and I am not so considering that I've made decent progress. When she's done she'll be the sweetest water mule on the blog