fender work

As you can see below in the pics I have a different fender on there. It looks all chipped up but really, it is a clean fender that is duct-tape remaining after I had covered the paint while I was cutting it down to size. The fender was an Ebay deal. It started as a Kingpin, long fender with some heavy straches/denting (below the breake light) where I was going to cut it.

This is just a portion of what I will do with the rear fender. I might either cut it down more or drill out some holes following the curve of the wheel about a half inch up from the bottom edge of the fender.

Jockey clutch pics

Finally here is some pics of the jockey set up I am running. Like I said before super smooth and easy to use. Much more fun riding this style. It reminds you of something like driving a manual car compared to an automatic.

Jockey Clutch

Well I finally got the bike out on its shake down run. The new bars made it feel like I lost all my power steering but I will get used to that. The clutch is smooth and easy to manuver through the gears. What I was most impressed with is the ease at take off.
I was expecting much more difficulty but it was cake. Steering during take off was the biggest challenge with the narrow bars and one handed take offs, it takes a tight grip and a firm sholder to prevent fop in the front end.

New set of bars.

Just mocking up a new set of bars. Whata ya think?

The Evolution of Asstasticness

Here is the seat I have been working on. I have about 7 hours into this seat. I am sure I could make them faster but this is my first one and this is just how it always goes.

So first you can see the template I made from a paper grocery bag. OK first I make a half pattern on lighter paper and then traced out both side on the one brown bag.

Then I used the template to make the pan out of 16 gage steel. Once i had this made I used a couple kneeling pads from Menards. They are high density and only five bucks. some 3M spray adhesive and clamped it down. Once dried I shaved it down and filed the edges to my desire.

So you can see this in one piece the seat pan padding and shaped all in one. Sorry I should have pics of that process somewhere but I cna't find it.

Then I started a design for the leather work. I just freehanded a bunch of shit I thought looked cool.

The next pic is of the leather where I transfered the image. I had to free hand some more things into this just because I thought it needed more. The tooling is just slightly done a whole lot more to go.

Progress

Well of course I only get an hour here and there to actually do stuff so it is always slow.

So last night I did some welding and grinding on my clutch lever and my new bars.

Well, I will start from the beggining.
I am not running a traditional Jockey set up. Going for something a ittle different, where the typical behind the left leg hand shift is, this is going to look the same but will be the clutch.

I had heated and bent a piece of round stock into the shape I "thought" I wanted but ended up being to long. Blessing in disguise since it was to long and slightly off from the angle I wanted. I ended up cutting the round stock into three peices and turned and marked and measured and got it in the shaped that I wanted. I also had a problem and that the tap and die set that my good pally Tim borrowed me didn't quite fit the roundstock I had. It was a little bulky but I really like the larger diameter look. So I ended up adding a two inch section just for the Die work.

I was using some thinner gage stock to get the shape I wanted and it was just off a little bit and then with trying to bend and grind the larger diamter stock made it a little more out of wack. Fortunately once it was all cut gelded and groudn back into shape it worked perfect.

The Victory

I have had 2 Honda's both 750's but they are or should I say were over twenty years apart in age. I have had a Kawasaki and now this Victory.

So I liked the bike at first but just like every other bike I have owned they all come apart no matter how new or old. This one is no exception to my disease.

So here is the Vic. I am in the middle of taking it from the stock look with is a very smooth cleaned up hidden component look and doing the complete opposite.

1st post El Numero uno

I will highlight on the MN backroad trips, a couple builds in progress, the local motorcycle scene and repost anything I see on the intermess that I find absolutely amazing like the pics currently shown.