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Do I took the Vf1000f out this morning but forgot to take pics. Darn … there’s that glue thing again!
But round 2 I did take pics of my Katana at the Pacific Ocean …



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Trying to catch up on odds and ends this weekend. Today was bicycles.

I found this Huffy 26" 18 speed Huffy mountain bike someone was throwing away a few weeks ago and brought it home to repair. It's only a $100 Walmart bike but in looking it over, it was in pretty decent shape so why not do a rescue for another bike I can use to jet around locally?

The handlebars were loose from the stem, front wheel askew, both brakes non-operational, and the rusty chain wedged into the bottom bracket, plus it had a bicycle lock attached to the seat bottom - with no key.

I have a bike stand for bike maintenance so wasn't that big a deal getting everything back up to speed. I also keep extra bike chains on hand so had that too. The seat kinda sucks so will change that - otherwise she's back in proper working condition.

 

Nothing says happy birthday USA like clean and rebuilding my CBX carbs … always a fun task !



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now that IS a carb bank!

 

The gang I call it …


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Good exercise, of course. I live in an area with lots of side streets and back roads plus we have a beach we can ride on so everyone rides pedal bikes. Of course e-bikes are very popular too and I too have some of those.

I went back out and worked on 3 more of my pedal bikes - the ones I use for just scooting around - not my nice road bikes. Two of them were just like the first one - tossaways that I brought home to fix up. The 4th is a nice KHS I have had for over 20 years that has surf racks on it.

 

That looks like SoCal 4 sho! I went surfing the last 3 days. A little bump for the holiday. Katana is looking good 6!

 

To add a little motorcycle content.......I have quite a few used wheels with old tires on them I have picked up here and there. I intend to re-paint the wheels and then mount them with new tires for some of my bikes. Eventually getting new rubber on all of my bikes.

So today I finally began the tire removal part. I wanted to try a technique I saw on YT that employed the use of a hook bladed Stanley knife to slice off the old tires leaving just two strips along the bead, which are then pried off with your levers. I think it worked pretty good, for my needs. I did two wheels today and will do the rest (~6 more) tomorrow.

 

what the hell man?
...that Bridgestone still looked good!

 

Sorta random, sorta Honda. I started dating a girl a few months ago that paints motorcycles as a side-gig. A lot of the ASRA riders have her paint their bikes. She's actually painting one of my teammates new RS660's at her shop now. Anyway, a few months ago (before we'd met) she bought this 1970 CB100 that hadn't been run in probably a decade. She threw a paint job on the tank and side panels after trying to match the orange. I think it looks pretty damn awesome.

I just got back from the first test ride around the neighborhood. It runs surprisingly well for having just kind of taken a guess at all the setup. Brakes leave something to be desired though, hah.



It turns out I was actually able to use my limited carburetor skills in a bartering exchange. She's been teaching me paint prep and repair of race fairings. Basically, I'm allowed to do the menial tasks that don't take a ton of skill, hah. I'm getting better with the DA sander. And I had her go through the entire carburetor and rebuild it while I just sort of told her what she needed to do and explained how all the parts work. But I didn't do the actual work. The thing fired on the third kick when we first started it. So that was neat.

So now she should have one of the sweetest little pit bikes at the track.

 

Does she have a sister?
Great looking bike!


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Hello Matt.....fantastic post, my friend - on several levels.

Having a chick who shares your passions is awesome! But to have one with skills you can learn from is even better. And for you to be able to pass along some of your skills to her knocks it up yet another notch!

I'm so happy for you. I've always thought you are a good dude and seeing this makes me very happy for you.

That little CB100 looks amazing! So happy to see another vintage machine saved and restored so nicely.

BTW, I started a fairing repair thread on here and posted a bunch of stuff in it already, so can relate to that subject in your post. I'm still a rookie trying to learn so bear with me. I have a new DA sander coming Wed. so am going to venture into re-painting very soon. I think it's interesting work with a ton of potential with all the busted fairings and body work we see out there.

Please continue to post more content on the fairing repairs, if possible. You can post in my thread if you want. Would love to see some of it and I'm sure the others here would as well.

Be well and have fun!!!

Your friend,
Baz

 

Hah! If she does she doesn't talk about her. Maybe the sister is a better painter and competition.. hmm...

If I come across some stuff that's transferrable, I'll post it up. I think there's two bikes' worth of broken fairings in various states of repair in my basement now (Yamaha R1 and Kawasaki 636). There's quite a difference between the repair of a street bike vs. race bike fairings. The little tabs and nubs on street bikes are so much more tedious and difficult. The race fairing repair usually just needs to look good enough at 10ft (for a club level hobbyist) since none of the bikes are getting judged in a motorcycle show and everyone knows they may end up back on the asphalt any given weekend.

If you haven't come across it, on StrayCat's channel (true-moto-resto) he goes over a bunch of his body repair techniques for Honda plastics in the video titled "Major Bodywork Repair for a VF1000R- Episode 1". I'm betting this will be similar to a lot of the fairing repairs you've got ahead of you that I obviously thought were way out of my ability.
Link to video:

But there's a couple pieces she's working on now that might be relevant, so I'll check that out this week and post if they are in your thread.