I told myself...

The mostly blackout treatment looks nice.

 

I ended up with ANOTHER black bike!

https://vfrworld.com/threads/back-in-black.61241/

 

I had a black Yamaha Raider...that was my "what the fuck have I done" bike
Your black is way better!

 

Don't ask... It launched pretty good.

 

Looks sweet. I like the original seat more than the Corbin. Wanna paint some bodywork for me? Lol Nice work dude!

 

Rode it (and finally heard it!) yesterday. Um... yeah. Boogies.

 

So cool!

 

Yeah... it does that pretty damn easy.

 

Here's another part of the "thing" I did when I got the Black Hawk...



Full Two Bros, Stage 3 carbs. Title, 36K. New Michelins. Need to verify/clean the carbs and rebuild a petcock.

And...



2100 mile motor and chassis. No title. Don't care, just nice to have that engine and swingarm. It was already pretty bare, but I stripped off what remained, like the brakes and calipers. I did get the speedo off of it that verified it's mileage, but the original tires, chain and sprockets confirm it. Those aren't the original forks, I removed those as well. Those are just to keep it a roller until I pull the engine and swingarm.

 

F'n cool! I was thinking if my son does not want to take my Hawk, maybe I will go track day it. I think I just need a clutch pack rebuild and carb sync. My wife said I will be bummed that I am going so slow. lol

 

Just tell her you're used to it.

 

Oh yeah, Rogue... those are the '88 RC24 forks on there. Already paid for themselves... ;-)

 

Yeww!!

 

Finished up a little project I've been working on for a couple weeks. First I replaced the green aluminum water bottle / coolant tank that was resting on the sliders and zip-tied to the frame with a silver one. But I wasn't gonna have that be my long term solution. I was going to install a stock coolant tank, but I do like having that area open on this bike. So I started thinking and looking at some alternatives.

Well, this is what I came up with...





Capacity isn't huge on the aftermarket aluminum tank, but it holds more than it looks like. It actually holds as much as some smaller Honda tanks I've used on a VFR and VF1000R when I needed some space.



Modified some car racing chassis brackets, made the threaded aluminum backing plates and used some titanium tubing to hide the exposed threads on the stainless button head bolts.



Tucks in pretty nice and the hose routing worked out great.

 

Beautiful fabrication work there, Capt.....especially the welds....impressive! Congrats!

 

"MODIFIED some car racing chassis brackets"

 

Yeah those welds look great! That is a pretty sweet overflow tank!

 

Very clean