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Sorry no new pics, but did get a chance to tear the old girl apart. The frame is pretty badly trashed, and the rear rim is bent and broke. The swingarm is bent, and I don't know what else. We have to do some frame straightening just to remove the fuel tank so we can get a closer look. Almost...

It's really sad. I don't even want to look at it right now, I don't have the money to fix it right now. I am still trying to resolve the money issues with the woman who hit me without taking her to court. In my state I can won't get much, but I'm hoping enough to pick up a parts bike. Stupid...

The end to my restoration project came abruptly a few days ago. I was having a nice, though somewhat cold drive on one the last days before snow came to my area, I stopped behind a car making a left turn on a busy two lane road, when the car behind me failed to stop, I don't think she even hit...

Bike is still running good, but seems to have a large increase in power starting around 4000rpm. Through all load ranges seems to respond as I would expect, but at 4000 the bike really takes off, kinda reminds me of my 2-stroke dirt bike when it hits the power band, just sort of instant power...

Here is what happened today, I woke up an went out to see if I could do anything about the oil leak. I pulled back the rubber boot on the drive shaft, and saw that the seal on the engine had somehow been knocked out of where it sits. The seal was out about a 1/4 inch. I took a brass punch and...

I have put it up on the center stand and ran it through the gears, and it doesn't appear to be leaking. Yet when I stop from a ride (10 miles) it's just leaking out, so it doesn't appear to be engine related so much, because it doesn't leak unless I go someplace. I think it may have something...

Sorry for not posting any updates lately, I have been out riding more lately. I ordered all my parts and changed the timing belts, air filter, oil, oil filter, fuel filter, and fixed the brakes. The old girl runs better every time I take her out. For the down sides... The mirrors move while...

It's snowing again tonight. I went for a ride today, just around the block. She ran great. Went and got the bolt to put the shifter back together, but haven't done it yet. It is not easy shifting without that heel-toe shifter, the floorboards don't let me get my toe under the shifter well...

Well.... I broke something else again. I went out to the garage and was playing with the bike again, and pressed down on the shifter to put her into gear and the shifter fell off. The bolt that holds the shifter broke.. :head bang: So, I took off the floorboard and got the threaded part of...

I went and pulled the starter yesterday. I was removing the bolt below the shifter area, the lower bolt on the starter. The bolt broke :head bang: So now I really am not sure what to do. There is no easy way to get what is left of that bolt out, its not in a good place to reach. I did get...

My wing overcharged recently, turned out to be a bad connection at the regulator/rectifier. The voltage sense wire was not getting good connection. Cleaned the connections and added dielectric grease, and now she's better.

Ok so, not much new here. Still no money for parts, and snowing. So I continue to go out to the garage and spend time with my bike. She's got a new name, I think I'm going to call her Alice. Every time I start her up she runs better. Idle is a bit high at about 1250rpm, throttle response is...

Kinda what I was thinking. The color I was going for is a dark cherry. I was thinking maybe gold pinstripes, hidden inside the red. My brother has painted for many years, and says that he can do what I am thinking, and that it will look good, but he also said it will be a big pain, and that I...

I got an idea of the color I may eventually want to paint my motorcycle. Sadly I am not the greatest with photo editing programs, but I have been messing with them and came up with this. Whatcha guys think? I still can't do much actual work on the bike because of money issues, but it's on my...

Just an idea of a color I was kinda thinking of. Photo-Chopped