XJ and quite frankly, cycle noob.....

Wow, the socks thing is too close to home. (not anymore, but just a month ago).

 

I take it you are a card carrying member of the sciatica club?

 

Inversion table.

 

I hang from a chin-up bar.... upside down messes with the pressure in my head. Ears and Sinuses. But it is amazing on the spine.

 

make your life simple , get rid of the socks

 

LMAO!!!! Then my feets get cold!

 

Got my bars......Finally got the position right. I could ride these for hours. Only slightly aggressive. But 6061 T6 Aluminum. I have a feeling I'll need the bar end mirrors that dampen vibration...

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/YAMAHA-GAS-...ash=item25cc5cac60:g:iq8AAOSw44BYacUJ&vxp=mtr

Somebody was recently asking me about tank emblems.... Here's a pair on ebay that dont look hateful.

 

Fill the bars with butylene rubber caulk. That will reduce the high frequency vibrations by quite a lot. Also make sure that you've done a running synch on the carbs. Cylinders that are fighting each other will cause more vibration.

 

Nice!!! I like the way you think! I just happen to have a tube of 3M window weld....

 

Or before a long ride, you could stuff it with hot dogs. The road side snack is an added bonus!

 

If the hotdogs cook in the handlebars, then the handelbars are hooked to the wrong part of the bike

 

I was thinking pre cooked. Dunno where the buns go though. But now I'm thinking of converting collector box into some kind of smoker...

 

There is this spot under the carbs where one can convieniently safety-wire an aluminum-foil wrapped meal into place....

 

I've seen under hood brisket before. Mebbe a small pork n sweet potato packet... damn, I've got a BBQ cookbook with a bunch of foil packet recepies. This joke may turn into a hangout lounge cooking thread! "Meals on wheels!" or something.

 

I'm thinking the valve cover might toast the bun a bit.

And i cooooould wrap a heating element around the bars..... heated grips/dogs.....

 

I may have to downgrade to Vienna sausages....

 

Busy week.. A lot happening at work. Received the reflashed control unit for the tdi/Wrangler swap and voila! Starts and drives first try! Although it's not a bike, I think you guys would get a kick out of this little torque monster! I idled it through the industrial park , shifted to 4th gear and never touched the throttle!!!! Anyway, i finally had the chance to build the vacuum forming table, and tested two thicknesses of acrylic sheet. Success! I'm able to achieve way more definition than necessary for the back half of this airbox design. Now if I could just work up the nuts to start welding on the aluminum I purchased (and those pretty stacks)......

 

(pretty stacks)****

 

hell yeah Paul! old skool!

 

Haven been enthused, and then later disappointed, by the Liberty diesel I am going to encourage/beg you to start a thread in the hangout lounge.

 

A thread for the jeep build? I have so many pictures of the process.....

 

If someone can guide me through the process of getting pictures from my phones sd card, onto my computer, It would be much easier. As of now, I dumped all my pictures to a folder on my desktop, but there are no icons and the computer did not recognize the specific folders i have them organized in.... I.E. "Wrangler build". I just made an attempt to find them and they are scattered all over the sd card. In the folder on the computer it doesn't even give me thumbnails to look at. I know there's a better way. Any suggestions?

 

What computer operating system do you use?

 

if you have a google account and a android phone, just open "gallery" on your phone, look for the picture you want, long tap the pic till a menu comes up, go to
"share", find "google+" and send it to yourself. go to google+ on the pc and set sharing and get a link to the picture.

 

windows 10

 

And thats kind of how I do it already. which is fine for individuals. But this is a whole folder of pictures.

 

64 bit

 

Nevermind Polock...I selected the whole folder and it uploaded.

 

Hey all. its been a minute! Fear not I haven't put her down. Got a nice pile of goodies for her with my tax returns, and I'm plugging right along. I will catch up on both this thread and the Wrangler tdi thread, but for now , I'm freraking slammed. I procured an Antigravity 8 cell for this thing and have begun researching if I need to build a custom regulator. It looks like the ic regulator allows charging up to 14.6v, which is the ceiling for this battery. My question is..... how many amps will the ic regulator/rectifier allow? 8a is the max charge rate for this battery... I want to be thourough in this department as I am all too aware of the care the lithium batteries need. I'm tucking it under the tail cone and would prefer not melting it/burning my ass!!

 

Normally, the lithium batteries have a built-in charge controller. They need it because of the complicated nature of charging lithium batteries (properly). I wouldn't think you'd need to change what the bike originally had.

 

THIS.

 

I'm not certain this unit does. I talked to Antigravity this morning and their main concern is not letting the battery dip bellow 11v. I'm certain that maintaining a low load is what will keep the charging amps stable. I've decided to rewire the entire machine and I will be taking special care there. I will be adding an amp meter/volt meter to monitor. Thanks Dave! How's the robot? And K-Moe, you through with your conferences?

 

.... Also, I'm putting out an apb for a seat latch.... Not the portion welded to the frame... The one in the seat and it doesn't need to be mint. I'll clean it up. Anyone who has one give me a number and I'll purchase through PayPal.

 

I believe this is the one that engages the frame latch/helmet lock. That's the one I need.

 

Confrences are over. We are now on the long road to summer. Ugh. Kids.

Apologies for forgetting whatever it is that I said I would do (I'm assuming here).

 

Seat latch, huh? Want the original one from your bike?

 

Lol. Only if you don't need it Dave. I'd feel better taking ones off of a less than nice seat! You have an old one laying around?

 

I haven't swapped seats yet, but I really only need on seat latch, so which one is less important to me.

 

Name your price Dave! I reworked my plans for this custom seat. Would love to have it latch using the stock design!

 

You made no promises K-Moe. Now I gather you are a teacher! Thumbs up sir!