It begins again

TT 100 K181's? Those wheels are really smart. Is your garage bulging - or have you sold any bikes lately?

 

Pilot box refurb.........
could u share just how u got that Pilot box looking sooooo good?

 

Geez Polock!

The radial, lateral, and tangential stiffness of spoked bicycle wheels depends upon the rim’s bending inertia,
torsional inertia, the spoke sizes, and the spoke geometry.

Everybody knows this stuff! (eyes glassed over). I always thought that the long pokey things just held the big circular thing and the tire in place.

Loren

 

Strip it down to it's smallest component parts, prep & spray any metal parts, wash the plastic parts with soapy water & dry, repair any cracks from the inside with Q Bond, fill & rub down any blemishes on the ouside, carefully mask the lenses & 2 coat spray with plastic fender & trim paint.

 

Here's a couple of interesting features for a '77 bike.
The 'Reserve Lighting Unit', which switches the headlight to main beam if the low beam blows.
The 'Light Checker', which gives a warning if the brake light fails.

 

Air boxes & battery carrier finished.

 

Carbs before.

 

What happened to your pic of the bike on your first post? How much does this bike weigh altogether?

 

Must have knocked it out for space.

450lbs dry.

 

Just got to see the post - Thankx Wizard!

 

Wiz you are Brilliant

 

Wiz,
Next time you lace, try using rubber bands instead of tape. It gives a little more movement to the spokes and you just snip them off when done.

 

Thanks yam', I did think about that, but didn't have any small bands to hand, I just wrapped that tape loosely, glad you are paying attention. lol.

 

Now, here's a nice looking pair. 8O

 

Looks awesome!!! How did you get the bodies so spiffy?

 

Yes indeedy. VERY nice. Soda blast or "old school?"

And CVs no less, way back then. I thought they were solely a curse of the '80s.

 

Yes Fitz 38s no less, I hope I can afford to run this thing.
Ravenz 07, carb cleaner & a tooth brush (should that be teeth brush, if you don't live in Mich'?) judicious use of the rotary wire brush & buff what you can get at.

 

Looks like you spent a lot of time on that! They are incredible!

 

Starter motor refurbed, bushes & brushes were fine, just needed a good clean, it's a very robust piece of kit, but look where it is mounted. Frame stripped & ready for action.

 

Head & barrels finished.New S/S acorns fitted.

 

Wow, you are dong amazing work! Keep it up.

 

I remember the DONG

 

At last I've found a tame chroming guy ;o)

 

looking great as usual

 

Why aren't the rocker boxes symmetrical I wonder?

Very nice, btw. Does your chrome guy do cad plating as well?

 

Don't know, Fitz, I'll have to ask him.
3 of the rocker covers are triangular & that one square, I havn't worked out why ???

 

Fitz, apparently earlier models had a big FO decompressor at that left front rocker cover, the decom' got dropped but the casting stayed the same.

Left casing has had the treatment, the right is in the waiting room & a bit of gasket making......(it looks like a mark near the 'Yamaha', but it's a shadow)

 

Very nice. Pretty close to a stock finish right?

 

I don't know if the stock casings were laquered in those days, but I won't be coating them.

 

You truely requite the name well Wizard, inspired I am and I LOVED the poem. (Never heard of the Dong before, thanks!)

 

wiz, those New S/S acorns look beautiful. Now, if I could get a set like those for my maxim.
Santa is coming. lol

 

Once upon a time in Yamaland

 

Now that's a SERIOUS band-aid if I ever saw one!

What a bunch of tomfoolery over an electric starter; nearly as bad of a debacle as the Norton 850 e-start. Hopefully the one on the Yammie at least worked.

Interesting read. Thanx.

 

link to pictures

 

why dont you post your pics like this then so they will stay on threads forever? if you have them on your photo bucket you've done 99% of the work?

 

Quite so Schoot mon, it was finding the time to upload the pictures, with my set up & it is nice to throw a quick pic' in there to keep it topical.
Are you back at college, or you dropped out?

 

signed up for 15 creds at our local community college, then transfering them to michigan state university. Going for agri biz. After that, either farming, or my uncle, who just turned 30 is the manager for john deere landscapes for all of colorado, and is pulling in close to 60 figures.
I might work with him for a summer, see what that's like.

but ya, uploading pics with dial up sucks. I used to just upload a whole album on my computer before school, come back, and they'd be done

 

schooter your uncle is just a tad older then your bike how depressing lol man im getting old

 

60 figures is a whole lot of figures, are any of those credits in typing ?

 

Amazing that the Polish understand a little typo.

 

Mill finished.

 

looking good soon you will have 2 perfect yamahas. the big question is whats the next project gonna be lol looking forward to seeing it finished

 

Not sure, cutlass, I was thinking about a turbo charged pogo stick.

 

that will work lol
i need to dig this back out and get it running again ran fine when i put it in storage 10 years ago. very rare its a 1963 centaur folds up into a suitcase runs 35 mph everyone loved it when i took it out bike week in Daytona. has an old Clinton motor on it from what i am seeing worth a pretty good penny on ebay. I will have more time now to do restorations like i did in my spare time i just retired at age 47 and dont want to turn into a couch potato

 

That is awesome cutlass, the ultimate in novelty value.Park it next to overpriced and ridiculously modified V-Twins and see who gets all the attention.Absolute magic.
Congrats on an early retirement as well!
XS is looking great Wiz.

 

you sure your doing this all by yourself?

 

Ow shucks, my secret's out ;o(

 

Yes, I'm glad to see Wiz has given up on the Village people!

 

I'm in a good place with this project, I have a known running mill with good compression, most of the dirty work is done, now I can enjoy putting it back together ;o)

 

Front end progress, note the gaiters, giving the retro UK look I'm after.