the 82 yamabob begins

you can get them at any Home Depot or most hardware stores. I definitely wouldn't suggest on riding on them though. I'm just using them for mock up

 

So I finally got the bar mounts today. Mounted them along with my 1 1/8" ProTaper bars. Had a friend attempt to clear the tank. Bad Idea! Ohh well I decided on actually painting it. I need a pair of fenders. any ideas? I'd also like to get another tank as mine has some rust in it. again any ideas?

 

It's lookin' really good!

 

I just wish I had a tank that wasn't full of rust so I could hear her run

 

So the guy who owns the bodyshop next door to my shop offered to make my seat today so I let him. He used the stock pan, foam and cover. What do you guys think?

 

Looks good to me, although for a rigid it looks a little on the thin side, may be hard on the rear end

 

If the 650 and 750 left hand controls are the same, I may have one. Just need to check in the basement. You can have it just mail me back the postage.

 

Ace_Frehley It's only a hard tail till my shocks come in lol. I deff thought about doing it but my girlfriend will be on the back.

WesleyJN1975 that would be awesome! Just let me know. I'll PM you My info.

 

i'm using a 70's triumph rear fender cut down on the back of my bobber, it fits nice, the one i had on when it was a soft tail was a cut down trailer guard, cheep and effective

 

it's lookin good man! I agree though on the seat. You will want a spring loaded or more padding for a rigid.

 

You can easily clean any tank with a little Muratic acid mixed with a decent amount of water. Blow it out with shop air and put gas in it immediatly so it wont flash rust. Or even better than shop air, rinse it out with gas and throw the 'rinse gas' away. Dont have your pet cock on there when you do it either, the acid will kill it. Use a rubber plug or something.

 

I picked up a 70's yamaha scooter speedo on ebay for 10 bucks. it only goes to 80 mph, which I dont mind but it is small about 2" to 2.25" diameter and doesnt have anything else but a back light on it.

 

Hey guys,

I have a 82 XJ 550 and i want to change the top of the triple clamp to look like that with the different way to mount the handle bars! what bike is that top part off of?

 

Does anyone have the templates to build your own forward controls?

 

got the tank back today. Hope to start mocking up the exhaust tomorrow.

 

sooo It's been a while but I finaly got to work on the bike. I finished the exhaust and got some templates made up for the forward controls. I'll post up some pics tomorrow

 

cant wait for pics of your exhaust, i've just finished mine and am very interested in what you are doing with yours

 

ok, so i finally got her running. I still need to find a tank as mine leaks really bad. Here's a short vid. sorry the quality sux but i did it with my phone. I also had an idea for pluging the frame ends[/img]



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looks really good

 

It looks like the speedo is sitting in the headlight! That would be pretty cool.