What did you do to your Yamaha today?

Thanks chacal I will be careful. You can track me on my blog at:

elvisonthemove.blogspot.com

I will post as regularly as I can. My first stop is the Czech town of Plzen, the birthplace of the Pilsner beer. I intend on doing the Pilsner Urquell brewery tour and getting as absolutely smashed as I can off unpastuerized wood keg brewed beer and crashing at the hotel across the street. In the morning I will take a picture of my bike in front of the "World's Biggest Hangover"

 

Gwyndwr- Holy Moley, nice jorb! Enjoy your tour that is an awesome plan. You've certainly worked hard to make it happen.

 

Gwyndwr... best of luck to you... this is something I would love to do... have a blast and a safe trip!

 

Gwynder ... we want pics!!

Otherwise... notihng new done to the XS except daily rides to work, which now includes a short higheway run, so far, she's working great... looking into some ammo can saddle bags, still need to do the cluster light-LED conversion...

 

Pilsner Urquell is actually my fav beer........

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmm that is a tasty brew , ranks high on my list as well.... current fave is Hoegaarden

 

Got rid of the original bar and put on clubmans while i'm waiting to recieve the new exhaust and the new chrome round mirrors

 

Today I reinstalled my PLate behind the left Rear foot peg , made a new bracket and installed A Blue L.E.D Light pod over it To make it legal. Later this week I will be making a second attempt at fabricating a new seat.

 

well, fitted a bar end mirror, made a new number plate bracket for the modified back end, fitted a 2nd hand set of carbs, £30 of ebay incl postage, what a bargain, and stripped the front brakes, hopefully ill get them back on tomorrow and a few touch ups of flat matt black ;-)

 

Got an electronic flasher installed on the Seca. Mucho better... Seems like the signals are brighter now.

 

What I did last night

 

Today I'm loading the bike up with saddlebags, tent, sleeping bag and tank bag. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a trip. The destination is about 1200 kms away. I may do a loop into the Black Hills of SD as well. The trip should be over 3000 kms when I get home by the 15th.

 

Finally got soem parts back from the paint shop( I was late getting thiings to him) I got the swing arm, tension bar, both wheels and fenders back on. Still waiting fo rthe tank side covers and some accent peices to be done. But at least it has wheels again I will fashion up somekind of temp fuel tank and sinc the carbs up while I am waiting. Then I will have some pics fo ryou all.

 

Decided to start my carb rebuild =) I think its going to be harder than I thought to get them clean but it's not as scary taking them apart as I had feared. Reassembly could be a different matter....lol. There is some weird looking moss in the bowls *scratches head. I remember reading about pine sol and lemon juice to clean various parts but don't remember exactly what was used to clean what parts so I guess I will search for that in the a.m.

 

I managed to hit a puddle and slide straight into a wall :-( Now I have bent forks a broken windshield and also took out a turn signal. I may have to part out this old 82. I won't have time until this weekend to check and see if I damaged the triple tree or anything else.

Good news I am ok and I still didn't lay it down.

 

At least your ok man, sux for the bike though

 

Almost there!

I'don't like the way the instrument panel turned out, but the rest looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself!

 

Great looking bike!

 

Taking the wheels in for some new rubber, last night I had an adventure with removing the wheels but nothing and no one was hurt.

 

Removed rear luggage rack, broken grab/sissy bar and tag bracket.

Polished rear fender, removed and cleaned rear inner fender, re-installed rear fenders.

Polished turn signals and cleaned lenses
Attempted tp clean and polish front and rear wheels, will have to revisit this, was not prepared for this one.

Removed front wheel calipers and cleaned them
Bled front brake wheel cylinders