Progression Continues

I have painted the rear wheel black witrh a high gloss clear and a red pin stripe, it looks sick!

 The engine covers are murdered out with some polished accents, and the engine case has been touched up as well, it is all coming together quickly now, the front wheel and fork are next to get hit with paint

 Here is a color combo I am being inspired by right now, who knows what will be on the finished bike.

Here is a wheel I caught on the road one day, it belongs to a zuke, 750 I thing, love the color combo, I may put white wall on mine yet, who knows

Progression Session

Cahill and I are progressing on the the 'Suke'.  Wehave cut the fat from the wiring harness, which is a big deal, since this is a rat bobber it needs to be minimalist.  Turn signals, idiot gauges, tach and speedo, electronic hand controls ; all gone.  I have been going back and forth on the engine covers, and considered polishing as you can see from previous posts, but now I have committed to paint, and it looks bad ass.  I am using engine block paint, so as to not have any issues with heat in the area, check out these pics .  I am using a low gloss paint with a grey primer, and a high gloss clear, it looks great

see you soon

more inspirations

I came across some more pics of bikes I like and am using as inspirations for mine...ejoy

enigine rebuild

This weekend we are going to work on the motor some more, it is in pieces on the work bench, thought I would share some pics, oh boy what have I gotten myself into!

polishing

I have begun to polish the engine covers, this may seem like a wrong thing to do more like a finishing detail, but my idea behind it is 1. I have no money, and polishing cost me nothing, so why wait 2. it is easier to do it right the first time then to have to take it back off after it has the gaskets back on it 3. don't judge me, I don't know what I'm doing any how.  Cahill has the wiring harness and is testing that rat's nest to see what can be salvaged, it contains things like the turn signals which are not being reused, and other nick knacks that we are deciding whether or not to keep, (measure twice cut once). He also has the carb, and is checking to see if he thinks it needs to be rebuilt, I think it looks OK, but Cahil has done more of this than I have.  We took the motor out, and the thing got real messy.  My garage has not been this messy in a long time, but it feels good to be working on it again after almost a year off.  I have the angle grinder and am planning on chopping off the mounts for the highway bars, found some clip ons to fit, but i'm out of cash right now, so they will have to wait for now, gaskets come first and exaust.  We got alot of work ahead, look for more pics (after I find my camera)

Inspirations

These are just a few of the inspirations for my bike, thanks to all these builders for such great work

A Plague on Humanity

This is a blog that will follow the beginnings of a new concept in motorcycle crafting.  I have been an avid bicyclist for 30 years, and never really been into thing with motors, but then Iacquired a motorcycle.  Being an alley cat fixed gear rider, I bring  the design elements of my bicycles to motorcycles.  I have always been into rat rod cars and the stripped down look.  Fixies are much the same, minimalist in design and radical in concept.  So with my first project I'm bring this concept to life with a rat rod motorcycle, my concept : Alley Rats.  Recently I reconnected with a friend I had not seen in many years, one of the most creative and technically savie people I know, Brian Cahill.  We have known each since sixth grade.  We would spent our time building Legos, playing D&D and Atari.  He recently called me out of the blue and we started talking, and I told him about my project, he was stoked to say the least.  He was always the motorhead in the 'hood growing up, building Buicks and a number of motorcycles. He came over the other day and we started hacking on the thing.  We torn the motor down and it is currently in pieces on the bench, paradise.

Alley Rat Motorcycles