This is some work I’d started on Loudbike (I won’t be talking about her much in these next two entries)
Loudbike in the background and 69 in the fore…
…still hanging on to that fat ugly tail
…ahh
now the proper grinding can start:
side stands are for posers:
Actually I’ll be putting one back on, but the stock one was going to interfere with the rear sets… and it’s heavy… so dumpster-bound it is. It’ nice to see that Honda designed some nice pockets into the brackets where water could collect and rust the frame away.
I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what the hell this little (heavy) thing was for, something to do with the steering lock I guess.
evening out the ends
I did this one a lot better than Loudbike… second time’s the charm
It’s all about removing the stuff you don’t need and slimming down the stuff you do:
new in the foreground, old in the back…guess which is lighter… and looks better
I needed to make myself a stand and handle for sandblasting and painting so I machined out a couple disks to match the inside shelves of the races to double as a paint mask:
and ran some all-thread through them
on the other end I jammed some dowels into the ends of the tubes for it to rest on.
Ready for sandblast
welcome to the white sandy beaches of Dallas Texas
obviously it would have been a lot better to do this in a blast cabinet… I don’t have one. If you’re using really fine media… don’t do it around 3 in the morning, the dew settles into the sand and it doesn’t flow worth a damn. BTW, that sucked so damn much and took approximately 4 hours… I wont be trying that again.
Guess how long that all took…those photos span about one day and 4 or 5 very late nights… and a whole lot of energy drinks.
