土曜日 Dribble.

Dream Bar Bends.

Ugly Baby.

Bandana Bones.

 She doesn't love me as much today.

Daughter, again.

Tinkering and Riding

Ordered the shocks and got legal at the BMV.

Buttoning stuff up to get it road ready.

Maiden voyage tomorrow?

 Finish the seat pan tomorrow hopefully.

 The chicken whisperer.

Road some country gravel with BCH.

These two look like brothers.

 Shameless.

Holiday farms.

Exhaust issues

I took off the CL160 exhaust to use for now and found this.

 Tick-tack-toe

I'll finish it another day.

Tank welding Tiggerific

*Disclaimer*

I have never welded aluminum before.  I have not used a tig welder in years.  This was my second time.  I am a self proclaimed proud-to-be booger welder.  This was a challenge.

Headin' there.

 I love my fruit trees but I wish I had one of these trees like my mom and pops.

Gettin' down to business.
Time to turn a cap for that hole.

 This lathe is so much easier to use....

 Done.

Fillin' holes.

 Ryan showing me how its done.

 This was my best flat weld after a little practice.

 Tank is done but not pretty.
I picked the worst thing to try to weld on my first attempt.....

Headin' home.

Honda CB160 Seat Modification

Today was seat mod. day.  

Tomorrow is parent teacher conference day.

Stock seat de-foamed.

 Stock seat nasty.

 Choppy.

 The mid section of the seat slides onto two stays welded to the frame. 

I figured this would be a good starting point for a fairly symmetrical seat.

 Attached the sides.

1

 2&3

 4

 Eh.

Good enough for now.

It lines up with the tank pretty nice and is about 1.5 - 2 inches slimmer.

Originally thought I would work the springs back in the equation but have a different idea now.

Pony chop

Rubber mounted seat

Exhaust extension 

Rear fender re-worked

Stripped down

Rubber mounted seat

(skateboard bushings)

 Cut, drill, weld in the stay

 Done

Hopefully this reduces the amount of vibration to my boooty

Always patient

Always kind

Unconditional love 

 Short exhaust

Slightly extended

Can't wait to hear it

What's left?

-Figure out/finish tank mounting

-Welding cradle on at the front

-New stator side cover...again

Sad bars....

C2 was long overdue for some new bars.

Holesaw to the tubing.

Lathe to the rod (overdid the length but...you live and learn).

 Time to drill out and tap.

Needed to make a tool to hold the tap in place.

 Moyou was not impressed.

Drill it out.

 Tap that bung.

 This is a Hutch shot.

Moyou with the creeep.

 Pre-bent mocked up bars.

Gross.

 Kyle came through with the late night bend.

I appreciate it!

 Time to weld.

I am horrible at welding....

Moyou was even less impressed with this.

This is before the welds got cleaned up and filled in.

I also took a few inches off the overall wingspan.

 Early mock up.

Hopefully I will be able to get these powdercoated next week.

All the aluminum switch housings are going to get zapped black soon too.

Next up:

Make new sissy bar mounts and bar.