Back from the Drawing Board

The Yamaha has been sitting in the garage, not really getting any love lately. I threw away the old handlebars, seatpan, headlight ears, and speedo mount. Starting to rework the bike again and do a new body for it. Should be interesting...

... mysterious picture...

Coming Along...

The Yamaha is coming along nicely. Last week I had three full days in the garage and the last two days as well. I had cut and mounted a piece of sheet metal to match the frame for th new seat pan and then kinda didn't know what to do or how to make the rest of it. Between Matt and Dad helping me out and looking around at different cafe styled bike online, I figured that something traditional would be easiest to fabricate and would probably look best. Sooooooo...

The yellow Yamaha 360 tank that some may have seen before was cu up and is now the tail piece, the seat back is bent sheet metal butt welded to the new pan. Still need to trim the top and grind the welds down, but for my first time I'm happy with it. There's still quite a bit of work to be done but I'm having fun and can't wait to get riding this bike again soon.

Three days in the garage...

made a speedometer mounting bracket

made new pieces for the frame, spot welded them and the Daddio finished welding them in

made brackets for the tank... it's getting there, I like motorcycles and really want to finish this project for February... paintings, be good, i will return soon :)

Yama-LOL

The past few days I've been doing art work and trying to branch out... I've done a few political sketches for painting and brainstormed a few ideas, I'm still working (or need to work) on the heart tattoo for my friend, CB Matt from Draft Cycle needs designs and stuff, trying to do linoleum prints, blah blah blah.

My Dad builds motorcycles in the garage at night, then we met Matt from Draft Cycle Works... now my Dad and Matt build motorcycles in the garage at night... Then I bought an old Yamahahaha early this year and decided that building motorcycles is easy and I can totally do it too! :)

HA!

Here's what the bike looked like originally (random google image pic)

So I guess I'm now branching out into the motorcycle thing as well :) lol

Me, my Dad, and Matt have all had our hands on this thing since I started taking it apart. Matt's been keeping me entertained and my Dad is walking me through how to do things. It's like a little tiny garage of manly love... for motorcycles... HA! Matt's gay, get it?

Here's me and Dad scratching our heads

When I'm Not Doing Art Stuff....

I bug my Dad until he helps me fix things I don't understand... Mwahahahahaha!

This is my new/old bike, it's an '81 Yamaha XJ750, also known as a SECA 750. Picked it up in Silver Spring, MD sometime around Memorial Day and it sat in the garage while the Texas bike was getting done for Trent at BikerMetric. My Dad rebuilt the starter, I changed the spark plugs, and then BOOM BABY!! With the exception of it idling at 5000 rpms, this was a great day, we later fixed the idle problem by putting the boots back on the carbs from the airbox, and Daddio messed around with the throttle cable.

This past weekend it got some new chrome handlebars that aren't retarded like the stock ones, and a new throttle cable... This thing will easily burn my 2007 suzuki in a straight line (100 cc more and 2 more cylinders will do that I reckon)

Thanks Dad!! I'm not going to say anything mushy, but yeah, you're cool :)