Recent content by Big John

Sign me up, I am dying to start cutting a frame up.

Got to get me one of these. Been practicing with the tig. The only thing holding the sawzall back is my lack of a jig.

My grandfathers quote on teenage boys, " No matter how many boys there are, there is only one brain. One boy has one brain. If there are two boys together then each has half a brain. A whole group of boys and each one has just a tiny little piece of brain. "

I am hoping to have a 16 inch wheel to lace up to it this weekend.

I figured I would polish both and possibly drill some 1 inch holes in rear to match the right side of the front drum and the use mesh with grommets to keep most of the grime out.

I am ok with resurrecting it. I have been working on a few other bikes and was hoping to finish this one up this summer. I still haven't installed the drum brake wheel yet. Need to make sure the axle will fit and find/make an anti rotation bracket. I have the brake shoes and brake cable. I was...

No chance to work on how I am going to use it yet, but the wheel looks a lot better. to

Thanks for all the great suggestions guys. I will take a look at the bracket off of my 79 and see how it looks. Other than the rotor, that may be the only good part on my existing front brakes.

That part looks like aluminum from the picture. Is that correct?

I had the same concern with the welding. Not sure how much potential there was to distort the tube, but hey, with as old as these bikes are, I bet the tolerances are merely in the neigborhood of "in spec".:laugh: I think I will be looking at manufacturing a plate to accomplish this. I am very...

Anyone with pics of what that SR500 plate looks like? Sounds like I should machine up one of those And several extra to sell.

For those that have swaped the XS1 drum to a later model, What was your solution for the lack of an anti-rotation tab on the later fork leg? Did you come up with a type of bolt on solution? Weld on a tab? Swap out the fork leg or fork tube? I was considering doing this swap, had the...

That sounds great. Thanks for the help. Now I just need to find the 16 inch rim and brakes I want to run.

I was hoping to build them up myself. Will they just sell me the spokes or build the wheels for me? Has anyone on here done this before?

Is it easy to lace the 16 on the front? You know the new spoke length and good source for them? Thanks?