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What I used on the visible wiring on my built was - shoe laces. You can get them in almost any colour and they are dirt cheap. You cut it, run a piece of some kind of slippery rod through it to widen it up and feed the cables through. The only down side of it is - fire resistance, but it surely...

Thanks, already working towards that www.facebook.com/radsloft :wink2:

Hey Detale, did You ever tried them wires out in the end?

springer is in bits - needs rockers, as the ones that came with it are a joke. maybe one day we gonna rebuild and improve it :wink2:

An American WW2 bike lookalike with a Japanese engine from the future... I don't know how to call that, controversial symbolism? :thumbsup: it does have something in it - i'll give you that By the way, Airwolfie, - function before aesthetics - leaves some room for chain tension adjustment

Thanks scabber, Oddjob - I appreciate the kind word. :thumbsup: Let's do some more writing up today hey Next was getting and trying out some polishing equipment ... and then - sorting out all of the cuts caused by those who chopped the frame before me: welding the brackets on...

Thanks, guys, theDQG, Brassneck, YamadudeXS650C, Yes - brass does have that effect, and I'm happy that it ain't to much steampunk - that was exactly the plan - to have just a hint of it.

And we are back! I know I said we gonna bake a seat next time, but I only said that cause I saw some pictures with a seat in them coming up next (my pictures are sorted by date, so I can follow the sequence of events easily). Now I noticed - what I saw coming up was the pics of my first...

I would say if the battery is not charging that's an alternator problem. Regulator is only supposed to balance the current out so it don't overcharge.

By this time I realised I might need some spacers. "Kursaal Klassics" in Southend kindly provided me with the details of someone who can turn them for me, which he did, and also suggested someone who had some front end parts. And he certainly did have most of it. By the looks of it we had it...

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Ok, so now when I'm out of work and have nothing to do except of some little ideas that i'm working on (leather work mostly) I decided to turn this thread to a detailed build story to sum it all up and put an end to it. I might not be able to do it all in one go, as most of the things where made...

I recommend graduate tint of red or amber to be used on that screen - could look a bit cocky, but You don't know until You don't try it on. Real nice clean bike!