Jeeter
XS650 Addict
Ugh. I think I'll build a bicycle.
These projects can become so involved. I have a lot of ~me~ in this one. I get discouraged at times when things seem stuck/motionless. I just wasted a bunch of time on a guy that was going to buy some specialty parts from me, spent days trading correspondence, spent all this time working out shipping and duty fees to Canada. And then (you already know what's coming) he flakes. Bastid.
FRONT END ASSEMBLY:
I'm getting to the point where I may just chicken out and go with a standard telescopic front end. I feel like I am totally pussing out here though. Anyhow, maybe some telescopic front end that is well supported by Racetech and isn't too heavy. Perhaps the stock XS650 forks with the stock drum brake, 19 inch front wheel, good triples (Cheney perhaps). I mean if I'm gonna bail on the idea may as well totally bail out on it, the girder front end, 21 inch front wheel, the works. It just looks so cool in my mind's eye. It's certainly something my dad and I would have tried had there been a really good girder builder known to us at the time. The downside back then would have been crappy hydraulic shock availability until the likes of Works Performance and FOX went online. I mean we were just privateers with support coming from "Joe's Garage" sponsors that worked on engines at the kitchen table and welded frames in the driveway. So we were always on the hunt for any edge that we could obtain inside of our "nothing" budget. Hell I gas welded good enough that I could have made up the framework of the girder myself, had I the dimensions. I'm just mumbling about what never was. Yea, Anyhow.
FUEL TANK:
I've settled on a fuel tank. Going with a Yamaha DT type fuel tank, it fits with the format of this bike. So that part is settled.
These projects can become so involved. I have a lot of ~me~ in this one. I get discouraged at times when things seem stuck/motionless. I just wasted a bunch of time on a guy that was going to buy some specialty parts from me, spent days trading correspondence, spent all this time working out shipping and duty fees to Canada. And then (you already know what's coming) he flakes. Bastid.
FRONT END ASSEMBLY:
I'm getting to the point where I may just chicken out and go with a standard telescopic front end. I feel like I am totally pussing out here though. Anyhow, maybe some telescopic front end that is well supported by Racetech and isn't too heavy. Perhaps the stock XS650 forks with the stock drum brake, 19 inch front wheel, good triples (Cheney perhaps). I mean if I'm gonna bail on the idea may as well totally bail out on it, the girder front end, 21 inch front wheel, the works. It just looks so cool in my mind's eye. It's certainly something my dad and I would have tried had there been a really good girder builder known to us at the time. The downside back then would have been crappy hydraulic shock availability until the likes of Works Performance and FOX went online. I mean we were just privateers with support coming from "Joe's Garage" sponsors that worked on engines at the kitchen table and welded frames in the driveway. So we were always on the hunt for any edge that we could obtain inside of our "nothing" budget. Hell I gas welded good enough that I could have made up the framework of the girder myself, had I the dimensions. I'm just mumbling about what never was. Yea, Anyhow.
FUEL TANK:
I've settled on a fuel tank. Going with a Yamaha DT type fuel tank, it fits with the format of this bike. So that part is settled.