Japanese Frisco from a Free bike and Cheap Parts!

[hotrod937]

Got my rear rim and spokes from Mikes and also a front end bearing kit. My trees are at the machine shop and are gonna be another 10 days cause the machinist is on vacation. In the mean time I built this table from a bunch of wood I found buried behind my shop. I gotta cut a piece of ply for the and I'm probably gonna build some shelves and drawers on the bottom for tools and parts. I'll use some aluminum truck ramps to get the bikes on and off for now. After a couple weeks letting the wood dry I'll sand it all down and paint and stain it.

 

[Airwolfie]

Low tank and bars!!!

 

[Byookanun]

Subscribing to the build.

 

[hotrod937]

Polished up the rear hub.

Laced it up.

Both wheels have tight spoke crossface. I can't tell if they are bowed or my eyes are just deceiving me. What do I do?

 

[hotrod937]

I went outside to find some wood to shore up the frame a little better. After an hour of digging I found a bunch of old deck wood under the mud. So I decided to make a motorcycle table out of it.

It turned out so amazing. 8 foot by 3 feet and just over 2 foot high. I might put it on some heavy duty casters which would raise it up to about 3 feet high. I also plan one putting a piece of ply on the bottom and building some shelves and drawers for parts and tools. I'm going to get some cheapy aluminum ramps from HF to get bikes on and off. I build it to fit my long bagger Harley but it's really for building full build bikes. So happy with it.

 

[hotrod937]

Built the rear wheel.. It sucked

Outer spokes needed pushed over 90* via the wood, vise and hammer method. Not that big of a deal.

Spokes too short especially outers. I found a few longer ones for the outers and methodically laced wheel only turning each spoke a thread or two making sure to save the long outers for last in case I needed them and I did.

This was possibly due to the horrible weld and grind job during mfg of the rim. After lacing and attempting to true with an old motorcrosser to no avail, I broke the wheel down one last time and readyed myself for one last lace and true with my machinist mind on full alert. After lacing with all the spokes loose using the method above I rigged up two and could have used 3 or 4 dial gauges.

The day and days leading up to this I talked to a bike shop, two motorcycle shops, two friends who laced wheels, BMX and MX, and Hugh from HHB. All of them gave me some great advice and told me that every rim is square and wobbly. So I decided to take it slow and easy. In the end I got it as close as I believe it can get. .010 thou left to right and .010 thou up and down with jumps of .015 and .020 here and there where the weld/grind job is and where a few little dimple dents are. I'm pleased but not convinced until I get some ride time. I was super excited so I mounted up the tire and of course when I went to fill it there was a leak. I'm guessing a burr on a spoke nip or I pinched it putting it on even though I was careful. Side note: the rim from Mikes is very shallow which makes mounting the tire somewhat more difficult.

 

[neanderthal]

yeah man that is going to have a nice stance. what meat did you go with on the front?

 

[hotrod937]

Front is going to be 1973 Sportster KYB front end with "big drum" Sporty hub laced on a 21" rim with 3.00 Avon Speedmaster. Trees are at the machine shop right now. Should have them with in a week I hope and then I'll be mocking it all up on it's rubber. That is roughly ride height. After that it's get the motor running and work out the rest of mock up. Today I sandblasted half of the Sporty front fender to use on the back. My sand blast set up is shitty and I need to probably just whizzy wheel the rest but it's messy either way and there's tons of pink mud on it. In the mean time I'm waiting for my front end I'll be getting the rear fender worked.

 

[neanderthal]

having sellers regret on that wheel lol. looks good man, keep it up

 

[wiggins]

I have that same camo fsc hat, along with a few others.

Bikes looking good