Recent content by Calliway

Carbs dont care about what pipes you run. Your engine does. Your engine will require more fuel to deal with the open pipes. You just have to rejet your carbs to accomodate. You have fuel paths in a Mikuni CVK carb. You have the idle jet, needle and main jet. Idle jet will need to be bigger...

Sounds to me like the butterfly shaft seals in the carbs are leaking. Air gets passed them and the idle is hard to set and maintain.

I welded up a round bar steel frame that bolts to the top shock mount and the signal light/fender bolt

Has the single fuse. No fuse panel. Tank, front forks and carb bodies are 78. Jetted to 77specs. Bit of an odd duck.

Texvina. I have two from them. Awesome seats, comfortable, great fit and great little company to deal with.

Yes when I build a bike I have the finished product in my head and have usually sketched it a few times as well. The 75 graphics as a hole are my favorite graphics and I dd the tank the first time in the 75 graphics as well except after sitting for a day or two they all bubbled. So I peeled...

Sorry I am not sure what you mean about the sidecar decals. The scallops on the tank I painted on and they are just reverse from what you would tpically see on a bike of that era. Most side scallops are long on top and short on bottom. I just did the reverse. CHeers.

Technically yes but August of 1977 build and all specs are 1977 and not 78. Over a 100 hours of work and that is the comment. cool cool.

Finsihed up the paint and body work on my 78. I picked it up late spring last year as a non runner. After getting it going and mechanically sound last year I rode it for the season. I loved it and rode the hell out of it despite being dented and worn but thought I better give it some love...

Yep He might be on here, it's mine. Finished it a few weeks ago.

i have got two! One flat one with white stitching and hump back on the way. Great seats and a great company to deal with.

Bought my XS last summer. It was barely a runner and I spent a few days getting it running and then the rest of the summer riding and getting it reliable. 4000kms later after last summer I decided to tear it down and get it looking as good as it runs. I picked up replica Dunstalls last year...

Incredible artistry. Would I own it, no but the art and time that it took to go into that is amazing. To me the take away is that it is incredible what can be done with these motors. I think the modern Yamaha 700cc parallel twin used in the MT-)7 and the Kawasaki 650 parallel twin used in the...

Tires shouldn't really give you a speed wobble at a certain speed. If they are properly balanced they should be good up to their rated speed. What does give you speed wobble is the head geomatry. By changing the rear wheel size you will have changed the angle of approach of the front. So a...

Ride it. Just bloody ride it. What is the point of a nice clean bike if you just look at it. All of the tires mentioned are good tires. You dont have to have worry much on these bikes about sport bike levels of grip. Just a good brand of tire and away you go. Regular oil changes away you go.