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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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It's a Roller All afternoon and all gets done is basic front end install? Yes but changing this, borrowing that redoing something else...
Yesterday at 6:26 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Balancing Needs The forks have come in the mail, so today I spent a lot of time putting the rear end together, chain guard, plastic...
Saturday at 6:15 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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My thoughts too, but the pipes are pretty close together, you'd have to have an offset to the megs or some sort of staggered mount sort...
Thursday at 5:08 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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It's a Runner! But it won't go, lol. Sorta anticlimactic, though, don't these always start? Not really, I am battling with a BBK and a...
Thursday at 1:14 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Good News Today I was running the starter to circulate the new oil and figured I would check compression at the same time. All orifices...
Wednesday at 5:25 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Thinking more about it, I am guessing someone decided to grab the threaded cable boss, loosened the set screw, took it. Had that person...
Tuesday at 7:29 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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It had been slated to be a parts bike for a cafe build and I think a guy was just taking stuff apart.
Tuesday at 6:55 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Lucky Today! I changed the bottom oil screen and mount plate, nothing remarkable there, the gasket surfaces were fairly easy to clean...
Tuesday at 6:35 PM
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Today was title day. Drafted an affidavit that fulfilled Service Ontario's requirements (you may know that place as a licence bureau or...
Mar 13, 2023
lakeview
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'74 TX650 Build/misadventure
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Looks pristine now! That's one of my jobs for tomorrow, I am going to lay the Special over on its side and let my knees complain instead...
Mar 12, 2023
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Magic Button Works! Another few hours this morning and then this afternoon and great progress. Got enough wiring connected to get the...
Mar 12, 2023
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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For now, it's going together with existing parts. Trying to empty some shelves.
Mar 12, 2023
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Ya Won't Get Far Like That! Spent a happy afternoon mocking up the front end (worn out fork tubes are there just to align headlight...
Mar 11, 2023
lakeview
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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Frame Rub a Dub; Engine Install Today it was a couple degrees above freezing, but sunny, so I sprayed and scrubbed the frame and then...
Mar 8, 2023
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Survivor Special '79 - 6737km
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The Garage
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Picked up a parts bike from a fellow who is building a '75 into a cafe. Was not intending to until I saw the speedo showing low miles...
Mar 7, 2023
lakeview
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What have you done to your XS today?
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It does show 6737km and the frame and motor are clean and undisturbed by a guy with a full case of beer and half a plan. Actually, the...
Mar 5, 2023
lakeview
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What have you done to your XS today?
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Must be Spring - Bought a Project A '78 Special, said to be low miles, that a fellow bought for parts and did not need. So I have...
Mar 5, 2023
lakeview
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Cam Chain Adjuster Fitment on BBK750
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I was just looking at post #7 by gggGary in the "Cam Chain Adjuster Querie" thread and my adjuster is sunk in almost as far as the one...
Feb 20, 2023
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