Recent content by oms1981

hell yeah, that's what I'm looking for Mandit. If you have the time, it would be awesome if you could give a little more detail about how you opened the seat up and how you modded it. Looks so awesome. beautiful bike man. I love it.

Don't like to drag up an old thread, but has anyone come to any resolution on this? I've got the Dime City seat as well for my 82 and I'm having similar fitting issues. Haven't really played around with it much yet, but some insight before hand would be awesome. Don't really know what to do...

thanks for the link, that's helpful. Looks like the rim sizes on the 82 are the same: 1.85-19, and 2.75-16.

I pulled my wheels off yesterday to get them ready to go for powder coat. Visually, they have always appeared in good shape and seemed to ride fine. I rode all last summer on them. but after getting tires removed I found a small bend in the front rim. It almost looks possible that the tire...

In the interest of not starting a new thread... Could someone post the sizes for the 1982 heritage wheels while we are at it? Is it just the spokes that changed, or are the wheel sizes actually different as well? Thanks!

Hey all, I acquired an 82 Special to build into a custom. Old owner had it sitting for 2 summers unused but said it ran great before that. Carbs were gummed up when I got it; wouldn't start. I put new mufflers on it, Emgo turn out style, very free flowing compare to original; almost...

Hey folks, I'm just getting started on my first custom build and I want to go with 11" shocks on the rear. I'm looking for advice on which shocks people have had good experience with. The big catch: they need to be black. So rebel shocks, or some other chrome shocks won't do it for me. I was...

great, thanks a lot for the advice. i appreciate it

do you think some carb cleaner would losen that float up? at least to stop the overflow so I can move it. my buddy is really on me to get it out of his garage and I don't have a lot of time to rip a carb apart over there. not terribly concerned about the idle at the moment, i just need to be...

Hello everyone. I went to start up my bike (1982) the other day for the first time this year. It has been in the garage over winter. I got it running but quickly noticed a problem. Now before I get into this, I would just like to begin by saying that I am a pretty crappy mechanic. My...