Recent content by ray08pv

sorry to mislead, there's a junkyard with a motorcycle section (its not huge, but its better than nothing) in New Ringgold, called Joe's E-Z pull, Harry's U-Pull it is in hazleton and to my knowledge, just does cars, but its still a great place for lights, seat upholstery, etc. My home town is...

I figured out that with the fitment of the longer seatpan, i'll be able to just cut the turn signal tabs off and not affect the rigidity of the frame. Once its on the road and out at college i'll take it to the weld shop and have a 180 degree section welded on thats aesthetically pleasing...

http://williamsport.craigslist.org/mcy/2244101220.html 1973 Honda CB350 10k $1200 obo I'm posting this here to see if anyone might be interested in it. the bike belongs to my friend. The reason he's selling the bike is that he slid on black ice and crashed his mustang, and he now needs...

I did some tinkering around today, finished the seatpans, tore the back half of the bike down, checked brakes, re-checked seat measurements, played around with turn signal mounting points, and figured about where i want to chop the frame off at. I scrapped the idea of carving the spherical...

never thought of using the gas tank as part of the mold, i may do that if i can find another at the junkyard. I've also been eyeing a steel mixing bowl sitting in my kitchen, it might go under the knife soon if its a fit. I appreciate the offer Ginger, but i'm more interested in the process...

i wish i had the square tank like in your pic, i have the more rounded looking one. from the later year xs's

I think i'm going to go with the full rounded design, similar to your last pic bcware, though mine is a little taller. any tips for carving a quarter of a sphere out of a block? so far its been a painfully slow process. once the plug is shaped, i'm going to take it to our composites lab at...

I'm working on carving up a new seatpan mold for my bike (82 heritage special), i'm having trouble deciding what type of tail design i want to go with, so i took some screen caps from my Inventor models to get some opinions, if i had more time to work in the lab, i would have shelled the models...

Came home this weekend to do a little more work on the bike, bought a battery on the way home, and charged it while i worked on removing and cleaning the tank. The fuel filter had popped off the petcock and was just floating around. i drained the tank and scrubbed whatever rust i could by...

My 1985 Kawasaki KX125. I bought 2 of these for 200 bucks, both as rolling frames with boxes of parts. From the two i was able to piece one together, selling the remaining parts for 100, then using that money to buy a wiseco piston. only other expense was a uni filter, oil, and a spark plug...

I used to have a simple foundry setup in my backyard, now i'm in college and i've got the use of the machine shop's foundry. its a fun process, but can be dangerous, just know the process, wear protective gear, and if it looks like it could be hot, it is. We use petrobond sand for greensand...

i've got a friend who gets a 10% discount at autozone out at school, so i'll probably get one there, if they carry AGM i'll look for that brand. I'm still debating what i'm going to do with the lighting, i was thinking of going LED with everything but the headlight, and using a hella offroad...

I've been looking around online and came across a few old ads for the XS series, i didnt see a thread on this forum for ads, so i thought it'd be nice to start one to compile ads into one place.

I'm from north east pennsylvania, the bike is being kept in sort of a porch room, so its out of the elements but not away from the cold completely, i just roll it into the basement to work on it and roll it back out when i'm done, atleast until i'm able to get my own place this summer. i just...

very nice looking bike, i love the mini bullet style tail lights. i'm planning on doing a darker, but similar metallic orange on my bike, its nice to get an idea of what the color looks like before i start pulling the trigger on the spray gun.