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I think I just peed my pants a little in excitement! Love the ATV handle bars, with those on it you're bike should be able to go damn near anywhere!

The tank is bolted on and squared away! And i picked up a set of drag handlebars from Rice Paddy. That place is like a candy store

All that's left:

Headlights

Seat

Fairings

Paint

Christopher Walken

Craigslist!

And check out Hyosung as well, their bikes new are only $4000 or so. With a thousand dollars down, you've got some strong leverage. And could probably get a great monthly rate.

"Hell's Satans" gotta love the Simpson's reference!

For a non-outlaw biker related book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance isn't half bad. I'm still working through it, but it's enjoyable.

Post photos of the craziest bikes/concepts you've seen.

One Rule: It has to be a real bike, meaning someone must have built it.

Starting it off

For some reason I want to jump on it and pillage the countryside.

The front forks are iron banded ash and the engine is a 1440cc single cylinder tractor engine.

I think they're hoping he doesn't exist?

Easy Street Cafe!!!! If you're up for it get the Chubby Checker!

One of the best sandwiches ever!!!

Make sure to check the wiring with a voltmeter. Especially around connection points and anywhere the insulation looks worn.

I had something similar happen to a car I owned in high school. It would drive fine for a while start to lose power, and then die. The battery would be completely drained when we threw it on the charger. The alternator tested fine, and the battery did too. No fuses were blown and no shorts anywhere.

The main wire running from the alternator had sheared off inside the insulation (Until it happened, I didn't think it was possible) and didn't make a complete connection.

And to answer SWing'r's questions: Batteries run through a charge/discharge cycle. At times it puts power into the system to assist with everything, and at others it's receiving power. That's why some older vehicles have a "current" gauge that shows only positive or negative. Charge or discharge. If the vehicle is doing one all the time, something is wrong electrically.

Acceleration, starting, fans, turn signals, all require an extra bit of power when they begin. The battery supplies that. If you turn the vehicle off and the battery has discharged but not recharged yet, the next time it might be more difficult to start, if at all.

That's why you always want to let the vehicle run a little bit after you jump it. To help recharge the battery.

Nothing beats what one biker gang member said when asked why he could flip his license plate up and out of sight:

"Keeps down on unwanted attention"

He also went onto explain why he had a machete strapped to his gas tank as well...

Yeah, Scuba Steve gave me the keys to his boat and told me he was on some secret mission.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

I'd put it at heavy surface rust. None of the tank paint has bubbled, it holds liquid without leaking or weeping out anywhere, and when I drained the tank tonight after a few drips of brownish gasoline, it started draining out relatively clear.

I picked up a used tank recently, cleaned it and sealed it with KBS, but I'm still getting debris caught in the filter.

Should I just run a few tanks of gas through to clean it out? Making sure to change the filter often? reseal it? or just buy a new tank?

Unless someone knows a good radiator shop around columbus that could etch and dip it for me

If you guys want barbecue hit up Barley's Smoke House on Dublin Rd... Absolutely amazing, and the beer list is ridiculous

Overindulgence

Why leave the helmet? Take it with you, so everyone knows you ride. Especially the chicks... In fact, we could have all saved a ton of money and just bought jackets and helmets.

We can bring our bikes down and race on the short track there? Doesn't matter the size of the engine or anything?

Newb question I know... sorry

How about a carb tear down and rebuild? With videos or pics. Those seem to be something that generates a fair bit of "fear" for lack of a better word. I'd be happy to volunteer my carbs for it, if someone would like to photograph or video tape it.

Seriously? This statement is so stupid that it doesn't deserve a response. How is management responsible for quality? All they do is sit in their climate controlled office while the laborers are out busting their balls

Wow! You accuse me of generalizing all unions, And yet your union bias against management shines through bright and clear.

Lets get some details on how the big/lazy/evil management has taken advantage and abused today's workers.

Yes, the UAW in Delhi was a legitimate question. They make cars there, workers are abused there, why not unionize?

You're view of history is a little skewed. Unions fought for raise wages as a part of a larger list of demands. Including safe working conditions, fair labor practices, breaks, time off, etc. Do you know why you take can take your precious union breaks at work? Because prior to unions, workers worked ten to twenty hours without even going to the bathroom, they'd keep cans at their station so they didn't stop working. People would lose limbs because of faulty equipment and not be compensated for it. Or worse, be over come by fumes and fall into whatever vat they were working above. And this wasn't a one time, once in a while deal. It was regularly, so regular an occurrence that workers didn't even stop working. The production lines didn't even stop, while morbid in a steel mill, it was downright disgusting in an slaugther house. This was the time when no one knew what was in sausage, hot dogs, or Spam.

By saying unions only fight for wage raises, you're shorting the impact that unions have had on society. And it makes you look greedy.

But I think we're going to keep throwing examples of corruption at each other as generalizations of the other side. So you're pro-union which I respect, and I'm not anti-union but I'm not pro-union. Call it union/management wary.

If a goods price point is lower; then whatever final product it is put into is, by rights, less expensive.

Beyond that I was pointing to the idea that management decides what parts to use in a car, what suppliers to use etc etc etc. That's the idea of "quality" that I meant. So if we have two production lines making the same car with the same parts and one set of laborers cost $20 an hour, and another costs $50 an hour, whose final product is going to be cheaper?

There is soooo many false misconceptions in your post it's almost funny. Going to bed, if this is still alive in the morning, I'll address them then. Not that all of your post is wrong per se, just generalizing all unions as being the same.

I'm not generalizing, there are many great unions out there the Sand Hogs come to mind, so do the pipefitters and plumbers unions. I was selecting a few examples to highlight why people want to blame unions.

You better watch what you wish for... they may SEEM unecessary, but they do serve a purpose in keeping management in check, just in case someone gets some crazy ideas.

And who's going to check the union leaders when they get crazy ideas?

And if the plight of the working class in India is so awful why aren't the unions trying to organize there? I haven't heard much from the UAW branch in Delhi or Mumbai...

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

After a little coughing and sputtering she fired right up and sounds great. The carbs need cleaned out, but apart from that she's good to go!

And the headlights arrived today off of ebay. Just wait till you see what I'm cooking up right now

The city of Columbus had to lay off a few hundred people recently because they couldn't afford the union pay raises. When offered the option of no pay raises, but no one gets laid off; the unions chose to take the raises and lay off their own UNION workers.

Unions were formed to protect the workers, to give them leverage with the company. Part of protecting the workers is keeping them employed, AND in a larger sense keeping the company competitive in the market. How is bankrupting a company because they have to pay a Union negotiated contract protecting your union members?

If we honestly believe in a capitalist economy, why would a company pay an unskilled/semi-skilled worker in America upwards of $50+ an hour (I'm including the full cost of benefits and such in that amount) to do a job that could be done just as well by an unskilled/semi-skilled worker in India for $10 an hour?

Management is responsible for the quality of a product, labor is responsible for the price. Your sweet union contract is the reason a Ford costs more than a Kia or Toyota, and the executives are the reason a Chevy can't compete with a Honda on quality or efficiency.

And let's face it, Unions have outlasted their usefulness. If unions disappear today, the five day work week isn't going to disappear nor would overtime pay, vacation time, or any of the other benefits that Unions gained for all of America.

And if you want to talk about mismanagement, and the idiots in charge, maybe you should look at who's running your unions on a national level? Why do the teamsters have an FBI DIVISION assigned to arbitrate their decisions?

I'm waiting on headlights to come in off of ebay, and then I'm going to rework the seat and rear fender.

My goal is to have the engine fired up this week, and have it on the road by the end of the month.