COVID Builds! What yah doing to your ride during lockdown?

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COVID Builds! What yah doing to your ride during lockdown?

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Big Steve
4 years ago

Quoting Big Steve on 20 Sep 2020 02:52 AM
Still plugging away at my COVID lockdown/ Cancer surgery recovery deluxe.
Fitted my exhaust the other day, shotgun shock is on its way so that’ll be next then bars when hopefully I can ride again.

Quoting DocGreen on 20 Sep 2020 10:31 AM
Big Steve, love the colour mate. Good luck with the recovery. Watch them pipes pulling out of driveways, best mates got the same pipes but slightly shorter and scrubs easy if not careful, but they sound and look great.
DocGreen

Yes they look low in the pic but once I have my shotgun shock installed ride height will be a higher than where it’s current sitting but I’ll still have to be careful.

Big Steve
4 years ago

Quoting Big Steve on 20 Sep 2020 02:52 AM
Still plugging away at my COVID lockdown/ Cancer surgery recovery deluxe.
Fitted my exhaust the other day, shotgun shock is on its way so that’ll be next then bars when hopefully I can ride again.

Quoting Wideglider on 20 Sep 2020 10:34 AMedited: 20 Sep 2020 10:36 AM
They are some long pipes - would keep the noise well away from your ears.
Bike colour is a nice rich dark.

They are just loud enough without being abnoxious.
The colour completely changes in the sunshine when you can see the metal flakes.

Far Canal
4 years ago

Love that flakey paintwork Big Steve.
Good to have a project going on to take your mind off the cancer stuff too.
Wishing you all the best for the future.
Size 16 feet!, hope you do not have foot cancer.
Cheers.

tussuck
4 years ago

LOVE the FLAKE. Picking up some Holographic Rainbow PPG flake tomorrow for the Sporty!

John.R
4 years ago

Dropped my flake off to the painter today, Paint Huffer fifty fifty.
I couldn't find the right one via PPG. Either a little too subltle, or too thick. The mix of 50/50 .04 and .08 flakes was bang on.

tussuck
4 years ago

Ohhhh.That will look good to! I think mine is DX78 Prizmatique. Cannot wait to ahve a crack at Painting it.

Far Canal
4 years ago

This 750four covid build of mine is going agonisingly slow. Mainly due to waiting for parts to show up from overseas. Anyway finally got the cylinder block on this arvo. What a testing job to do by yourself, the 3 piece oil rings are a real doosey!. Would have been handy to have 4 arms. Now waiting for 8 inner valve springs to show up in the post before the head can go back on.
Talking about lots of arms, remember this old chestnut?
Guy walks into a bar with an octopus under his arm and sets it on top of the counter. He says "Anyone that can hand this octopus a musical instrument it cannot play, I will give you $5,000." The first person hands it a trumpet. The octopus takes a look, then spins it around, looks at it then proceeds to play it like Louie Armstrong. The 2nd person brings it an acoustic guitar. Again, the octopus checks it out, spins it around, checks it out again, only to strart strumming it to the likes of Eric Clapton. The 3rd guy brought up a set of bagpipes and the octopus shows a bit of interest. He grabs ahold of it, spins it around, spins it around, checks it out, spins it around, spins it around......After a while the 3rd person says "Obviously this octopus has no clue how to play the bagpipes." The octopus breaks his attention from the instrument and says to the man "Play it? I'm going to fuck it once I can figure out how to take it's pajamas off."

brucefxdl
4 years ago

looking good FC,socket head screws are a good touch.

Benno
4 years ago

Picked up this 97 Lowrider through COVID, going over the from t end, steering head bearings, fork seals, waiting on brake parts at them moment. Friggin need a bike lift, fuck this down on the ground shit.

Grease Monkey
4 years ago

Feel ya pain mate, stuffed knees and squats don't mix aye

Grease Monkey
4 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 23 Oct 2020 08:09 AM
This 750four covid build of mine is going agonisingly slow. Mainly due to waiting for parts to show up from overseas. Anyway finally got the cylinder block on this arvo. What a testing job to do by yourself, the 3 piece oil rings are a real doosey!. Would have been handy to have 4 arms. Now waiting for 8 inner valve springs to show up in the post before the head can go back on.
Talking about lots of arms, remember this old chestnut?
Guy walks into a bar with an octopus under his arm and sets it on top of the counter. He says "Anyone that can hand this octopus a musical instrument it cannot play, I will give you $5,000." The first person hands it a trumpet. The octopus takes a look, then spins it around, looks at it then proceeds to play it like Louie Armstrong. The 2nd person brings it an acoustic guitar. Again, the octopus checks it out, spins it around, checks it out again, only to strart strumming it to the likes of Eric Clapton. The 3rd guy brought up a set of bagpipes and the octopus shows a bit of interest. He grabs ahold of it, spins it around, spins it around, checks it out, spins it around, spins it around......After a while the 3rd person says "Obviously this octopus has no clue how to play the bagpipes." The octopus breaks his attention from the instrument and says to the man "Play it? I'm going to fuck it once I can figure out how to take it's pajamas off."

Hahaha, was not expecting that, good luck with the 4, had a few blats on them back when.

Far Canal
4 years ago

Finally buttoned up this motor this arvo.
Now just have to put the rest of the bike back together.
Lost count of how many times I have said "FUCK" out loud so far, but happy with it all when all is said and done.

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steelo
4 years ago

It’s a credit to you fc.

Far Canal
4 years ago

Quoting John.R on 20 Sep 2020 12:49 PM
Dropped my flake off to the painter today, Paint Huffer fifty fifty.
I couldn't find the right one via PPG. Either a little too subltle, or too thick. The mix of 50/50 .04 and .08 flakes was bang on.

Hi John.
Have you got a picture of your huffy fifty fifty flake paint job?.

paulybronco
4 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 06 Nov 2020 08:03 AM
Finally buttoned up this motor this arvo.
Now just have to put the rest of the bike back together.
Lost count of how many times I have said "FUCK" out loud so far, but happy with it all when all is said and done.

Looks very good, love the old jiggers

Big Steve
4 years ago

Got my shotgun shock installed. It was surprisingly a pretty easy job, the worst part was removing the OEM shocks. ABS makes it more fun, would be easier on a non-ABS bike.

Very happy with the ride quality, specifically being able to stiffen the ride at any height.

Also went with Yellow running lights.

Dropping her off at my mechanics to do the install of my apehangers and new cables/lines. (I don't touch brakes/abs) this week and hopefully order some new wheels as well.

Ratbob
4 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 23 Oct 2020 08:09 AM
This 750four covid build of mine is going agonisingly slow. Mainly due to waiting for parts to show up from overseas. Anyway finally got the cylinder block on this arvo. What a testing job to do by yourself, the 3 piece oil rings are a real doosey!. Would have been handy to have 4 arms. Now waiting for 8 inner valve springs to show up in the post before the head can go back on.
Talking about lots of arms, remember this old chestnut?
Guy walks into a bar with an octopus under his arm and sets it on top of the counter. He says "Anyone that can hand this octopus a musical instrument it cannot play, I will give you $5,000." The first person hands it a trumpet. The octopus takes a look, then spins it around, looks at it then proceeds to play it like Louie Armstrong. The 2nd person brings it an acoustic guitar. Again, the octopus checks it out, spins it around, checks it out again, only to strart strumming it to the likes of Eric Clapton. The 3rd guy brought up a set of bagpipes and the octopus shows a bit of interest. He grabs ahold of it, spins it around, spins it around, checks it out, spins it around, spins it around......After a while the 3rd person says "Obviously this octopus has no clue how to play the bagpipes." The octopus breaks his attention from the instrument and says to the man "Play it? I'm going to fuck it once I can figure out how to take it's pajamas off."

Looking great, is it an F3 ?

Far Canal
4 years ago

Thanks Bob, It's an F2. Not sure there is any difference tween F2 and F3.

FBUser42
4 years ago

There was only the f1 or f2. F1 single front disc. F2 daul disc. At the time u could either have the k6. 4 pipes. Or f1 about $1600. Exhaust header diffrent between f or k series.. The next f boldor series were twin cams

Far Canal
4 years ago

Quoting FBUser42 on 10 Nov 2020 08:23 AM
There was only the f1 or f2. F1 single front disc. F2 daul disc. At the time u could either have the k6. 4 pipes. Or f1 about $1600. Exhaust header diffrent between f or k series.. The next f boldor series were twin cams

Wrong.
There is an F3 sohc.

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COVID Builds! What yah doing to your ride during lockdown?

COVID Builds! What yah doing to your ride during lockdown?

Big Steve

Big Steve

Far Canal

tussuck

John.R

tussuck

Far Canal

brucefxdl

Benno

Grease Monkey

Grease Monkey

Far Canal

steelo

Far Canal

paulybronco

Big Steve

Ratbob

Far Canal

FBUser42

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