Garage Night

This is actual pre Garage Night but you get the point

You have to have dogs fights to make it a real awesome night.

Jason basically stole a GS550 for the country and we turned it into a running bike in one day. Next step is to make it less... stupid. Its a great bike and a seemingly solid 57,000 mile motor, but we have to do some small mods. Lower the already 8 foot tall bike and smaller seat. Then this 5foot 5 man could reach the ground. Great buy Jason!

Thanks for comin out and stopping by for any amount of time and any Thursday guys. I'm just still trying to keep the spirit alive. We made a lot of rides last year and we need to keep it going.

Coming soon!

June 18th- Chicago Shake Down

June 19th- Mods vs Rockers

June 26th- Ton Up Michigan

I wont be able to go to these but just a mention.

Will be going to Vintage Motorcycle Days all weekend!

JULY 9-11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Driving out to Ohio to visit some friends and skating either the 8th or 9th and riding to MidOhio.

The Weekend Ticket is $35 and camping is $30 for a 20x25 foot space. We will be squeezing! At the door cost is more!

COMECOMECOMECOMECOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The CL is coming along too. Pictures of seat tank bars battery box..... I'm two clean carbs away from riding. Plus the legal junk but soon!

案ずるより産むが易し。

Correct me if I'm wrong Tyson but, fear is greater than danger... But it literally, giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it.

I have been doing a lot of planning for this bike, cutting, creating failing and starting over. I'm really excited and not to worried about screwing up. Should I keep this tank? Should I make the headlight bucket this way? Who cares! I can always change it or make something different. Don't be scared to try things. Screwing up is a part of learning. I want to try a battery-less system for this bike and know one really has a great way to do it. But enough reading a research has lead me to believe anything is possible. Even if I don't make it battery-less is will get a small battery. Whatever, we will see.

I found a lengthy service manual, very very detailed. Let me know if anyone whats a copy! It explains detailed measurements and electrical explanation. Very helpful in creating your own electrical system. Or even just testing everything on the bike. And some really cool old exploded views of the bike. And a finger print or two in grease from whomever owned this manual in the 70's.

I am planning on getting the bike to running condition and them simplifying the shit out of the wiring. Head, tail, neutral light. Hey, I still like neutral lights.

Crusing right along

The only thing holding us back is money. So I manned up and worked 40 hrs a week for a bit. But I still get some time to build. Soon I will be working a little less and have more time to build. But here is a little progress for now...







As usual I start looking for inspiration. Found a bunch of random photos of ideas and weird things in general. I am going to run all my wiring though copper pluming, and might try to make a battery box out of the pluming too. I really like the wood and steel look to, maybe a wood triple tree cover?

Im pulling out a favorite builder of mine for this build. Shinya Kimura "back to basics". Inovation and creativity is the only way this guy thinks. He had an article in Feb Cycle World and it was amazing. If you ran into me I probably ranted about it. But the April issue had people really bummed about his designs. "quit drilling so many holes in parts", "complaining about "metaphysical, pseudo-Japanese Kimura history" and "draw the line between genius and madness" comparing The Who and Shinya!? So I voiced my opinion to Cycle World to show people like creativity and not just changing a seat on a Harley and calling it custom. And Im not blaming CW they are just the messenger.

You be the judge...

A couple more CL350 ideas...

So I started drawing in my little journal and forming ideas. Im also working on a energy transfer magneto I found an artical on from OhioCafeRacers.

A lot of useful things on here. Even fork tube sizes for just about any bike.

CL3 to the 50....

Thanks to my good buddy from HS I picked up this 71 CL350. It has 7100 miles on it... Igot it for a steal, well I guess it can be considered stolen, it was free. His family has some unfortunate history with motorcycles and he wanted it to go to a better home. So already I have big plans for it! Just recently my buddy Tyson and Tyson built a CB350 with some CL parts and it looks amazing! So I might use some of his ideas and innovation to make mine.






Here it is on its trip home. It all fit in the back of my Jeep!



I already started tearing stuff apart. And fucked some screw heads, just for fun. F them screws in the A. Ill just replace every single screw head with allen. For a 7000 miles engine I was not surprised when everything was clean, just a little gunk. And the $million$ cam ten was in great shape!



Oo, and I got new bubble goggles.

It looks pretty ugly just sittin stock.