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FuriouSly:
Hi there.. nice "Old School" collection.. You can just look at old bikes for hours and almost get a feel for what the designers where thinking when the made them. Such simple bikes. Have fun and be safe.
--- Quote ---I work on lots of bikes for friends, work in a mass spectrometry laboratory, and I am a physics/mathematics student at the University of Arizona.
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Yikes, I am good at looking up big words in the dictionary... hehe.
Sly
idrinkmercury:
Alright all,
The bike is done!
I repainted all the plastic (tank too) with krylon fusion plastic paint. I put on new tires (thanks to the great tire article). I scrapped all the old heater hoses, replaced them with good silicone hoses. I redid some gaskets, cables, rubber, filters, etc. Thanks to cam, I now have a speedometer (it only goes to 99mph though, lol). I patched up some shoddy exhaust joints, wet through all body fasteners/exaust brackets on bike and replaced with nylon locknuts.
Thanks for all the help with my bike!
All I need for the 500 is some numbers! How bout #500?
Just look in my gallery to see the pics.
87 kx500
idrinkmercury:
So here are the pics:
http://www.kxriders.com/coppermine/index.php?cat=10895
I cannot wait to take it out tomorrow, I even bought a green jersey :)
MadKaw:
WOW is she ever green! nice job man! definately ready for some numbers. perhaps the elemental table # for mercury.
idrinkmercury:
The Krylon Fusion (C),(R),(TM), (whatever), paint does a nice job with the plastic. If you have a good rotary sander and wetsand the plastic beforehand, it gives good results. It kinda sucks that they have such a limited number of colors (you could easily determine that I used ". I will definitely buy a few cans of the red to paint my old honda Elsinore (CR250-R).
you can find them here: (or at ace or any other store)
http://www.metropartsmarket.com/krylon/krylonpaint-c11.html
I clearly used "hunter green" and the *ahem*..."safety blue." I ended up buying two cans of green and one of blue. I will have enough blue left over to do the radiator shrouds on the CR. The cans run about $4.50 a pop, but that is still cheaper than maybe $300 for new plastic.
Oh yeah, I also did the upholstery job myself...is anyone a pro at this? I need to learn how to do motorcycle upholstery well (on a dirtbike some wrinkles will fly, but not on anything else)--I have quite a bit of seats to get covered.
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