Self-abuse- More Porn Outside and Almost Ready to Fire Up

[Oldfisti]

The BBQ idea is good....then I'll have people available to help push me around trying to start it after my knee and hip give out :-)

Right now I am double-checking the nuts and bolts on the bike from the tranny to the tail light

and painting them with Locktite Blue so I know I

A: got to them and

B: to gum up the exposed threads

so when the nuts back themselves out with the vibrations they won't litter the roadways

and bounce up and hit windshields of cars tailgating me

riding behind a British bike is more potentially expensive than tailing an overfilled gravel truck on a bumpy road

RAT - Use the green loctite for this.  Specific use is for already assembled fasteners...


http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/t_lkr_green/overview/Loctite-Threadlocker-Green-290.htm

[thought]

looks amazing man, take a vid once you get her started up

[ducpainter]

looks amazing man, take a vid once you get her started up

I want to see the puddle of oil after he shuts it off.

[RAT900]

I want to see the puddle of oil after he shuts it off.

Nate, as an old Sam Avelino Royal Oilfield fan

you should know that a brit bike does not have to run in order to leak oil...in fact it does not need oil to leak oil

in fact if you park a completely dry one next to a drum of oil...the drum of oil will begin leaking within 3 days

just by sheer proximity   

[Buckethead]

Like Sir Winston and his martinis.

[The Bacon Junkie]

Lookin' good RAT900! 

[red baron]

Lookin' good RAT900! 

Agreed

[RAT900]

OK so the bike is now outside but still has tweaking and fitting issues that need to be sorted out

I had to remove the speedo drive to keep the wheel from binding...the drive lacks sufficient stand-off from the hub cover (it rubs)

so one of the hub or axle spacers that I reused from the basket bike is either incorrect or worn down or something.

The motor is tight...tighter than I prefer but once it fires up that should be self-remedying

So there are a dozen or so things I need to adjust or figure out

The magneto is throwing a yellow spark and not a fat blue one which has me annoyed...got to sort through that

mostly stuff that you don't know and can't know until you start buttoning down the last bits

But we are getting close!!!

[Buckethead]

Gorgeous.