Doing something good.

Thijs is a buddy of mine, you know the owner of animal, and he just smoked to much weed. It costs to much so he did not have enough money and energy to get parts and fix animal. His gf asked me if i had an idea to make him quit smoking that much.

Well, i had an old suzuki 440 and if thijs quit smoking he could have the suzuki!
The suzuki was a freebee for me since it did not run properly and was rusted all over.
Thijs quit smoking and got the suzuki from me.
I fixed it and made it run again, and thijs fixed the brakes.
we changed the big ass rear fender and huge indicator lights.
Now he can ride again!
The bike will become a caferacer in the upcoming time, a quick and easy build, and the little engine screams to become a cafe! i was amazed how much power the little engine had, it's not fast but for the city it's fast light and nimble.
almost makes me regret that i gave this one away! hahaha

8 cams of fury!

dragrace sporties are always sweet..
but drag race sporties with 2 ironhead motors..
well.. they are the bomb!

the old stuff

old HD's always look great!

"X" marks the spot.

"American eXpress" strange bike, but i love the effort and details!

found it on the interwebs.
if you know more about the bike shoot me a message.

spice it up!

just to spice things up, and apologize for my long time not posting:

 (there's a sportster somewhere in the picture)

and my keyhanger:

Easter riding.

Although temperatures were just above freezing and it still looks like autumn over Here, it was time for my traditional Easter ride.
Since there.s still salt on the roads daddy cool stays in the garage, and toxic is still in building phase not to mention the XSs who are both still untouched it was time to take the XJ for another ride.

(and it was a nice possibility to try out the new mobile blogger app) 

oh yeah! you might notice the white tank, well.. the old black one has rotten away.
i tried to braze it, but the more paint i removed the more rotten parts appeared.

so i took the easy way out and got me another fuelltank and keep this one for later chopping action.

fricking Honda V4's!

i should have kept my word, in October 2011 i said never to touch a V4 honda engine again, but i forgot all about it when my neighbor asked me to fix his SuperMagna.
it ran like shit, wouldn't hardly start and some one had looked at it and couldn't find a problem..
"ah well" i thought, let's be a good neighbor and help him out..
so once in his shed i saw a magna with lot's of stuff taken of it.
i cleaned the carbs, replaced a broken fueltransfer tube and started the big fight with the V configuration carbs.

but behold, the Magna is a cali import, so it has all the environmental hoses and BS on it.

and there were a lot of hoses. so first i tried to discover what should go where and once i thought i had it allright i started the fight to place the carbs. after a few hours fighting them i thought it would be more easy to use ratchet bands (those to tie down your bike or other heavy stuff to a trailer) and a crowbar.
brute and blunt force was the answer! within 10 minutes the carbs were placed! woot!

crab! the hose sticking out in to the air is the main fuel line. and i couldn't find a place to stick it on the carbs..
off with the whole shabang and start my search again.. damn cali rules! i used the wrong hose on the wrong plug. as soon as i found the culprit it was time to put the carbs back with the aid of my blunt force tools!
and replace all those hoses and crap again..

once it was all in place i rebuild all the missing stuff on the bike rolled it outside and started it.
BAM! it fired right up! woehoe!

fun was of a short time.. as i opened up the throttle there didn't happen much, the engine reved up to 2000RPM and that's it.. at wot??
damn, i told you i hated this kind of engines! so my guess is i fucked up a vacuum direction in the california environmental bullshit and the slides in the carbs can't get a descent vacuum to lift..
or the timing advance is all wrong. 

fuck it! next week i'll tear all that hoses from that bike and see what happens! 

still alive.

dangit! i had some rough times and some good times. all that's important is that i'm still here! granted, i have been awfully quit on this blog for the last year, and i also have been scary little in the garage. some of the rough times were that all my tools got stolen. the tools i collected in the past 18 years were gone. and since i collected them in 18 years i had not much proof for the insurance to claim enough to get my tools replaced. this my friends was such a bummer i stayed out of the garage for way to long. so not much work on bikes and not one spanner on my own bikes. i have ridden a lot with the digger though..

 also the XJ got his needed miles at high speed. ;)

 Peter Pan (you know the dude with the franken pan (european) scored a nice little suzuki but it looked like crap. he is in love with Daddy Cool (the digger) and wanted a quick fix.
so with a little grinder action and white paint he was satisfied for the time being.
 

i promise i will try to ride and share more of these rides and build more on my bikes! i'm back! and i'll keep on riding and chopping!

hope to see you soon on the road or the blog!