CB 750 Continued

So this is what I have been up to in my free time. I have changed the tail section, tail light, Shocks, seat pans, foot controls, and gas tank.

Bike stripped down but mostly stock.

Gas tank has been cut up and started to be welded back together.

Shocks changed, tail section changed, foot controls changed, seat pans made, tank most of the way done.

A little more sanding and filler and this thing will look sweet and carry about 2-3 more gallons of gas.

Rain

By the way, Kari and I were bummed that we missed the big rain storm, but we have had a few more since then. My neighbor has a digital weather station in his back yard. Since the 12th of January we have gotten 9 inches of rain at out house, in the desert. That's nuts! I love the rain!!!!

Tree removal

So Kari and I went to Dallas for a week in January to be with her parents. It rained a bit a stormed while we were gone. I was bummed we missed the storm, I like storms. When had several inches of rain and some serious wind the combination of which blew over our big Palo Verde tree in our back yard. This started us thinking, we wanted to get rid of the two palm trees in front as well. Here are some Pictures of Dad and I pulling out one of the trees.

As soon as we start to do something cool all of my neighbors come out to lend a hand. We have cool neighbors.

It tipping. Pull harder Dad!

All most out, lets wiggle it back and forth a few more times. That should do it.

What did you say to me? You know you are made out of wood and I have a chain saw!

So any way a couple of afternoons labor and some really wet dirt made for some relatively easy tree removal. As we were finishing up with this one, a tree removal truck came by with some guys in it. They asked if we did this, Yeup! What did you use to pull it out with? The blue truck. You did it with that?! Yeup. They said you could have called us to take it out. I said that would have cost me some $$$. I put my money to good use and bought a chain saw instead. Is there any more loud mouth trees out there that need to be taught a lesson. Thanks Dad for the help. Kari was out photographer.

Christmas ride

Over Christmas break Kevin and Ashley came down for a few days. Kevin brought his bike so we could go riding. After a quick 10 miles, about 25 minutes of riding, I dropped my bike in a corner going about zero and smashed my water pump housing promptly loosing all of my coolant. So much for that ride.

cb 750 update

So this is what I have been up to lately....... This is my new header that I made from 3 different exhaust systems.

Here is the exhaust system installed, yes that little piece after the flange is my muffler, sort of.

These are the socks from a 1984 cb 700 super sport, heavier duty springs and they look sweet.

This is the right foot peg and brake lever from the 700 ss, they just happen to bolt on in the place I wanted to install the new foot controls. AWESOME!!


This is the left side controls, same thing here except for I had to extend the linkage, Yeah, I know, i have some finishing work to do. I hope it will be back on the road soon, but when it does get back there it will be sweet.

sweet new vest, sort of?

I had wanted a new something for when I am riding. I wanted something with pockets and stuff. This is what I ended up with.



I removed some of the pockets from this tactical vest and made some new parts. I removed the shoulder pads from my chest protector and added them on this.




I took my old war horse camelbak and removed the straps, added some Velcro loops and now it attaches to the back.

The belt has these cool button loops to hold the belt and vest together, this is doubly cool for me, this keeps my pants tucked in and my kidney belt from getting hung up on stuff. I also added these loops to my new riding pants to hook to the belt button loops to keep my pants from getting pulled down around my butt! So far I have only been out on one ride with it. It doesn't breathe quite as well a the chest protector did but I am loving the new pockets and all of the other stuff.

Anybody know this guy????

So as some of you may have heard I am the Young Mens president in our ward. You know I love having the stake presidency know me really well, unforuntatly that means they also kow who your bishop is. Our Stake President had my bishop ask me to shave, so until I move or get released here I am. I know, nobody will recognize me. Kari and I are still having to get use to this. I don't know if I will ever get use to it. You can really tell how much my face was messed up from my accident. Left side bad, right side ok.