Posts tagged garage
Did a front fender mock up for the Monster Project. Because I put a 748 front end on a 750 Monster, the compatible fender is the superbike marshmallow looking thing… way too bulky for my lean mean machine.
Which one do you guys like best? Keeping in mind that I will be reinforcing narrow plastic for durability and strength.
Seth Green Tangen’s garage build. This is how I work on bikes too, flood light and all. Haha.
Cleaned my garage out today with the help of Justin- it’s amazing how much more stuff I can fit in there. I’m looking at it thinking, “I could probably fit like… six motorcycles in here!”
It’s like I’m nesting… preparing for the completion of my Monster.
Motorcycle heaven! My friend Taylor’s garage and back yard… there are moto bits in every corner, hiding under blankets and tarps. Parts and engines, half and fully dismantled everywhere.
Shelby and I met at his house after work to continue shooting a motovideo I am working on… But then my camera had magically run out of batteries. :(
Submission from Luke in TN-
My girlfriend Katelyn started building a 1980 CB650 in her laundry room over the winter. A month ago, she brought it to my shop to finish. After she did the rings, jugs and valves we heaved the engine back into her beautifully finished frame. She’ll be riding this third bike of hers by August. On nights like this, I’m the one barefoot in the kitchen.
Thanks for the awesome shot and story, Luke! It’s August now… send me some pics of your girl and her sweet new ride!
Look at them motoladies! East Side Moto Babes, lookin’ great and being equally amazing at the Babes on Motos 3 event.
Leah (Stunts) Petersen building stunt bikes in her garage (from her feature in Sportbikes Inc. Magazine).
Portland: Bridge City Cycles
I know I’ve mentioned Bridge City Cycles before, like in my MotoLady sticker post for example. Now I want to give you a glimpse at their very cool shop! I really dig the place.
The entrance is always equipped for running your motorcycle in, door open. It’s very inviting for the vintage-or-slightly-older-bike crowd. ;)
Anthony has a very cool old school truck adorned with BCC decals.
More representation, another vehicle.
Inside the old Portland building, you find motorcycles around ever corner as you make your way up the stairs to their shop. They use a cool old freight elevator for moving bikes to the second floor. Every time I’ve been to their shop, it’s been pretty packed.
I love the old windows in this building. Old, old glass.
Stop in and meet the crew sometime. They’re a really helpful group of folks.
Now that… is a shop.
The motorcycle on the left looks like a lit up Christmas tree. Beautiful Honda with an Ivory frame.
Quite the take! And beautiful.
My buddy Greg came through and pretty much gave me an entire shop. A lot of these tools are antiques, he said they’d just been sitting and he’d like to know they would be getting some use. Some people will just blow you away with kindness. Going kinda from top to bottom, he gave me: 3 antique English saws, antique drawknife, a set of lathe chisels, antique Stanley 45 plane that’s still in the original box with all of its parts and blades, Yankee no 130A spiral ratchet screwdriver, a set to sharpen and fix up saw blades, a table saw with a 5hp motor that all of that stuff is resting on right now, about a dozen woodworking books, a lathe, 2 routers, a really nice old jointer (in the last picture), and a planer which you can see behind that. Absolutely incredible. Now I just need to set everything up and clear out some more space. He also gave me a $5,000 solar generator that can power an entire house, that’s not in any of these pictures though. So cool.
Works Engineering: classic motorcycle shop
Another step forward in the Monster Project! I met up with Heath last night to fit the axle spacer where the speedo drive usually goes so that it could be safely rolled around and transported to my house. The beast is now in my lovely little garage, awaiting full dismemberment before cutting off extra bits from the frame, reattaching a new steering stop that will double as a the headlight mounting system, and getting her powder coated. The frame and wheels will be black. The wheels will have a gold stripe around the rim. I think I will be getting the swing arm powder coated too (it’s pretty ugly as is).
It’s all starting to come together.
In the mean time I’m working on designing a heel plate for the rear sets, a bracket for the headlight, magnetic speedo, and getting the ignition switch milled so that the steering stop is rendered useless and so that it fits in the ignition bracket on the frame with the new bigger triples from the 748.
Monster Project: Phase 10
I posted a wish list for the Monster Project a while back that included a ton of extras I need(ed) to make the Monster shine. One of which was rear sets. Surprisingly hard to find for this bike, given the hideous set the bike comes equipped with. Rizoma makes some that hover at a cost of $600… too rich for my blood. I decided to hunt, hunt, hunt… But I did NOT want anything I was going to have to fabricate a bracket for. I am approaching the point of too many projects on this bike. I want to get it done.
Join me on my journey as I locate some sweet, inexpensive rear sets.
Justin’s Maxim… Changing his tires today. Jason’s Triumph and my Maxim in the background. Yay moto garages!
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