I read the Washington State bike laws on the AMA site. Are those for real? My beater bike is actually street legal according to that site! Woohoo!!!! Less to fix!!! Guess I'd best look up the actual vehicle code anyway. Good thing I know some Kojacks/Kojanes (Kojills?).

Although my wife is gonna make me fix it all anyway.  
Three and a half years down time...rebuild time estimate? Better mot take more than a couple months...
-WD

after carefull review of the revised code of washington, i have found that thumper is [glow=red,2,300]NOT [/glow]legal.

no right hand mirror
rear tail light below minimum height.

opps, will just take my chances.

In California the taillight has to be a minimum of 15 inches from ground to centerline of the lamp.

In traffic I try to keep tabs on everything around me.  I use my mirrors about every 5 seconds unless distracted by idiots in front.  (naturally if no one is there I don't bother keeping tabs on them -- which does not happen often in L.A..)

RRRRR....so much for popping one the tailights off my late grandpas truck and putting it on my 98.  

Gonna do it anyway, really make the HD yuppie psouer scum scratch their heads...the lamp lens says DODGE on it.  8)
-WD

Hmmm, never work. We actually know what we're doing. Plus, Savage builders aren't going to have the "fights" the "Turtles" do.

I quit watching that crap after that so-called veteran's tribute. A friend and I built a real Nam vets tribute bike back in 1998. A chopped Bonneville, with a siezed motor and faded paint. Flat tires, spiderwebs (the real kind), and a dead battery. He put a sign on it that said "My owner never made it home", loaded it in his truck, and headed for the wall. The bike was last licensed in 1970, the owner really did die over there. Somehow, I don't think it would have made as good of TV.

My "new" tailight is coming off a one owner 1949 Dodge 1/2 ton that's been in the family since new. The handshift I'm trying to work out for the bike is using the vintage pool ball shift knob my uncle put in the truck in the late 50s or early 60s. And if my wife would just let me build the bike the way I like, the replacement for the hydraulic fork would be made form the truck's original front and rear axles/suspension/steering pieces. Think rigid frame, sprung solo, Indian semi-elliptical girder fork.
-WD

Almost sounds like it should have a split 2-piece windshield too.

I sent in my application as well...maybe one of us will make it on the show.  I think I could do it.  I could at least give it a heck of try, some of the people they had on the show don't know how to really work.

Nightrain wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:


   15 will get ya 20.