Very nice bike!!! It looks great jk ...

Good job with the speedo  


Greetings from Spain  

And a wide shot...



I'll get some better pictures once it stops raining and I can get it outside.

Of course, I put the oil in?

Leak.

Pulled the right side cover off?

The gasket somehow got folded...

Of course, it's soaked with oil, torn, unusable. Sometimes, I amaze myself with my sometimes eff ups...

Anyway, I just ordered two, express shipping from bikebandit...

Next weekend, I guess...  

Rockin_John wrote on 03/31/08 at 01:02:18:


Thanks! I appreciate the compliments!

I don't know if you can see 'em in the picture too well, but I did put some 4 1/2" pull-back risers on it and the bars do have some bend to 'em. I sit pretty much upright this time. The last configuration (wth the stock risers and broomstick) made me want to cry after an hour in the saddle.

If I could just get past amateur hour with the gasket, I'd be showing it off all over the place!  

Hutch wrote on 03/30/08 at 08:34:51:


I absolutely love the conversion. I do have the 16/43- lot's of zip out of the gate and very smooth on the top end. Previously, I'd get it up around 65 and it felt like it was pretty much wrapped out (or at least sounded wrapped out) Yesterday, we were cruising along at what my speedo said was 55. At the next stop, my buddy told me we were actually doing 65. Which made me really happy, 'cause Eileen still had a long way to go before she hit the wall, relative to the belt drive.

I do need to rejet/adjust the carb, though. Since I cleaned out the engine and did the conversion, she's running fairly rich now.

And too, I get it running? The forcast for the next ten days..? Frog-choking t-storms... Figures.  

Thanks, Hutch! I'm really looking forward to getting out there on the road & showing it off. I've only got 32 days until my road trip all over Texas & I'd like to get her fine-tuned before then. It's supposed to clear up a bit on Sunday and Monday, which works out fine since I'm off those days, but I really want to start riding it to work again. I can deal with getting wet on the way home, it's just the trip in where my options are limited. (Nowhere to change without attracting a lawsuit- I luv corporate America  )

Yes indeed, I see now that you DO have just enough rise and pullback on the bars to make it comfortable. As I mentioned, the straight "broomstick" bars just don't work for me. Can't stand the torque on my wrists. I even use an ergonomic keyboard on the computer because my wide shoulders make it near impossible to type on a conventional keyboard.