Yo!
Posted in the intro thread as well... but...
30 year old software engineer here - grew up in Tallahassee, Florida but for the past few years have lived in and around San Francisco - now we live in El Cerrito.
I'm not new to motorycles but took a break from them for a while and now I'm getting back into it. I recently finished building up a basket case 1972 Yamaha R5 ( twostrokeworld forum thread here: (http://www.2strokeworld.com/forum/in...3360#msg183360 ) - that build set me off to really want to build something I could ride longer distances, plus the chopper bug bit me really hard.
A few weeks ago, the day before my 30th birthday I found a 1960 ironhead hard tail in Arizona for a steal of a price. I talked to the guy on the phone a couple times, convinced the wife it was a good (no.. GREAT) idea and then I jumped in the truck and drove 11 hours, grabbed a hotel, woke up and bought the bike - loaded it in my truck, and then drove 11 hours back home. Made it home to see the wife and kids with 3 minutes left of my birthday before midnight.
This is how it looked when I picked it up:
The guy I bought it from knew very little about it and had let it sit in his garage for 20 years. The day after I got it home I replaced the plugs, filled a funnel up with gas and connected it to the carb... and guess what?!?! It started on the second kick. I was amazed.
My plan is full rebuild from the frame up. As such, I've stripped it down all the way already, had the frame sand-blasted, started body work on the frame, polished tons of parts, ordered tons of parts, and started to fabricate some parts.
More photos of my current progress in the next post!
Posted in the intro thread as well... but...
30 year old software engineer here - grew up in Tallahassee, Florida but for the past few years have lived in and around San Francisco - now we live in El Cerrito.
I'm not new to motorycles but took a break from them for a while and now I'm getting back into it. I recently finished building up a basket case 1972 Yamaha R5 ( twostrokeworld forum thread here: (http://www.2strokeworld.com/forum/in...3360#msg183360 ) - that build set me off to really want to build something I could ride longer distances, plus the chopper bug bit me really hard.
A few weeks ago, the day before my 30th birthday I found a 1960 ironhead hard tail in Arizona for a steal of a price. I talked to the guy on the phone a couple times, convinced the wife it was a good (no.. GREAT) idea and then I jumped in the truck and drove 11 hours, grabbed a hotel, woke up and bought the bike - loaded it in my truck, and then drove 11 hours back home. Made it home to see the wife and kids with 3 minutes left of my birthday before midnight.
This is how it looked when I picked it up:
The guy I bought it from knew very little about it and had let it sit in his garage for 20 years. The day after I got it home I replaced the plugs, filled a funnel up with gas and connected it to the carb... and guess what?!?! It started on the second kick. I was amazed.
My plan is full rebuild from the frame up. As such, I've stripped it down all the way already, had the frame sand-blasted, started body work on the frame, polished tons of parts, ordered tons of parts, and started to fabricate some parts.
More photos of my current progress in the next post!
Comment