Electrictrickery

Started to wire the xs

Number plate holder

And legal chain guard! Has it got to be on the right of left? Hay at least it is upright!

Turnoff able

On off switch welded and mounted

Pressure

Tank done ready for pressure test. Not my best job but a 1974 tank has got mighty thin!

Details detailing

Finished the last unrequited exhaust mount. No one will see it, it's possibly not required but I know it's there! 

Yesterday's progress

It's now at the stage where the little things take time, 11 hours work for this little gem.

Spraying in Califarnborough

My Not So Cal spray booth! 

Motor is assembled

Normally the engines built by me do not last! Let us see if this one is any different. I hope so it's been blessed by the XS engine guru.

Modded the lower filter... See if that helps!

DA Sander service on the plates, new clutch and springs, may get gears and if we are luck a neural😄

I don't build Engine's 😡

All day on the Xs rebuild! Clean, check re check, doubt your work, take it apart put it back exactly as before to get a the birth of the smelly noisy bit!

Had a lot of trouble to fid the exact shade and tone of the special paint colour to use on the bottom end, but you guessed Black! 

Fridays progress

Cases split and repaired

And got the ok for the internals as the engine builder dropped on for Tea, painted them black,

Plumbing XS Style

Slow day fabricating the pipes. Started in one direction but finished here.

Straight

Harley frame is all straight 

And to the pipes....

Got a job in

Shuffled the shedtopia around to put this frame back to its original straight dimensions.

Finally got the solenoid mounted, and rebuilt the head.

It's seams to be going very slowly!

One more bit fitted

Ally welding, steel fabrication tea drunk phone calls made a week passes by and I finally fit the battery tray. You know it is going to need modifying, that's choppering!

Battery....

Started the battery box and got side tracked in making a front fender, will it stay? Back to the battery tray!

Slow battery tray fab, always takes an age! 

Adding necessary bits

Tacked in posts for needed items

Many more bits to go!

Rear fender mounting kit

Spend a day making a few small bits to get read to fix the rear fender!

Back on it

Started the bRat again now been a while but it's good to be back building 😄

Eat the rich

A big thanks from all three of us!

No need to, but appreciated 

Juggs

Recipe for swapping liners. 1 wait till other 1/2 is out, oven to 200c one in one out done

Off to L A

Look at the happy bikers in the back ground off to LA for a weekend

Winner!

You know when a plan comes together, well done RF 1st place modified harley!

Slow road to LA

Hd slow but forward!

Been a Whlie

Got re motivated and half finished rear swing arm, nice and sunny so I know lets weld and grind Doah..

IPA and fly press

A few pale ales when I got in from work and some time with the grinder and fly press resulted in seat pan ML2

Fab Fridays

Day off work... been productive machined rear brake fittings and welded into position...

No dust during this phase

Mock up for wheel position, this involved a number of cups of tea, lots of detailed plan formulation and ended up with a lend of a short motor. It's always a great time with my friend and engine builder

Dummy seat

Spurned on by a visit to a fellow builder to pay my debit, checkout his fabrication on his oil bag! I mocked up my seat pan. Glad I have not brought one yet as It may not look as I wished! Just to say its better to build it yourself than pop out and buy it like the masses.... That's custom fabrication......

Mondays...

Luck enough to have time off to go to breakfast with a fellow builder, talking shop and what up I mention I am going to buy my tyres this week, he say's got some in stock that are to modern for me... Well what do you know...... Just the ticket.

The first vision...

OEM

Buy quality parts... Or spend 4 hours on your back to smash them and then drive down to but OEM, job complete I'm under 1 hour

Wheels 2013

Got to get ride! Breakfast, bikes, buddies and a beer @Namco. Cold but not wet! And even had the urge to paint my disks, good day :-)

Breakfast

Cold day on route to wheels day, 8/10 with a brew. You have to go a long way to beat a Rushmoor

New forks..

Look a new fork rebuild kit! New bits thanks to XSshop.de for the new fork tubes.. 

New Tubes

Lowered 25mm, smoothed and rebuilt ready to go!

You know this is the best tool in the box

When you go a Welding...

Covet thy grinder it is the god of tools for the welder..amen!

Old repairs....

Been hard at it repairing this 1960's GS150 (rare apparently). Had to make the horn tunnel from two! and repair the ally front hub bit!

Replace Filler with ally... after beating out old shaft!

Two new panels lovingly cut up to add 11mm  to make the front the correct height  (only a small amount of filler will be required)

Mustard repair

Ooooo, a bit of ally repair and mustard

Stage one fitting

After a long time trying to get the tank looking cool by accurate measuring and lining up, got fed up with that and finally track it where they looked right bing!

Same, but different...

Cold slow weekend.... but have remade the lower shock mounts and completed the top mounts.

Bottom HD sized mount

Top HD sized mount