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Cafenated GS1000

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bhppy101 said:
OK....please excuse the mess in the garage and on the bike....lol.. but heres a quick pics of my project. I'll water her down and take some more pics of it later....There is just too much dust on it to make it look decent.
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Damn the Mess.......Full speed ahead.........
 
Very nice. The sign of really good custom work is when it looks stock, like the bike was always that way. And yours does.

Looks like a Norton with a big engine and mag wheels. :D

Very well done.
 
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Thanks!!

I wish I could find some wire wheels that are a direct bolt on with the same disc brake configuration. I think the KZ wheels will fit. I just don't want to lose the rear disc and the dual fronts.
 
Dayyyuum. I feel bad now. You completely changed the look of your bike, and got it painted in like, what, 2 weeks? I've been working on my for 2 months, and I'm still in the body filler stage. I feel bad...:( J/K Looks really good, man.
 
Mike_H said:
Dayyyuum. I feel bad now. You completely changed the look of your bike, and got it painted in like, what, 2 weeks? I've been working on my for 2 months, and I'm still in the body filler stage. I feel bad...:( J/K Looks really good, man.
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Don't feel bad Mike, it will come together for you............
 
Mike_H said:
Dayyyuum. I feel bad now. You completely changed the look of your bike, and got it painted in like, what, 2 weeks? I've been working on my for 2 months, and I'm still in the body filler stage. I feel bad...:( J/K Looks really good, man.
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I actually got it done in 10 days!.....lol...j/k...

I'm sure that yours will be comming along soon... I usually start a project and work on it at night for a few hours at a time. This one didnt need much in the mechanical department...that takes most of the time for me. I have a CB750 that I need to complete next.....and that one will probably take me a while.

Heres what I did in the ten days of working on the GS1000:

Cleaned carbs
made fibrglass seat
chopped of rear end of the frame and cut off excess tabs
wired new lights (short stalk signals)
welded mounting tabs for seat and lights
modified tank
painted seat, tank and side covers
modified and mounted clubman bars

All I have to do now is take a buffing wheel to the cases and give them a mirror polish...I'm not sure what I'll be doing to the forks yet (maybe paint...or polish)...and last of all the front fender.....Most of my bikes I have chopped and painted the front fender...but I'm still debating what to do with this one.

I got my paint gun today....so I have to decided on a final color....I painted my last one (GS550) silver and I loved the way it turned out... I might have to go with the same silver theme on this one.

Heres the latest pic of my last project....which I recently sold on Ebay.

 
Maybe you could figure out a way to rig up an extra disc to a '78 GS1000 wheel like this one:

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bhppy101 said:
Thanks!!

I wish I could find some wire wheels that are a direct bolt on with the same disc brake configuration. I think the KZ wheels will fit. I just don't want to lose the rear disc and the dual fronts.
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It's a very similar wheel to the one I had on my long-ago-sold Sportster. If I remember correctly, you could get a 16" or 18" on the rear and a 19" or 21" on the front. I have seen them with dual disc front, mine only had single but I'm not sure it was original. This was on a '72 Sportster 1000 Ironhead. You might have to fabricate some spacers and such, but it shouldn't be that difficult on a chain-driven bike. The front forks were similar, too. No surprise since the factory front forks on my Ironhead were made in Japan.

The All-American Bike, my ass.
 
Beautiful job. Very tasteful pinstriping and colors. THIS should be the type of build on the Biker Build-Off shows . . . a guy in his garage with no vendors, no specialists to come in an assist, no fancy fab tools, etc. Ten days in the real world. Very inspirational.
 
Holy crap, when you said a couple of weeks, you weren't kidding!

Great looking bike!
 
Thanks for all of the kind words...

Here's some pictures in the daylight.
 
UncleMike said:
Gorgeous. Is this getting a 4-1 shorty exhaust?
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I will look around for a 4 into 1....I'd like to go black headers with a chrome tip. I still plan on painting it silver, I just have to go to the paint shop and pick up the base and clear coat...I'll probably end up doing it nxt weekend.
 
bhppy101 said:
I will look around for a 4 into 1....I'd like to go black headers with a chrome tip. I still plan on painting it silver, I just have to go to the paint shop and pick up the base and clear coat...I'll probably end up doing it nxt weekend.
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That exhaust setup would look sick.

You're planning on painting the bike silver? I love it the way it looks!
 
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