750 cafe project

[tkent02]

Just close your eyes.....

I was hoping to hear it run!

And play this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR5Aev3n7D4&mode=related&search=

[rufus]

lol @ dirt bikes

[80GS1000]

Can't wait to hear it run. Once the weather warms up, maybe you can have someone take some footage of you riding it too. :-D

[Zooks]

Thanks. It is pretty cool how people from around the world there are on this forum.

Post some pics of your project, I would like to check it out.

One of my goals is to get to Australia in the next two years (although I am not looking forward to the flight). If I do I will look you up for a day of riding.

No prob, I live about an hour out of Sydney on the rural 'fringe'. Lots of windy mountain / country roads and plenty of sights to see. I'd be happy to show off the country I love so much. You'd be more than welcome.

The same offer applies to any other American travellers.

[beergood]

I'm going off-topic again

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=104765

I found this in another area. Couple of comments down there is an a entry about going off-topic (which is humorously off-topic itself). I can see that constant off-topic ramblings can make a thread unwieldy, but a little bit of it can inject a little personality. Anyway, I thought I would ask anyone that follows this thread to weigh in with your opinion. I'm not saying that I am going to change the way I choose what I want to write about, I just want to test the water.

I am of the opinion that you can't hijack your own thread. I have pretty thick skin, so my feelings ain't going to get hurt if you disagree with me.

Thanks for once again indulging me.

[80GS1000]

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=104765

I found this in another area. Couple of comments down there is an a entry about going off-topic (which is humorously off-topic itself). I can see that constant off-topic ramblings can make a thread unwieldy, but a little bit of it can inject a little personality. Anyway, I thought I would ask anyone that follows this thread to weigh in with your opinion. I'm not saying that I am going to change the way I choose what I want to write about, I just want to test the water.

I am of the opinion that you can't hijack your own thread. I have pretty thick skin, so my feelings ain't going to get hurt if you disagree with me.

Thanks for once again indulging me.

Post whatever you want. Personally, when reading project threads I tend to skip to the photos and tech details of the interesting or trick bits or mods someone's creating. I blame my techie/enginerding background for this.

If people don't like or aren't interested in what someone posts, they can skip it - no big deal.

[Mike_H]

Off topic just adds a little essence to the topic. I know I enjoy the occasional ramble into nothing, and if its your topic, well, all the better. I do draw the line at topics that degrade into juvenile name calling, but here's the great thing about the internet. If I don't like the topic, or the poster, I don't bother to read it. Same with a post w/in a thread I'm interested in. I can skip ahead. Anyway, I say go ahead. Post until your little heart is content.

[Zooks]

I enjoy the rambles. I had a good hearty belly laugh when I went to your website and enjoy your twisted sense of humour. Keep it up.

Some people are too damn serious these days.

I am, and always will be, a smartarse prankster.

(American translation = Smartass pranksta)

[Dharma punk]

I don't mind the off topic stuff. Some of it's pretty hilarious. Besides, is it really that hard to scroll past it if you don't wanna read it?

Is that the stock front fender that you trimmed down? I've got a 77 GS750 I'm cafeing as well and want to trim the front fender. I was a bit concerned I might run into a support when doing this. Any problems of that sort?

Gorgeous bike, by the way. I hope mine turns out half as nice.

[tkent02]

Hey beergood....

You go for a good long ride yet?

[beergood]

Is that the stock front fender that you trimmed down? I've got a 77 GS750 I'm cafeing as well and want to trim the front fender. I was a bit concerned I might run into a support when doing this. Any problems of that sort?

Yup, stock fender. Cutting it is pretty easy, just take your time. I used masking tape as a guide and cut it with a Dremel.

As for a long ride. It isn't starting/running as reliably as I would like. I was working on it yesterday, and let's just say that I did something profoundly stupid. It was an accident, but I left a sizable patch of skin (three fingers, palm and thumb) on a header pipe. I am really glad that there was an icy puddle of water right next to where I was working.

Before anyone writes in to give me the helpful info that those are hot, let me tell you that I know this. I would never intentionally grab a hot pipe. When I was six I burnt my calf on the side pipe of my uncle's vette when I was getting out. I have been painfully aware of the temps those things achieve ever since, and I have had the handful (no pun intended) of reminders over the years. This was a truly stupid accident, and it hurt like hell. Luckily I have some pretty good callouses going on, and they took the brunt of it. I can't wait till they start peeling off.

So last night was spent with my hand wrapped in an ice pack (alternating with an ice cold beverage). Today it doesn't hurt much, but the palm has the texture of old weathered vinyl and the hand is somewhat stuck in the shape of a claw. Ironically, it is the perfect shape to hold a beer bottle, so it's not a total right off.

It is occasions such as this that I don't quite feel like a rocket scientist.

[tkent02]

Damn, Dude!!!

It is occasions such as this that I don't quite feel like a rocket scientist.

You didn't get skin stains on those pretty pipes did you???

Similarly, I took my wife for a ride, used one of those rubber shelf liners so she wouldn't slip off with her nylon ski pants.
we got off and the rubber thing fell on the left pipe and burned into it pretty badly.
The good news, this was the day before your shiny pipes arrived. ;-0

Keep lots of cold beverages in that hand, and remember the shape of a beer bottle is also the shape of a motorcycle grip.

[beergood]

I would say most of the skin burnt of it pretty quickly, but you can definitely see where I touched it.

Alright, it's not firing at all. I know I got spark, and I know I got air, that leaves gas. I've got some in the bowls. If it was just a carb tuning problem, I would think that I would be getting a few pops, just poor running. But if no cylinder is firing (one or two were yesterday, intermittently), then I am guessing I got some crappy gas going on.

I haven't done anything to the engine this winter, short of take the carbs off and put on the new pipes. It ran pretty good in the fall, so I am guessing the timing is still all right.

Tomorrow is supposed to be even nicer than today, so I guess I will rip the carbs off and clean them out, flush out the old gas and take the tank up to the gas station and fill it up with some new good stuff. And god willing, that will do it. Then I can get to the tedious task of tuning it.

That airbox is such a pain to get in and out, and work around, I am 90% sure that I am going to rejet and put pods on this summer.

I saw no less than half a dozen bikes out on the road today, and heard many more while I was in my back yard.

It made me wanna ride so bad.

[Mike_H]

I saw no less than half a dozen bikes out on the road today, and heard many more while I was in my back yard.

It made me wanna ride so bad.

Tell me about it. All over town, I could here people firing their bikes up, could here Harley's barking out on the highway, and I had to wave at about 5 people riding by my house, while I was farting around in my garage, reassembling my bike and cursing my own laziness over the winter.

[beergood]

Gods, why have you forsake me?

Alright, I completely drained my system, cleaned the carbs, cleaned the plugs, Put in new gas, and it started. Didn't exactly run like a champ, but it ran. And somewhat reliably. Now there are the tuning issues, but that is fine. I can handle those. I just hate when I get nothing. I was going to try and take it for a couple loops around the block, but without a battery,the kickstart only working half the time, and it getting dark, I decided to hold off for a day.

So, today I was going to buy a new battery, plugs, oil filter and oil, and get to the task of making her purr.

And guess what was outside when I got up? Snow. Everywhere.

@#$%U$O%POI@P*#($)*UO@$&%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

By the way, if you are going to take a shortcut, and just put your tank in the bed of your truck and drive it up to the gas station directly to fill it, and then you go in and prepay (like you have to do in Detroit), and you just pulled into the first available pump (one with the pump on the opposite side of the gas cap of your truck), well then, I hope you brought your bike key.

I didn't. And then I spent about 10 minutes going through my toolbox trying to find something that would work. Most of my tools were in the garage already, but I keep a small $15 dollar kit that I bought in there for just this kind of reason. Of course, the socket that would remove the lock was the one that was missing. Anyway, if you turn the tank over, you can actually pop the lock with something long enough to get at the lip. It was actually pretty simple once I figured it out, but I had never tried it before, and the gas station was starting to get pretty busy.

Live and learn.