Project:Old Yeller on the road

[SVSooke]

My wife's stay at the hospital was longer that it should have been.but that is another story.Saturday morning dawned gray any cloudy,around 7 am it started to rain,hard.My mother in law was coming to take Kelly up and to support me as well.Phoned to see if we where still going(to this http://www.vibikers.com/forum/index.php?topic=5102.0 ).I hate riding in the rain but nothing was going to keep me away!It was a miserable ride up but we got there.So here are some pics I took there:

Pretty nice XS1100 café that I don't have a better pic of.


This guy found this motor in some sort of service cart thingy,built a MC around it.Not as old as it looks!

XS650 bobber,only bad pic on this one to.Camera battery was low



Beautifully restored Z1.
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[SVSooke]

Guy with the Z1 brought this to.

Unfinished XS650 dirt tracker.Another bad pic,sorry.

Been watching this build on VIBikers http://www.vibikers.com/forum/index.php?topic=4456.0 Turned out pretty good IMHO.

72 Triumph.........Hmmmm....

This guy buit a frame around a diesel motor,a small MC motor gutted and used for a transmission and a registered steering head.Pretty sure that is all that"s left of the bike!

O yes some guy brought this thing
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[SVSooke]

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More than it looks like went into this bike http://www.vibikers.com/forum/index.php?topic=4487.0

and this one to from the same guy http://www.vibikers.com/forum/index.php?topic=5073.0
Did I win the show?No,the best of show was

Peoples choice was

Most ingenious

Me and this guy

Where honorable mentions.A good day in spite the rather wet start .

[Flaming Chainsaws]

That black and red Yamaha is nice. I would choose different colors though.... Old bikes with modern wheels and suspension just looks so well together!

The Z1 is VERY nice! And how about that GS750EF?

Looks like a lot great builds there. Especially that diesel motor and the caddy engine...

[SVSooke]

here's a link to one of the contestants Facebook photos https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...7&l=2ed8c5d2b5

[quexpress]

Hey! Thanks for the cool pics, etc.

Do you, by any chance, know what kind of windscreen this is? It looks like one from a Katana ... but I'm not sure. I ask because I'd like to do something similar on my 1980 GS1100ET.

[SVSooke]

Did not ask but looks like a Katana sheild to me.

[quexpress]

Did not ask but looks like a Katana sheild to me.

I agree.
I wonder how it is fastened to the bike...

[SVSooke]

Look at my link,There is apic of the mount.Last one on the first row.

[SVSooke]

Ask and (maybe) you shall receive

[quexpress]

Ask and (maybe) you shall receive

Thank you!

[SVSooke]

Been a while,just racking up the KM's and enjoying the fruits of my labours.

[Etcheberri]

wow the black and burnt orange kawasaki paint/lacquer job is slick!

btw, those red lines on Old Yeller really bring something!

[SVSooke]

Riding to work yesterday and a guy in a pickup opened his window to tell me the taillight wasn't working.It wasn't.Checked the fuses,the connections.Everything I could check on lunch seemed OK.Got home and started working on it.Was really weird,light worked when just pushed in but not when it was turned.Very strangeStill have another one so I changed the unit out.Took the one in the bike apart and the ground wire was broken off

[SVSooke]

I joined a new forum http://www.bcclassicmotorcycleclub.c...k=click&bid=12 .They asked me for a picture of Old Yeller for they're 2012 calendar.From junkyard dog to calender girl.Been quite the rideInsurance expired and she is in the shed for the winter.Have to repaint the header as a few wet weather rides have ravaged it.A mostly good summer riding but the weather here is such that if it's nice it's to cold and if it's warm it's raining.