Showing posts with label xs 650. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xs 650. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

unload cell phone pics

this is what happens when you look over your shoulder and turn back around when your buddies tranny locks and you just about run him down...not the best situation to knock out your only brake when you are at the top of a mountain


this is how you fix it: find a boulder to snuggle up beside and ram your foot peg into it untill you like the brake pedal and actuator line back up...


all "better"...can't believe it didn't brake the foot peg off...my last foot pegs broke off when you looked at them funny


the wasteoids new paint scheme


handy work of me and my 60 dollar flux welder...thats some fluxed up welding


but it fixed this problem for a few hours


just me and steve riding around...no one else was there


grocery grabber


my homegirl braNdy
Va rebel steve
what are the chances me snapping a pic and one of those being in the background?

area 51



Sunday, May 29, 2011

Jared the welding teacher pt.1

jared the welder was kind enough to help me out with my bike a few saturdays ago...we met up at 6am!, i had to coach my sons baseball game at 3 and its like an 8 hour drive down to the SF of utah...we got a ton done this day, but still didn't finish it all...we did finish last night, so stay tuned for part 2... this pic only shows about 1/3 of this huge shop

this is jared the weiner beating the snot out of my fender


jared again, using one of his fancy machines...honestly can't remeber what we were making here, but i felt vunerable standing next to this thing without steel toed shoes

the begining of jared writing the girl version of your name on your tire

pinky ring worth about 50 bling bling was getting pretty hot so i put a vent in my glove to keep it from over heating

i woke jared up and told him to hold this fender i just made

this guy showed up and was all excited about his last name being on that stand

this must be where they put all the bikes that take 3 years to finish...that kid has an excuse though, i'm sure that was a good project when he started and wasn't of age to drive anything on the streets...now he has a drivers license and a good excuse


jareds bike...jared was super nice/helpful/loving to help me out this day, because he was having a BAD day...he actually said that it was one of his worst days ever...it started having to wake up at 5ish on saturday morning, then he was super sick, was belching an odor more foul than anything that ever came from someones backside and making frequent runs to the pooper...i'm not sure if its TMI or not for me to share on the WWW that he even sharted and hobbled off to the toilet, so i'll hold those cards close untill i decide if i should share that or not, i'll let you know what i decide later...then it started raining pretty good so he had to ride home in that...then had a run in with an automobile and went over the bars like a WWF star off the tops ropes and onto the blacktop...poor jared, that sucks, thanks for the help though!!!!



















Wednesday, March 9, 2011

something breaks or rattles off every time i ride

i was on my bike for maybe 45 mins today and a bolt on my triple tree rattled off, which i noticed after the fact...then i was pulling up to a stop light and my bike wouldn't stop, dodged to the right real quick, traffic timing was in my favor and i made it to a parking lot...decided a was only a few miles from home and i still had the 1st gear braking system...10 intense(ish) minutes later i was pulling into the neighborhood a little hot, layed out a super sharp right turn, clipped my foot pedal and she went flying...thats the second foot pedal to do so, which bums me out because they are one of my favorite parts on my bike...guess i'll be looking to upgrade, anyone got any ideas?,

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

sissy mostly done


fatherinlaw helped me out big time and finished it up while i was at home taking care of business (i.e hanging out with wife and kids)...still have some finish welding and grinding to do and i'm looking for some sort of cross to put up in the diamond, but this is a huge step for my bike...i'm super happy with how it came out...can't wait for it to not be 4degrees outside so that i feel like riding

Monday, January 31, 2011

me and my sissy

went over to my father in laws huge garage yesterday and he helped me build a sissy bar...well get started on it, we didn't get to finish it, and by help me i mean he did 90% of the work and i just said "yup, that looks good" on the ride over i noticed a lot of noise from the left exhaust, inspection during riding revealed my bolt must have vibrated off...further inspection showed this big ass crack...then i cleaned all the baked on oil and crap (even further inspection) and saw that this pipe was held together by about 3/4 of an inch of metal...is it possible that i'm using threadlock incorrectly...duh
here is his current project, he is kind of a mad scientist of vw bugs, this is going to be some sort of lowered and chopped top with a truck bed

this is the only pic i took of the sissy bar progress, its not going to be quite that tall and it will have a diamond thingy on the top...i'm super excited to have a read fender


Sunday, December 19, 2010

allow myself to introduce myself

howdy, i'm jeff...i blog with cell phone pictures, i have about zero mechanical/metal mashing abilities, i ride a japanese bike ,but my car is american, (so i feel like i'm on level ground with the HD bike and BMW,VW, toyota or subaru car driving guys)...said bike has taken 2 years to get rideable...and i fart, alot...and yet brady still asked me to contribute to his blog...thanks buddy