pauljdehmer

I’ve been working diligently on this bike. The step-thru conversion is complete. It took me forever to get it finished. I must have spent about 5 hours welding and griding that damned tapped petcock thingy onto the frame. The shitty gasless mig we have down at the shop, combined with two different thickness metals, made it damned near impossible to get an airtight weld. so after getting it very close to not leaking, i lathered some jb weld over the area where i welded and sealed it up. I also put the gas cap area on the top and did my best at making it air tight. we’ll see how it holds up. i might have to throw some jb weld on that area also to make it not leak too badly, but we’ll see in time.

after the jb weld dried, i took the bike apart and started on painting the bike. black and yellow, who would’ve guessed. anyway, heres some pictures.

frame: black

swingarm: yellow

fork tubes: yellow

gas cap: yellow

disassembled engine

more peices to the puzzle

I’ll repair my clutch this week, and probably do some VERY mild porting on the cylinder (it’s my first time).