Before / After 1980 GS850G

[Billyboy]

Bah! I think it looks cool. You'll understand why when I get the final paint job done :-\"8)

Okey dokey...

Going for the "Roadsign on wheels" theme, are ya?*

I kid. Look forward to seeing the finished product.

[PAULYBOY]

Bah! I think it looks cool. You'll understand why when I get the final paint job done :-\"8)

Well, oficer, what type of scheme are you going for with the ammo cans, etc.?

[TheCafeKid]

I dig the ammo cans. Very "survialist" if you had to term it. Would consider throwing a set on a cafe for long distance luggage. would look more "in place" than some modern stuff i suppose

[Sparkster]

Well, oficer, what type of scheme are you going for with the ammo cans, etc.?

The final paint job will be a flat black / olive drab scheme. I live in a rather redneck area and grew up in the country. I'm also very much a "function over form" person so making a headlight bracket out of a few bucks worth of angle iron suits me pretty well. All that to say I guess there's nothing I can name the scheme; it will just suit my personality perfectly when I'm done.

I dig the ammo cans. Very "survialist" if you had to term it. Would consider throwing a set on a cafe for long distance luggage. would look more "in place" than some modern stuff i suppose

I like the survivalist label. Perhaps that shall be the theme name of the bike.

[PAULYBOY]

You related to a really cool guy with a big, gnarly chainsaw scar on his forehead? This guy handles a 3 foot chainsaw like a kung fu master handles the short sword!

[Billyboy]

You related to a really cool guy with a big, gnarly chainsaw scar on his forehead? This guy handles a 3 foot chainsaw like a kung fu master handles the short sword!

Anyone else see the contradiction in these two statements?:shock:

[PAULYBOY]

Not to hijack a thread, Billyboy, but this man is one of my future black belt students. This guy works by day cutting concrete, at 3 times the pace of anyone half his age. He has his own minority owned business cutting, processing and selling packages of firewood through convenience stores and grocery stores. Summer of 2006 saw my 19 yo and myself working for him on the weekends clearing a stand of oak that had beek blown down in Adams county in SW Ohio. Some of these trees were a full 4 feet thick, and he sliced and diced those things like they were twigs.
As for the big scar, he got that as a result of a kickback in his younger days. Anyone that has wielded that big a chainsaw for more than an hour at a time will know what type of upper body strength you need. This guy was cutting some of the smaller limbs (18-24") in figure 8 patterns. An awesome guy, and his wife and kids are pretty cool too, cuz they attacked that stand of timber like a family should-
ALL OUT!

[Sparkster]

Anyone else see the contradiction in these two statements?:shock:

Uhh well... I thought Kung Fu was primarily an empty handed style for one, and two the short sword is a straight sword. I thought Asian martial style tended towards curved blades. Although perhaps not as the katana is straight.

I speak out of ignorance.

How did gnarly forehead scars come from bike work?:shock:8-[

[PAULYBOY]

Well, Sparkster, theres linear logic, thers circular logic, then theres good old corkscrew logic. In this case, I was presuming that your Avatar is a somewhat ambiguous pic of you. It looks close enough to my friend to maybe be kin, including a few bones you threw out about where you are.With all that having been said, he lusts after a big cruiser bike, but my son and I keep luring him toward the GS dark side!
As for the short sword I mentioned, it refers to the sword not used originally against horse soldiers, the one on a 6 foot pole used in Chinese, Korean and some Japanese weapons forms that is called a "horse cutter" because its real predecessor was used by foot soldiers to cut the legs of the horses out from under the cavalry troops. In general a short sword can be straight like a Katana, or gently curved, and be any where from 24 to 42 inches long.
See how screwy that got?

[Sparkster]

Well, Sparkster, theres linear logic, thers circular logic, then theres good old corkscrew logic. In this case, I was presuming that your Avatar is a somewhat ambiguous pic of you. It looks close enough to my friend to maybe be kin, including a few bones you threw out about where you are.With all that having been said, he lusts after a big cruiser bike, but my son and I keep luring him toward the GS dark side!
As for the short sword I mentioned, it refers to the sword not used originally against horse soldiers, the one on a 6 foot pole used in Chinese, Korean and some Japanese weapons forms that is called a "horse cutter" because its real predecessor was used by foor soldiers to cut the legs of the horses out from under the cavalry troops. In general a short sword can be straight like a Katana, or gently curved, and be any where from 24 to 42 inches long.
See how screwy that got?

Yeah I'm dizzy now. Here's a less ambiguous pic of me:


And the avatar came from here:

[Billyboy]

I meant nothing disparraging about the mans character. No doubt, you must stumble a bit to get good at anything. Thus the chainsaw scar on a master sawyer.

[Sparkster]

I meant nothing disparraging about the mans character. No doubt, you must stumble a bit to get good at anything. Thus the chainsaw scar on a master sawyer.

Not saying you did; Pauly had it right. I was curious as to the slippery slope of mental passageways that were traversed to land the conversation in its present location.

[PAULYBOY]

Not saying you did; Pauly had it right. I was curious as to the slippery slope of mental passageways that were traversed to land the conversation in its present location.

Good God, Sparkster! If I had known there were more of us eloquent individuals out there, I would have brokne out in more complex verbage. Well said! Thanks.

[Billyboy]

I'm reminded of the movie "Sin City". The thug with "delusions of eloquence".
:-D

[Sparkster]

Even more "after"

Almost done. Just need to paint the fenders.




The laundry bag on the back is holding a bedroll for a camping trip I'm planning. I figured it was the most fitting given the theme of the bike.
The paint pattern didn't come out as well as I'd hoped due to how the net was stretched but I'm not too worried about it. I won't be looking at it as I'm riding down the road anyway.

Picked up some halogen running lights from Harbor Freight for about $8. Mounted nicely to the angle iron.