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Flyboy
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Put the young one's hamster on the front wheel facing backwards and left him there for a week, you want to see his thighs now, the neighborhood cats give him a wide berth. 
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lmfao.......:highly_amused:
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Flyboy
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Tucked away and neatened up the wiring harness today.
Then it was on with the carbs and air box.
Coming together now
Made a start on the exhaust, damn, it needs a lot of work
Then it was on with the carbs and air box.
Coming together now
Made a start on the exhaust, damn, it needs a lot of work
WOW :eagerness:
So how long before we hear the first running video
So how long before we hear the first running video
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Fantastic Stan!!! And yeah what he said 
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Matchless
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Hi Stan,
Excellent progress! I have not been around much lately, just too many other things going on...!
You can still get that exhaust complete from Cowley. They have a street and racing model if I recall and make them up if not in stock. Quite a fair price too and they are in your neck of the woods as well.
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stunning pics of the bike, great work!
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Flyboy
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Thanks guys, a way to go yet before I fire her up, you know how it is, always a million little odds and sods that need doing, but it is tempting.....
Still need to reassemble and mount the front foot pegs, get a headlight bulb, get a flasher unit, fill and install the new battery, fabricate a top mounting for the right rear shock and mount it, fabricate fairing brackets, redo and mount the exhaust, and sort out the brakes.
the front brake needs a new reservoir and lever, the rear brake has an issue with the one bleed nipple not closing off and allowing air in, dunno what I am going to do there?
Need to replace the heavy cable from the battery to earth and to the starter solenoid.
Then just give all the nuts and bolts the once over.
And then just pray fuel does not come ****ing out the carbs when I put gas in her.
Hi Andre, ya I know Cowley still make that system, or they did as of three years ago, I gave them a call to see if they would fabricate one for me, as I thought they were long out of production, only to hear that they still make them, and ya good price too, was around R1500 for the whole system as I recall back then, R750 for the headers and R750 for the tail piece.
They are down in Heidelberg, nice 40-45 minute drive from me.
I have the standard tailpiece on mine, but am looking for a competition tailpiece.
The idea was to put a new system on, but sadly can't afford it now, should have bought it back then when I could.
What hacks me off the most is that I can't find my GS1000G side cover emblems.
Still need to reassemble and mount the front foot pegs, get a headlight bulb, get a flasher unit, fill and install the new battery, fabricate a top mounting for the right rear shock and mount it, fabricate fairing brackets, redo and mount the exhaust, and sort out the brakes.
the front brake needs a new reservoir and lever, the rear brake has an issue with the one bleed nipple not closing off and allowing air in, dunno what I am going to do there?
Need to replace the heavy cable from the battery to earth and to the starter solenoid.
Then just give all the nuts and bolts the once over.
And then just pray fuel does not come ****ing out the carbs when I put gas in her.
Hi Andre, ya I know Cowley still make that system, or they did as of three years ago, I gave them a call to see if they would fabricate one for me, as I thought they were long out of production, only to hear that they still make them, and ya good price too, was around R1500 for the whole system as I recall back then, R750 for the headers and R750 for the tail piece.
They are down in Heidelberg, nice 40-45 minute drive from me.
I have the standard tailpiece on mine, but am looking for a competition tailpiece.
The idea was to put a new system on, but sadly can't afford it now, should have bought it back then when I could.
What hacks me off the most is that I can't find my GS1000G side cover emblems.
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Crank
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Good to know that Cowley still have pipes available!
Nice to see her coming together, not long now Flyboy.
Riding weather is almost here, get her done!
Nice to see her coming together, not long now Flyboy.
Riding weather is almost here, get her done!
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Flyboy
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Crank, hoping to have it ready to take to the CMC get together in October, here is holding thumbs.
See you there.....
See you there.....
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Do you know where the problem is... the nipple seat in the caliper or the threads or...?
Maybe easiest to clean up the threads and use teflon tape?
If that doesn't sort it then you may need to have the bleed nipple seat re-machined or go with the next size up nipple.
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Flyboy
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Psy, I had planned to try some teflon tape on it this weekend and see if it seals it up, if not, its me, the caliper and the Prattley Steel (JB weld for the 'muricans )
Like hell I am pulling the rear end apart again and stripping the caliper again.
)Like hell I am pulling the rear end apart again and stripping the caliper again.
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Flyboy
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JENNIFER LIVES
YAHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:triumphant::dancing::victorious::clap:
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What took so long?
Never doubted it for a second.
Never doubted it for a second.
Sweeeeeeet! Im happy for you.
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ShadowFocus603
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Absolutely phenomenal Flyboy. Your build was one of the first i saw when I signed up here, along with Penelope. I'm so happy for you. Congrats.
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I just looked at the first page of the build. What a difference.
She sound strong. Nice throaty voice.
She sound strong. Nice throaty voice.
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Flyboy
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Thanks guys, Ed, I believe Pete's love affair with his 450 was probably the most epic around here, and as I recall this all started by you selling me a stator cover to fix a broken stator.
So this morning was off to the Classic Motorcycle Club get together, to dig for parts , came out empty handed unfortunately, bought what I thought was a tacho cable, turned out to be a speedo cable....damn, oh well, now I have a spare one.
So I guess a trip to bike hospital, our local bike breakers, is on the cards sometime this week.
With the realisation slowly sinking in that all the major work is done and dusted and I am really on the home stretch, today was spent tinkering, taking care of those million and one little things that also seem left to do.
The only real jobs left to do are to do the brakes, fab fairing brackets and mount the fairing and fab a rear shock mount and fit the shock, then it is air in the tires and a road test.
Fired her up to set carbs and check stator output, happy to say that she is running a healthy 13.5V at idle, ran her up to operating temperature and not a drop of oil leak in sight, I am a happy camper, however she did run out of gas before I got around to setting the idle screws. Oh, after standing the night, with choke applied and no throttle, she fired into a healthy idle within a second of pushing the starter button from ice cold, I am a very happy camper.
Watch this space for the road test.
So this morning was off to the Classic Motorcycle Club get together, to dig for parts , came out empty handed unfortunately, bought what I thought was a tacho cable, turned out to be a speedo cable....damn, oh well, now I have a spare one.
So I guess a trip to bike hospital, our local bike breakers, is on the cards sometime this week.
With the realisation slowly sinking in that all the major work is done and dusted and I am really on the home stretch, today was spent tinkering, taking care of those million and one little things that also seem left to do.
The only real jobs left to do are to do the brakes, fab fairing brackets and mount the fairing and fab a rear shock mount and fit the shock, then it is air in the tires and a road test.
Fired her up to set carbs and check stator output, happy to say that she is running a healthy 13.5V at idle, ran her up to operating temperature and not a drop of oil leak in sight, I am a happy camper, however she did run out of gas before I got around to setting the idle screws. Oh, after standing the night, with choke applied and no throttle, she fired into a healthy idle within a second of pushing the starter button from ice cold, I am a very happy camper.
Watch this space for the road test.
