The Building of the Triumph Rocket Three
Posted on March 23, 2010 by WPS
In: Motorcycles , Humor
Norton Commando Transformer by Steve Twist
Posted on March 23, 2010 by WPS
In: Motorcycles , Humor
lol... Well done!
Nose Art!
Posted on March 14, 2010 by WillyP
In: High in the Sky
No, I'm not talking about that ring your daughter's boyfriend wears... This is art on the nose of an airplane, mostly B24's, B25's and B29's flown during WWII. There are also a few b17's, some P40's, P51's... etc...
Click the image to enlarge. Or hit the jump for all the thumbs.
Click the image to enlarge. Or hit the jump for all the thumbs.
1972 Tiger
Posted on March 14, 2010 by WillyP
In: Motorcycles
I came across some old pics of a bike I had, I guess woulda been in the '80's sometime. These pics were taken after I had crashed it and fixed it. That's why the front fender is black. Later I took it all apart and rebuilt every thing and painted it red.
Well, I don't know, I thought this was kinda funny: Toyota Simulator.
Seat Recover
Posted on March 10, 2010 by WillyP
In: Motorcycles
I changed my seat cover today. When I got the bike the seat had duct tape holding it together. It looked pretty bad, so I had covered it with some self adhesive foam. It worked pretty good but was still pretty efn ugly!
So I whined about it in a thread on the Concours Forum and to shut me up New Hampshire Steve sent me his old one. ;)
His is a newer bike and the foam is quite a bit different, so it didn't fit very well but it looks a heck of a lot better than the old one! I added some re-bond (carpet padding) to add some thickness to the old foam, and to build up the hump in the middle of the seat. I cut a piece of the re-bond to the size of the pan, and put that between the pan and the original foam. Then glued some strip in the middle of the seat to fill the hump. I didn't fill it completely, so unfortunately there is a lot of slack in the cover right where I sit. I guess I will see how well that works this summer.
The hardest part was getting the staples to hold, I tried using a t-50 stapler... it worked, but I can't say well. :P Then I went looking to see what kind of stapler I should have used and found this page: DIY Motorcycle Seat... scroll down and hey! That seat looks familiar!
Some pics... (click to enlarge)
So I whined about it in a thread on the Concours Forum and to shut me up New Hampshire Steve sent me his old one. ;)
His is a newer bike and the foam is quite a bit different, so it didn't fit very well but it looks a heck of a lot better than the old one! I added some re-bond (carpet padding) to add some thickness to the old foam, and to build up the hump in the middle of the seat. I cut a piece of the re-bond to the size of the pan, and put that between the pan and the original foam. Then glued some strip in the middle of the seat to fill the hump. I didn't fill it completely, so unfortunately there is a lot of slack in the cover right where I sit. I guess I will see how well that works this summer.
The hardest part was getting the staples to hold, I tried using a t-50 stapler... it worked, but I can't say well. :P Then I went looking to see what kind of stapler I should have used and found this page: DIY Motorcycle Seat... scroll down and hey! That seat looks familiar!
Some pics... (click to enlarge)
Balls, these guys have them
Posted on March 04, 2010 by WillyP
In: Motorcycles
Several news reporters have tried to put in perspective the power released during the Chilean earthquake. More powerful than an atomic bomb, 500 times more power than the Haiti earthquke... but man, this really does it for me. I mean, what else could change time? Millions of clocks and watches around the world are now rendered obsolete, because there are no longer 24 hours in a day. And shifted the Earths axis! Wow!
Well, at least now I have an excuse for being late for work, by 1.26 milliseconds. And the old saying in the real estate biz... 'location, location, location'... This just proves how true. The Nasa scientists say that the Chile earthquake, while much smaller (at 8.8) than the 2004 Sumatran earthquake (at 9.1) had a much greater effect because of Chile's location. Well, there you go!
Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth - Yahoo! News
Well, at least now I have an excuse for being late for work, by 1.26 milliseconds. And the old saying in the real estate biz... 'location, location, location'... This just proves how true. The Nasa scientists say that the Chile earthquake, while much smaller (at 8.8) than the 2004 Sumatran earthquake (at 9.1) had a much greater effect because of Chile's location. Well, there you go!
Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth - Yahoo! News