Dan's Knuckle build continued (10,000 ways to skin a cat)

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I just returned home from a 2 week trip in New Mexico, have a few good pix, can't wait to share my off-highway traveling. Got to put 1400 miles on the scoot.

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Makes sense, teflon for friction and ceramic for heat resistance.
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It will help against piston growth as it wont be able to get as hot from the combustion process !
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how you making out on the motor
ever notice when you hit somethin or someone with a hammer you feel instantly better
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Curt, i haven't been ignoring you, dude. i've just been depressed about being forced to wait on stuff and couldn't bear to see what everyone else was up to. i finally got my heads back last week and am ready to finish reaming the valve guides, assemble it, and go for a ride ( i hope, anyway).

i've also been busy building my garage too.

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no I know the feeling lifes been kickin my ass lately but I like the hell outa the garage idea and glad you r gaining on the knuck
ever notice when you hit somethin or someone with a hammer you feel instantly better
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well, i guess i'm overdue for an update for you folks.

long story short, i got the engine back together, reworked the foot controls, then made up a new rear fender/sissybar setup for inspections. got everything painted assembled and ready to go, just in time to go into the hospital for my second inguinal hernia surgery (the first one was so much fun last year, i thought i'd do it again :shock: ).

can you imagine how much it's killing me knowing that all i should need to do is go outside and kick the bike over until it fires, and not physically being able to do it for the next few weeks? how's *that* for irony? love it.

anyway, :banana-gotpics: yeah, i got some for ya'all.

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dam that looks nice . good luck with the surgery at least itll be a lot less stress knowing its all back together and in your hands
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Build an 'automatic kicker'. That's a gizmo that's been on my list for about 40 years now but never got around to doing it. Drag guys have been doing it for decades. Now that I'm a lot older the idea sounds better and better.
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Good Luck Dan.

The sissy bar looks nice. Good choice.
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Really like how it's coming together, nice job on the sissy bar!
I had that same surgery 6 weeks ago, and it was also my 2nd time, but the first was 6 yrs ago....
Thought I'd be up and going in a week or two, HA !
Took me all of 4 weeks before I really could get going again, then I hurt my hand pulling
a turbo 400 trans out of my '58 Chevy truck, just getting over that one now !
My intentions are to NOT let being 72 slow me down, but nature has sneaky ways of doing it anyway !!

An 'automatic kicker', eh?
Howz that work, wind it up first??
At one point I just used 1 of my 3 sons as the "automatic kicker",
but they moved away....

Willy
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I never look over my shoulder, I know what's back there, and it scares the hell outta me !!
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gww25 wrote:Build an 'automatic kicker'. That's a gizmo that's been on my list for about 40 years now but never got around to doing it. Drag guys have been doing it for decades. Now that I'm a lot older the idea sounds better and better.
Gary, i was rolling exactly the same idea around in my head. like a lot of the drag racers use, right? a wide set of rollers, then you get a friend on another bike next to you to spin ya?

right now it especially sounds like a good plan.

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ain't that the truth! 3 years, and most of it was waiting on other people.

-dan
curt wrote:dam that looks nice . good luck with the surgery at least itll be a lot less stress knowing its all back together and in your hands
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Post by budoka »

thanks! the round part is part i cut out of my shipping containers. ideologically tying my garage and bike together, so to speak.

-dan
hansgoudzwaard wrote:Good Luck Dan.

The sissy bar looks nice. Good choice.
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i like that idea :clap: . my boy is only 9, but in a few years he'll be perfect for cold morning kicking sessions, LOL.

-dan
2Loose wrote:Really like how it's coming together, nice job on the sissy bar!
I had that same surgery 6 weeks ago, and it was also my 2nd time, but the first was 6 yrs ago....
Thought I'd be up and going in a week or two, HA !
Took me all of 4 weeks before I really could get going again, then I hurt my hand pulling
a turbo 400 trans out of my '58 Chevy truck, just getting over that one now !
My intentions are to NOT let being 72 slow me down, but nature has sneaky ways of doing it anyway !!

An 'automatic kicker', eh?
Howz that work, wind it up first??
At one point I just used 1 of my 3 sons as the "automatic kicker",
but they moved away....

Willy
-experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
http://knuckleheadsummer.blogspot.com/
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I just returned home from a 2 week trip in New Mexico, have a few good pix, can't wait to share my off-highway traveling. Got to put 1400 miles on the scoot.

Best, Bob Davidson
Location: Alaska

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whatever you do, give yourself time to heal. it would suck to get impatient and screw yourself up.
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