Random Picture Thread - Part Deux

[High Cheese]

The rebuilding process....

My homemade polishing station.

I spent 3 days cleaning the engine. This is how you istall the engine solo...

Polishing and cleaning. Cleaning and polishing. That was my life. lol

I bought a zinc plating kit and replated all sorts of nust and bolts and various hardware. It paid for itself...

Before:

After:

 

[High Cheese]

New rims and spokes. I like lacing wheels, it's calming.

I saved the original stripes by masking them off. They sell a reproduction kit you can buy but I was on a tight budget. I used a special clear coat thats safe if you get gasoline on it. I had to paint in my basement because it was humid as a jungle for weeks, and paint does not like humidity.

Not too bad for a $40 paint job huh?

 

[High Cheese]

Finish assembly....

 

[High Cheese]

Pretty much every nut or bolt was either replaced, polished or replated. It was time consuming but the results are worth every minute.

Oh, she runs good too.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3r53XJi2U[/ame]

 

[MexicoKaren]

Wow, my husband REALLY enjoyed your pics and especially the video. He was amazed at how quiet your bike runs. He began riding a Kawasaki 1000 during the mid-70s, and sold it just before we moved down here. It was a gut-wrenching decision for him. He pored over all of your pictures and was very impressed with your work. Thanks for sharing them. This was obviously a labor of love and you did an outstanding job.

 

[Biskit]

Wow! a Z-1! Not many of those around.
You did a first rate job. I'd buy that bike before any of the new fangled crotch rockets they ride now days.
for the job you did on such a tight budget. Your dad would be proud!

 

[Biskit]

haha! figures you'd turn it into something foodie!
Thanks Monte, for understanding some of my more recent moodiness and for the talk

Ya betcha, Lady!

 

[Cooksie]

Pretty much every nut or bolt was either replaced, polished or replated. It was time consuming but the results are worth every minute.

Oh, she runs good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3r53XJi2U

How cool, I can't believe you mounted the camera to give us a true street view . Love the re-furbed bike too. Looks like a lot of love went into that little project.

 

[mhend]

That is really cool, HC! Love the bike and the vid!

 

[QSis]

Absolutely freaking amazing, HC!

I am continually astounded by your amazing talents and abilities!

Wow. Just .... wow!

Lee

 

[PanchoHambre]

You have my favorite color cat, and his markings are gorgeous!

Lee

Kitty rocks and I am not a cat person but I got a good one



Kick A$$ bike Jay.... some of my aficionado neighbors would be impressed. Great work Man

Love the houseboat pic Doc

 

[High Cheese]

Thanks everyone, glad to see there's some people here that knows what this bike is!

 

[VeraBlue]

I've got a hawk!! It's hard to see since I took the picture through the back door. If I opened the door to get the shot, you know it would have flown away!

It's on top of the swing canopy, top right, near the branches.

Holy shit, I can hear it calling right now!! Sounds like an eagle!!!!!!!!

 

[QSis]

Cool, Vera!

As long as your cat doesn't go out!

Lee

 

[Cooksie]

They don't look very big when they're sitting like that but wait until you see the wingspan and hear the whoo whoo as they fly. They're scary! We had one fly into our sunroom window. He was stunned for a little while and then flew away.

 

[buckytom]

jeeks, awesome job!!!

how did you keep the video camera so steady?

 

[High Cheese]

jeeks, awesome job!!!

how did you keep the video camera so steady?

Thanks!
That's my helmet cam ziptied to the engine guard.

 

[JoeV]

Spent 6 days building a 16' x 28' deck for our daughter and son-in-law. Just in time for the holiday weekend.

 

[QSis]

WOW!!! What an incredible deck, Joe!

It's huge and beautiful - image the parties that could be had there! Very impressive job!

The house looks enormous, too!

Lee

 

[Sass Muffin]

Good gawd Joe!!
That's just awesome, what a good Father you are.

 

[buckytom]

a good dad and a carpenter to boot. not unlike another joseph i've heard of, lol. great job, joev!



here's some pics form our day at point pleasent beach. the waves are from hurricane earl pushing up the coast.

no swimming!

not even for gulls.

no kidding!

cool waves. the biggest were hitting around 8 to 10 feet.

a neat pattern in the sand after a wave

dw and our boy picking shells

 

[buckytom]

tides in!

still, it was a fun day in the sand

 

[Sass Muffin]

Cool pics!!
Thanks Tom

 

[MexicoKaren]

Great pictures, Tom - thanks for sharing them with us. Love the last one - your boy is really growing into a handsome fella!

 

[Cooksie]

Beautiful deck, JoeV, and wonderful beach pic's, BT. I love the pic's of "people doing what people do" instead of the "posed" pic's.

 

[QSis]

Wow, what a beautiful beach, BT!

Looks like a wonderful kind of day that I would would have loved to pieces, even though the surf was too high to go in!

Thanks for the pix!

Lee

 

[buzzard767]

Spent 6 days building a 16' x 28' deck for our daughter and son-in-law. Just in time for the holiday weekend.

Ahhh, you're a good father, Joe. Kudos.

here's some pics form our day at point pleasent beach. the waves are from hurricane earl pushing up the coast.

no swimming!

No kidding. I shake my head when the kids start waxing their boards any time a hurricane gets anywhere near Florida. The folly of youth.

 

[buckytom]

thanks sass, karen, cooksie, and qsis.

buzz, i had all intention of going swimming until i saw how short the break was. well, that and the lifeguards keeping us out, lol.

8 to 10 footers dropping in on an inch of water, right on the shore. i tore my rotator cuff years ago riding waves that dropped in like that. i stuck my arn out to sense the bottom and got jammed down into the sand doing a one armed cartwheel. these today were particularly nasty and twisting waves that could hurt.

it wasn't a nice long ride like you get on the left coast. huntington beach comes to mind as my favourite spot to boogie.

 

[MexicoKaren]

Hey Tom, come on down to Mexico! Lots of people boogey on our wonderful beach here in Bucerias, and Sayulita, about 15 miles north of us, is even more popular, because it is outside of the bay and less protected, with better waves. They even have international surfing championships there.

I've decided to share our most recent obsession with you all - three days ago, our huntress cat Millie brought a little creature in the house and then promptly abandoned it when she figured out (I guess) that it wasn't a mouse. It is a tiny baby opossum, called a tlacuache here, and he was a little stunned, but otherwise OK. Jerry and I are becoming expert opossum parents - feeding him with a syringe every hour or so, cuddling him, etc. Anyway, he seems to be doing OK, and I thought I would share a few pics. We have named him Milo...

 

[Adillo303]

Cute little feller you have there Karen.