Thursday, March 22, 2012

Post 36: A 3000 Miles Trip to Daytona Beach and Back

  
 We left on Sunday morning with two bikes and the trailer behind the car, me on the bobbed V Star 1100, and my friend Jacky on the Victory Vegas with Brigitte on the back seat. We spent the night in Blakely, Georgia, went on the next day to Silver Springs, Florida, and then on to Daytona Beach.



Saturday, March 3, 2012

Post 35: V STAR "Bobbing" Part 35

  I had to take the bike to my mechanic because it would not crank up anymore. He worked on the wiring and changed the relay, and while at it, I got him to change all the fluids, the rear tire and rear break pads. He cleaned the front brake pads that had been wet with fork oil when the fork was leaking and are not braking well. We may have to replace them altogether if that does not work. This bike has two disks at the front, and should stop on a dime!
  In the meantime, I am working on making the blinkers for the front and back, out of four aluminum conical fence post caps into which a LCD trailer light from Harbor Freight fits perfectly. I made simple aluminum brackets to mount the front blinkers to the lower triple tree just next to the fork tube:




  I will decide when I get the bike back from the shop where the rear blinkers are going to attach, either to the fender right behind the seat, or low on the swing arm.
  I ground and polished the caps smooth and painted them with 3 coats of black crinkle paint, as well as a steel disk which will mount in front of the triple trees as a racing number, but with the initials "SM" for the name of the bike. No, it doesn't mean what you think, it stands for "Spiritus Michaelis", in homage to my very dear too soon departed uncle and bike/ side-car collector Michel: