The Start of the "Bobber Project." It's a 1979 Yamaha XS 1100 that hasn't run for four years.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The progression of my 79 Yamaha XS 1100 to a XS1100 Bobber! Click the links to see the posts!
- The Story of "Shops Chops"
- Day 1 "What a Project"
- Day 4 "Tear down party!"
- Day 6 "Easy outs work? (Front Brake Master Cylinder.)"
- Day 7 "Low Rider"
- Day 13 "Orange Fuel"
- Day 14 "Brakes and Paint (Rear Master Cylinder)"
- Day 15 "Paint, Paint and more Paint"
- Day 16 "tripple tree and forks"
- Day 17 "Must need more paint"
- Day 18 " I love watching paint dry"
- Day 20 "Handlebars"
- Day 21 "Forks"
- Day 23 "Gripes? Pipes?"
- Day 30 "Lights"
- Day 31 "Boredom is expensive?"
- Day 53 "Rear Wheel conversion 17'' to 16'', ready for white walls."
- Day 58 "Cracked Manifolds suck... air"
- Day 64 "Good manifolds don't suck!"
- Day 72 "Gas, Compression and Spark?"
- Day 73 "Liars sell'n Tires"
- Day 83 "Tackling the Stank Tank"
- Day 85 "Mondo Bondo Party"
- Day 89 "Tank Trim?"
- Day 90 "Rims, Tires, and Bearings make long days!"
- Day 94 "Sparkey Malarkey"
- Day 95 "Coils, and Ignition"
- Day 98 "Swing Arm Patch, One Step Forward, Three Steps back!"
- Day 103 "Swing Arm Patch Continued, Holy Swing Arm Batman"
- Day 108 "Setting up for the Hard Tail"
- Day 113 "Chopping the Chop!"
- Day 120"Hardtail Continued"
- Day 127 "Did I do anything?"
- Day 132 "Welding the Hard Tail is Finished!"
- Day 144 "Batteries, and Battery Boxes"
- Day 147 "Welding the Gas Tank and Battery Box mounts"
- Day 156 "The Seat, What a pain in the Butt!"
- Day 165 "Butt Pain, The Simple Remedy"
- Day 166 "The dummy oil tank"
- Day 167 "The Maiden Voyage"
- Day 168 "Dragging Brakes, Sinking Floats"
- Day 169 "Stay away from the Light!"
- Day 174 "Heat Wrap"
- Day 186 "Taillight and Brake Light, Finally!"
- Day 192 "Mirrors, Fears, and Reflections?"
- Day 200 "License Plate Mount, all for legallity?"
- Day 207 "Street Legal!"
- Day 214 "Carb Sync'ing and Floats Sinking #@!%!"
- Day 223 "Prepping the Hardtail for Paint"
- Day 224 "Painting the Hardtail"
- Day 225 "I'm About to Blow a Fuse!"
- Day 226 "It's Alive and on the Road Again!"
- Day 228 "The Disappearing Houdini Mirror"
- Day 240 "Just riding"
- I'm Back
- The New Speedometer is On, and Working!
- The Seat is Finished
My son just sent me the link to this page. Already, you're my hero for simply choosing a bike for which there is almost no after-market parts. Kudos.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rod! The unavailability of aftermarket parts do make for a issue, if it was a Harley I could find whatever I need no problem, but where is the fun in that? I appreciate the support and thank you for being the first to comment on shopschops!
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Hey Bishop, I'm going to look at a 79 xs 1100 today. My plan is to try and create something similar to what you have done. Is there anything specifically vital that I should know that I can't read from your posts???
ReplyDeleteDude, you need to move back to Utah...
It's a lot of work man, but I have full faith that if anybody can do it you can! At least I've got all the info here to get you started! Why the junk are you Anonymous anyway, not like I wouldn't know who it was.
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