Thursday, July 12, 2012

Some finished pictures

Bianca from redinkonfilm.com was kind enough to help us out with some amazing photos of Mama Duke, The Wolf and Tipsy VonKashmagnet aka Quasimoto the City Tracker. Here are a couple photos. More to come later...




Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Mama Duke's heart transplant

We just had a CB750 in great shape but with no title in the shop for a teardown and wound up with a very clean and strong motor but nowhere to put it. One of the problems that Mama always had was leaking oil from the left front valve cover. This is something that we have been trying to address since she first came to us but nothing was working. Another issue that we discovered with Mama's motor was that it needed a top end rebuild. You know where this is going...


Monday, April 23, 2012

Cleaning up the front controls

Moving forward we wanted to make the front of the bike as clean as possible. The stock bike has a 7" headlight bucket and that is where Honda puts all the wiring for the controls and signals. Since we fitted a 4.5" light we needed to find another place to put all that gack.

This much wire came out of the harness:

Which left us with this look at the front: 

So much better. 

While we were cleaning up the front end we decided to move the key switch over the the left side of the bike. This is a much cleaner solution than the bike had before and it allowed us to center mount the speedo. 




pod filters for Mama


While we were there we decided to pull the stock airbox and fit some pod filters. There is some debate about whether or not pods work for these carbs but we are gonna give them a shot and see how the owner likes them. 

Mama Duke

Bikes are never really finished, are they? Mama Duke left us last year but there were always some things about it that we just weren't happy with so she's back. There are details about the bike that we didn't like and things that we knew we could do better. We wanted to remake the previous battery box and clean up all of the electric stuff to give the bike a cleaner look.

Here's the new box before being painted black:




Wolf Updates

The Wolf got a little face lift with a new Koso gauge, throttle tube and logo removal in preparation for going to it's new owner in Atlanta, GA. It's always sad to see them go, but good to get on to the next project!



DR725 AKA Quasimoto

This is our DR725 in its current condition. There won't be step by step build progress for this bike because it's my daily rider that I have been working on for the past 4 years. In that time its gone from this:

Spent some time looking like this in North eastern Dual sport rides and ECEA Enduros:
Up to it's current state above. We just did a photo shoot with The DR and "The Wolf" with our good friend over at REDINKONFILM.COM and we will be posting all those pictures as soon as they are ready.