Tri.... scores one for the barn find column 79MK11

the story....

new neighbors.....younger couple...kid see my bikes and tells the common ,sold my gixr when my friends leg got taken off story.....wheelies down the freeway type kid...
says he is a dirt bike guy now.....

asks me the other day if i want a project bike...it's all there...extra tank and cant get it running...no papers ,lost,has a headlight and turn signals...thinks it's an enduro......

ask him if it is a sinal cyl...does not know..

what colors...says white and red...

what make...thinks it's a yamaha...

says it's at his uncles and they wanna see if i want it cause they dont know much about"wrenchin"...

i told him "why not"

worst case i said i'll just dump it free on c-list if it is too far gone...

secretly i am daydreaming about fabbing a rd-400 engine or xs 650 and making a flatracker hack bike...

he's on the phone and hollers across the yards..."my uncle says it's an XT500 and that it is all together....it's mine if i want it....sure!!!!

i heard em moving some dirt bikes into my old garage and peeked out the woindow and saw it...it is there...they put it away and i was sleeping so i have not seen him since...

If they still wanna dump it I've decided to make it street worthy and do a total fix of it when the MKII gets off the bench....

would be fun to take down Highway one -big sur-and go up some fire roads and dead end canyons ect...

but a flatracker with kz750 twin or an h2 would be cool too...:woohoo:

i may get it this weekend and you know me...by the time it's done you'll have seen more pics than you wanted too.. :blink:

trianglelaguna wrote:

please if you have time post a link here in this thread to the buffer or a pic and pics of the the material disks ect..i am dislex and a.d.d and can only really retain the info to go shopping if i see a pictureeven for just a few seconds.. i will remember it forever through mental image pictures ,but if i write it down like say part #'s ...i end up at the store and have lost the paper or left it at home ect...frustrating.........not as much of a joke as it sounds.. .thanks for the tip....

toucher...

Craig this will work wonders compared to doing it by hand. Get an old drill and some polishing wheels at the depot or Harbor Freight and polish away. The felt disks come in a fine for final polishing and a "sewn" one for cutting the heavy stuff. They turn black quick but that is good as you are removing material to get to the shine.

I ran out of the Wenol polish and got some of that Mothers and it works just as good. When the wheel loads up just run it on a wire brush for cleaning it up. Put the polish on by hand and use the wheel to remove it.

Got to have some tunes to because it is very time consuming and tedious

great find on the yami Craig. if it's a thumper it shouldn't be too hard to tear down and find all wrong with it

That Yami is gonna be one fun toy, the price is right too.

trianglelaguna wrote:

the story....

new neighbors.....younger couple...kid see my bikes and tells the common ,sold my gixr when my friends leg got taken off story.....wheelies down the freeway type kid...
says he is a dirt bike guy now.....

asks me the other day if i want a project bike...it's all there...extra tank and cant get it running...no papers ,lost,has a headlight and turn signals...thinks it's an enduro......

ask him if it is a sinal cyl...does not know..

what colors...says white and red...

what make...thinks it's a yamaha...

says it's at his uncles and they wanna see if i want it cause they dont know much about"wrenchin"...

i told him "why not"

worst case i said i'll just dump it free on c-list if it is too far gone...

secretly i am daydreaming about fabbing a rd-400 engine or xs 650 and making a flatracker hack bike...

he's on the phone and hollers across the yards..."my uncle says it's an XT500 and that it is all together....it's mine if i want it....sure!!!!

i heard em moving some dirt bikes into my old garage and peeked out the woindow and saw it...it is there...they put it away and i was sleeping so i have not seen him since...

If they still wanna dump it I've decided to make it street worthy and do a total fix of it when the MKII gets off the bench....

would be fun to take down Highway one -big sur-and go up some fire roads and dead end canyons ect...

but a flatracker with kz750 twin or an h2 would be cool too...:woohoo:

i may get it this weekend and you know me...by the time it's done you'll have seen more pics than you wanted too.. :blink:

trianglelaguna wrote:

please if you have time post a link here in this thread to the buffer or a pic and pics of the the material disks ect..i am dislex and a.d.d and can only really retain the info to go shopping if i see a pictureeven for just a few seconds.. i will remember it forever through mental image pictures ,but if i write it down like say part #'s ...i end up at the store and have lost the paper or left it at home ect...frustrating.........not as much of a joke as it sounds.. .thanks for the tip....

toucher...

cmon man...i cant lead you by the hand(although i heard thats your preferred method)......cut a sunroof in the taurus and "grape-ape" your ass down to harbor freight...i m sure a knuckle-draggin' 'shroomer like yourself can come home wit' the right stuff....i got your "toucher".......:laugh:....:woohoo:

hey i just wanted a pic like kawickrice put up so i can get a good mental pic and remember...i walk into harbor freight and can not make sense of all the china wrench crap...so i often buy nothing...or get a small item ect..

things i wanna get there though

a large enough compressor to run a media blast gun...paint spray gun

a medie blast set...

a tubing bender for swingarm dia add ons ect..frame braces...

a welder that can do frame work


any pics would be great folks

i can remember a pic forever and can recall if i see that item instantly....like rain man but different...no joke ...

trianglelaguna wrote:

theik teeth ...figures..

tri,
if you and your girl (you know who) got together and combined brains, you might actually be dangerous....the fact i had to type this twice cause your girl got scooted is proof enough for me....i try to help you out and i get the toucher comment.......there are leaders and there are followers....keep doing the chemicals....hes having a party with you......

keith quit being angry

removed by craig

ever notice

trianglelaguna wrote:

i work on shit on a homemade bench in a gravel drivway and pay nobody to do any of my bikes so far...so if you think i'm gonna disassemble an engine and polish stuff...then maybe you got the wrong thread to be "helping a guy"on...


i aint no purse swinging rebuilder ...i just ride em till they break...problem is mine dont break....


mothers and an old rag is all i need to get it decent...

and as far as you bringing your anger and war with greggy poo to my so far adult hobby thread...thanks...now it is open season like on your threads...

no anger here my friend.......seems someone or two has a litle sand in the "mangina"........i 'll stop in to haunt you occasionally between turning the key on 120hp at the wheel with no maintanance.......keep wrenching...i m going riding............see ya later........