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Me posing by The Stylo
Stylo Bike
Now with reverse cone muffler!
Stylo
Was inspired by the Camaro from Gorillaz' Stylo video and decided to repaint my bike!
The Swordfish and I
Fuck you winter, I rode today.
The Swordfish is coming together!
So I wrapped those pipes.
Swordfish Mk I
I need to wrap those pipes.
In addition to fiddling around with motorcycles, I'm also a painter. Check out my paintings at my other Tumblr
One Shot
Got some One Shot paint the other day, thanks to the fine people at the Art Supply Depo. They carry a variety of the stuff, actually! Still contemplating if and what I'd like to do with the bike's color scheme, but there's no way I can, in good confidence, let that brand new paint just sit there. Sooooo I decided to scrawl something on to my helmet.
Before
AfterFans of TF2 will recognize that emblem. Is it nerdy? Yes. Is it cool-looking? Also yes. Does the coolness outweigh the nerd factor? Verifiably not.
Headlight Hell
There's a wise old saying when it comes to fucking around with the wiring on your bike: don't fuck around with the wiring on your bike!! Good advice, too-- I absolutely recommend you follow it to a T. Sometimes, however, it is inevitable that you should have to pop open the headlight housing and fiddle around with the 34 year-old rainbow of dusty old wires. I needed (wanted) to replace the turn signals from the stock ones that are as large as a Granny Smith apple to something a little more discreet (and possibly not DOT-compliant?)
I think they're pretty sharp. So anyway, after a lot of swearing, fussing, and bargaining with Satan himself, I was able to fit all the wiring back into place in the new headlight bucket. Old one was cracked and held together with only the finest of bungee cords when I bought it, did I mention that? So here's what the clunker looks like now.
I also installed a headlight visor, because I think they're snazzy. Ten dollars from Dime City Cycles so why not? As a matter of fact, a LOT of the parts I'm using are from Dime City; the turn signals, fork gaiters, exhaust wrap (which you'll be seeing in an update in a few weeks here) as well as some other crap I'm probably forgetting. Check them out.
She's a beaut.
Background
I am so not able to intuitively use Tumblr, so bear with me. I made the background image you see here, though, so hope you think it doesn't suck. I probably need to edit it but for the meantime laziness will prevail.
Just a little public service announcement. If anyone's ever told you that there's just no need for a great big hammer when working on, uh, anything at all, I'd urge you to reconsider. Any tool can be the right tool.
Throttle Adjustment
Is your throttle acting all dumb as hell? Just not snapping back to close on its own anymore? Mine is. No worries, the fix is easy, even if you're a simpleton like myself.
First, take a look at your throttle control itself.
God my bike is ugly. Anyway, underneath the housing are two steel, rigid cables that lead out. The one closer to the front of the bike has a little hexagonal threading on it that you can adjust by twisting!
See? Loosen the nut closer to the throttle in order to mess with the adjuster, and see if you can get the responsiveness you desire. If your bike SUCKS like mine does and this just isn't doing the trick, there's more you can do. You can, uh, simply purchase a new bike, ya dangus. OR...
Start by removing the gas tank. Remove the fuel line leading to the carburetors (it just slips off, though it can be stubborn), it's that little rubber hose right there.
Uh, make sure you turn the fuel valve to OFF or else you're going to have a big, flammable mess on your hands and floor.
After removing your seat, you'll see a solitary bolt and washer attaching the tank, right where your crotch would normally be. Wrench it outta there; that's the only thing that actually keeps your gas tank in place.
Remove the bolt, washer, and little rubber thingy and the tank will just slide right back and off. It's just that easy. Now, grab a flashlight and look in between your two carburetors there. To be certain, just follow the two cables from your throttle control all the way to where they end down there by the carburetors. You'll see this:
A couple more throttle adjusters! Negotiate a little open-ended wrench in there and tweak it til you notice a difference in your throttle. If you notice that your throttle still sticks, well shit maybe open up the housing and take a look at the actual cables and the plastic housing itself, could be tangled up.
1/5/2014
Oh, the weather outside is crappy but the garage is...also crappy. Cold-ass temperatures aside, still working on the bike! This weekend I installed some fork gaiters.
Doing so was a real humdinger. Have to first remove the front wheel, then yank out the forks individually by loosening the upper bolt at the top of the stem and the lower clamp bolt near the bottom of the headlight assembly. Labor aside, I love the way the gaiters look.
As you can see, I'm still waiting on the new headlight housing and turn sigs to come in. For others working on a Honda CM400, for reference the stock headlight assembly is 7" in diameter. The OEM doesn't allow you to switch the bulb out individually, instead you have to buy a whole new, sealed lens and light. Kinda sucks but you can always swap the whole thing out with an aftermarket set-up that does.
In other news, I had this problem where sometimes when I start up the bike, the starting motor would stay engaged even after the actual motor is running, regardless if I hit the kill switch. Did a little troubleshooting and have determined the problem is the solenoid!
Solenoid's the round little thing in the center there. If your bike's starting motor continues to turn even after the engine has fired up, chances are the solenoid's bad. You can find aftermarket ones for not too much dough. I ordered one new off some guy on eBay for ten bucks! Once that comes in I'll update with how to change it out.
I have a steadily growing pile of stock parts I preferred to leave off the bike. Chain guard, front fender and fork name badge so far. I'm sure this pile will continue to grow the more I work on it.
Me astride my unfinished ride. I need to think up a name for it.