Tim's Holy Frame!!

Here is a picture showing some of the holes in Tim's frame. There were a total of 25 holes that needed to be welded up, ground, filed and sanded in the back half of his frame. The neck and sidecar loops were beyond repair, so I didn't have to worry about the 30 holes in the front half of his frame.


Where did all of the holes go????



Tim's frame had had the same seat post problem as the frame in the posts below, so I repeated the seat post repair.




This is what the frame looks like right now, I am replacing a bunch of stuff on this frame, it is a lot of fun.

Tim's Axle Stays

Tim's Frame had the typical 70s chopped axle stays. The frame has my fixture in it for welding the tabs back on. In this pic you can see that the new repair piece is fit up and ready for welding.


Here is the same frame with the tab welded on, ground and textured.



HEre is the left side, You can see the fixture for mounting the centerstand tab to in this pic.

Here is the finished product! This is such an easy fix with the pieces that I cast up. It used to take me two days to do this repair a couple years ago. I used to make all of the pieces from scratch, weld, grind, weld some more, grind some more. Now it takes five hours to fix em up.

Seat Post repair part 1

This isn't the best picture for showing you guys what was wrong with this seat post. This particular bike had the seat post cut out for a larger motor at one time. Somebody tried to fix it by welding in a piece of tubing. It is a mediocre repair. It probably would have been good enough if we were not running a seat post, but that is not the case.


In this pic you can see the air bubbles from the last guys weld, There is tons of slag and metal inside the post, a pogo stick didn't fit in the hole because of all of the debris.



Here is the pipe cutter that I used for marking out my reference lines.

New Seat Post part 2

45 and later seat posts are welded at the top, and bottom of the casting. They are a lot easier to remove than the earlier seat posts, which are sweated in. On later frames, all you have to do is sand through the weld until you start seeing the two different metals, you can see the separation in the upper left hand corner. Sand the welds until you can see the separation all the way around the outer diameter of the seat post on the top and bottom.


Then you can knock the tube out with a hammer and punch.



I used a pipe cutter to mark a line around the circumference of the seat post, this is where I will cut the old damaged post out. This gives me a good reference point to go off of.

new seatpost part 3

I have been grinding the metal from the outer tube away, and you can start to see some of the brass from the inner reinforcement tube peaking through. As soon as you see brass, you move onto a different area.

In this pic, the rough grinding is about half done. After all of the roughing out is done, you start removing metal with a file. This takes forever!!

Here is the finished product. I bored the new tube out to barely slide over the top of this one.

Here you can see the bored out hole in the new tube, and the holes that have been drilled in it for plug welding. This will be a super strong fix and last thousands of miles.

Here is the seat post placed over the top of original sleeve and ready to be welded. The only way that you will be able to tell that this repair was done, will be the difference in pittting. The frame has a little bit of pitting, and the new seat post has none. Once it is painted, the repair will be un detectable.

Ole's 39 EL

Here is a pic of one of my heros--Ole from Sioux falls. I have known ole since I was in 1st grade. He is a great guy. I always thought he was the coolest because he had a knucklehead that he rode the piss out of. I thought about him a bunch while I was out on my knucklehead this summer. He was cruising around on his 39 six days ago and a Mazda ran a stop sign and ole ran into him going 60 mph. This bike is messed up!!! I can't believe that he is up walking around. He broke two vertebrate and bruised his junk. I am so glad that he is ok.

Here is what a front wheel looks like after hitting a mazda. Ole said that he hit the rear wheel of the truck and actually made the truck spin around 180 degrees.

Whoa!!!

Check out the rear leg, I am so glad that he is ok. Ole is one of the nicest guys that you could ever meet. I love him like I love my family. I can't wait to see him back on the road next year.

1936 Knucklehead Stunt Planning!!!

A couple of months ago I asked you guys for input on jumping bikes through flaming hoops, I was kind of dissapointed in the responses I got from everybody. This is pretty much all I thought about while I was doing both iron butt runs last month. I have spent everyday since saturday working on sorting out this essay contest stuff, and the 36 stunts kept creeping into my mind. I figured if I drew a blueprint of what I plan on doing it would help me see it in a more clear light. The zombies in the picture will not be real zombies, I plan on having some friends either dress up as zombies, so please dont worry.


Here is the original idea. Jesse came up with adding inflate able crocodiles to the stunt, which I think is a good idea, it will bring a lot to it. I am going to build the ramps after davenport sometime. It is going to be so cool!!!! If any of you guys have any constructive input like /mathematical equations on this subject fill me in

AMCA Essays headed for the post office.

HEre are the 30 some essays getting ready to be mailed off.

Here is the transporter.

Some cool pics from Mike Lichter's Rebel Rousers Exhibit.

Here is a pic of my CHP jacket that my dad gave me on my 18th birthday. He used to wear it back in the seventies. It is a post war vintage (48 to early 50s)


Here is a pic of my dad and I with the bike that we built for the exhibit, it is supposed to be a replica of the chino bike from the wild one. it was really cool to be included in the show. Thanks Mike!



"Do you want a lot of pain, or certain death"-- ME

Free WLA essays ready to ship!!!

Last Saturday was the deadline for the AMCA's free WLA contest. I have been on the phone and computer for the last 4 days trying to get everything sorted out and all of the essays off to the panel of judges that are helping pick the winner. There were roughly 90 essays, which ranged from one to four pages, and 35 guys to help judge them.


I printed and numbered each essay, and took them into the print shop to make 35 copies of each of them. The place that made the copies used a case and a half of paper and printed out over
6,000 pieces of paper. The bill was 560 some dollars. This project has been a huge success, it has gotten a lot of younger people excited about old bikes and shown the general motorcycling public that the AMCA is made up of a bunch of really cool guys that are doing something positive in this industry. I am excited for the winner to be chosen at Davenport, and move on to building the bike with the winner. I am even more excited for the next contest, which will probably be a panhead or generator shovel bobber.