long time no post

Got busy last week with Blue's Bash. BB2009 was a huge success. 15 bikes 41 people, great food, cold beer. It doesn't get any better!

We did a 100 mile ride through champaign, union, logan, and hardin counties. Then came back to my place for a cookout. Pics are up on FaceBook and I'll post a couple here as well. Don't have the Picasa album up yet, but will post a link when I do.

RoadStar is fixed...

I forgot to plug the voltage regulator back in after replacing the stator. DOH!

RoadStar finally back together...

still not charging. Must have been the voltage regulator. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!

Bought a bunch of parts...

I saw a posting on Craig's List for some old CB350/360 parts. I asked the guy what he would take for all of it. His reply was that I should probably come take a look. They just happened to be in a storage unit in St. P ! So I ended up buying all this stuff for a few hundo. The Harley parts made the deal. A sportster tank, a fat bob tank that is flamed. A couple of HD seats. A complete 1969 CB350 Engine.

Not only did I get a bunch of cool, old junk, I also found a couple of new biker friends. Jim and Rick Switzer have both built some old school bobber type bikes out of old CB's. Cool dudes, no doubt.

gasket remover?

So I was working on the RoadStar last night and ran into a problem cleaning the gasket off the engine case. Hard to reach parts with any type of scraper other than a screwdriver. Don't want to F up the surface. I'm gonna pickup some spray on gasket remover today and try that out.

Vintage was a good time

We got there right at 10am on Sunday. Took in pretty much the whole swap meet, watched a little racing, watched some demo's, etc.

I bought some aluminum welding rods that allow you weld with just a normal home propane torch. The guy demo'd the stuff and had me weld two pop cans together. Amazing. SOLD!

I didn't find the rearsets I was looking for but got some pics of some on other bikes and may just fab my own.

Vintage was a bit smaller this year it seemed. Could be that it was Sunday and folks were pulling out. I'll go on Saturday next (like in years past) . I still had a great time and I'm looking forward to next year.

Vintage Motorcycle Days... this weekend!

http://www.vintagemotorcycledays.com/

this is my favorite motorcycle event of the year. This is the show that gave me the bug to build a cafe racer. I bought my CB360 about a month after my first time to Vintage in 2006.

I actually like the swap meet more than watching the racing. I can walk around that swap meet for hours!