What did I do to my Drifter today?
I did this!
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I ordered Ted's Shifter for my 99 800 :) :) :) :) :)
Quote from: 1999 Drifter on April 30, 2010, 21:11:48 PM
I ordered Ted's Shifter for my 99 800 :) :) :) :) :)
You know that pics will be necessary when it's on the bike, right?
Congrats on turning 30,000 miles. ;D
My wife and I are riding it, to the Dam Dinner. Best peach cobbler in Florida.
Mark
pcarrell
i will i wll and congrats on 30,000mi
i rode mine this morning, then poked more holes in the muffler....
After washing and waxing the bike. I attached the Indian Head Guardian Bell my wife gave me between the forks.
Went past 36,000 mile on the way home from the hockey game last night and installed Jammer vintage handlebar grips today. The look great and feel awesome, very old school looking. Looks like a good $12 (with free shipping) investment.
I rode past the 20,000 mark and came home and changed the signal light fuse.
Looks like a bunch of us are racking up the miles!
I rode mie to work for the first time this year on Friday, (12miles) a balmy 33F. ;D then rode to a small town 60 miles away for lunch on Sunday; hit rain, hail, and snow, in that order. A blistering 42-45F both ways. Don't know how I'll be able to stand it when it gets hot! LOL 8)
Oh well, a cold ride beats no ride!
Regards and such,
49Reo :D
I put gas in it...all by myself hahaha....ok I am sort of a "ding dong" in the sense that I forget stuff a lot and misplace everything, I ran out of gas 5 times last season, on a bike WITH a gas guage!! Today, I remembered gas, BEFORE I ran out!!!! haha....but the other side of it is, I rode to work....and have been for a week now.
Found a hubcap off of the rear wheel of a 18 wheeler in front of my place a while ago and like a magpie anything shiny comes home.Today, I remodled it, hole here, bend here and made a rotor cover for the front wheel.
93 degrees in Florida, it sucks, way too hot!!!!
What I did to my Drifter, I put 3 gallons of gas in the tank...lol
Quote from: ski.dive on May 05, 2010, 19:23:56 PM
93 degrees in Florida, it sucks, way too hot!!!!
What I did to my Drifter, I put 3 gallons of gas in the tank...lol
You should come up here then; 2" of snow on Monday morning!! ;D
Regards and such, 49Reo
88 here yesterday, supposed to get to 87 today. But its supposed to get back down to normal spring temps this week end... 69-74.
In my case: What I did to my Drifter in the last month, in chronological order
*Tires & pads (really liking these Metzelers)
*Flushed & replaced coolant
*Replaced butterflies & Diaphram in Hypercharger
* Dressed her up with a lil more chrome
*Ordered Corbin 2-up Saddle
*Replaced shocks, Replaced front fork springs & fork oil , progressive suspension
*Removed Kaw. 2-up Saddle & sissy bar asembly, Installed Corbin 2-up Saddle ( don't know why I waited so long, talk about apples & oranges).
*Removed my Hard Krome Big Straight exhaust system, Replaced with Hard Krome Staggered Straights I had on the shelf in da gararge ( just because I could,hehe).
*Upgraded my nano ( comes with an fm tuner now, coolies)
* Now its time to break it all in Yaahooo.
KEEP DA RUBBER SIDE DOWN FOLKS, & STAY HAPPY, PEACE
Very nice...
Yep the Corbin two-up is MUCH better looking. Never rode on a two-up oem... so can't speak to the ride.
I had a deep scratch on eah side of the rear fender from the bolts on the saddlebag brackets, so I covered them up with a pair of conchos today.
nice.
I dreamed I was riding mine :( Still in the shop and still doesn't run :'(........ So I can do is dream dream dream...... The real sad part will come when I get the bill :o So all of you who are out riding take a ride for me.
Hey Cochise - saw this and remembered you on the forum
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I had scratches on each side of the rear fender from the previos owner so today it was raining and I painted feathers on each side to cover them. I also installed my tach.
Since I'm in Afghanistan, I dreamed of what it would be like riding these roads over here. In my opinion it would suck due to the potholes and dust, but I do miss my bike. Poor thing is thousands of miles away...thankfully I have a wonderful brother who is really "biting the bullet" and riding it occasionally for me.
Todd
<LOL>... been there (not Afghanistan)... it is interesting but riding is really something that takes on a whole new meaning when you are stuck away from home. Other than thinking of my wife, I probably thought more about riding than anything else when I was on a cruise.
Thanks for your service.
I hope you make home soon so you can enjoy the ride yourself. My first bike sat four years before I returned home to ride it, so my sister rode it.
Hey I love that tin star. Thanks Chief.
I went to a motoorcycle swap meet today and bought a chrome fender tip for $5. Came home and put it on the bike.
Nice. Good price too!
I rode to the other end of the island and back, before the rain started back up. I'm suffering from Parked Motorcycle Syndrome. Sure wish spring would come to the PNW.
Adams! Now that's what I'm talking about! Originality is the key to a cool bike. I love your new bars too!
I fixed "1SG CAV" Then I took it for a very nice ride. It has never and I mean NEVER run this good since I've own it. Amazing that I found the problem in 9 hours and it took the mechanic three months and he couldn't. Now that I'm not giving my money to mechanics. I can spend it on dressing up my ride. Don't ya just love it when a plan comes together.
AnneOakley. It doesn't blow black smoke, it doesn't do the jitterbug either. It just runs and runs. I adjusted the TPS and fixed a partial broken wire to the TPS. Then re-installed my hypercharger. ;D 8)
WHOOOOPPPPEEEEE!!!!!!! Ride CAV ride!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D You got alot of miles to make up! Have fun and be SAFE!
added shifter ;D
Looks great on your bike!! I've been thinking of getting one for my bike. Is it easy to shift with, how far do you have to push or pull to change the gears.
I had a new front tire mounted and my wife and I went for a nice ride. Weather has been awesome here. &0's and SUN... Can't believe it's not raining. So I put on the two-up seat and off we rode. Man can't believe it my bike has never run so good. ;D ;D 8)
Actually been doing alot! and getting ready for Drift In. Made saddle bag bracket supports yesterday..... 2 weeks ago got new Pirellis front and rear.... Also switched to new fender light and got it lit....Made 2 shake down runs to check bike and my gear packing capabilities and made changes as needed...put a tool bag on the bike above the headlight......put a Harley tear drop tool kit for safe storage.... got a Heathers Leathers Solo seat and got it mounted with a Springer SETUP THAT REALLY WORKS! and I must apologize to the Indianizers but I did remove the Indian logos and fender light. Jewell is going back to being a Kawasaki DRIFTER...He aint no Indian....He's BETTER!
I changed spark plugs on my 03 800 today...got the NGK iridiums. Little pricey, but NGKs always were. Came in a 4-pack so I have two extras. Boy, if you are thinking about buying a drifter, make damn sure it has all the tools in the tool kit, or else youll be hurtin when it comes to a plug change!
I remember when I was younger, my dad had a couple of honda three wheelers that would go through plugs like nobodys business....he had a hard time finding NGKs for them, and when he did he didnt like getting them because they were double the price. I think they lasted 4x as long as the cheapies he used to get though. I dont plan on changing these iridium ones for a loooong time
She gave that to you between the forks? OUCH! That must have HURT!
:)
Love the bell.
Quote from: Adams on May 02, 2010, 19:55:57 PM
After washing and waxing the bike. I attached the Indian Head Guardian Bell my wife gave me between the forks.
I took my bags and two up seat off the bike and now it is a solo polished machine...
I turned the 1500 into a solo set-up, added a back rest, and put the luggage rack on where it isn't supposed to fit. The seat is off an 04 Nomad (I just made new mounting brackets), the backrest is "custom" using a late model Nomad/V2K pad, and the luggage rack is OEM.
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just installed a back rest on my two-up seat. Now my wife will enjoy her rides at the drift-in a lot more, and so will I. She won't be leaning all over me. Not that I mind, but some times a guy needs a little space ;D. The mounting brackets were for a Honda 600. I had to cut away a few areas. I will do a few more things to it after I return from the Drift-in. For now it works and don't look to bad.
Worked on bringing life back into a 10 year old windscreen that has seen much better days. Using Mothers plastic polish I got rid of all the yellowing and almost all of the swirl marks. It can be easily be seen through now but....I think my windscreen may have had a clean protective coating that may have been removed in a few places. Either way its looks much better now.
I've been wondering about the Mother's... I saw something about that or a similar product on Car Crazy the other day. I'm gonna do it myself.
The make a more "aggressive" compound that I will be ordering and trying. Still have a few deeper scratches I would like to remove\reduce. If that goes well I will also be smoothing out the edge of windscreen.
Let me know how it works out for you. I'm gonna see if I can find some around here as well.
I carefully placed mine in the Garage till the weekend - because I just bought it today :) :) :)
Congrats.
Rode up to Sturgeon Bay to meet up with friends for dinner. Took these photos on the way home with the cell phone.
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What did I do to my Vulcan today?
Well, actually, it was yesterday.......
I wrecked my Drifter. Yeah, I wrecked it. It's not too bad, but.........at least nobody was hurt, right?
I was merging into heavy traffic at a couple of MPH, and I glanced behind my left shoulder to make sure I wasn't going to be road kill and they'd let me in, and when I turned around front again, it was all brake lights. I was only doing a few MPH, and I grabbed the brakes and clutch right away while swerving to the right, but I just caught the corner of the pickup in front of me.
OK, so here's the pics. It's not bad, but it's bugging me to look at it.
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Thankfully not serious!
added tassels today, thinking I should have went with the 18" one instead of the 10" oh well I still like it. And I can always "upgrade" later
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Looks good! I like the white!
Yikes Phil!!!!! Glad you're OK, but that's quite a booboo on your bike, hope you can get it healed up soon!! We still got lot's of riding time left before that nasty white stuff starts falling.
Quote from: pcarrell on August 09, 2010, 21:17:43 PM
Looks good! I like the white!
Thanks. actually they're black, it's a bad picture and the flash washed it out.
the first thing I did today was mount my new license plate "1SG CAV"
Then I put chrome trim around the fenders and Hyper-charger. Used car door trim.
Then I mount my cup holder, "drinking coffee on a great ride .....HEAVEN"
then I put black trim around the windshield.
Check out photos. May have to do in several postings.
more photos
Note Denny Berg's signature. The best addition of all.
Phil
Sorry to hear about your wreck. I'm glad to hear no one is hurt. Isn't it amazing that when we wreck, all we care about is "WHat damage is there to the bike." When every one else is trying to make sure you're ok. Except for looks is the bike ride-able?
Well, it wasn't exactly today but it took me a little while to get home from Sturgis. But here is something I accomplished last week.
Quote from: 1SG CAV on August 16, 2010, 12:57:30 PMExcept for looks is the bike ride-able?
Yeah, I'm riding the wheels off of it.
Road 369 miles. Green Bay, WI to Ishpeming, MI and back taking the roads less traveled. I masked the ride as a excuse to pick up pasties and cudighis.
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stared at it and wanting to ride...but i had to go to work.... ;D
Got up, went for a 2 hour ride down to Lorne on the great Ocean Road in Victoria, arrived home smiling and hopped onto the PC and ordered the Belt conversion kit from ScootWorks...........ahh, more hours of work ahead, and loving it.
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What I put on my ride before my trip.
bought the tags & put them on! Ready for my 4 day weekend!
Ride Boop ride, don't look back just feel the wind in your face and ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
1SG CAV , I cant wait! Ordered a windshield last night to keep the bugs off my ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Installed USB power adapter and cell phone mount.
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