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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

New VM34 carburetors from Dime City Cycles/MikesXS for the Yamaha Street Tracker

All the goodies you need in one box to replace the vacuum carbs with a set of Mikunis.  Installation will be happening soon.




 

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Metal Motorcycle Sign

My wife found this and picked it up for me.  Looks like a 550 Honda to me.  

 

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Cleaning the chrome on the 1978 KZ1000 LTD



A friend turned me on to never-dull years ago.  I've good luck with it.  Look at the before after photos of the Kawasaki's exhaust below.








 

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Removing Striping Decals and Prepping Tank for New Stripe Decals on my KZ1000 LTD.

Ready for new Stripe Tape

Didn't work

Didn't work

Didn't work.

3M Stripe Eraser worked great but left a bit of a ridge.


Didn't work

Didn't work

Didn't work

Meguiar's and an inexpensive Harbor Freight 6" Orbital Polisher make an excellent team.  After polishing the ridge is very close to gone.  I'm afraid that taking it down further could affect pain