Hasersys, The Rust Build. Bobber

Is it going to be a very BARE bobber or do you mean you're going to dress up in a bear suit every time you ride it?

 

Idk, thats a good question.... I think I would get ore looks if I were in bear drag... For now I am stuck on my vintage road bicycle....

 

If I get a new throttle what do I need to get. Will most 7/8 throttles work with our bikes? I am wanting to get some thing new, but I am afraid the throttle cable will not work on an aftermarket throttle. Anyone know.

 

I have had this pics a While just haven't posted them. I am probably going to make some drag bars for this thing, I think they will look better.


The head light mount is on upside down in this pic. Flipt over it sets center.

 

Got just about everything done. I just need to do the exhuast, and carbs. I need to know how the vacum lines are ran. The last owner had them routed wrong. Well I think so. There was a cap on each plug eccept for one witch was ran to petcock. Anyone with a 650 know how they are ran? Do I need 4 house into 1 to the petcock?

 

Just one. Usually #3 goes to the petcock. The others are there for your vaccum synching pleasure and are normally capped.

 

Ahh thanks alot. Saves me from getting hoses. posting new pics tonight.. hopefully.

 

I need to make exhuast, and finish up carbs. Figure out what pods and where to get them. Then the pain of trying to tune them. Saved the best for last...... :roll:

 

Can anyone tell me if the gaskets for the carb bowls are only supposed to have to holes ponched out for the cold start curicuit or if the entire area needs to be punched out? I have been running the bike with just two holes punched, and even after the last time I cleaned the carbs the bike was tough to start cold. This Time around I am trying to Make sure when it gose back together it is all right. I am having a hard time getting the passage cleared.

 

you need to post larger pics. even on my 24 inch lcd its hard to see what is really going on. from what i can see it looks original and interesting.

 

You have to click the thumbnails, I am shooting with a 50d in high res. The pics would take up the whole screen if I post full image on this forum. So I post them on photobucket. Just click the picture.

 

lookin good! like the green. gives it an old school army bike look, which is where the bobber originated i think.

 

lookin very good dude.i like the stance.i thought the way you had the frame rails may spoil the look,but it turns out u got it spot on.

 

ohh ok i see now. looks good man, i love the drab green. this is a true tribute bobber.

 

Yesterday I went to turn it over for the first time to see what would happen. My starter relay clicks on but no starter. So today I will be fixing that. When I was putting my carbs back together I noticed my #3 or #2 carbs mixture screw had fine threads while the rest didn't. The po probably changed that carb, but I'd like to think that one morning a factory worker just ended up putting a different carb on the rack...


Dose anyone know the story on these carbs. I thought I read some where that you mY OR May not have fine threaded mixture screws. Was there a time period where they had been using one or the other?

 

bike looks great. I like the style. Wish I knew more about these bikes so I could help you out but I very new to this. I like your bike though

 

Rode it for the first time in 8 months today. Just down the road and back. Stayed on my street. I still need to tune it. It smells a bit rich but it wouldn't run off the choke. I also didn't get a chance to let it warm up though. I have yet to put exhuast on it so it is to loud at the moment.

Running on choke, and dieing off is a sign of a lean condition?

I have new fuel line, filter and know the petcock is working fine. What els is there that could cuase this issue? I am trying to run down the list so when I get to it after it is tuned, if I still have an issue I can jump right to it.

Suggestions?

Exhuast
New battery
Tune
License plate mount
Taillight

Then I can ride.

 

How much exhaust is missing?

Could well be very lean but it smelled rich.... so get your exhaust sorted and then tune the carbs.

Also make sure your fuel filter does not have air trapped. I had one with an air bubble. Leaving the bike sit idle it would run fine. Riding, it died out in a couple miles. After pushing it back to my shop, twice, I figured it out.

 

It is just the headers, but after 8 months I had to hear it run.... It is not only loud but annoying... Anyone that rides this bike down the road like this must not have many freinds lol. I never once opend it up all the way. After going up the road and back I parked it and made sure none of my neigbors were coming out side....

I also have a feeling the vacum line needs to be replaced. It is in bad shape.

 

Got my bike warmed up today. It is running better after tinkering with it a bit. I belive my bikes vaccum tube isn't supplying enough vacum. This is what I am having problems with. When the bike runs off prime it runs fine, but I cannot adjust the idle screw. It idles nice, but can't adjust it. once it is to a certain point it will not lower the idle anymore. I can take it all the way down without the bike shutting off. On the ON setting I notice air bubbles, and the bike has a hard time runing, So I guess the vaccum line needs to be changed.... I AM NOT WANTING TO FIX the petcock if it is broken, but I really think it is a vaccum issue.. Anyone inform me on any thing?

 

Simple test, take that vacuum line off the engine side and suck on it. That'll open your petcock and you'll see the flow. If you taste gas, petcock leaks through the diaphram, if no gas then it's not opening or you're hose has a leak.

 

My bike is done. I will post pics in a couple days.. It is sad. I already want to cut it up and change it. but it is good the way it is. Maybe I will leave it be and find another bike to build. Xs maybe.

 

I am jealous, man! My xj400 is the first four-cylinder bike I have in my life, and I cannot wait to hear it running, let alone go for a ride!
I say, I always loved those big, round headlights. My xj is 93, so it had double head lights, looking like the japanese character National Kid (you will never know how he looked like, it's a classic japanese movie series from the 60's - rubber dinosaur-like monsters all around!). The PO took much of the fairing out after falling down - with MY bike!
After seeing your bike, I decided to try and find a big, chrome plated headlight and go old school as much as I can. My fuel tank is too "modern", but there is little I can do, I guess... it has an enourmous hollow underneat, where the carbs go!
Anyway, I intend to remove all the remaining side fairings and fill-out the spaces like the 2010 XJ. Not really a cafe, but definitely not the original look.
Nice job, HaserBRO, and nicer yet all around attitude.

 

My head light was bought on ebay, but the place that made it is only a hour and a half from where I live. I got the head light in the mail about a day after I ordered it.

Here are the finished pictures.

Of course it isn't Completly done, but it will never be finished. I will always have something to do to it.

List of what is next.

Rejet and tune.
wrap exhaust.
Add a front brake.


Much later I would like to cut it up again.
I want to run a different rear section. I have a design in my head for runing one shock on the rear, witch will need new back section of the bike. A new seat setup, fender, and battery box. Also I may change the backbone around a bit. This all is after I get a new bike. This way I can have a restoration project, and when it is finished I would have my bobber project. So I can swap off and ride the restored bike while I better the bobber.



I made velocity stacks witch have beer cans over top of the. The stacks have a filter at the inlet end of the stack. I found a uni filter that I bought and cut out for them. I saw some one els one the forum who did some thing similar to the beer can thing. I think they placed them over there pods. So I stole the can idea. I do not want to claim it mine. I liked it a lot, and if anyone knows who it was plz name them.

 

Oh, Also I have a app on my Iphone for a speedometer. This way I can have a speedo, and still have the ability to keep the bike clean. I am lacking mirrors... I am not sure what to do about this. I haven't found any I like yet. I want some thing that is fitting.

The mount for the Iphone mounts on the bars

 

This bike is bad ass.

 

OnTheStorm's motto: Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

Man, this is sweet poetry!
Back in brazil, riding home every night from college, I would sing "Loneliest Rider" from Grand Funk Railroad in my mind. In a way, Mr. Le Carre's words translate the feeling I had. Thank you, dear californian! Biking is culture, too!
Aharon

 

My speedometer

 

Nice looking speedo, your bars rise more than mine do. I might have to come by and get those babies. :lol:

Grand Funk Railroad, that goes back a ways, I prefer The James Gang, Motorhead and Frank Marino & Mahagony Rush. :wink:

 

That is weird, from what I can tell we have the same set of clubmens. I mean They are most likly different, but maybe they are the same and mine are just angaled different. These ones were cheap, and I don't even have risers. They are comffy.

 

Maybe its an optical illusion.

 

@orange'n'black: that was back in 1974, when I was 20, man!
My favorite Motorhead song was "Stay Clean" - although I did not!

 

A little bit of an update, I have been driving this bike now as a daily driver. Every day I go to the gym "I lift things up and puts them down" I got sick of not having a place for my watter and other stuff I like to take with me so put these on the bike. Welds are holding up fine. Also have done a bit of tuning and the bikes running better.

Saddle boxes...

 

Where did you buy the speedo/iPhone case?

 

It is a walmart case. It is in the electronics area, but it was for working out. Originally it was ment to be wrapped around the arm, but I just put it around the bars and then it velcrows.

 

I need seat ideas. I think a small factor seat would be comffy

 

Your headlight looks just like mine, except mine has a blue lens. J&P?

 

Maybe, I know it was a Florida company not far from where I live. I believe it is from west palm.

 

I dug out the catalog, doesn't list the manufacturor,the same style is probably made by several different companies. I paid 70.00 + shipping for mine.

 

Ahh, mine was about $35-40. The bulb is a little anoying at the moment. The low beam is to LOW and the high beam is perfect. Maybe I just have a bad connection in my low beam switch. Or maybe thats why I paid $30 less than you lol. This one is already starting to get a little rust on it.. Supposedly it is rust protected.. lol

Thankfully I do not minde rust.

 

Hey, Thanks for using my idea and not claiming it yours lol. How did they workout for you?

 

They work as much as any open intake will on these bikes. They get a lot of looks. Same issues with tuning as with the pods. I can control how mush air is getting to my stacks with the cans though. It gives you a little control. I can restrict airflow a little when I need to.

 

This is how it sits now. I love the boxes.

 

Dude, looks great. let me know if you need help on that seat pan....

 

Actually I found Lacing, some punches, and random Tandy Leather stuff at Michaels today after leaving a movie in Vero. I just lack some dye, I am holding off a little until I figure out my job situation. I am going absolutely insane not working. I have a couple tests tomorrow at Irsc then I am going to talk to some guys at Piper about a few openings.

A bit blurry but stopped in at Earls hideaway last night.

 

Tampa area eh, I just drove home from Jacksonville today. I love Florida, wish I could live there. Bike is looking good. :wink:

 

Hey I know that place where you took that picture. EARLS right. LOL Let me know if you need colors.....I should have read your whole post. But have a funny question. You must have been the first one there or a real bad night. LOL Keep in touch, Later....

 

I lived in Tampa while my Girlfriend went to school there. We are back in my home town of Sebastian, a sub tropic, year round riding, old fishing village type paradise. Take 60 across the state from Tampa till you hit the beach, or hit I-95 from Jacksonville and drive about 4 hours south. Earls has this parking lot, the grass across the street, and some over flowing lots around the bar full of bikes on sun days. This pic was a day before the storm of bikes.

Oh, and I was Early. all the rest of the bikes showed up around 10.

 

New seat I have made almost done.



Learned A lot. Need to use different lace next time, and on the brown dye I ran it onto the chekardboard pattern. The resist didn't seem to be working so I stopped. Went with a base ball stitch?? if that is correct. My next seat I will not get dye where I want it, and will do a more interesting design.

Oh new house and garage,,, not unpacked yet.

 

I love the beer cans. Some Genny Cream Ale cans would look great with the shotgun shells on the back of my bike. Its hard to see, but I think you used the champagne of beers.


I am going to have to check Michael's on Monday. I was going to use baseball glove rawhide to redo my seat, but I'll see what they have. I think I'm going to add a little more padding too.