Well.....Bye.

[Cooter]

I did a bit of reading that night. This self described analog-guy wanted to figure out settings for ABS, traction control, oh and "R" means Rain, haha. "N"normal, "S"port, "R"ain, and "C"ustom. All easily switchable on the fly, are you listening Mr. Buell? But honestly I'm no Marc Marquez, so Normal and Sport will probably be fine for me. I'll mess with it though, you guys know I love to push buttons:stupid:

I went and did the same exact route the next day and dayyyymmm what a difference. All the wallowing in the corners went away completely, the front forks stopped mostly bottoming out (I went from 5 turns pre-load to 12 and I'll probably max them out at 15 and go shopping for springs).
Still needs a square solid triangle of pressure on the bars, but the un-nerving highway wandering is much better.

The rear is still too hard and will hop in the air over the big reflector divots on the double yellow IF one was to pass sightseeing gawking Priuses that are doing 10 under the limit (allegedly). This makes the traction control freak out and take way too long to give you the power back. I'm sure there's a setting for that

I'm at 35mm sag front and rear and will tighten the front with the pre-load and lower the rear to help the fork rake/trail which should help the highway handling even more.

Is that detailed enough for ya lancruza?

I thought she'd be finicky, slow (800cc!), and small. Happily, she's smoooooth, very(!) fast, and effortless to run hard. I'll look down and be doing 70mph. Look up, look down, and be going 95

The SeX is faster to be sure, and still the most animalistic punch-yo-mama power, but this little Italian lady is much easier to keep at go-directly-to-jail speeds all day. On the SeX I get home and fall to the couch after a ride. On the Brutalé, I just want to go out again!

 

[Cooter]

Did some more reading (The crankshaft spins backwards!), and a little shopping. There's some low buck cheeneese crap on her that needs to be changed. Who the Hell puts plastic jewelry on a supermodel?:mad-new:

But yes, Holysheet parts are spendy! Exhaust starts at $2000 and the wheels I want are $4000 so that's just not gonna happen. Ever.

I'm so in love with my new girl. Don't worry about me, I have no illusion, She'll get grumpy, treat me badly, and probably try to steal my wallet. I even expect it. It explains my taste in real women:love_heart: Right now I just want to ride her as much as possible during the honeymoon.:angel:

 

[Cooter]

My current screen saver

 

[Silverrider]

^^ Sexy !!!! I like it !

 

[Cooter]

Thanks SR! I know you have a bit of the same fever

 

[BuellyBagger]

I'm so in love with my new girl. Don't worry about me, I have no illusion, She'll get grumpy, treat me badly, and probably try to steal my wallet. I even expect it. It explains my taste in real women Right now I just want to ride her as much as possible during the honeymoon.

This might just be way to explain every motorcyclists taste in women. Dont tell my wife shes a hot rod harley and not an Italian sport bike lol!

Looks like a ton of fun cooter! Should scold you for not checking the bike over better before flogging it, but I've done that a time or 2 too!

 

[Silverrider]

Thanks SR! I know you have a bit of the same fever

Damm you I thought that was our Man secret ???:black_eyed:

 

[lancruza]

[/QUOTE]

She's purdeee! Thanks for all the insight. When you were mentioning about "wallowing in the curves", I thought to myself that it sounded like low tire pressure. Then I thought, "NAH...I know he checked his tires before he rode." Well...there ya go. One day I'm gonna have a black MV - one day.

 

[Cooter]

They are sort of Buell-like in that theres 2 small tail plastics, 2 small side plastics, and the tank. Not as cheap as Buell/EBR but very easily color changeable or wrap-able. That black one looks like Darth Vaders hot girlfriend:love_heart:

 

[DASTARDLEY]

Cooter,

That bike looks so cool

 

[Cooter]

Been a bit quiet here in EBR land. But I have been waiting for the time to do the Ol' SeX some needed changes.

1) Valve adjustment. I'm Mr. Maintenance Guy so it's very out of character for me to be over mileage for anything this important. Due at 6300 miles and I'm currently at 8K:down: I know it's more of a EBR assembly check than a wear check at this mileage but she is an early bike! #24

I have 2 excuses for that. One, I want to make a detailed post/pic/video of the disassembly process for our very small community of EBR-ers. We are a hands on bunch, so hopefully that will help someone in the future. The actual adjustment process isn't hard and the deets can be found on Youtube from EBR, but I'd like to show the whole process.

and:

2) I want to convert the SeX to ReX. I bought the SX for a do-it-all fast bike, but all I have been doing is track days and hard curves on mountain roads at only a few hundred miles at a time. I can commit to a better body position with clip-ons so I have collected the major parts like plastics, fairing/dash mount, the clip-ons, and upper triple. I'll make it track legal at the same time with water wetter, and cool-guy safety wire bolts for everything like the calipers.

also, a new / old muffler. As of January 2019, this lovely state of Commie-fornia has re-visited the current exhaust modification law. It applies to cars and Harleys too as a I-was-a-jerk-to-a-cop-so-he-wrote-me-this-fix-it ticket, but the change is where it is no longer the officers discretion to include the $1000 fine over the ticket. That part in now mandatory. $1000 fine. Sheesh. Even most of the tracks around here have a dB limit, including my holy-grail Sonoma Raceway so...

Sorry you beautiful, sexy, flame throwing, LOUD, bit of APH engineering. I'll miss you. The stock muffler with tips and no resonator are still technically illegal, but at least it's a reasonable/ arguable volume level, and not the punch in the face middle finger to the law-men. I'd rather spend my money on tires and race gas, that filling the pockets of the local constabulary enacting an illegal tax on me for a rule I didn't get to vote for... Do I sound mad? lol..

Bosozoku!

 

[Cooter]

And I went all cray-cray and bought the Italian Girlfriend a nice new upholstered seat. Couldn't stand the rock hard vinyl that was very out of character for such a hoity toity ride:angel:

Now it matches my Louis Vuitton underwear

 

[wickedchop]

That is one DAMN GOOD LOOKIN seat.

 

[Cooter]

Thats what she said:black_eyed:

Thanks WC Even though it's a nicely sewn pre-made cover, the crazy dip in the front at the tank and the 3-d bulge under the sewn logo were a nightmare to re-cover and look right. 3M glue, heat gun, sanded closed cell foam, 1000 Monel staples, many cuss words, and 3 beers....

 

[rb70383]

That's your problem. You listed beer last

I love the triple exh tips
That is a nice ride.

 

[Cooter]

My intention of doing (and documenting) the EBR valve adjustment is set back again.

I did make room in the shop by finishing this for my buddy. He's so happy and its legitimately FAST with a worked over fuel injected 327 and a TKO-600 5-speed:eagerness: I like them, but I have too much hair on my head to drive a convertible 'Vette.

and the epic burn-out machine (all definitions intended) Hell Camino "Joshephine Dirté" just got uglier.

Damn fool in an Accord decided to turn into a hotel driveway at 35mph from the #2 lane. No look, no signal, and didn't stop until he had me entirely on the sidewalk. Managed to hit EVERY new part I just put on last month. Dick. Glad I wasn't riding though!

So now, the one car that wasn't supposed to be a "project", is now a project He'll pay to fix it, but now I'll need to paint it.
Whatdoy'allthink 'bout this?

 

[Cooter]

So while the 'never-gonna-be-a-project' project, is in paint jail, I rescued a little yellow toy from languishing in a friends garage. He had it built about 5 years ago, put 80 miles on it and it's so fast it scared him enough to want to sell it:hororr:

Which is kinda my jam:excitement: I have built and owned a few Meyers Manx buggies before in off-road trim with everything from a 1600, 1941, and even a 2110 flat 4 VW. This this one is ludicrous.
Its a "Manxter" on a full length SuperBeetle pan with a Subaru 3.0l boxer puts out about 260hp stock and he had a little work done. It has a 5-speed Mendeola trans, a nice A-arm front suspension conversion, custom IRS, and Fox coil-overs all the way around. They quote 1.04G on the skid pad set up like that, and I plan on getting to at least 1.03G

I'll get it freshened up, fix a few niggly things, and planning on selling it for him, but that should take about exactly as long as it takes a 1970 El Camino to get painted:angel:

 

[wickedchop]

I really like that gold and I really really like those wheels in that color, but......that gold and the wheel color gold is not going to work. Have the wheels powder coated a satin metallic graphite and you'll be tits!

 

[Cooter]

LF :
1) It's a '63 but not a Fuelie. It's built as a driver and meant to be, I would put a real '63 Fuelie in a museum Has a FITech throttle body on a '67 327 with AFR heads, flat-top 10:1 pistons, and a Lunati cam, 5 speed transmission, and a '67 rear suspension/brakes. I added power steering, converted to a alternator, and I'm putting in a Vintage A/C kit for him in a few weeks. It's a fun and pretty driver, but will never be the $3.5 million dollar L-88 they're trying to sell at Harrisburg this month!
2) Some Ca drivers!? If you mean 90% are oblivious, distracted, uneducated, unskilled, and trying to aggressively put a 4 ton 'off-road' truck up your butt when your riding? Ya you're almost right. I'd say more like 95%:upset:
3) It won't be original Gold for exactly that reason, but it's not nice enough to get a dark color and seems like everything else is really common. I'm gonna go for it!
4) Every car guy should build a Dune Buggy! Impracticality means FUN! No one can frown in a Dune Buggy!


Thanks WC! Those wheels were meant for another project (thats colored White) but I burned off all the tread on the 15" rallys that were on it and needed some to drive around on:angel: I have some 17" rallys I'll put on.

 

[Cooter]

Even with the upgraded distributer it still has the cable drive tach, I like it I converted from 32 amp external VR to 90 amp internal VR alternator (not from a generator, that was the C-1), and put it on the left side rams horn manifold where it belongs to accommodated the A/C compressor and bracket on the right side.

I also had to take off the stupid high rise intake someone put on, that the tiny air cleaner smashed into the hood and would pop open when driven hard. Some people need their wrenches taken away.

I'll look for a under hood pic, it's pretty in there! Finally

The coupes are way better looking IMO:angel: