Was at Daytona Beach this past Bike Week 2017 for the AMCA and other swap meets. Stayed at my long time friends house Kevin. Before arriving at his house I stopped at the Vintage Japanese MC meet at the Eustis Fairgrounds where I ran into ED, Kevin introduced Ed and his wife Ginger to me last year. Really nice people. Ed amazes the shit out of me with the things he does with these old motorcycles mostly due to my own inability to think out of the box. I just keep doing things by the book, I’ll get over that some day. So there wasn’t much to buy this year, very disappointed but I did pick up a HD chain guard which when cut and welded to a butchered original Indian chain guard is working perfectly. Few other items I bought were cycle electric generator, repo shift knobs, cam cover, tail lens, used drive bearing race, HD CV carb, HD kickstand, HD turn lights, and a broken helper seat spring bar with adjusters. In keeping with my promised to my self to get this bike on the road this year I got right to it when I got home. The pictures below show the Indian frame 1948 and front end HD 1977 FX in 2013. I ended up buying another front end 1982 HD FXR because it was complete and what the heck the price was right. The picture second from left is this past week 4/9/17 . Its in mock up stage, motor is empty, not the one to be rebuilt that honor goes to a 80″ 1948 motor that belongs to another bike, yet to be restored. It has taken a while to get to this point because as I am repairing/rebuilding the various broken and rusted parts I also am manufactured fixtures for everything from proper wheel lacing offset to cylinder support plate for mounting to mill or Sunnen boring machine. Two examples below. I also have been investing in all the correct tooling for honing and measuring bores. The next motor will come together much quicker. Gotta go for now. Don’t TEXT and drive. Or ride, I saw a young guy doing this recently.
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