Wrench'n Ride'n

Its just tweaks now. White around "Funky Fokker". Fitted a rack to the pannier rack so the East German Army Pack can go back on. Exhaust wrap around the headlight bucket.

Bit of sticker funk.

No its not now a Harley. Made a fairing for it. Yes its a shovel. Yes I am mad. No it wont kill me if I come off. It will just inflict flesh wounds. Think Monty Python.  

Bit more Funky added to the Fokker. Ripped out a picture from a magazine and lacquered it to the tank. Did the final fitting to the Trumpy seat.  Re-did the tail end so the tail light is not rubbing the Trumpy seat.    

Biltwell solo seat and big ugly pannier is back.   

No School Choppers  1933-1936 Ford Duolamp tail light has been the object that has driven the theme for this bike. The defining element was the hand cast "Trooper" lense. Still to fit are indicators to match the round ones I have mounted to the front of the bike.

Here are some details on fitting a /6, or for that matter maybe any of the slash airhead seat to a monoshock. Not /2. I believe this seat came of n r90/6. You need to cut the top out of your guard/fender. The guard is plastic. I left the guard in. Used a paint maker to run around the top of the sub frame tubes. hen took the guard off and used a cutting wheel. You will get lots of molten plastic flinging around too. There are two frame tabs that will need to come off. One if the tab/spike that you can hang a helmet from.  The other is on the grab handle that is used to help get the bike up on the mainstand.  I used the hinges that came with the seat. I assume that your monoshock seat hinges may fit the seat you are using?  The taillight and indicators fit right onto the rear guard/fender as there are two holes already there for this purpose. 

Back to the Past with the 70s R100 seat fitted. Cut the top off the rear guard. De-tabbed some brackets off the frame. Some tweaking to do still. Tail light and rear blinkers are to be replaced. This thread  http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/installing-a-solo-3-4-seat-on-a-mono.950080/  was a great help too.

3rd bike now that I have used header wrap on. I like the stuff. 2 different colours.

I have umm'd and arr'd about putting a fairing on the Ah-8-Tee. The r90/6 seat that arrives tomorrow has started to make the bike look more vintage. So thought I would go even further down that old look theme and get this fairing. Just ordered it from http://www.boxercafe.com/default.htm in the USA.

Next Sunday September 27th 2015, more than 22,677 smartly-dressed gentlefolk in 402 cities from 79 countries will straddle the saddles of their café racers, bobbers, scramblers and other marvellous custom motorcycles to raise awareness and help fund the cure for prostate cancer. I will be riding in the Sydney event. So far nearly 600 look to be going.  Me in my dapper clobber. Last October my dad passed from stomach cancer. I am wearing his dinner suit in his honor and memory.  You can sponsor me via this link     https://www.gentlemansride.com/sponsor/rider/ceebee6fiddy      

BMWs have 22mm handlebars. 7/8ths bars are 22.23mm. So unless you grind off .23mm your BMW controls won't go on. Well they will. But you run a very big risk of them slipping and breaking. Very expensive to replace.   So I had fitted 7/8th bars that I had ground the ends down on to fit my controls. These bars are 30 inches wide. To get them to fit I had to take the clutch and choke cables off. I had decided to go back to the R90S that came with the bike back on. So to save having to reset the clutch cable and the choke I cut the bar off. The bars were cheap ones so chopping them up to make it quicker to do a handlebar change was a no brainer.

I have a thing with handlebars. Takes lots of different bars till I am happy with a set. Its seems this might now be the same with seats. I had planned on using a solo saddle. Then I came across a seat of a 1979 BM that has the hump with the BMW roundel printed on it. I love the 70s style. It is on its way to me. It will be fitted.

Now that I am 3/4 over the man flu time for an update. Took these photos this afternoon. The Farce has begun. What I have done so far.    

Today it rained. It rained 8 years ago when I took delivery of my first airhead. Tradition lives on. Today the Ah-8-Tee was made legal to ride on the road. It is good, very good to be back on a beemer airhead. Photos of me heading off to make it all legal.