Nice knock around bike, but what's that fancy painted thing in back?

 

Thanks mud! Cool bike for sure!

 

Familiar with the situation that you've been screwed up by a non magnetic screw (like ss/copper) falling off your screwdriver and having too little space to hold it with your other hand?
Here's my solution: make yourself a screw holder out of a piece of copper/metal wire, grab them both and put it in place with one hand!

Good luck, René

 

That's a great tip! I'll be checking the toolbox and making sure some wire is in it.
Thanks.

 

Go to the hardware store and get yourself a beveled faucet washer. You may have to cut it down to size and bore the center out, but I used one on my son's CD A/C cover and it worked great. The washer acts as a vibration dampener.

 

Now that I would not have ever thought about. I do have the rubber o-ring on the outside diameter of the filter but never thought about adding some rubber to the center as an isolator. Thanks Jake.

 

After 132 pages, I figured I had to add something...LOL

There are a lot of great ideas in this thread, some of which I can't wait to try out with my kid on his bike when I get home.

 

From this forum i hit the battery band with steel wool then with some gloss black and clear coat. I think it matches the vivid black perfectly. Thinking about doing the same with the horn cover. Thanks

 

Bike Table:

I can't recall where I got this from, but for those that don't want to or can't spend serious $$$ on a bike table, this may be a great alternative. Some of the materials you may have laying around in your workshops or garages:





The top and back support panels of the stand pivot and form the ramp for rolling the bike on to the table. With a heavier bike, you will definitely want to be sure you have a fair amount of room for the approach in which to build up some speed, otherwise you'll find that you can't push the bike far enough up the stand to go over center and have the stand top return to horizontal.

After rolling the bike up, secure it with tie downs to some metal eye bolts bolted on through the sides of the table. You should also use a hook and eye to secure the back support panel to the side so that it can't be accidentally kicked out of place. You will need to have a wheel chock or wheel stop at the front edge of the top of the table to keep the bike from rolling off when you roll your bike on to the table. Put the chock as far forward as possible so you can be sure the bike's center of gravity goes past the top's fulcrum point.

I personally would build a better frame for the base as opposed to just using the few cross braces mentioned in the instructions, adding additional braces too.

Material:

Sides of table: 3/4" plywood (minimum thickness) - 72" (L) x 18" (W) x2 pieces
Top of table: 3/4" plywood (minimum thickness) - 78" (L) x 24" (W) x1 piece
End Panels: 3/4" plywood (minimum thickness) - 24" (W) x 18" (H) x2 pieces
Top Rails: 1x1 Strips - 78" (L)
2x4 x 22.5" x4 (1 for End Rail on Top of Table)
2x6 x 22.5" x1
Hinges
Wood Glue
Wood Screws
Eye Bolts x2
Hook and Eye latch x2
Paint

 

Excellent