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Post a pic of your Airhead

Hank -

Check the picture of lastrada's /5...that's what the mufflers should look like. Unless the angle in your picture distorts the view, it looks like your mufflers needed to be rotated 180 degrees to get the proper slope change where the circumferential weld is.

Actually my mufflers do slope like Lastrada's.
RobertKLee's mufflers look like "Norton Pea Shooters" and again, it might just be the angle of the shot, but they look pretty near level.
 
Actually my mufflers do slope like Lastrada's.
RobertKLee's mufflers look like "Norton Pea Shooters" and again, it might just be the angle of the shot, but they look pretty near level.

As seen on lastrada's bike, the bottom of the muffler from the back tip all the way to the pipe is relatively "flat" with the angled portion on top. It could be the angle of your picture, but although the "slope" looks right on yours, the angled part of your muffler looks 180 off.. ie on bottom.

/nit-pick
 

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NICE Toaster:thumb
Are your mufflers mounted on the correct side? Doesn't look like they sweep upward like they should?
Here is my SWB Toaster. It sat for 20 years before I rescued it from an open shed:

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They are some sort of after market muffler that was on the bike when I got it twenty years ago. They won't mount any other way.

:usa
 
1982 r65

My R65, a trusty friend!
 

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the chute

Spent the day in the arms of the GPS, exploring back roads up in the hills an hour west of home. This pic is at Crooked Chute Log Slide near Combermere, Ontario. Before it became a lame amusement park ride, this is where the logs got past a waterfall where they would otherwise jam up.
 

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the ride

better put the bike pic in to stay in thread...:type
 

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1965 r69s

This isn't my bike. It belongs to a co-worker's father's friend, but thought a picture of it belonged here. He's looking for suggestions for a vanity plate. "Old Faht" was taken.
 

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Restoration Almost Done

Getting There.....

Now I need the Krauser bag mounts to put the orig bags on for a proper sport tourer from back in the day..


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That is looking so good, rockitdoc.

Here is my solution for the problem of commuting 140 miles a day. The RS will just have to stay home and wait for non-commuting rides.




<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24593939@N06/3712954076/" title="2009-07-12 R100RT 1982 005 by kstoo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3712954076_e0f170e474.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="2009-07-12 R100RT 1982 005" /></a>
 
Very Nice.

That is a nice looker. A good ride, too, yeah?

Mine now has the side covers back on. The rubber band let go and the right side went into the lane next to me, then resisted the advances of an F350, but still came out a bit flatter. Oh well, got to practice my DO painting again. I'm getting better.
 
There are a lot of nice machines here! Hopefully, mine will look as nice one day..... a pic of mine as I bought it it:

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I still need the proper valve covers on it.
 
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