Classic Bavarian Bagger

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barryg

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• Feb 20, 2017

• #301

barryg said:

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This shows the upper cross bar will be cut out and lowered to match the old stand. You like seeing all those custom bikes in The BMW Motorcycle Magazine. My bike is only slightly customized, this is just to show how much work goes into those builds they do. Bmw riders actually do a lot of customization. Most of it is directed to cross country touring.

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The center stand is over getting cut and sectioned out, rewelded at the fabricator.

 

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barryg

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• Feb 20, 2017

• #302

barryg said:

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Modified mount, just 2 holes. The bolts go through the fender, I feel that the bolts will slowly crush the fender. It needs more support.
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The angle plate will be cut off and a longer piece welded in and give the seat more stability and a stronger mount. It never ends.

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As is the additional bracket to hold the seat. Yes

 

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barryg

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• Mar 23, 2017

• #303

Springer Seat Mount



got the mount back, it's pretty rough. Gotta a lot of disc grinding, sanding, filing, painting to do. Yikes. I really feel I need the two outrigger bolts to support the mount are neccessary to hold the seat firmly. Yep, more work. kinda feel like I'm going in reverse

 

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barryg

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• Mar 23, 2017

• #304

Center Stand Modification



Had the fabricator section out the upper crossbar and reweld it in lower. I'm running a Breil Oil cooler, which fits between the bottom of the engine block and the oil pan in a pancake kinda fashion. The center stand can not swing thru it's arc as the upper cross bar hits it. This necessitates the crossbar relocation. More grinding, filing, sanding and painting. The welder did one thing I liked. He added the threaded rod and supported the legs and kept them from twisting from the heat of the welds. Modifyng BMw's can be a pain in the ass. Hopefully the end results are worth it.

 

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barryg

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• Apr 4, 2017

• #305

A lLittle Oldl School Hand Work

It's a nice day and I had a little free time on my hand. Thought I might do a little work on the center stand. Old school grunt work. Pulled out some of my collection of metal files. Time for some what machinist call bench work. Files and file cards

 

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barryg

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• Apr 4, 2017

• #306

Files

Files had some great names. Flat Smooth, Flat Bastard, Mill Bastard, Half Round, Rat Tail. Back in machine shop 101, that day allways got some laughs from young wannebe machine shop students. Most of these were Nicholson Files, good stuff American made.

 

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barryg

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• Apr 4, 2017

• #307

Good progress, nothing exciting, just stuff that has to happen to get to the fun stuff. Got some more filing, then probably grinding wirh an air powered die grinder and maybe a dremal tool and sand paper. most likely will bead blast the area for a better finish. Like I said grunt work.

 

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barryg

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• Apr 10, 2017

• #308

I'm getting a little disgusted with my slow snailpaced progess on the build. Was looking at the frame, reached in the neck and felt the thickness of the steering neck with my fingers. It's more than thick enough to tap some fine threads in there to hold the ID badge. I don't need timeserts. The holes are about 0.140 diam.; a 8x32 fine thread tap requires a 0.1360 drill size hole. close enough. Went over to the neigborhood hardware store and got a couple of SS 8-32 fine threaded screws. Got my tap and die set out and tapped both holes.

 

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barryg

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• Apr 10, 2017

• #309

Just about perfect. Perfect enough for me. Will get my little bead blast kit out and give the frame and some of those parts a lite dusting and I'll be just about ready for some paint. Sometimes I just over think the small stuff. Time to move this project along.

 

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barryg

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• Jan 29, 2020

• #310

Another Long Delay

Yep; the long lost thread reappears. The rebuild has been dormant. Last Sunday went over to one of my music hangouts in Memphis; Hueys Bar&Grill on Madison Av.. Got a bite to eat, downed a couple of cold ones, set in on some good local Memphis, music. Actually set in and listened to a couple of good bands, really good stuff. My buddy Peter Guldan came in with his wife Jan. Peter did the paint work on my R90 back in '91. Did a great job. The bike turned out pretty good. So good, I rode the heck out of the bike, I couldn't stay off of it. It got a little rough. I kept accumulating all sorts of new add ons to dress the bike up even more. Started riding other bikes.

 

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barryg

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• Jan 29, 2020

• #311

Went over and basically told Peter the same sad spiel. Bike basically stripped to bare metal, waiting for new paint job. I guess I had a long sad face. Peter was smilin, just nodding his head up and down. 'Barimore, 'Ol Buddy'; U want me to paint your bike again. Well Peter; kinda sorta. That paint job was so nice; I really can't ask U to paint it again. ' If U can wait till this Spring, I'd like to paint your bike again. Yeah, Peter you da man.

 

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barryg

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• Jan 29, 2020

• #312

Peter, does his painting out side. So the weather has to be almost perfect. Warmer temp and no wind. I'm willing to wait. Glad painting the frame now has a plan.