In the last post, I remarked that I was getting some peculiar behavior on the generator light. It was coming (back) on at higher RPMs, but I can verify that the voltage at the battery was increasing as well. Normally, this would mean the light would be off. This is all a little bit of... Continue Reading →
It's been a long journey to get to this point. The electrics are done. Everything seems to be in order. I've triple-checked all the bolts that need to be torqued, and am glad that I have systematically used a green paint pen to put a small mark on everything as I applied final torque. All... Continue Reading →
I've been dreading and procrastinating on this part of the project for a while. When I was working on my cars as a teenager, I always kept electrical bits as simple as possible. I even stopped working on cars when they became heavily computerized. I never bothered to learn much about how relays, points, and... Continue Reading →
Alright. Mechanically, the last big thing to do is install the cylinders and heads. The cylinders, pistons and related bits are from the Siebenrock Powerkit 1000. There are plenty of folks showing installs of this out there and mine was not different. Everything went smoothly and my only regret is not test fitting them to... Continue Reading →
February was a bit of a mess. I did not get much time to work on Red, and several tasks were up in the air until I sorted out the handlebar clamps. Now that those are done, I can move on a bit. I was still able to get a few small things done and... Continue Reading →
After close to a month, I received my custom bar clamps from PCBWay. The timing was thrown off by the Chinese New Year, which put a two week delay into the process more or less. Other than that, it was a pretty good experience ordering from them. The CNC order process did have some options... Continue Reading →
My first attempt at getting the K75S dash pad and bars on the top clamp was a bit over engineered. Initially, it looked like it would work, but I was not able to get the dash and the bars to fit together quite well enough. So, I went back to the drawing board and tried again. The... Continue Reading →
I will not work on Red in the Middle of the Night. I will not work on Red in the Middle of the Night... I will not work on Red in the Middle of the Night... As my day job has taken more time lately, I have had less time to work on this as... Continue Reading →
Whelp. I gave up. Sort of. My work to open up the pinch arms on the lower fork were a success, but when I put it all back together, it still did not feel quite right. I spent a good amount of time measuring and could detect some very minor deflection in the sliders. In the end, I decided to... Continue Reading →
In addition to getting the motor into the frame, I began working putting the front-end back together. We'll put this post in the "things that always look easy on YouTube" pile. I guess it's not surprising that Red and its quarter-million miles would have some front end issues with more components than just the top plate. I... Continue Reading →
