New (yellow) light is LED which i dislike. But honestly its probably nicer on my charging system so I'll leave it.

69 gen shovel i’ve put thousands of miles on. not without some breakdowns but i think it’s pretty dialed now.

Don’t remember what the year was but it was a fun project. My buddy here did a lot of the work as he is more familiar with the metric bikes. I was the apprentice on this one lol!

Anybody have any idea what would make an intake valve with good seals make that squeaking noise you hear?

Stripped the paint a while back and thinking about repainting. What do y’all think?

My father in law has been painting choppers since the 1960s, and he is helping me fix some of the stupid mistakes I made when I was young like rattlecanning over the flame paint job my first sportster came to me with.

I never liked the flames, but now 20+ years later I am finally getting ready to repaint my tins and it was cool to see them reappear again during our prep work.

Question for the painters: he suggested we spray it with an acrylic enamel, but wasn’t sure where to source paint nowadays.

Any suggestions on a good acrylic enamel black paint and where to source it?

I am based in the SF bay area California but we are painting down in SoCal

1969 triumph.

I’m able to send about 6 wires up the centre post and along the back bone pretty easily.

I’m planning on drilling a hole in the bottom side of the backbone for a few wires to drop out.

Ideally I’d like another hole up near the neck for headlight.

Should I weld a bung into the backbone to maintain strength?

And I know a bunch of you have drilled an exit hole in the neck, but I’m pretty cautious of that.

Did anyone make it out to Wauseon this year? Lots of cool stuff there and some decent deals if you looked hard enough

I have a 1996 sportster 1200 that I’m lengthily the forks on. I pulled the forks apart and I found that the main spring seems to be a little shorter then stock which I assumed was from west and tear. But then when I pulled the lower tube off I for the damper has 2 springs installed on it. Every where I’m looking online it seems it’s only supposed to have 1 spring on the damper tube. So I wondering if I have a lowering kit or something else going on I don’t know about. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I built a sportster engine from split cases up using 883 jugs and pistons from eBay. Built the engine by the book with torque specs and endplay measurements. Decked every surface flat, used chinese cheap gaskets. Im about 5k miles after rebuild and I was wondering if anyone else hones cylinder walls like I do.

3 stone tool from harbor freight with wd40 till theres only hone marks, no vertical scoring. Then hand polish under water using 1000 grit wet sandpaper to knock down the sharp hone edges. The hone crosshatch is still very visible but doesnt grab fingernails like it did right after the stone. Getting the cylinder completley white glove clean before oil and piston install was tough haha!

I have good compression and reused the rings that came in the kit, recently rode the bike on a 2300 mile trip through the desert to the coast. About a half quart to 3/4 quart oil consumption over 3k miles. My 98 stock EVO dyna uses more oil than that.

This is simply a boredom prompt for discussion, I am an A&P mechanic and have built a few engines over time but I have never seen anyone else do anything to the cylinders after a hone.

Hey everybody. Thinking of picking up one of these hardtails from ocean beetle. Anybody run one of these? What are your thoughts? I’m not seeing much feedback online. Thanks

https://www.oceanbeetleusa.com/products/beetle-hardtail-kit-for-sportster