Observed Trials Tech

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Ragged to Riches Part 2



Notes:

1. Took the bike completely apart and cleaned everything.

2. Painted the following parts with Hammertone: frame and swingarm. Sweet!

3. Rebuilt the forks and painted the fork lowers red to match the rest of our color scheme. We also painted the muffler-guard and the chain-guard red.

4. Next up was the mounting of the rear fender. We used our Gonelli/Bultaco replica rear fender and our Sammy Miller fiberglass inner fender. This replaces the molded stock fender with a cheap fender that you can break all to hell and replace again and again for 36 bucks! (The boss has come up with this idea and insisted that since this is our shop/trials-school bike and he has seen all of us ride, that we use this fender combo instead of our dead-on factory reproduction fender that is a hundred bucks. Granted we have not been able to break on of the repro units yet he figures that since he paid for it one of us would find a way to destroy it!)

Looking better and better all the time.
More to come.......

2 Comments:

  • At 7:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    It looks good. I sure would like the first crack at that fender.

    cpt

     
  • At 6:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    You said it right Cap E Tan
    CRACK!!!!

     

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