Custom Vintage Motorcycles

Updates From The Shop - January

My apologies for not keeping up with the site recently. It’s been a very busy month and here’s what I’ve been up to..

The Royal Rebuild (yet un-named) - with a close deadline of March 10, I’ve been cranking hard on this project!

Finished Frame:

Mocking Up The Pipes:

I got a set of gnarly old Triumph wheel hubs from a customer to have them polished.
After bead-blasting all of the old paint off:

They’re cast aluminum and not the best alloy, so the shine wasn’t as I had hoped but they came out nice regardless..

I’m also rebuilding an SR500 motor for a customer, the head is out getting bored over and will be fitted with a new 10:1 piston. I rebuilt the valve head while waiting on the other parts to come back:

After a good cleaning, the valves were lapped, new seals installed, intakes polished, the head repainted & aluminum covers polished:

Just this past weekend I picked up another bike to build, a ‘73 Yamaha TX750. I built one of these at the beginning of last year. This build should go pretty much the same way.

And last of all, I’m getting a little riding in on The Bullitt XS650, getting the bugs worked out and such before it goes off to its new owner.