Just hone it

Old Triumph?

I'm only ten mins into the video and all I can say is you've never even pulled down a running 4 stroke engine from what I have seen! Good luck, you wont learn if you don't have a go!!! It also looks like the bike has been for a swim!

Daaaang…those cylinders!

back around the mid 80's a friend and i bought a 12 by 6 flat deck trailer load of wore out and stuck jap bike engines, from 350's to 1000's, for $100. we got them of the guy who owned the local harley dealership. they were all junk (we knew this when we bought them). we spent 2 days completely striping them out and we saved all the fasteners that were good and whatever oddball junk we thought might be useful. we stripped all the steal out (including the cylinder sleeves) and got about $500 for the clean aluminium. they were paying big bucks for that stuff around here back then. almost a buck a pound if i remember right. watching you mess with that brought back some memories.

Booo

No longer available. Just like hightimes.

really miss the days of magazines. no interweb back then. people actually spent a lot of their time outdoors doin' stuff.

Looks solid. How did you mount it to the bike ?

alright hey ... what?

Cool

the way you pull the head off that motor is first you back off the cam chain tensioner, it should be between the cylinders under the carbs. next unbolt the gear from the cam, then you remove the cam through the gear, the gear will then be able come of the chain. now you should be able to remove the head. those cam chains do not use master links and they wrap around the crankshaft.

Those are always the most fun 😝

As a dad I love riding with my son. Great memories. Thanks for the shoutout! I did not get to ride. It gets pretty cold up here in the High Plains, think we had a night of 35 that day & that was before the wind chill. I was going to but ran out of time, I was cooking & getting the man cave ready for buddies to come over for blackeye peas, beer, & cigars! I did get a ride I on the 3rd tho.

ya it is a blessing. would be nice to ride with my kids.

nice bike your dad has there. looks like a twin cam. never did new years rides, but i had a tradition of always doing a Christmas day ride all the years i rode. coldest one i ever did was back in the late 80's, 15 below 0 fahrenheit on a kickstart rigid. short ride that year, about an hour and a half, including a couple of warmup coffee stops at diners that were open. it's funny that those days are some of the things i miss most about riding.

I Love My GL 1500se !!!

What I would do to hang out in there share a few drinks with a guy like you

Wow, look at all of that Snow!

How cold is it? We are currently 32. Wind is 22 to 34 out of the north so feels like 17. Think that is about as warm as we are going to get today.

not only is it toast, it's a whole loaf of toast. can't imagine what the bottom end looks like. (well ... yes i can actually.)

well, if you do decide to go with the chopper build, i'll help anyway i can. what do you have for a welder?

Look forward to watching the progress.

prolly aint got no gas in it!

wow.

Happy New Years! Looking forward to watching this next year. I get the small channel, I’m at a whole whopping 12 subscribers.

that your goldwing running in the background? i'd put money on that it's not a one kick start bike. ;-)

actually they do! I ran through like 3 big ones in the last few months.

Keep plugging away…once you start picking up more subs, it kinda exponentially gets easier to get more. Those first 500-1000 are the hardest to get at least it was for me. After that it def picked up. Looking forward to your future projects Chuck and Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year Chuck !! 🎉 I'm kinda hoping you get 1000 subs by the end of the new year. then you can monetize your channel.

how much of that vespa scooter do you have? is it complete?

I enjoy your videos, I say do what makes you happy & it will figure itself out. When I decided to start my channel I watched a lot of how to videos. The one that stuck out a lot to me the guy said, before you start determine the type of relationship you want to have with KZbin. Is it serious or casual. I decided to keep it casual. Basically we see each other when I feel up to it, lol. Maybe it will get more serious later. I get falling in love with your projects & not wanting to let them go. Think that’s just part of it.

🤔hmm ... you're not related to the "fat guy in a little coat" guy, are you?

i've built some bikes (and a few cars) for myself over the years. all i have now is the shovelhead angel and me put together. that bike too will be gone within the year, but it's going to my son and he'll keep it forever, as will angel with her shovelhead. most of the custom work i've done has been for others. perhaps that has made it easier to part with the things i made for myself. plus i've thought, "if i can't take it with me into the next life, i should try not get too attached in this one." (guess you're not the only one in a ramblin' mood) anyway, best of the season to you and your household.

The struggle to sell stuff after you’ve worked on it is real! The more I wrench on a bike, the harder it is to sell. Especially if it runs good after all that work lol

Right on chuckie!

Love your videos

Merry Christmas Chuck!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Chuck. so i the vespa next on the chopping block?

Always a great feeling when you can ride them regardless if it’s freezing out after bringing them back. Nice job Chuck! Again, Merry Christmas!!🎄

rat rods, rat bikes, and now (wait for it...) Rat SCOOTERS !!😉😄 that was fun. 🎄🌟Merry Christmas Chuck !!🌟🎄P.S. it seems to run pretty good.

Good job sir! Hope you have a good Christmas.

Nice job Chuck! It’s really coming together now. Merry Christmas!!🎄

that almost looks like more work than a harley kicker. Merry Christmas Chuck. God bless you and yours this holiday season.

Sometimes you do what you have to do. I had bought a RM 125, found out latter after doing an oil change that someone crossed threaded the oil plug, in an aluminum block. My fix was a bait well plug, lol. Worked great did some hard riding & never lost it. I did inform the person that bought it tho.

Good job sir!

😅🤣😂👍

I always try to say up front when I know I’m doing something the wrong way but people still like to point it out lol

shame on honda for such a crappy design. the factory exhaust mounts on that muffler and the proximity of the header pipe to the rad and rad hose look like planned failure points. shame on you, honda. on another note, is that a 4 stroke?