Update on the bike

Here are a few photos from the past couple of weeks.
I have added a lot of smaller parts, including the handlebars, brakes, seat, shocks and seat rack.

Here is the "contraption" I made to compress the shock to remove the black plastic from the new shock to put the original blue one on it.

Out in the sunlight!!!

A few more parts.

This is a little late on what's going on but here are a few updates on the bike.

I am behind on rebuilding the bike as I had placed an order for some parts, waited about a month, nothing came. 

By the time I contacted the company, they searched and tried to figure out what happened and then re-sent my order I was about 3 months behind. It is now winter...

I have placed 3 other orders with a couple of other companies and have received the parts. Some were some rare parts that were missing and hard to find.

A couple of months ago I picked up a few more parts that I had re-chromed. The handle bars, part of a shock and 2 front wheel covers.

Here are the front wheel covers.

Here are some parts that I bought off Ebay, this is just a few of the 100 miscellaneous parts from the auction.

Included in that photo is the front and back plate fro the battery and the side bar that connects to the seat bolt(also pictured) to hold up the muffler. There is also the bolts that hold the engine on, I happened to get 2 sets of those. Those were some important parts I seemed to be missing, the painted pieces have been taken to be powder coated blue.

I have more parts arriving today from the US!! These should be enough to complete the frame/handlebars of the bike and I should be able to start working on the engine soon.

Look at that mirror finish!!

Polished the front hub to a mirror finish.

I'm not going to do the rest, I'll leave as a brushed/mirror finish.

A few updates on the bike.

I picked up the completed wheels yesterday, all trued with the tires on.

I wasn't happy with how clean the aluminum was on the front hub so I used the dremel and shined it up even more. This is a before photo when I picked them up. It was shiny but it didn't have that mirror finish I was looking for. 

Last week I picked up the rear rack that had been sand blasted and re-chromed. I forgot to take a before photo of it but the sides on the left were painted and the rest was rusted.

This is one of the many other parts that were powder coated grey. I'll post the rest of them another time.

Video on the methods I am using for most of my cleaning.

Here is a short video on the methods I am using to clean some of the bike parts.

I just uploaded a quick video update on the Honda. The hub came in so I need to get the wheel back together so I can have someone put the tires on it.

Art update.

Here is some of the art that I have completed in the past couple of years.

Cyberman and Dalek. Acrylic on canvas, paint brush.

Butterfly, from one of Teds photos. Acrylic on canvas, paint brush.

Mountain. Acrylic on canvas, done with painting knife.

Sakura Tree. Acrylic on canvas, done with painting knife.

Girl in the rain. Acrylic on canvas, done with painting knife.

Marilyn Monroe. Acrylic on canvas, done with painting knife.