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Capt. America Bobber: Day 10
Well, even though this is marked as Day 10, it is also a bit of extra time and days stuck in between. Due to extracurricular activities I have been restricted from actually being able to spend build time on the bike. Well on Saturday I put a couple hours in so I could fit the [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 9
Today was the day I was actually looking forward to. (okay actually it was Saturday, but nonetheless) Today we got to rip the engine out of the frame. Ok it wasn’t a rip, but thanks to good friends and helping hands Jose and Rich we started off and had the engine out and mounted within [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 8
Day 8 proved to be a little more productive! Not much work had to be done to get the left side wishbone in place and tacked up, center cross bar was put in as well. Rough tacked the wishbone so I had the angles when I remove the engine. Welds will be final and taken [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 7
Day 7 was a humbling day. A day that reconfirmed two things: 1)There truly is a tool for every job, preferably the right tool. 2)I really need to get back to practicing my welds again. After spending some time yesterday bending the bars for the wishbone on an antique tube bender (the kind that requires [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 6
After a hiatus for the holidays, I was back in action. Today I focused primarily on getting the parts mocked up and ready to complete the rear wishbone to the swingarm. However during my initial cutting I screwed up and cut off to much of the cross bar. This meant I was stuck welding small [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Video 1
A quick video shot from my iPhone4 (720p) shows the progress of the bike project and a little bit of my shop. I also borrowed a friends 1080p camera and will work on that as well. Work on the bike has stopped until January, after the holidays are done. Side note: Working on streaming, self [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 5
Thanksgiving weekend ended up being a pretty lazy crapshoot for me. Most of it was spent being lazy on the couch watching films from my childhood with my girls. I did however manage to get off my duff and throw a couple hours at the bike build. I took out all the wiring, front fender, [...]
Capt. America Bobber: Day 4
Finally got a grinder and removed the rest of the non essential frame and ground down. Up next my welder takes on putting together the rear hardtail section.
The Capt. America Bobber: Days 2 & 3
Back with a little more of the teardown, first pick is pretty fuzzy, sorry. It will be seeing little work over the next two weeks due to prior commitments. On day 2 most of the non-essentials were ripped out. The wiring was pulled, and seat frame cut, shocks removed. This allowed the bike to drop [...]
The Capt. America Bobber: Day 1
Today marked the first day of my 1985 Honda Nighthawk CB650sc’s tear down/rebuild/transform. This is my winter project for this year and I figured I would “try” to keep a build blog this time so others can follow my progress and learn from my mistakes. For a long time I have wanted two things: A [...]
