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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: 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 [...]
New beginnings on a new venue (Part I)…
Part I of a new series involving the construction of the Blackfriars Theatre new venue space.
