Saturday, April 10, 2010

78 Shovel out for the summer






My shovel. Well, the first shovel I ever had.
When I got it XV years ago, it had a bent up from an accident frame, more oil leaks than the Valdez, and just general "I don't ride anymore" d p o stuff.
It got a new santee frame back then. This is the 4th exhaust it's had. The painter DUDE painted the fender, seatmount, sissy bar thingy last year for me.
Every bike I do gets something I've never seen before or tried before. This go around is the seat suspension. It's an elastomer "bumper" inside the tubes below the seat. Yea, I know. Seat suspension on a swingarm bike is gay. But this isn't big olde skoole springs, and it really does seem to help.

2 comments:

  1. Nice... How do you keep that stamped primary from leaking? Belt drive?

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  2. Yup. Belt. Got flat washers behind the inspection covers to cool it a bit. Only leaks a little.

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