Nate was kind enough to sand blast the tank and fenders extremely quickly. I have pictures of the tank but not the fenders because we decided to take the tank home to fix a crack in the front of the t...

Ready to button up the crank case, I think. A final wash to try to get rid of any crud in the crannies:...

OK - here's what I'm trying to emulate - quite rare and I don't even know if these were exported to the US, but in 1980 a small run of these bikes were produced. They have a pig ugly exhaust, 21 inch...

The factory manual says that the cam bushings rarely need replacing unless there is very high mileage.  On mine, with the cams installed dry, there was a nice slip fit on the right (big) end, but...

I only have a frame and some forks from 1978 to start me off so it's not really a rebuild or a restoration. I have no history with the bike, just a burning desire to get this pile of nuts and bolts ba...

Yesterday my dad drove me to his friend nate's shop. Nate is the guy we will have paint my fenders and gas tank. We left the tank and fenders with him to sand blast and my dad will pick them up from h...

It took me on a tour of Europe that summer and fall from England to Istanbul, and back to Northern Germany, where I put it on a ship back to the states. A few weeks later, I picked it up in New Jerse...

The folks at Rebel Gears delivered big time on service, knowledge, and product! I received my 56 tooth overlay sprocket today....

The piston I ordered is technically a piston for a BSA, however, it will work for my bike perfectly. I needed a +.020 piston (20 over the original production size piston) because as the piston goes up...

DIY Bates Desert Racer Seat...

I had to bang out the dent in the fender. It all went really really well without any complications. There is a long scratch where the dent used to be but that will get fixed when we get everything pai...

So, a Desert Sled it is………..or will become....

How cool is this! 1971 Triumph T100R Daytona…………that means twin carb, 500cc little hot rod. The bike showed up at a local shop called “The Daily Rider” in Burlington, VT. It’s a numbers matching examp...

Today I took off all of the wiring on the bike. I just had to disconnect all of the wires from their connections and I was done. I had to take the headlight off because all of the wires centralized in...

Today I took the fenders off of the bike. I set up the bike in the driveway and proceeded to unscrew tons of nuts and bolts to get parts off. The front fender came off with no problem. However, the ba...

The piston I ordered is technically a piston for a BSA, however, it will work for my bike perfectly. I needed a +.020 piston (20 over the original production size piston) because as the piston goes up...

I found a parts manual online that has diagrams of all of the different parts on the motorcycle and where they go.The manual shows a bike that is the same model as mine but it is 2 years older than my...

The Rocker Box had to come off first. We figured out that most of the bike uses Whitworth which is a British standard hardware. This is no longer used but since my bike was from 1970 they still used t...

Today my dad drove me to Colin's house to pick up a head steady. When we got home we took the motor out of the bike and brought it into the basement. We put it on the bench where I'm going to do the r...

The muffler is a racing type so it goes behind the frame and sticks out the back. It is a high muffler so it goes on top of the motor instead of underneath it. The muffler is a little rusty so we have...