talisman

hello ether.

I've been busy most every day working with a recent timeout to visit Germany in October. Have beer for those of you who drink it

To stave off the winter blues I decided to buy a bike for a winter project, with the hope of getting it running for a few days before the snow flew. That didn't happen, but it did fire with a little help from a can of starter fluid, and ran for a good half minute with well timed shots of juice into the airbox.

So now to wait for parts, and tires, and learn to braze to seal off numerous little pinholes in the gas tank before de-denting, un-rusting and relining it.

Style wise it will end up some sort of bastard-child ugly with bits of cruiser, cafe racer and street fighter with a trichromo paint scheme that will feature rims colormatched with the tires and a three "color" seat. We'll see if I can get heat resistant/hi-temp paint colormatched before figuring out the rest of it.

Off to the basement to whip up another batch of stripper

Happy Holidays, all