Only part I haven't figured out is how to attach the splined widget on the shifter stub. I had to weld up a solid linkage when the cheesy factory potmetal linkage broke.  Can't be that hard to hook the clutch cable to the shifter peg lever, for a foot clutch hand shift. I know, jockey/suicide shifts on bobbers/choppers are becoming like flat black on rat rods. I'm almost mad the front brake works again, with a hand shifter, I could have trimmrd all the crap off the bars. Nice and basic, throttle up top, maybe mirrors, if I couldn't figure out how to hang them under the bars.

Oh well, there's always next winter for engineering.
-WD

Left foot front brake? Hang the master on the frame. Build a longer pushrod to go from the pedal to the M/C plunger. 90 degree banjo fitting off the M/C outlet, 90 degree hard bend to route the hose forward. Done. Be a b!tch to bleed the system.
-WD

"May be crazy but I ain't dumb!"

That is an old hotrodding trick. It's how you put a modern powerbrake system under a floor board...and if you look real close, how several of the OEM linked bike brake systems are plumbed.

Wish I could take credit for it...told my wife that being a gearhead wasn't always bad...
-WD

Apparently being a gearhead is usually bad, unless I'm working on her car...

Couple more hours and I'll know if the car will run again. I hope so. Neither bike is ridable, the truck gets horrible mileage. She has a new business that needs promoting. I can see her point. Kind of hard to tote advertising fliers on a bike, even with a daypack. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I have got to park the truck, gas prices are killing us.

Sure wish I knew ANYTHING about Toyotas.
-WD

8)You're blowin' my mind guys!! Y'all should be on TV!! Can't wait to see pics!!

WD,

if the pictures you are refering to are listed in the gallery from the home page, then they are the same 244 pictures that the sites owner collected/borrowed from other sites. paladins gallery is rather new and hosted at his site. it features the people who post here on a regular basis. i haven't seen an update to the 244 pictures since i've been lurking/posting. i even sent a photo to john, which did not get added to the lot.

as for me, i have a very very long fuse (can you say stoner) so seldom do i get mad at things or people, that makes for some boring tv.
also so sitting there staring for a hour at the machine as i work out a problem is pretty boring too.

i have to agree with the low buy in statement, it has made it easier to tinker with. like the bob job is considered tinkering.  

my hope and the reason i've posted so many pics is to stir others to jump on the mod wagon.
as i've worked out the hand shift/clutch i've come to the conclusion that i will not get wild and crazy with the performance mods. just a super trapp, rejet, and half white spacer. but then again ask me in a month or two as i become familar with the new shifter. my biggest concern at this moment is  low speed manuvering in parking lots and the like. like i said earlier, i can always put it back to factory.

Oh, and once you figure out how to shift with the new set-up, you'll never go back to the current standard. Much faster gear engagement, more positive shift feel, more control than a foot shift. I learned to ride on a 3 speed tank shift Knuckle, never have gotten used to the hand clutch foot shift thing.
-WD
I've said it before, I'll say it again, I'm strange.