78 Scrambler

[Easter]

Necessity is the mother of invention (and new found mechanical skills)!

[ronajon]

thanks to the holidays i finally got time to work on the bike.
after the scavenger pump rotor issues, i put on a set of 2nd hand gl1100 carbs. the seemed out of sync, so bought a carbtune. Still the carbs were running not in sync, so took them apart, cleaned out every jet and put the carbs together. Unfortunately i broke on of the idle adjusters, but descided to put the carbs together anyway (mainly because i had no other adjuster anyways)

at first startup the revs went directly up to 3k rpm, and wouldn't idle at all. first thought was i forgot tho clean out one of the jets.
After fiddling with the throttle cable, the revs went down.

throttle response was terrible, but the bike ran. So grabbed the carbtunes again, and finally after synching she runs great. Superb throttle response, no backfiring, steadly idling.

today i went to the parts shop and found a replacement cable for the backlight and some nice bar-end mirror.

[ronajon]

found time to do some small modifications
- drilled the front discs
- swapped the footsteps with motorcross pegs
- swapped the passenger footsteps with bmx pegs
- changes tires to Metzeler Tourance

[Markn]

Tires look awesome on it! (Any chance that you are familiar in the dutch bmx scene, couse of the pegs?)

[ronajon]

Tires look awesome on it! (Any chance that you are familiar in the dutch bmx scene, couse of the pegs?)

no, i'm not familiar. reason why i put them on was last week my son wanted a ride on the back and i had no passenger pegs.

after some searching i stumbled on his bike and saw the pegs on the front. he doesn't use the front pegs on his bike, so now they serve a purpose.

[BigDub]

Brilliant peg maneuver there! that's my kind of style.... great build. are those old tyres or new? i like the duel sport look to them. Although as heavy a bike as these GL1000's are i suppose they will shred thru a set of those pretty quick?
thanks in advance.

[ronajon]

Brilliant peg maneuver there! that's my kind of style.... great build. are those old tyres or new? i like the duel sport look to them. Although as heavy a bike as these GL1000's are i suppose they will shred thru a set of those pretty quick?
thanks in advance.

thanks, the tires are brand new, so i hope the don't wear out too fast

i just ordered some heat wrap, i'm planning to wrap the exhaust pipes, leaving the mufflers as they are

[Smoothboy]

Nice ride!

[Fred Camper]

Sure looks like a sweet ride. Are you sure you want to wrap those pipes, been told two years maximum from wrapped pipes due to accelerated corrosion?

[ronajon]

Sure looks like a sweet ride. Are you sure you want to wrap those pipes, been told two years maximum from wrapped pipes due to accelerated corrosion?

i read about the corrosion also. perhaps i'll try painting the headers first, then see how i will look and decide if i'm going to wrap it anyways

[cafewing]

I love what you did with it, it looks great.

What is that seat originally from?

[oldwings 78]

The rear fender looks great. Did you cut off a section from the forward end of the original fender or is that off a different bike? It's interesting how much of the bike is still original while changing the look so much. Nice work. I would say the word(s) for the look of the bike should be elegantly ballistic. Good job!
Terry

[ronajon]

I love what you did with it, it looks great.

What is that seat originally from?

the seat came from a Triumph Speed Triple. I "borrowed" the idea from Octane's Bulldog, and have seen other GL1000's with that seat on this forum.

The rear fender looks great. Did you cut off a section from the forward end of the original fender or is that off a different bike? It's interesting how much of the bike is still original while changing the look so much. Nice work. I would say the word(s) for the look of the bike should be elegantly ballistic. Good job!
Terry

thx for the compliment!
i did cut off a peace of the original rear fender. i especially wanted to keep the lip of the fender. If you look closely, you can see some hole in the rear end, where the original mudflap was attached

for the rest i try to use as much parts from scrap yards, or parts i had lying around already.

[ankof]

really nice looking bike. hard to tell what it is that makes the difference, but some bikes just got it.

[ronajon]

just got back from a test ride. doing 140kmh sitting straight up, with no windscreen is not much fun ... but test passed