Recent content by knuckle47

Great stuff, excellent photography and entertaining travelogue…Out of all of this, the most fascinating moment for me is that I have learned the intent behind “89Nolder”. The advertising banner popped up here. Remember, I learned to read in Catholic school in the 1950’s. If you ran words...

FINALLY installed the finished steering wheel. @Tomba had said it right…. My hands ache from gripping the needle and pulling thread. If you do plan on doing this…that Harbor Freight dental pick vastly improved the thread tightening and made the leather fit snugly. I would venture a guess that...

The arthritis in the base of my thumbs will agree with you.

Several projects underway on the 40. The most frustrating one was sprucing up the steering wheel. It was in very good shape to begin with but the few I have seen that were re-painted and shiny always caught my eye. It really came out great but the little plastic horn switch inserts did give...

MiG…..yep. .023. Stick….maybe 7013

I whole heartedly agree….. when I had mentioned that I was born 50 years too early and 50 years too late it’s because I have spent much of my life rebuilding stuff… furniture, RCA and Edison Victrolas, cars, trucks, clocks, bikes, bicycles, musical instruments, etc. some of it truly trash...

73 years I ain’t never seen a bug like that! What is that?

Confidence is the keyword. It is that first few rides that keep blood pressure up and nerves on edge. Especially when you have been through that sinking feeling when something craps out any distance from the “end goal” When restoring old motorcycles I would go up and down my road over and...

Didn’t get it because of NO WI-FI! 😂

I don’t know about the company but… I had a friend ship me a few Bandierante parts from São Paulo about 2 yrs ago. It was an issue shipping through the post due to the refusal of accepting international parcels. The box was about a 20” cube and they tried different post offices but all...

Like they say “ It’s a Dogs Life”

Watched it…..TWICE! nice ending to that story 👏👏👏

@Michael B in the years I am watching the things you have put you hand in< all of it has been 💯

What a long strange trip….from the ashes, it rises! Looking great!

When I turned 30 my first computer was a VIC20 with a cassette tape for data 🫪. 1983 I love the LED strip interior lighting so much….ordered it yesterday..showed up at 4:30am today