I have the front end off the R80 and am waiting for some new steering stem bearings ($8.80 ea, vs. $29 ea from BMW).
I figured I might as well clean up that poorly finished lower triple clamp while I waited. The factory cast seams were pretty nasty, so I filed them off, and smoothed the rest, then polished it up a bit:
I like it a lot better without that big ugly seam around the middle.
Nice !
However, any more moves like this are likely to get you appointed as a Club officer. 😛
Owning an old Airhead is easy.
Keeping an old Airhead running great is the true test.
Beautiful, I was recently rebuilding my Bing CV carbs and waiting on parts... ended up doing the same thing 🙂
Wow! That is a lot of time-consuming detail work!
How long were you waiting for parts, anyway?
😉
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