Decisions Decisions Decisions. It has all come down to Decisions. The bike is up on its own wheels, carb is in place, exhaust is in place, and the wire harness is somewhat in place. All the pieces needed to start her up, and I just let it set. More time spent thinking, planning, measuring than actual work took place in this update, so it is short, simple, full of babble and a couple pictures to compliment it.

"Any man who believes he controls the machine is in a state of...

Part 8: Published 10-26-09

Finally seeing the bike take shape, and getting caught up, we see what stood as a skeleton of bare metal, start to take form of a motorcycle, but not without a hiccup here and there.

"Boy! What a weekend!

I was originally going to name this issue of MOF “The exploady burny” issue, but decided against that… And more on that later. Right now, lets jump right into things!"

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As mentioned in Part 6, this blog has officially moved over to my own personal blog site in order to not have to post it and format it for multiple sites.


A wet weekend of more time spent driving than working proves that even a little progress is good progress.

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Do to the limitations of the blog software, I have moved my articles over to my own personal project site, where I will continue to update full articles.

This decision was made due to the increasing popularity of this project on multiple sites, and I wanted a single place to post to, and where linking was made easy. Because different forums have different mark up tags, this allows me to make 1 master copy, and then one stub to cut and paste to multiple forums without needing to change...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

Well this is another point five update, which means it is mostly just things that have moved forward, but have not really made any progress.

Some major things that have moved forward.

First off, the Fuel Tank

Getting back into working on this, I started to spend more time again, researching what people...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

Well it has been awhile since I've written in this blog for this series of updates on my XT.

Truth be told, it was a series of events that caused me to stop working on this bike.

But to bring everyone up to speed...

For the most part, all the parts are in for the bike. In fact, I have had everything...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

Well today's post isn't a whole lot to mention, so I'm giving it a .5 status. Not really a huge "leap" forward in the build project, but just a few things I've done here and there, and what I have found.

As mentioned in my last article, the Steering Stem bearings were shot. I have new ones on order, but now, I am having...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

This weekend was a good weekend for the old XT.

It started off Saturday, I stopped by Harbor and picked up a new Compression tester. It's much easier to just buy a new one, instead of bugging your friend that you borrowed the other one from that he forgot to give you the right adapter. Oh well, I really needed to get myself one...

If you are just joining me on this adventure, start with Part 1: My Old Friend

There is not a whole lot to cover in this installment, however just a quick update, a few pictures, and whatnot.

I ordered the Carburetor Rebuild Kit on Wednesday, and on Thursday I was called to be told it would be 3 weeks back ordered. "Yay".

In fact, everything I ordered is back ordered. The Carb Rebuild Kit, the Petcock Rebuild Kit, and the AAV Rebuild Kit is...

If you are just joining me on this adventure, start with Part 1: My Old Friend

On to part 2 of this adventure, today I'm going to go over last nights work that was done.

I took a couple days off from starting this project overall. I wanted to take the time to research a few things, plan my attack on the project, and think of what I want for an outcome. I spend a lot of time going over in my head, what exactly I would like to perform, prior to doing the job. It helps...