The S12 update

Let's face it, I'm old now. I think I'll be writing a lot more in this blog than I have been in the past few years of its existence. For starters, I've been getting a lot of questions and comments about the elusive S12 that I kept stored away in a garage somewhere. And frankly, it's gone! Forever, ever, ever. I sold the shell to a close friend of mine by the name of Hung and he's thrown in a CA18DET from his old black car and et cetera, how it's going to turn out, who knows? That's the fun part.

Recently, I was asked for a couple photos of its glory days for the S12Silvia calendar thing and while browsing through the sloppy, unorganized mess I call my archives, I reminisced a little bit about that old thing. I really liked how it looked, what a shame though that I hated that car so much. Hah. Any who, those two photos above are the ones I picked.

I'm sure you're all well aware that I now have three projects to attend to (those of which I haven't touched in probably a millenia) that consists of the cb750, 240z and that headache of an ae86 shell. Priority numero uno is pretty much the motorcycle since I'm in need of a daily here in San Francisco and then the s13 stuff I have left over will be thrown into the ae86; Ka24, front suspension, you name it.

There's also a ton of stuff I haven't posted here over the course of my absence, they should be popping up here and there as I find them in my daily travels. Enough talking though, here's the S12 junk; archives of its peak and ending with the lackluster photos of its demise.

MotorMavens Feature

SuperStreet Feature

SpeedHunters Feature




















And that's that.

Cafe cowboy from benedict campbell on Vimeo.

HARD TAIL

The money from selling the ruck is disappearing a lot faster than I expected. And it isn't entirely on cool bike parts either, super bummers.

A few cool things came in though, and the first of it is this rad mooneyes tail light. Franky, I bought it because it's a cartooney skull that reminds me of the skulls in Zelda. And it's pretty cool that it isn't the average tough-guy skull, haha. Fucking loser, I know.




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And the hardtail also came in. Fully committed now, so the cars are just gonna rust and wait.




check out that sweet beer koozie

It's gone!

Ruck is out! Initiating buy-cool-things and horde-bike-parts sequence.

Finally!

A few people are gonna be checking out the ruck this week! Time to get it out, move on, buy a bunch of bike parts and take the plunge into the cb750 hard tail build. (and ride the bus for awhile haha)

That 2011 update

I haven't really been updating lately, I suppose I've been both busy and lazy. The projects themselves have gone absolutely nowhere but a lot of other things have been falling into place. My girlfriend moved in with me last month and this particular semester of school has been pretty busy. The latter of which has made me realize that I really need to focus on school work, I've been shirking those responsibilities for quite some time now. I've just been completely lazy and irresponsible, really, and I could hardly call the past few semesters an effort. And with her moving in, we've spent our collective money on other things the place needed like a couch, misc furniture and a really nice TV. It's shaping up to be a really cool pad.

The motorcycle, as of recent, has become one of my main focuses. And I'm definitely pushing aside all the other projects in order to get it going. Though, I shouldn't forget that one of my new years resolutions was to get them all at least running by the end of the year. The cb750 build in question has also taken another route, I've gone from wanting to build a vintage racer/cafe to the decision of building a hard tail/bobber and to fund that, I currently have the ruckus up for sale. So here's hoping.

I suppose I'll be updating more from now on, this blog was after all, a resolution/diary that I began in 2009 so I'll try not to disappoint myself this year. And as a strange by-product of that, I suppose that I won't be disappointing whoever reads this blog either. High fives all around.

As for the recent pictures of the girl, that ISN'T my girlfriend as someone has asked in the previous post.

This thing below is my girlfriend.

leaking stuff

So my KA leaked and lost oil pressure on the way home from buttonwillow last month and I believe I found the culprit. The fucking OEM oil filter seal is warped. I most certainly lubed it and tightened it by hand, luckily the leak didn't occur til I was almost home on the trip back. coooool











Thanks Lance! I'll be sure to get them to everybody

One more week of school!

Time to cram and get some projects rolling during break

more CR style

stuff

God, I am just so lazy to blog.

dennys before buttonwillow


electronic ignition for the cb750


macaroni and cheese and tuna and battles

It's time again

So stoked for friday, gotta get it all cute and ready. Maybe even work on the bike, too. droidx pics, this thing has pretty horrible performance in low light(expected) but looks pretty nice otherwise



yutas thing at fatlace's word up event, it was really chill. surprisingly chill for a skid event in the bay area


matts thing

HNNNGGG

Money Pits

I'm broke like every god damn day because of them. I hope I can scrunge up enough money to drift at bobs donuts this month.

As for the bike, I've been slowly breaking it down. My goal is to get it where I want it and daily it by the new year.





tank off


covers coming off






misc stuff coming off, check out that bolt for the foot rests! I thought it was gonna be rusted tight like 240z spindle pins.


and the "simplified" wiring harness the previous owner made that drains the battery


triple tree!




fork springs


head light ears, fork seals, new cables and clip ons