RG rides great! Very comfortable bike for my 6'2" frame. And the 3 spd Nexus hub gets me over hill and dale. RiDe oN~!
BO15 RaTs GaSs...Great year all!...pg 26
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RaTs GaSs build Day 41
As a kid growing up on a small 'truck farm' in a country neighborhood with 20 boys between my youngest brother 10 yrs my junior and me; we had plenty of kids for sports, war games in the back-forty, push go kart races down our 1/2 mi gravel speedway, et al.
We also had a few different 'clubs' growing up. We would collect different cards and toys and use our little corn crib as a clubhouse. This was a tiny crib, about 6' wide by 10' long, with a metal roof, and slat boards typical of corn cribs for drying the corn inside, or shooting guns out at imaginary enemies.
This was our hang out, and my two brothers and I, along with neighbor kids, would spend hours in and around this 'crib' (long before any other guys from other 'hoods were referring to their hang outs as 'cribs'...).
It just really hit me full-on this morning, that my BACK40 is my grown-up club house, crib if you will, now some 57 years later.
Never mind the chilly temps outside right now, I'm feeling a warm glow of nostalgia out here in the B-40.
Oh, and, the RG has a couple udates as well, Videologue #8....
RaT oN, where ever your 'crib' may be~!
As a kid growing up on a small 'truck farm' in a country neighborhood with 20 boys between my youngest brother 10 yrs my junior and me; we had plenty of kids for sports, war games in the back-forty, push go kart races down our 1/2 mi gravel speedway, et al.
We also had a few different 'clubs' growing up. We would collect different cards and toys and use our little corn crib as a clubhouse. This was a tiny crib, about 6' wide by 10' long, with a metal roof, and slat boards typical of corn cribs for drying the corn inside, or shooting guns out at imaginary enemies.
This was our hang out, and my two brothers and I, along with neighbor kids, would spend hours in and around this 'crib' (long before any other guys from other 'hoods were referring to their hang outs as 'cribs'...).
It just really hit me full-on this morning, that my BACK40 is my grown-up club house, crib if you will, now some 57 years later.
Never mind the chilly temps outside right now, I'm feeling a warm glow of nostalgia out here in the B-40.Oh, and, the RG has a couple udates as well, Videologue #8....
RaT oN, where ever your 'crib' may be~!
Speaking of Gassers...
Oh the PUNishing humor!!!! It's so ODD-NOXIOUS!!! It's so bad, I need to stay back six feet!!!! 
Awesome additions to RG brother!!! Keeps getting better.
Awesome additions to RG brother!!! Keeps getting better.
MattiThundrrr
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Nice bit of nostalgia. Thanks. I nominate OJ to host the RRB get-together at his club house!
Still shots from today, for those of you who are really old school and don't watch videos. 
I mean, it is a 'gasser' so 'air' on the side of caution....
And it's not only a smelly rat, it's ODD - noxious!
Then later this afternoon, I got the gasser tinted acrylic window installed on RB.
Used these 'place holder card stands' from Office Depot. The .22 acrylic sits in there nice and tight. And they are clear, in the sun you can barely notice them.
GaSs oN~!
I mean, it is a 'gasser' so 'air' on the side of caution....
And it's not only a smelly rat, it's ODD - noxious!
Then later this afternoon, I got the gasser tinted acrylic window installed on RB.
Used these 'place holder card stands' from Office Depot. The .22 acrylic sits in there nice and tight. And they are clear, in the sun you can barely notice them.
GaSs oN~!
Sexy stuff! The window looks slick too!
Thanks KF! I did a test ride, and no movement at all on the window or the mounts. It's gonna work!
Taking a weekend break in the northwoods of western Wisconsin. Frost warning last night, woke up to 34 degrees. It will be a cold walk to the Drit Hus this morning...
The Renaissance Man
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Coming right along!
You're really capturing the theme.
You're really capturing the theme.
Good to see you are practicing social distancing...pretty shiny for you.
Then this happened....
But.... I'm getting a header myself....
But.... I'm getting a header myself....
Fenderwell headers, Cool!
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Killer pipes!
..... let's start from the beginning.
Our brother Rat the honorable @The Renaissance Man , doesn't have a build in BO 15 (yet?) but his influence is still there. A couple weeks ago, he suggested to me that maybe I put some 'headers' on my RG to really give off that gasser vibe, and fill some of that space between the fender and the front wheel!
After a couple of conversations, he suggested that using the grey plastic conduit as a material would work, and using a wooden dowel system to attach the various pieces. These only come in a couple of bends, and a semi-straight piece, so I had to do some slicing and dicing to get the look I wanted.
I used a 3- way junction box, and one 90 degree angle connector as the 'block' from which the headers protrude.
The 5/8" dowel was just a bit to big in diameter, so I ran the piece on my belt sander to take down the circumference so I got a nice tight fit for joining the pvc pieces.
Remember that Park Tool metal cup we were trying to guess how it was going to be used way back when? Well, my original plan was to cut it down the long way, and make a hood scoop out of it. If you look back on the thread, Jim (TRM) guessed it right away. Then y' all came out with your guesses and gave me more ideas than I could shake a pedal wrench at! After some thought, I knew how I wanted to use it.
It would become the header dump! What sealed the deal was when I put the rim of the cup between the fender brace indentation, and it was a perfect snug fit! Now this isn't a real engine guys, so don't get your undies in a bundle if they aren't the prototypical headers of a gasser car. Remember, this is not a REAL engine! It's just an old guy trying to muster 3/4 hp, on a good day.
We thought about a matte white as a color, to offset with all the chrome, so I painted them white at first. Looked just like white pvc pipe!
So, I went back to my original plan, paint them with the Duplicolor Chrome paint I had purchased to at one time do the panel in the middle of the frame. This chrome paint shows off best against a gloss black, so that went on first. I almost sprayed on a little mascot. The bees and other critters live in the paint stump out back.
This morning TRM sent me a link to how to create 'fake welds'. Me , being all about faux-tina on my builds, jumped on it. I used a hot glue gun and dropped droplets of glue in a pattern (sort of , my faux welding is about as good as my real welding! ) to create the look, after the black paint was dry. Then I went over it with the chrome paint.
What a fun project!
Our brother Rat the honorable @The Renaissance Man , doesn't have a build in BO 15 (yet?) but his influence is still there. A couple weeks ago, he suggested to me that maybe I put some 'headers' on my RG to really give off that gasser vibe, and fill some of that space between the fender and the front wheel!
After a couple of conversations, he suggested that using the grey plastic conduit as a material would work, and using a wooden dowel system to attach the various pieces. These only come in a couple of bends, and a semi-straight piece, so I had to do some slicing and dicing to get the look I wanted.
I used a 3- way junction box, and one 90 degree angle connector as the 'block' from which the headers protrude.
The 5/8" dowel was just a bit to big in diameter, so I ran the piece on my belt sander to take down the circumference so I got a nice tight fit for joining the pvc pieces.
Remember that Park Tool metal cup we were trying to guess how it was going to be used way back when? Well, my original plan was to cut it down the long way, and make a hood scoop out of it. If you look back on the thread, Jim (TRM) guessed it right away. Then y' all came out with your guesses and gave me more ideas than I could shake a pedal wrench at! After some thought, I knew how I wanted to use it.
It would become the header dump! What sealed the deal was when I put the rim of the cup between the fender brace indentation, and it was a perfect snug fit! Now this isn't a real engine guys, so don't get your undies in a bundle if they aren't the prototypical headers of a gasser car. Remember, this is not a REAL engine!
It's just an old guy trying to muster 3/4 hp, on a good day.We thought about a matte white as a color, to offset with all the chrome, so I painted them white at first. Looked just like white pvc pipe!
So, I went back to my original plan, paint them with the Duplicolor Chrome paint I had purchased to at one time do the panel in the middle of the frame. This chrome paint shows off best against a gloss black, so that went on first. I almost sprayed on a little mascot. The bees and other critters live in the paint stump out back.
This morning TRM sent me a link to how to create 'fake welds'. Me , being all about faux-tina on my builds, jumped on it. I used a hot glue gun and dropped droplets of glue in a pattern (sort of , my faux welding is about as good as my real welding! ) to create the look, after the black paint was dry. Then I went over it with the chrome paint.
What a fun project!
The Renaissance Man
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What's a gasser without fenderwell headers?!
The chrome paint is the ticket!
You're faux welding looks like some of my real welding.
The chrome paint is the ticket! You're faux welding looks like some of my real welding.
Thanks for the inspiration and tips along the way~!What's a gasser without fenderwell headers?!
You're faux welding looks like some of my real welding.
