Fuck. You ARE the Intrepid Adventurist, are you not?

I love reading about your projects, my friend.

you could glass in some angles underneath for mounting tabs. I'd bolt the tabs up to the frame & probably use a bit of epoxy stick to initially fix the seat to the tabs. Then later cover the seat/tab joint with glass? Does the blaster come with a compressor or do you guys have a big one? I've got about the biggest 110v compressor I could find and it's painfully slow blasting for a minute then waiting for five. But I gotta let the elec. box's fuse cool a bit or it blows. Blasting is certainly the best route, but If there's just rust in the nooks & crannies & you're not concerned with a mirror smooth surface in there you could use some rust-mort or similar & paint right over. If blasting the whole frame with sand (cheapest & fast) you will pit it & need to hand sand a lot to get it smooth again. What media did they suggest? My cabinet has been offline for a while, I can't recall if I've used walnut shells on rusty steel or not, but I think they'd not pit the metal as bad but not cut as efficiently. You can re-use aluminum oxide longer than sand, but that's not a concern I guess & it does still pit. You don't so much need to worry about breathing it though. Silica sand is floating silicosis, so wear a mask. wear two. Glass beads are nice for aluminum but futile on rusty steel. Those are all that I've used.

you are making good progress

damn you are putting a lot of work into that bike, it is going to be a show piece.

Everything's looking good.

All the work will definitely be worth it in the end. I was kinda hoping the Kawasaki leathers would give me a little boost, but you could be onto something. This patch can't hurt:

ebay of course! also got this one:



I have an identical but green kawasaki one on a jacket. they come up from time to time, but there aren't any on there now. There is a Kawasaki For Women's Lib patch that might be a big hit with the ladies or two different My mama rides a kawasaki ones which are pretty cool.

LOL nice photo, what is that in your eye?

Do you ever listen to the band "nine pound hummer"?