Looks like a motorcycle!

After my last post, I looked through some of the old photos of my bike and it's come a long way! I was struck by one of the photos I got from Hector, who sold me the bike. It's a picture of the rusty, dirty handlebar risers. Today I took a photo of them as they are now so I could do a before and after...

Before                                                                     After   (Just in case you couldn't tell...)

There is a decorative piece that attaches to the header pipe. Ostensibly, it's meant to direct the air to flow over the cylinders to help with cooling. It doesn't make much of a difference, apparently, and I was going to skip putting them on, but today I cleaned them up in the glass bead cabinet and they look pretty good. Here's another before and after... the glass bead cabinet. Actually, they'd both already been washed in the parts tank...

Oh yeah, we also put the wheels on today:

And the engine:

And the transmission: