Comments on: Greg’s SWEET RIDE

By: Greg Lightfoot

Greg Lightfoot — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:52:35 +0000

Terry

Give me a email pitbull@lightfootknives.com

I can give you the Ph# for the BRASS nuts

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0000

Look at the comments you’ve gotten so far…that’s awesome too.

By: Greg Lightfoot

Greg Lightfoot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:39:56 +0000

Yes the bike is not a flat tracker . The pics were on grass so it looks low

COOL sometimes rules

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:53:35 +0000

this bike is both lean…. and no-lean

By: terry cullen

terry cullen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:22:00 +0000

hello , think you can give me an email terry_cullen@msn.com i,am wondering if you could hook me up with some brass nuts i have a bike posted on site called brass addiction really need nuts or check out bikester57 on youtube you,ll see what i mean thankx terry i have paypal for some $$ for nuts if possible

By: davethewrench

davethewrench — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:59:28 +0000

Hey Greg…you should be able to take the brake rotor off, bolt it on the opposite side of the wheel and put it back on the bike without removing the rubber

By: scott halbleib

scott halbleib — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:20:57 +0000

nice stance but can you turn it at all?! seems like the exhaust tips would be gone in 20 minutes and then you’d start grinding the frame away. needs a battery box too. cool build tho!

By: Greg Lightfoot

Greg Lightfoot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:39:43 +0000

Hi yes the tire is on wrong

The front brake cal. that I had fit on the left side it looked cool as most single cal. set ups are on the right side . The tire was on right for the other side set up but I had to turn it round . It will be fixed when the snow stops flying

By: davethewrench

davethewrench — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:46:03 +0000

Alberta…Cool !!! I’m in Victoria BC
AND…Yes I agree with Nathan…check the front tire direction arrow

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:22:15 +0000

Nice lookin bike, but I think you have that front tire aimed the wrong direction. I had the same tires on my old Suzuki. Now that I think about it, I’m not 100%, but at least check the side of the tire. it should have an arrow showing directionality.

By: Greg Lightfoot

Greg Lightfoot — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:10:16 +0000

I live in Alberta my site is http://www.lightfootknives.com

Thanks for the great feed back everyone.

I race flat track and have a sweet SHELL framed XS 750 I have made and race

I will try and get pics up of that bike as well. I am also starting another bobber

dub. down tube frame and weld on hardtail with spoked wheels it will be sweeter

By: breasts

breasts — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:14:18 +0000

Sweet setup on that rear brake, guy. Happy miles to ya!

By: davethewrench

davethewrench — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:21:03 +0000

Motomaster battery?? where in Canada are you??

By: davethewrench

davethewrench — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:18:05 +0000

really nice bike….I like the Harley derby cover on the clutch with the oil cooler, I am doing the same thing only it’s in chrome with a chrome oil filter cover and the rest is polished…cool idea
by the way…Ya the copper is great !!!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:37:15 +0000

I just read some article on steam punk… it also refers to some kinda movie/comics genre, with an alternate future/past blend. lotsa cool gizmos, too, like this scoot.

By: Kaveeks

Kaveeks — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:27:06 +0000

Sweet build!!! I’ve been searching high and low for brass acorn nuts that size with no luck and everyone has been telling me that they are too soft as those nuts should be tightened to spec.

By: mcw racing

mcw racing — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:58:08 +0000

F*&$#&N LOVE IT

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:55:54 +0000

…and it’s AWESOME !

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:53:49 +0000

“steam punk” refers to brass and or copper that was used at the turn of the century and/or re-purposed on new garage builds. Google it.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:03:27 +0000

fan, is “steam punk” good or bad or…….what?

By: fanoboss

fanoboss — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:59:26 +0000

steam punk those seat springs. freekin cool bike. love all but the mids…personal preference of mine.

By: Greg Lightfoot

Greg Lightfoot — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:55:08 +0000

Hi the copper covers started out as some sort of gold chrome as in most plating
process there is copper underneath so I polished off the gold.

The brass nuts were gotten from a jobber that supplies the oil field and farming sector in Canada. The coil is one that I got from Ardcore .

I have found out from my racing friends that the coil is cheep BUT it looks cool
and fits under the tank just right 🙂

I got the copper covers off a 80s XS

By: Barney

Barney — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:32:02 +0000

Nice bike, i like the copper. Where do you get your acorns and what kind of coil is that?

By: terry cullen

terry cullen — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:29:39 +0000

looks good like the copper . don,t mind me asking but where did you find the brass nuts and same as other guy asked did you have cam covers plated copper or ? thanks

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:08:03 +0000

Very nice job. are those covers painted copper, or what? Did that frame require a new title? As Mike said, it sure is lowwwww… you could call it the street sweeper.

By: 650Sears

650Sears — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:01:49 +0000

That is one Sweet Ride. Most excellent !!

By: mike lytle

mike lytle — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:22:15 +0000

Man!! that thing is really in the weeds!!! what kind of sparks do you make when you hang a U turn?? looks like you did a nice job on the bike! thanks for sharing