More Garage Progress

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but nothing post-worthy has come about in a while.
I'm assuming no one wants to see pictures of me cleaning, scraping, and sanding a motor for the last 15 days.

To take a break from the monotony of prep-work, I reorganized part of the garage over the break. The overall status of the garage is still "messy." It will likely stay that way until I finish painting, but at least in the meantime I have some room to move about. Also, the foam floor is a definite plus for keeping my butt and bare feet off the cold concrete.

Let us spray

Setting up a room for painting motors:

The paint room has come together quite nicely with a little help from my clam.
No, I'm not talking about my significant other, I mean my CLAM.
No, I don't have a...
*Sigh* just take a look at the pictures.

If a stapler had sex with a binder clip, this would be the result.

It spits out little reusable clamps when you slide the button.

Viola! Effortless seam clamping.

I used five separate sheets of plastic, one of which had a couple slits cut in it for an escape hatch or something. I needed to clip all those edges together to keep out the dust and keep in the heat and paint.

Now I have one seamless paint room. Even the bottoms of the plastic are clamped to the plastic sheet on the floor.

Garage makeover progress

I've made a little progress with tidying the garage up a bit. After several failed attempts at hanging some spare wheels from the ceiling, I think I have finally found a viable solution:

The only problem is, that corner of the garage is now pretty dark because those wheels are blocking all the light. A good permanent solution would obviously be to run recessed lighting throughout the garage, but I already have way too many projects on my hands. Plus that would require me to clean out the attic o.0

Garage makeover 3.0

Consider this the Beta release of The Red Carpet Garage v3.0

CB750 motors all tucked away on the shelf.
New containers house freshly organized parts.
More available flat surfaces to work on.
A kerosene heater to warm my butt.

Things are coming along nicely. I'll update this post with more pics later.

More Mess.

What a mess!

My poor garage has become a massive mess yet again.
Looks like spring cleaning round 2 this weekend.

Giving New Meaning to the Term "Naked Bikes"

...and simultaneously making my garage a much cleaner place.

Both bikes are now stripped down pretty much bare.
The K7 is down to the bare frame and the K2 will be undergoing an engine removal soon.

The Mess is Spreading

So after pricing out my K7's engine rebuild at around $5500 (I have expensive taste) I decided to put that project on the backburner for now until I can really afford to do something about it.

In the meantime I need a bike to ride, lucky for me I have this old basket case.

 


The plan is to pull the motor on this K2 and check it over. If it looks capable, then I'll throw it on the K7.
While I (hopefully) ride the K7 powered by the K2 motor, I'll be building the K2 project.

The K2 is going to require a lot of work all over to get it in running condition. It had been sitting for a couple years and doesn't look as if it's led the most comfortable life up till this point.

As you can see my garage is a disaster. 

This is the result of working on multiple projects at the same time.

Things Are Getting Complicated

With the addition of another motorcycle the garage is getting a little crowded.