Motorcycle Wheel and Brake Repair
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New stuff for old bikes: The ContiClassicAttack from Continental Tires are street radial tires for classic bikes.
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Jennifer tackles the sometimes-frutrating process of lacing spokes and truing wheels for her Triumph Bonneville restoration. This blog was originally posted as "Real Life Wrenching: How to be a spokes person" on motorcycleclassics.com.
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"My oldest daughter and I walk down the street to Bonnie, my trusty T100 Triumph Bonneville. Life is good. But something isn’t right. The bike is standing a bit more vertical than usual. It is almost to the point of tipping off of the sidestand. What’s this? A flat rear tire! Looks like it's time for a little motorcycle tire repair." Follow Bo Miller as he takes us step-by-step through a sidewalk motorcycle tire repair on a T100 Triumph Bonneville.
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This rebuild came about as part of Project Café, the 1973 Honda CB500 Four we’ve been morphing into a street café racer with help from BikeBandit.com. We covered rebuilding the brake caliper in the September/October 2009 issue, a project you can also find here on our website.
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Rebuilding the front brake caliper and installing new brake pads.
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Rebuilding the carburetors on the Motorcycle Classics Project Café 1973 Honda CB500 bike.
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Ask any classic motorcycle restorer who built their wheels, and chances are they’ll mention Buchanan’s Spoke & Rim.
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