Hey guys. I recently purchased an action camera and am trying my hand at starting a motovlog. Right now I'm rebuilding my bike for the 3rd time and am mainly using tools and discussing tool and bike related items while doing it. I was hoping to get some feedback from some of the members here at GSTwins.com. I shot about an hour and 10 min of footage in 1080p. This is the first video of my test session with 2 more to go.
Link to my channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxl85BkysCgfSH5KjnaY3mw
Please let me know what you think. All comments are welcome good and bad. I really just need some feed back so I can see what direction I'm heading with this project.
I think I have managed to do what some of you suggested and it worked very well. check out the new cut. I was able to cut Part #1 down to 13 min. It flows so much better.
I added an intro graphic and cut the pictures into the video of the color scheme. Let me know what you guys think now.
Whats up ladies and gents. Episode 1 part 2 just hit the floors hot. The editing went much smoother and tried my hand at some new effects. Check out the video and like comment or subscribe if you enjoyed it. All your feedback greatly apriciated.
Thanks for all your guys comments and advice. If you like the videos stop by the channel and leave a like, comment, or subscribe.
I have a new video for everyone. Your suggestions have been more than helpful. Come on by and check out the channel and if you enjoy what you see, share, like, comment, or subscribe.
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Hey guys been lurking here since I bought my GS in 2012 now I think its time I show you the fruits of my labor seeing as how i farmed a lot of good information of this site. I was involved in a bad bike accident in 98 and never thought I would get on a bike again. Broke my back and hip several skull fractures, shattered my jaw, left arm, and right knee and lost the sight in my left eye. I never really even thought about riding again and all of the sudden my neighbor comes and ask me to help him transport a bike he had for sale. I went and picked it up and took it to his sale and asked him what he wanted for it. He said 600 bucks and I did'nt think about it. The guy came and he couldn't get the bike started as it was basically a mess. My neighbor was hard up for money so I offered him 400 bucks and he could leave it in my truck. So the bike was mine. I took the bike into my kitchen and started tearing it apart to clean the carbs and redo some fuel lines and do some general fixing up so i could get it ready for resale. This is the bike after i cleaned it up and got it running with a couple new touch's i decided to do the monster seat conversion on the bike and the forward wiring was just horendous so i got a chinese scooter headlight that was large enough to hold the rats nest. i wasnt ready to tackle the wiring just yet and added some led turn signals and im not sure what the tail light came off of I bought it at a swap meet.
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it sat in my kitchen for about 5 or 6 months with me afraid of getting on it, with good reason i might add. As soon as i found an interested buyer for the bike i knew i would have to test ride it and sure enough 15 min later i new i couldnt get rid of it. I rode the bike for about 4000miles till the motor ate a valve shim. Then the work began.
I bought a wrecked 07F with a v and h exhaust and vortex clip on but the kicker was it had a fresh engine with an ingnition advance mod and a big bore kit and port on the head.
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So i started striping everything and fitting it to my bike tell me what you think of the rest the pictures speak for them selves. I left the pairing system on the new engine and added a small oil breather filter to it. Also have lunch box air filter with the vance and hines. Jetting is 22 pilot 65 mid main and 147.5 main with clip in 3rd postition and 2 and a half turns out in the mix. Had to go to a digitial tach and had about 45+ hours in the wiring harness. Put a 150 tire on the back and a lithium ion battery. but everything on the bike is now 07 or newer. Except front brake and forks.
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Will post up some of my most recent pics as well.
The lighting makes my bike look really dirty but its not. Like i said i will get some better pics of the finished product for you guys.
COOL post and interesting story!! Lots of pics and details on another project helped out by the info on this awesome forum :woohoo: Thank you for sharing and (a belated) welcome to the forum! :icon_mrgreen: Glad that you recovered and are back on two wheels.
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Servus,
please more Pics from the Blue Bike and not from the GS. Thanxxx.
Bike looks great would like to see more pics of the blue bike as well
When you say you had the clip in the 3rd position what is the clip your talking about?
I think I ment a number 3 washer not clip in 3rd position lol. To much in my head to type it out correctly.
To everyone else the blue bike is not blue, Its purple. Besides its a GL500 Honda. It looks cool but its a gutless turd. I call it the Musk Ox.
Well I started working on the my mama again stripping her down for a new paint job, pretty much done stripping the tank and main frame. I've been working on it for about 3 days now and their is finally enough progress to update this thread. I was thinking about doing a white frame with a black engine and all black accessories. Or possibly a turquoise or aqua frame with gunmetal grey engine and accessories. Let me know what you guys think.
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Still need to clean up the swing arm, polish the forks, update my tail section supports to 3/4x3/4 square stock now that the rear end is how i like it, strip the rims, take a couple dents out of the tank and paint.
I love the idea of the turquoise or aqua frame! I have seen a fair amount of variations on the black/white combo... I love something different! :thumb:
Hey guys. Well a couple days ago I purchased a Midland XTC 400 wifi action camera. I took a little over an hour of video of me working on the bike and discussing my plans for the bike. This is my first attempt at a vlog and was hoping to debut it here. I think the filming went very well for the first time around. I have the videos uploading to YouTube at the moment and will post them here when they are finished. Here are some short videos I took with a cell phone camera before I took the bike apart again. I was kinda poking fun at a buddy who has trouble with his Sporty in cold weather.
Here is the bike at idle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRze0c-N_70
Here is the bike after about 30 sec of idle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vqAH6x9PRA
Please let me know if their is any interest in a motovlog with a gs500 with the people of this forum. I hope to be discussing everything from the build of the bike to the lifestyle of riding bikes and beyond. If this is not the place for this I apologize and will keep my further videos I post here strickly about the build of the bike.
Ok guys I have part 1 uploaded and ready to go. Here is the link to my bike into.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v33m3U3QIwE
please leave a comment here or on YouTube. Your opinions, good or bad, mean very much to me. This is a hard thing to get started doing and getting some feedback would greatly help.
Well here is the rest of the test video. I really would appreciate any feed back you guys might have. Even if it's something along the lines of "not interested in this" or "its a good idea I just don't like they way you are doing it". Any feedback at all.
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfIeYi4ex30
Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIz0NUnCTI
Again any feedback or criticism is welcomed. Hopefully at least one of you will find this type of thing enjoyable.
OK guys. Check out the new cut. I was able to cut Part #1 down to 13 min. It flows so much better.
I added an intro graphic and cut the pictures into the video of the color scheme. Let me know what you guys think now.
I spent 8 hours on this last night so if you could just take a second and leave me some feedback so I know how thing are progressing it would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhUOnw2oFM
I enjoyed the new cut! You could try saving talking about your plans until you're working, but that's just a preference thing.
Thank you very much for your input I will definitely keep that in mind for my next episode.
Whats up ladies and gents. Episode 1 part 2 just hit the floors hot. The editing went much smoother and tried my hand at some new effects. Check out the video and like comment or subscribe if you enjoyed it. All your feedback greatly apriciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcQH7wdF78
how about painting the fork tubes to match the new frame? I never like that worn silverish color on my bikes but I don't have the motivation that you do :cheers:
I am trying to do some photoshop's of the bike with the different color contrast ideas. I will be sure to include a pic with your idea when they are done. Thanks for your suggestion NYNJ8. Keep the comments coming guys I'm really excited to hear what you guys have to say.
I have a new video for everyone. Your suggestions have been more than helpful. Come on by and check out the channel and if you enjoy what you see, share, like, comment, or subscribe.
great build man. your bike looks a lot better than that GL500. love the videos too
I've watched the first video and subscribed, great video so far, I will have to say though, your hair in the right corner of the screen was distracting haha :D
Well I finished changing up the rear end geometry and took the angle iron rear supports out and welded in some 3/4x3/4 square stock. I thought I was recording the whole time but it turns out my battery was dead from filming my daughters 9 month check up, so sorry no video this week. I did take some pictures. And here they are.
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Still have to grind some welds on the next visit then its on to the dents in the tank.
Now it looks like it should, great job!
Well. Not yet. Not until all those nasty old welds and the new welds are ground down smooth. Then it will look like it should. O0
Ok guys. I know I haven't updated this in a long time. I actually did finish this bike and took a lot of your suggestions and made them real. Thanks for helping me pick the color scheme of the bike. I have gotten very good responses to this bike. People seem to love the color. She runs amazing still and is definatly a head turner now. this is a lot of pictures so im sorry for that.
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This was the final reassembly of the bike and were its sits right now. Please let me know what you think and if you guys have any more suggestions. I have about 100 hours in paint and body. The colors of the bike are Volkswagon Electronic metalic green and Audi Titianium Metalic Gunmetal. I two toned the adjustable mono shock and painted the front forks the same color as the frame as per NYNJB's suggestion.
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Oh man thats a lot of pictures.
1st set of new pics. This is all the priming and painting,
Ok guys. I know I haven't updated this in a long time. I actually did finish this bike and took a lot of your suggestions and made them real. Thanks for helping me pick the color scheme of the bike. I have gotten very good responses to this bike. People seem to love the color. She runs amazing still and is defiantly a head turner now. this is a lot of pictures so im sorry for that
2nd set of pics.
This was the final reassembly of the bike and were its sits right now. Please let me know what you think and if you guys have any more suggestions. I have about 100 hours in paint and body. The colors of the bike are Volkswagen Electronic metallic green and Audi Titanium Metallic Gunmetal. I two toned the adjustable mono shock and painted the front forks the same color as the frame as per NYNJB's suggestion.
also there are a few pics of the front fender and a new fly screen. These are all painted to match the bike but are not on the bike yet. I need a smaller gauge cluster to mount the fly screen close enough to the forks so it doesn't jut out like a sv650 front fairing. I'm thinking of a koso digital gauge cluster for the bike. As for the front fender it looks great with the flyscreen and not so much with out it, to me anyhow. So I will be waiting to mount that untill the gauges are figured out. Right now I'm working on making a duel exhaust out of my two vance & hines full exhausts and a custom set of rear sets to get my legs in a better position for extended riding.
Glad to see you're back!!
I really enjoyed all the pictures. That green color is very nice... not too bright and not something you see all the time. The paint on the tank looks so shiny and clean... I'd be constantly treating it like fragile glass :kiss3:
The dual exhaust idea sounds awesome and I hope you keep going with that!!! I've seen it done at least a couple times before so I know it's certainly possible.
I'd like to see ya pick up one of those thick aluminum fork braces from Chuck81 and put that on maybe? I think they look great.... Also, I'm not sold on that scooter headlight (I think you mentioned scooter in an earlier post because of the space it had inside for that huge wire nest in the front?)... from some angles I like it and others I'm not so sure. You did mention about the fly screen and also adding the front fender back on so I'm really looking forward to seeing that!! Digital gauge sounds super cool, I have certainly enjoyed watching project threads in the past when people do different things with the gauges.
Can't wait to see more. Great work so far! Oh yeah before I forget, do you have any plans for a chain guard? I know there are mixed feelings about them out there but I'd hate to see dirt and chain lube and whatnot get flung all over your nice paint. :nono:
Awesome update !!! :cheers:
Thanks ShowBiz for the kind words. Im not sure what fork brace your talking about but point me in the direction and ill see what i can do. As far as the headlight is concerned i am definatly ready to move on from the scooter headlight. Not because i dont like it, because it is dangerously dim. If i could find a bulb system to work with its very proprietary configuration i would keep it. I turned the headlamp mounting brackets upside down and switched them from left to right. It gave me a much more pleasing placement of that massive thing. So much so it has even made believers out of the haters. I really love that headlight I just cant handle its marginal performance.
Here is a recent post from chuck about his fork braces and covers:
http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=70056.0
I can't see the pictures in that thread, they show up as little squares with a broken image in them so if you have trouble as well, here is his original thread about them:
http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=59323.0
Maybe someone on here will read this and have some helpful ideas/advice on creating a better bulb system so you can keep that headlight...!!!