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g board until he reached a modicum of acceptance we called it good for the night i received a text from ian a few days later no shop this week yo me hurt good that s the last i heard until today it turns out he high sided the same bike not his race bike still a touchy subject twice over the course of three weeks with the same injuries elbow and shoulder yep racing can hurt posted by anonymous at 2 52 pm monday june 9 2008 ian s 400f continued ian took out ye old grinder and sawsall and went to town on ripping open a hole under his pet 400f s sidecover he took out the battery box and ground down every tab nub and other bit of metal daring to block the beautiful view through an open 400 four a small battery will go under the seat making the bike pretty much kick start only ian may leave the starter motor in it though just for fun now that the first stage of roughing out how he wants it to look is done ian can go about finishing it with clip ons and a wheel package buffed up hubs and aluminum rims when you take off the pounds of a steel wheel steering is a whole lot nicer so far the bike has lacked a seat ian s trying to get a new one done as quickly as possible so he can ride the bike raw the new seat complements the roundness and squarishness of the tank meaning the seat is pretty boxy with some nice curves it s almost done ian just needs to rip up the backside as shown by the black sharpie line stuff in a half moon led taillight and weld some more steel back there to close it up it should be striking when it s all done he said it ll be mean you wouldn t want to run into it posted by anonymous at 3 33 pm friday june 6 2008 ian s 400f though this 400f has been for sale ian hasn t been trying too hard to sell it though some people have expressed interest in it as it is he wants to build it into a cafe bike make it his own private project this thing is mechanically solid ian said it doesn t even have any slap on the cam chain adjustment we kind of miss the knockout 360 because that was going to be our personal shop bike so i m going make this into a really nice cafe 400 with a custom seat i want to make a bike i can rock around on so he s thrown it into the pile of work already on the list something he can work on during the couple of evenings that he sets aside each week to get caught up on stuff and to do pet projects the changes the 400f needs are all pretty much cosmetic it ll have one of ian s trademark steel seats a single speedo no tachometer a drilled rotor and a cleaned up engine though it already runs perfectly fine the electronics and battery currently blocking the view between the subframe and the frame will move out of the way the shocks and tires will probably get upgraded and ian will do anything else ian wants to do ian plans to keep the header pipe the exhaust pipe and do something fancy schmancy with the mirrors he may switch to clip ons and will replace the turn signals and taillight with something a lot more sleek what about the wheels i m not sure what i m going to do with the wheels ian said i might rebuild em i might buff em up nice and shiny maybe i ll put in some aluminum rims so it s a dream in the making when he s done everything he wants to do with it will he consider selling it well everything i have is technically for sale except my tx and my sr500 ian admitted i guess i d part with this bike if somebody funded it for 5 000 or more i keep asking for more money on these things because i keep having to part with good bikes and i never have one to ride myself i ve been having fun on this one reluctant as ian might be chances are that someone with grander dreams could also probably negotiate with a good sized deposit posted by anonymous at 4 17 pm winter fruit the boys of twinline have been busting ass all winter on several custom projects i ve talked about the knockout 360 and project goldhead here are some more coming down the pipe all to finish by september this 1974 cb550 four has a rebuilt motor it has a custom exhaust pipe and a supertrap muffler and will be disk tuned soon a supertrap diffuses overall noise while emitting a deep rumble that should scare the crap out of people who don t expect a medium bore 550 to come up growling into its territory as ian put it the bike will have clubman bars clubmans stick through the top of the bike and are higher than clip ons which are race style clip ons clip onto the front fork the 550 four will go two up that is allow for a rider and a passenger as i got this definition from ian he lapsed into italian a k a ducatese one up is solo mono posto ian said duo is bi posto alrighty then already the 550 four has a drilled rotor a rebuilt frame and new avons avon tires are good for a wide range of vintage applications the photo doesn t do this bike justice the powder coated frame is actually a kind of metallic flake silver a norton racing yellow tank and matching sidecovers will complement the frame sidecovers are the things that cover the electronics and battery it s gonna look pretty fuckin dope when it s all done ian said this bike should be done by the end of the month the boys are just waiting to get it back from painting to put on the final touches when all is said and done it should haul ass and look good doing it just the way we like it next we have a 1975 cb400 four it has a powder coated frame a 466 big bore yoshimura kit and a genuine yoshimura pipe it s getting a custom seat of all of our winter fruit bikes it will probably be the biggest sleeper the only tell tale sign that it s a little special is the yoshi stamp on the pipe to match the yoshimura pistons of glory yep that s an ian quote inside it the only time you re going to notice the pistons is the lovely sound they make as they leave you in the dirt ian said this thing should have about 40 hp at the rear wheel and weigh only about 360 or 375 upon doing some dyno time it should get up to about 130 mph it s getting close to completion and has had the business done to it next is the rocket one of twinline s interns and his dad are building it together on daddy s dime they ve scrubbed every nook and cranny it s turning into a great original type rebuild with clubman bars and drilled rotors everything s been buffed polished and powder coated it ll probably get new paint too ian s assessment it is going to show off like nobody s business yeah the goldhead is also still in the works it s the best custom work we ve ever done largely thanks to the funding that backs it more on that when we finish it up this one is no slouch either the british racing green brg 400f okay it s blue right now the owner originally wanted to go military flat green but after the frame came together and the engine turned out so nice and we collected all the accoutrements this bike needed to be racing green so full on hardcore british green it will be with traditional silver pinstriping we also have a wheel package and will powder coat rims hubs this that and the other it will be beautiful when it s done here we ve got a cb200 rr with an electronic ignition mikuni carbs and some cl high pipes that have been hacked at the muffler so they re optimally loud and horsepowery then of course motobits rear sets bridgestone bt39 race spec tires the kind that 160 racers race on and some hagon shocks we just became a dealer for hagon woo hoo this bike is actually two days away from firing and looking good don t judge by the picture they always look worse before they finally come together the brakes have been done the rotor s been drilled it s just gotta go through paint but the weather has been uncooperative finally we have this sr500 which will be a cafe bike we ve got some aluminum rims for it we have a white brothers exhaust now customly ceramic coated we ve got the supertrap to acknowledge all the hard work and development that s getting the most out of the little engine without blowing it up we ve got a flat slide mikuni carburetor a custom seat is on the way we ll be running clip ons no electronics will show they re all going to be tucked up underneath the seat the way we like em we re going to go solo dial on this one just a speedo no tach and we ll get it tuned up and ready to be the hooligan bike it was designed to be why go solo dial all of these single overhead cam beasts don t really care for revving beyond what you need ian said they re built to accelerate as quick as they can the motor over revs past its power production what he means is that you don t need a tachometer because as you run out of acceleration you go oh i m running out of steam i m going to shift so you shift all of a sudden you ve got power again that s the loveliness of the single overhead cam two valve per cylinder motor ian said and that is the dope cafe sr500 we don t really have another nickname for it don t laugh these things happen the dope should roll out of here at the end of the month it s gonna be pretty burly when we re done with it ian said posted by anonymous at 3 52 pm friday may 30 2008 european invasion the european invasion has begun twinline has been taking in european stuff from the beginning but word has only just gotten around that the guys can master these bikes as well as japanese ones it happened overnight we had no british stuff at all and then wham we got hit by six projects in a week and a half one guy wants us to do a cafe seat for his triumph another triumph is in the works we ve taken in a 68 bsa lightning followed shortly thereafter by a 71 or 72 norton commando 850 the italians didn t want to be left out so a 61 ducati has appeared as well it s gonna be fun to work on these bikes ian said they re designed differently and have a different character than japanese bikes so they re a refreshing change of pace after having our heads in the belly of the japanese beast for two years the guys already solved the bsa s electrical problem we just got the parts for the triumph pictured the norton is waiting its turn we re keeping the norton in the shop because it s really gorgeous and we want to look at it for as long as we can ian grinned ah but we can t wait to ride it either the owner took two years of weekends and evenings to put the norton together he did fantastic work but couldn t get it to start it s hard for a person to work on a big project without somebody to bounce ideas off of ian said plus the weather s getting really nice and the owner doesn t want to waste weekends trying to get the bike started he kicked it for two hours straight and couldn t get it to go hopefully we won t have to kick it for two hours but we will if we need to we ll figure out what s going on with it the well funded ducati will be a 250 manza cafe bike ferrari red we ll document it well it s gonna be hot ian said way hot posted by anonymous at 12 02 pm labels shop business wednesday may 21 2008 we re famous this is what happens when they do a writeup about a little bike shop in the pi that doesn t even show the bikes out front in various stages of deconstruction and it s before the european invasion see blog to come the guys now have to do a kind of sliding puzzle game each time they switch out the bikes they re working on here s the article http seattlepi nwsource com local 360306_needle24 html sound rider magazine also did a piece on us http www soundrider com current may08 twinline_motorcycles htm kuow just covered us next past week http www kuow org defaultprogram asp id 14984 a seattle metropolitan article is soon to come i think we might need to expand our capacity bring it on posted by anonymous at 1 33 pm labels shop business thursday may 15 2008 ko 360 out the door the knockout 360 finished with hellbillie coming down and throwing pinstriping on it see previous ko 360 blog ian gave ben license to do whatever he wanted as long as it looked awesome ben ran with it accentuating the bike s waspish shape in gloss black against the flat black coat when you trust that your artist is gonna turn up with something good he does ian said the guys have put some miles on the ko they decided to change out the sprockets giving the bike a higher top speed so it doesn t buzz all over the place at 70 mph they also ran it on the dyno at the dyno party it has about 25 horsepower at the rear wheel and about 16 pounds of torque from 3 000 rpms to about 9 000 rpms absolutely perfectly flat one thing the guys test for is loudness the ko is plenty loud last friday night when ian was in to tinker with some electrical stuff he took the ko out toward the cretins clubhouse where they were having a max rpms weekend and poker night a train was in the way so instead ian took the 99 all the way downtown and rode back down 1st through mariners traffic just as a game let out there were millions of people on the road he said i went through a parking lot to get around them the timing plate had been knocked a little bit so the bike wasn t idling perfectly at the bottom and i had to keep blipping it to keep it alive crank the throttle here and there just so it would go it scared the crap out of people they scattered like rats it was great and the bike did great it s a lot of fun to ride you could safety wire this thing for road racing if there was a class to handle it it would do well because it s quick and lightweight and has a heck of a motor under it it s tuned really really well so this bike is beautiful and fun and obnoxious that s pretty much the definition of a twinline bike posted by anonymous at 6 38 pm thursday april 24 2008 the dyno party we had to put off this blog for the dyno party which happened april 12 because nobody had been in charge of getting pictures then somebody brought us one so ian took a picture of it on the wall with his cell phone bunch o hooligans here s the whole pic one might say the panoramic view this is so you can see the guy in the red hat what he s doing is anyone s guess the party was a blast literally everybody had to stand at the opposite end of the shop from the dyno presumably for safety reasons but really probably because it was so freakin loud fortunately the keg was right there where everyone was standing i met a bunch of great folks a chick with brilliant blue eyes a tall skinny guy who told me about buckaroo s in fremont and a kid who rode around in south america that last guy might also be the one who has a suzuki drz 400 which i think i want if any of you care to shoot me a line and remind me of your names i d love to stay in touch but i digress with all the beer and barbecue and dyno runs sold we raised about 500 for racing projects and dyno ed some kick ass bikes yeah the next event we ve got planned a cafe sprint around town in july on whatever you ve got that runs because we realize that some cafe bikes out there don t run not naming any names we ll fill you in on that as we get closer oh and some more pics have trickled in because someone had the wherewithal methinks we have a new offical photographer in the man chris ...