What did you do to your Bridgestone today?

[Romaine]

It was a long winter..

Pulled the old girl out of the shed today..

Created a build thread to document what Im doing.

Reading through all the threads for advice.

Putting an email together for Richard..

What else is everyone doing? 

[slawsonb]

So, it was 115 deg in Tucson yesterday (expecting 113 today). Summer is Tucson's equivalent of winter further north...not much happening except staying cool.
...bert

[bsracer]

So, it was 115 deg in Tucson yesterday (expecting 113 today). Summer is Tucson's equivalent of winter further north...not much happening except staying cool.
...bert

See you in San Diego soon?

paul

(haha...just an inside joke!)

[slawsonb]

Paul, we are true zonies. Seems like almost every vacation is somewhere out in SoCal. Enjoy the cool. We'll be there soon!
...bert

[Romaine]

Before scrubbed?

Ordered some parts this week - Clutch and Brake levers, Carb and Air cleaner Boots..

Today..

Took left muffler off and used Flix to scrub the rust spec off - this things needs a lot of cleaning and polishing..

Have to clean tank and remove rust - hate to "seal" it though.. I think that takes a long time... but what choice do I really have?

[OldSwartout]

Have to clean tank and remove rust - hate to "seal" it though.. I think that takes a long time... but what choice do I really have?

Once you have the tank cleaned, sealing it doesn't take much more time, cleaning is the longer process.  If it's just rust, from various posts here, evaporust apparently works well, although I've always used electrolysis. Electrolysis leaves a phosphated surface that is similar to the factory internal finish that resists rust for quite some time and I don't normally seal afterward.  Here's the link to both: http://kawtriple.com/mraxl/rust_removal.htm, plus there are various threads on this forum about those and other methods.