wetwilllie
Active Member
I can't sleep so I will tell you a story about my 2001 Yamaha V-Star 650.
I picked it up in trade for my Yamaha Raptor 660 4-wheeler that I had been trying unsuccessfully to sell for 4 months. So I made the trade and lost 10cc and gained a pile of chrome, catalog bought "customization" and a lot of weight.
Basically I hated everything about this big fat bike. So we started ripping parts off and painting things. Here is the change after the first night. After this things moved a little slower.
Then I started hitting the tank with a hammer, painting things black and my friend started beating a piece of aluminum into a seat for me.
Painted headlight with Chrome skull/star.
Here is the tank with primer on it. Before you look, be warned, I used no bondo or any other filler on this. just sprayed the bare metal.
We raise the forks in the trees 1.5 inches-ish and then re-located the rear upper shock mount to drop it 1.5 in the rear. It also had some Vance & Hinds pipes on it so I cut the chrome covers off of them and pulled the silencers out. I think it made things much better. The giant air filter cover got tossed as well and I rejetted it.
Painted the tank with a gold leafed skull/star and took it for test rides with no seat trying not to fall into the rear tire.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/8658072">maiden voyage</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1789568">Sky Fleming</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/8661429">Untitled</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1789568">Sky Fleming</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Built a plate and taillight mount out of aluminum,
Made a seat spring out of an old trailer spring.
And mounted the very pretty seat My friend Matt made.
Found a fender at my local bike scrap yard and smacked it with a hammer until it worked.
And that about finished it. Then I rode it and listed it for sale for 4 or 5 months until it sold to fund my next projects. Thanks for taking a look. I think I told enough of a story that I can go to sleep now. g'night.
I picked it up in trade for my Yamaha Raptor 660 4-wheeler that I had been trying unsuccessfully to sell for 4 months. So I made the trade and lost 10cc and gained a pile of chrome, catalog bought "customization" and a lot of weight.
Basically I hated everything about this big fat bike. So we started ripping parts off and painting things. Here is the change after the first night. After this things moved a little slower.
Then I started hitting the tank with a hammer, painting things black and my friend started beating a piece of aluminum into a seat for me.
Painted headlight with Chrome skull/star.
Here is the tank with primer on it. Before you look, be warned, I used no bondo or any other filler on this. just sprayed the bare metal.
We raise the forks in the trees 1.5 inches-ish and then re-located the rear upper shock mount to drop it 1.5 in the rear. It also had some Vance & Hinds pipes on it so I cut the chrome covers off of them and pulled the silencers out. I think it made things much better. The giant air filter cover got tossed as well and I rejetted it.
Painted the tank with a gold leafed skull/star and took it for test rides with no seat trying not to fall into the rear tire.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/8658072">maiden voyage</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1789568">Sky Fleming</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/8661429">Untitled</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1789568">Sky Fleming</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Built a plate and taillight mount out of aluminum,
Made a seat spring out of an old trailer spring.
And mounted the very pretty seat My friend Matt made.
Found a fender at my local bike scrap yard and smacked it with a hammer until it worked.
And that about finished it. Then I rode it and listed it for sale for 4 or 5 months until it sold to fund my next projects. Thanks for taking a look. I think I told enough of a story that I can go to sleep now. g'night.