Recent content by kauskustoms

got the bike to this state and found a buyer who wanted it as-is to modify to their particular tastes. so its basically gone. all it really needed was a seat, air filter pods, sidecovers. was done and running

why is this in restorations? because I'm not "cafe"ing it. This was a motorcycle I bought off the customer. we did some work to it but sometime after it left, the choke plate on one of the carbs vibrated apart and the motor sucked the piece in, ruining the valves. very expensive fix he sold it...

oh hell yeah it is. it needs mufflers to run at the local drag strip though, so it may get some so I can record it making some passes

doesnt work like that here in cali, if you cant pay the fine they assume ownership of the vehicle and auction it off after 30 days. its big business to buy and re-sell auction vehicles..

I should add that I was forced to build this bike on an extreme budget. all in all, I'm into the bike maybe 1400 bucks including purchasing and registering it. as far as weight drop, i lost the 50 pound stock exhaust system but the tail weighs about the same as the fender it replaced, and the...

I work at Lossa Engineering, and every few months I get to build a personal bike just for me. This is a bike I built out of a 1979 GL1000 goldwing. I played to the bikes strengths, It's a huge displacement, absolutely ridiculous bike in every way. truly the first "Muscle bike" I had a lot of...

some more detail pics of the smaller details.

when I was a teen, my first motorcycle was a 1970-something XS650, we bought it for 500 bucks and it fell apart on the ride home. We re-sold it 2 days later for 600 and my friends father gave me his old Sportster. it was a 1988 sportster 883. I rode it bone stock for a year while I was...

Hey all, just trying to show my work to the world in as many places as possible. This Goldwing I bought as a basket case for 500 bucks, I was forced to build it on an extremely cheap budget so I made do with what I could. I tore it down, mocked up all the bodywork, fabricated a custom subframe...