Recent content by mitchie

I'd take that for sure.

Indeed. Awesome tires.

I will always struggle with purposely doing something stupid. I do stupid crap all the time and regret it. But when building a bike, you have lots of time to figure out that what you're doing is stupid.

Give the dad a week. Then raise hell.

I never said I'd ride it... lol. But the bike in your avatar is the king in my eyes.

That is a classic period piece...

Nobody SHOULD café a Goldwing or a Virago. The world is full of many, many great foundations for a sporty, fun project... Neither of those qualify in my eyes. And a sportster is as sporty as a Harley gets.. And is the closest thing to an XR750 Harley makes for the street... So a tracker...

The question being whether it was worth the man hours to make something that does nothing well...? It is not even pretty. Dirt bikes are dirt bikes.

Fair enough.. lol. It would do that.

What would you use it for???? It is intentionally unrideable.

You are preaching to the choir my friend... That sh!t makes no sense to me. I was having a chuckle with how ridiculous that thing is. A massive mid 70's two stroke air cooled mx motor, installed in a rigid frame??? What happened while I was gone? LOL.

Indeed.... But it's not much different than this.. http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2013/12/11/1976-yamaha-dt400.html

Somebody will buy that... Lower it.. Rake the forks and get it on pipeburn.

There is an enormous difference between an old 500 seat pan and a unicorn upper clamp off an early 750. Don't cut up parts that are rare.. When you can use a different part off the later version of the bike that has little value and requires no cutting. I hate that that my upper clamp has the...

Thanks man.... I will look forward to it.