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  1. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    I would have fuzzed out the porn, but then it would just be a GSXR with a bad paint job, and really not as interesting. Funny, Facebook didn't catch the porn. Sorry To have offended the censors here.
  2. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    Funny how he has a problem with the fair market price of something, yet brings up Obama and Democrats, who are traditionally a lot more about regulation and price control than the laize fair capitalistic republicans. What something is worth is what someone is paying for it.
  3. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    Who told you no paperwork in California is hell? It is the easiest state I have ever lived in, as long as the bike is no longer in the computer. If it is not in the computer you just get a VIN verification and it is yours. That Goldwing is still in the system and has been non-opped since 1998...
  4. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    You can call it what're you want, but this isn't 'Nam, there are rules - http://www.moped2.org/mstates.htm In some states a moped or motorized bicycle is required to have pedals, in others just about any 49cc bike can be ridden under moped rules and regs
  5. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    That is a law that varies state by state in the USA. Some require pedals, some don't, as far as I know. I think some lump anything with 49cc or below into the same category
  6. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    Did you guys read the ad for the GPZ? It was not being built as a look good down the pub cafe racer. It was actually being built as a race bike and just never got finished. Even then, paint the seat to match the tank and you got a pretty good looking bike
  7. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Just a few more days left to vote for my Bosozoku bike at the Deus Ex Machina Bike Build Off 2015 Global People's Choice Awards. Or, more likely knowing this crowd, vote for any bike but mine. http://deuscustoms.com/bikebuildoff/
  8. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    This was actually a nice little custom job, built by a young guy who used to work at Space-X before leaving to make custom composite parts. He basically builds bicycles from scratch out of carbon fiber. Unfortunately he knows next to nothing about the motor aspects of motorcycles. This is not a...
  9. Parkwood60

    "Cafe Racer" such a loose term! Craigslist "Gem" of the week!

    They cook up some good stuff in Bakersfield http://www.ebay.com/itm/Honda-CB-/331603942304?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4d35229ba0&item=331603942304 Though its of the chemical variety, not the motocyclical
  10. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Online voting is now opened for the worldwide peoples choice award. You don't have to vote for my bike, but remember every vote for bosozoku is a vote against a cafe racer with Firestones and no suspension travel that doesn't handle or go fast. http://deuscustoms.com/bikebuildoff/ You need to...
  11. Parkwood60

    1976 KZ400, coming soon to a dirt track near you

    I haven't, but I'm sure it would do okay on a dirt trail. I would be concerned about the garbage damping on the rear shocks and lack of any real seat padding. It also has an 18" wheel on the front, which will effect its behavior rolling over obstacles. I have a Honda cl450 that I have done...
  12. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Yeah, I'm here, but not very often. So this happened today, I have to assume because the bikes that finished 1st 2nd and 3rd said no
  13. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Here is the write up of the show on Ride Apart (also by me) - http://rideapart.com/articles/deus-ex-machina-bike-build-off-2015
  14. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Yada, yada, yada made a seat, mounted the fairing, wired up the lights and horns and there you go. 4th prize and minds boggled all over the country and the internet
  15. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    I cut the ends off the crossover can that was stock on these bikes, and welded it to pieces of mandrel bent exhaust to make an S, and then found a scrap piece from some sport bike and banged up a 2-1 collector. After that its all Pep Boys and a MIG welder.
  16. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    The first thing we did was take this thing down to its component parts, because the frame had to be painted, as did the wheels. Plus an obnoxious 2 into 1 into something stupid exhaust had to be fabbed up, as well as a seat with a tall sissy bar.
  17. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    The good news is that this bike had just had a tune up before going into storage, and a new rear tire. It still took the usual deferred maintenance, carb cleaning, battery and new front tire before it could be run. Another stroke of luck was that the shop also had a damaged unknown original...
  18. Parkwood60

    Bringing Chopsticks to a Knife Fight - The Deus BBO Bosozoku CM400

    Having been increasingly annoyed by cafe racers that are more fashion than function, I have threatened to build a Japanese style bosozoku custom for about 2 years now. When Deus ex Machina announced the Boundless Enthusiasm Bike Build-off again for 2015 I decided to go for it. Honda CB/CM400/450...
  19. Parkwood60

    1976 KZ400, coming soon to a dirt track near you

    Long story short, I got laid off, the bike sat in the garage for 6 months gathering dust, the Google Plus account I had the old picture hosted on was attached to my old job, so there are some broken images in this thread. I tried to go back and rebuild with images hosted on my own wordpress...
  20. Parkwood60

    Distinguished Gentleman's Ride 2014

    Los Angeles had over 400 bikes/riders, Though I think it was more like 300 something officially registered. I have no pictures from the actual ride, I was riding. I am collecting them from around the net. Here's what I have so far (you'll have to have a facebook account to see them, I think)...
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