Also it was a rare bike that people actually want.
MINT sandcasts are selling for $30,000 and a 500 mile bike sold last year for $45,000
the fuller thing(not a bike) started out as a K0 not a sandcast, but the K0 is the first cb750s that people can actually buy as mint is $10,000-17,000 and they share many of the sand cast parts.
what fuller cut up was not the end all be all holly grail of bikes, but it was something that was more valuable and a better bike before he touched it. how many one owner 75K mile bikes are out there with the history that bike had? It was just as much killing the history as cutting up the bike.
just look at cars and what the market has gone through.
Pros street cars were all the rage in the 80s-90s right? everyone had 15in wide wheels with tubs and blowers sticking out of the hood right? now those cars are out of fashion and you can buy them for pennies on the dollar spent, because the new fad is pro turing. who knows what the next fad will be
but will all this fad building is going on clean numbers matching original cars are always being bought and always going up in value. yes there have been spikes and dips in the prices but the general trend is up. this can not be said for the "fad" builds
its not to but down the "builds" as custom building has always been with us but dont you think that there is a forum some place thats bitching about some one thats jumping on the pro touring band wagon and cut up a real RS/SS to do it? im sure there is.
One more thing, the other problem is the miss information that fuller and his build put out.
-he stated that frame building is easy....really? well it might be relatively easy to build something that looks like a frame but it takes knowledge and skill to make one that works
-all the bull shit about hacking up rare parts, i heard that the tank that he cut was not a "wrinkle" tank(worth about $3000) so why say it? just to be "that guy"? its a flat out lie
-ect ect ect
by building a bike like that and saying the things that he did it shows new people that kind of attitude is good and celebrated. it should not be at all.
maybe if CR took the time to find REAL bike builders or people that are actually involved in the cafe industry they would have had something that we would like but they were just doing this for kicks
really read up on what MS did to the chopper world and all the nice things he used to say about jap bikes or cafes....now he loves them because he wants to make a buck
fuller was on the show over carpy? now im not a huge carpy fan and have had a few issues about some of the things that he has built but the fact of the matter is that he has done a ton for the movement here in the states....
carpy will never be on the show due to words he has had with MS.
Also here in NYC there are many great shops and bikes but they still show cased a shop that was building street fighters....and almost killed a pro rider....
some of the good shops turned down CRTV for S2 and others were dropped in favor of the crap they are showing.
guys should just stick to what they know and do that well and keep trying to due that thing better rather then try and bounce around on what ever is popular.
guess this happens with all things over time.....punk, hot rods, music....
Only thing that i can hope is that the people that are really mad and understand what the show and other things like it are doing wrong take that anger and use it to make the best bikes they can to show what things really should be....and hope that it catches on
