JANUARY 2010 BIKE OF THE MONTH - VOTING!
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metalmike13
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Cafe Racer Porn!!!!
lachbeth1125
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Hello All,
Just so amazed to be nominated, feeling very humble in this company, awesome bikes!!!
After coming across this site, and reading all of the stories, builds, advise etc, I was def going to build a cafe.
I bought the KH for $300, looking like a supermodel in a brush painted gold, and knobby tyres (although I am sure the previous owner used a NEW brush).
I dismantled the beast (every nut and bolt she has), and the stood back and tried to plan what to do, I had too many ideas bouncing around upstairs, tonnes of enthusiasm, and a big mess!
I was sure though that the bike had to be white, with a bright coloured frame etc, so I asked my kids to pick a colour, expecting black or blue, but to my amazement, they said orange! Cool!
Due to budget, or lack of, the whole build would have to be done in the garage, by me, with again, tonnes of enthusiasm and NO experience.
To cut a long story short, the build took approx 9 weeks and $1,200 , and lots of fantastic garage time with the kids ;D
Cheers again for the advise and encouragement along the way.
Just so amazed to be nominated, feeling very humble in this company, awesome bikes!!!
After coming across this site, and reading all of the stories, builds, advise etc, I was def going to build a cafe.
I bought the KH for $300, looking like a supermodel in a brush painted gold, and knobby tyres (although I am sure the previous owner used a NEW brush).
I dismantled the beast (every nut and bolt she has), and the stood back and tried to plan what to do, I had too many ideas bouncing around upstairs, tonnes of enthusiasm, and a big mess!
I was sure though that the bike had to be white, with a bright coloured frame etc, so I asked my kids to pick a colour, expecting black or blue, but to my amazement, they said orange! Cool!
Due to budget, or lack of, the whole build would have to be done in the garage, by me, with again, tonnes of enthusiasm and NO experience.
To cut a long story short, the build took approx 9 weeks and $1,200 , and lots of fantastic garage time with the kids ;D
Cheers again for the advise and encouragement along the way.
baconpocket
eating bacon
i love this bike of the month thing, but i wanna add my 2cents about the suggested 100 post qualification.
i think it's hard to put a hard number as a measure of contribution. number of posts, length of time as a member, questions answered, w/e. i think the point you guys are making is that you don't want someone to join just to showoff their final product and get BOM. but that's gonna have to be a total judgement call. ya know someone like me chats a lot on here and i've reached the 100 post qualification, but someone else may have posted a build thread, some-how-tos, and really helped people who were stuck on their project and only has say 50 posts total. or someone only posted once but their work was really inspirational.
all i'm saying is that mostly everyone is contributing in a unique way and i'm suggesting that we be mindful of it.
great work on all these bikes guys!!
i think it's hard to put a hard number as a measure of contribution. number of posts, length of time as a member, questions answered, w/e. i think the point you guys are making is that you don't want someone to join just to showoff their final product and get BOM. but that's gonna have to be a total judgement call. ya know someone like me chats a lot on here and i've reached the 100 post qualification, but someone else may have posted a build thread, some-how-tos, and really helped people who were stuck on their project and only has say 50 posts total. or someone only posted once but their work was really inspirational.
all i'm saying is that mostly everyone is contributing in a unique way and i'm suggesting that we be mindful of it.
great work on all these bikes guys!!
Hey guys here are the details on my bike.
I purchased this 1973 CL350 in the spring of 2008 as a good stock runner. My goal was to cafe it in such a way to make it look longer and lower and faster.
It’s sporting a 1969 CB350 tank. I had the fenders, fork lowers, headlight bracket and triple-trees all powdercoated black.
I swapped out the CL pipes for standard CB headers mated to NOS MC Motorcycles shorty bell-mouth mufflers.
The seat is custom shaped foam and custom covered on a stock CB seat pan, so it uses stock mounting points.
My favorite part, and the part that gets the most attention from fellow riders, is the custom headlight bracket. I fabbed the pieces myself and had a shop weld it for me. The headlight is a CEV scooter headlight, which houses a 2.25″ tach. The taillight is a Lucas style unit with integrated plate mount and light.
The 1 7/8″ speedo is mounted to TTR400 CNC’d clip-ons.
The paint is Corvette Victory Red and a GM maroon done by Josh Ferry of The Autobody Complex in Wichita, Kansas. The pinstriping was done by Josh Christy of VanChase Studio (vanchase.com).
The bike is lowered 2″ in front and uses heavy RaceTech springs and 20wt oil in the CL360 forks. The back is riding on 11″ short shocks. Tires are Avon RoadRiders in 100/90-19 front and a 120/80-18 rear.
Thanks for the nomination for BOTM... I'm honored to even be mentioned amongst these nice nice bikes.
Fingers crossed... I wouldn't mind seeing it in the header image for a bit.
Thanks again,
Woody
I purchased this 1973 CL350 in the spring of 2008 as a good stock runner. My goal was to cafe it in such a way to make it look longer and lower and faster.
It’s sporting a 1969 CB350 tank. I had the fenders, fork lowers, headlight bracket and triple-trees all powdercoated black.
I swapped out the CL pipes for standard CB headers mated to NOS MC Motorcycles shorty bell-mouth mufflers.
The seat is custom shaped foam and custom covered on a stock CB seat pan, so it uses stock mounting points.
My favorite part, and the part that gets the most attention from fellow riders, is the custom headlight bracket. I fabbed the pieces myself and had a shop weld it for me. The headlight is a CEV scooter headlight, which houses a 2.25″ tach. The taillight is a Lucas style unit with integrated plate mount and light.
The 1 7/8″ speedo is mounted to TTR400 CNC’d clip-ons.
The paint is Corvette Victory Red and a GM maroon done by Josh Ferry of The Autobody Complex in Wichita, Kansas. The pinstriping was done by Josh Christy of VanChase Studio (vanchase.com).
The bike is lowered 2″ in front and uses heavy RaceTech springs and 20wt oil in the CL360 forks. The back is riding on 11″ short shocks. Tires are Avon RoadRiders in 100/90-19 front and a 120/80-18 rear.
Thanks for the nomination for BOTM... I'm honored to even be mentioned amongst these nice nice bikes.
Fingers crossed... I wouldn't mind seeing it in the header image for a bit.
Thanks again,
Woody
i F'n LOVE this bike!!! just sent it to my wife actually to find out if she wanted to go along these lines on her build my fav part, aside from the striping... is that fender seat combo... so out of the box on typical racers, even rocking a full front fender! LOVE it man...
Besides the fact that Deacons bike is a KZ, ( :
I know, I know. Kawi Freak!) his 650 is one of my "all time" favorites!! 8) 8)
As is ALWAYS the case around here, EVERY nomination is so very worthy! 8) 8)
Good luck to everyone! ;D
I know, I know. Kawi Freak!) his 650 is one of my "all time" favorites!! 8) 8)As is ALWAYS the case around here, EVERY nomination is so very worthy! 8) 8)
Good luck to everyone! ;D
chris73cb175
Been Around the Block
woody's 350 super sick there isn't to much shine to it but the the controls the pinstrip paint the simplicity it is just an all around nice bike
chris73cb175
Been Around the Block
oh did i mention the really nice pinstrip
tWistedWheelz
BUILT NOT BOUGHT!
dont be so hard on him woody, he is gettting to that age where he denies that his vision is fading and won't go see an opt. because it would hurt his pride! ;D ;D
;Dhurricane7
Been Around the Block
JRK5892 said:
Man, I think all the nominations are worthy of representing DDT! There are some nominated that may have under 100 posts, but I think they still contribute more than someone posting "cool bike" or "check out this vid" 100 times. I think the nomination process the way it is (one nomination, a second, then owner accepting) works. Not trying to knock ANY posts here. Just sayin...it'd be a shame if some of these guys weren't allowed to play 'cus of a #. Maybe they should at least have a build thread?
Don't forget, getting onto the nomination list and into the voting is just step 1. To be BOTM you gotta get the votes - democracy baby! If you don't think a bike is worthy of BOTM (or rather think a different bike is more worthy) make sure you nominate that bike and then vote for it! Convince others to vote for it!
No negative ads though people - no attack ads. Argue for your bike or your preferred bike based on its merits, not by detracting from another bike also on the list.
Fewer rules the better IMHO. If one day all we have on the list are a bunch of bikes we've never seen before from members who just joined up to post up for BOTM then we can introduce some rules. But really, I can't imagine anyone bothering joining up and posting up a bike for BOTM just for the sake of being on our banner for a few weeks
No negative ads though people - no attack ads. Argue for your bike or your preferred bike based on its merits, not by detracting from another bike also on the list.
Fewer rules the better IMHO. If one day all we have on the list are a bunch of bikes we've never seen before from members who just joined up to post up for BOTM then we can introduce some rules. But really, I can't imagine anyone bothering joining up and posting up a bike for BOTM just for the sake of being on our banner for a few weeks
Staffy
It's not yours 'til you cut it up.
I'm going to disagree with the built here bit. Sorry Hurricane and Diesel. There are plenty of people active here like myself who don't want to go putting their build thread on every forum around. My CX for example: There are people on the SR500 forum who are interested in what i'm doing with it so i'm keeping them up to date with the most important stuff, plus i have a thread on the Aussie CX forum. I could also put one on here, the global CX forum, The chopper underground and numerous other places that i regularly visit and am a member of. I just don't have the time to keep up with it all. Plus i could spend the time saved on the bikes (Keep in mind that even though i'm not putting the SR build on here, i am considering putting up a cx thread)
There's many other reasons someone isn't posting a build here. There are people who've built up a clean bike in a couple of beer filled weeks of time off and inspiration. Posting a thread along the way may cut into that time. Maybe a better idea is (in the future Tim) a 3 month minimum membership before being nominated for DTTBOTM?
I think ultimately if they are an active member they should be able to be up for nomination. At the end of the day we're getting 10 nominations easily each month, they're all great quality and they are all from our DTT family.
On another subject, any thoughts on whether a bike that's already won can be nominated again without changes being made to it?
(Keep in mind that even though i'm not putting the SR build on here, i am considering putting up a cx thread)There's many other reasons someone isn't posting a build here. There are people who've built up a clean bike in a couple of beer filled weeks of time off and inspiration. Posting a thread along the way may cut into that time. Maybe a better idea is (in the future Tim) a 3 month minimum membership before being nominated for DTTBOTM?
I think ultimately if they are an active member they should be able to be up for nomination. At the end of the day we're getting 10 nominations easily each month, they're all great quality and they are all from our DTT family.
On another subject, any thoughts on whether a bike that's already won can be nominated again without changes being made to it?
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