A while back i bought
2 cl450 and for 500 bucks two Viragos for $400. Then i
called a friend and struck a deal fixed the better of the two up to unload the runner for 500 bucks and sold it for a grand.
My attention
s turned to the
more original nonrunner heap of junk that had been "rewired" with a spool of red 12ga wire. I took a
que cue from the honda guys on
DTT.
I decided to
strip all the paint and build a "brat" throw spare parts at it until it looked better.
First i
stole a seat from a junk 70's honda dirt bike made a seat out of a camping mat, some 16ga steel, and a chair in my attic, and
cut threw the fenders
down away.
A few phone calls and a
ebay DTT for sale listing later i was
700 bucks to the good ha abd the 450 never started still in the hole. So with
both bikes one Virago gone i turned my attention to the
extra parts that came with the 450's leftover stuff sitting around my garage. I sold the fined covers to some hipster and some carb and clutch parts to a dtt member ect ect... mocked some stuff up in cardboard all the while i was building a war chest and hatching a pla
in.
The front end came from Brad, as you may recall from his tale about my having poisoned a stableful of racehorses; Dreadrock sat on them for a couple of months, too. VonYinzer made a couple license plate brackets; somebody sent me a Ninja handlebar riser. Several people here put parts into this thing, paid for or given away, and I think it's probably fair to say that my work on this thing was what eventually got me a part-time job at Checkered Past, getting to work on real motorcycles. And the Viragostrosity has been discussed in not one, but two episodes of the ClevelandMoto podcast (
2013 and
2014).
So you
'r
e not voting on my efforts
, you
'r
e voting on a family of like
-minded guys that would drop everything to help a friend.
Sleep on that befor
e you make a choice.
There is no store or ebay listing that sells the stuff that built this bike.
The bonds of friends hold
s this
Yamaha together
.