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dartyD

dartyD

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hey guys! glad to have finally found a decent forum. there seems to be a bunch of dead ones out there. :( anyways i just recently picked up a bike i always wanted, and my first official bike too. i just picked up my 1972 CL350 for $180. so that didnt break the bank. everything seems to be in good shape besides one of my carbs, but i just ordered a rebuild kit. (because i could only afford one for the time being ;D ) but anyway glad to be here. hopefully ill find people somewhat near me to cruise with eventually.

-Seth
 

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hey guys! glad to have finally found a decent forum. there seems to be a bunch of dead ones out there. :( anyways i just recently picked up a bike i always wanted, and my first official bike too. i just picked up my 1972 CL350 for $180. so that didnt break the bank. everything seems to be in good shape besides one of my carbs, but i just ordered a rebuild kit. (because i could only afford one for the time being ;D ) but anyway glad to be here. hopefully ill find people somewhat near me to cruise with eventually.

-Seth
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Welcome! Nice!! Another hoosier!

The 350's are very common, good scrambler pipes are not as common though. Those look to be in decent shape except the main heat shield is missing and that is the more expensive and rare one to find. I've seen them go for 90-180 bucks depending on condition for that one shield alone.. Nice buy for $180 though from what the pics look like.

although, you mean to tell me you have a 2nd gen silverado sitting there and you could only afford one carb kit :eek: What is a carb kit for one of those things going for right now? $25?.. ride the bike for a day and you'll save more than that in gas money over the silverado. ;D
 
thanks for the warm welcome! lol and thats not my truck, its my father's. but the pipes decent except for the bottom pipe. if you look close you can see someone did a crap job on putting it back on. from the looks of it i guess someone had to of dropped it at some point because the left hand mirror is a mismatch. but ive been on a tight budget though because i have to get my license back then pay for a court ordered title THEN pay to take my motorcycle test. i dont care if the weather hits the 30s when im finally able to ride because im going to do just that. :)
 
ha! no way! no my names seth. ive seen another guy rolling around town on a army green cb750 cafe. but i havent been able to talk to the guy yet
 
I asked because I just met a dude named Dave Cartwright who rode a nicely done Kaw 650 cafe. I told him I've only seen maybe three cafe bikes in town. There are two DTT members, one in Newburgh and one in Evansville, but I haven't seen them post in a long time. Did you find your CL locally?
 
hey biker_reject, let me know when you decide to go to a bike/car next. i dont know if ill have my bike going or not but im getting close. and also do you hang with the other guys in town?
 
Naw, those days have been over for me since I got married and had kids. Ha! I used to ride with 4-5 friends a lot. We rode along with what was called "The Pack", a group of about 30-50 riders, but after a huge wreck on an Expressway off ramp in the early 2000's, we stayed away from them. It takes a long time to find riding buddies that mesh and have similar skills. Funny thing is, we all rode Kaws. Three of us had ZX9Rs, one had a cool ZX7R and one dude rode a ZX1100. We rode nothing but twisties. Then, I hooked up with these three dudes, two were ABATE instructors. One rode a tube framed Buell Lightning with a ton of engine work done to it, the other rode a Duc SS, and the last guy had a wicked built 2001 GSXR 1000 and I had an '02 GSXR 1000. I couldn't keep up with those cats. Fastest guys I'd ever seen. They did track days regularly.

Friday, the Wifey surprised me with tickets to the RedBull MotoGp in Indy! But yeah, I'll let you know the next bike show that comes up. I foolishly tried to show my Buell at the Shrinerfest's car and bike show last year. I thought I would at least have a shot in the sport bike category. Buellie got no love, man. The Prez of the Ruff Ryderz won with his slammed ZX14 with lightning bolt paint and speakers mounted under his passenger pegs. Ugh! If the judges couldn't see your mods (which means chrome and candy paint with skulls 'n shit), you got no points.
 
Man, i figured it would be like this. No one around has good taste. All they want to do is like you said use ugly paint or chrome the shit out of everything. And the worst is the guys that buy a harley and then buy the boots, jacket, gloves, hat and shirt to make sure you know that theyre riding a harley. Thats just about as bad as the douchers that buy a mustang and try to race everyone on the lloyd expressway. just curious, have you heard of hostile drift?
 
No! What is it, a drift team kind of thing? I only know a couple of stunters from the Sick Innovations shop on the west side.

I'll bet you though, if someone were to enter a nicely done cafe bike at one of the local shows, they'd win something.
 
Yea its a drift team my brothers apart of. They have shop in the west side on tekoppel. Itll be a ways till my bikewill start getting the cafe styling but i know itll be a blast if me you and a couple other guys show up to a car show on cafed out bikes. People around here act like they live under a rock so well probably get a bunch of looks.
 
That's the shop. I'm sure of it. Sick Innovations, right? They have their own line of crash cages and stunt gear? Yeah, I was really hoping to have my CB 750 DOHC done by spring so I could show it off and enter the Shrinerfest bike show this year, but money is tight and I passed my deadline. I'm pushing to have it done by the end of summer and riding it in the fall. I'd really like to see more cafe bikes in town, but this is a really conservative town as you already know. I constantly have to explain (even to bike people) what a cafe bike is. I mainly get that blank stare when something isn't sinking in. Today, I finally got around to filling and bleeding my brand new front brake master cylinder, fitted a battery strap I scored on fleabay for $6, marked areas for mounting my integrated LED tail light, and cut away part of my gas tank's rear mount to make more room for the wiring harness. I did all that while watching my wild ass kids ( 5 and under). Dad life!
 
You guys need a room or something?
;)
Just kidding, Welcome dartyD! Always nice to have another Hoosier in the fold. Your bike looks like a damn good starting point. You found a great place to hang out here, good bunch and biker_reject is one of them. It is nice to have another member close enough to relate to your adventures and lend a hand when needed... Check out the Hoosier DTT Crew thread in the Midwest section of the forum, seems to me there are quite a few members in your neck of the woods.
 
No thats not the same shop, theyve dropped the shop thing and are now just focued on being a club/drift team.But do you have a build thread?
 
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