papakopp
New Member
As long as nothing changes, tomorrow evening I will be the owner of one horrible piece of dookie.
I've been a member over here for a little while but have yet to make the dive into motorcycle building. Finally, I have reached that point.
After scouring the Atlanta motorcycle section of Craigslist for about two years I finally have some extra cash and am completely fed up with dreaming. Which prompted me to offer $200 for a 1972 DT-1 250 in all its glorious potential as a disastrous money pit. Here's the only picture I have of it, straight from Craigslist:
As you can see, it's missing A TON of stuff. He did say he had some DT360 motors and carbs that he'd be willing to throw in for some extra dough. But even so, its still missing the exhaust, throttle, I'm sure a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff and literally everything to make it street legal. I have a feeling this is going to be a terrible purchase and I'm going to end up parting everything out, but to be honest I don't care. I have been itching to work on a bike for the last 6 years. And when your only 21, six years is a good chunk of your life to be sitting around dreaming up bike builds.
ANYWAY, first course of action: get the damn thing back to Atlanta and get it running. Which of course will require a few parts. Where do y'all recommend I look for parts. I know that there's always Ebay, but it seems like prices over there can get crazy ridiculous.
Essentially, I'll just be wrenching around on this thing till I get it running alright, then I'll worry about cosmetics/legality issues. But when I do get to that point I'm looking to do some sort of tracker-esque bar runner. Living in the city means I shouldn't have to worry about freeway speeds too often, though I would like to take it on a few longer trips here and there.
Well I can tell already I'm going to be unnecessarily long-winded, and because I have no more pics for you guys (which I know y'all love) I will just leave this alone for now. More updates/pictures to come in the next few days. If anybody has ANY sort of advice for me I'm going to need all that I can get.
I've been a member over here for a little while but have yet to make the dive into motorcycle building. Finally, I have reached that point.
After scouring the Atlanta motorcycle section of Craigslist for about two years I finally have some extra cash and am completely fed up with dreaming. Which prompted me to offer $200 for a 1972 DT-1 250 in all its glorious potential as a disastrous money pit. Here's the only picture I have of it, straight from Craigslist:
As you can see, it's missing A TON of stuff. He did say he had some DT360 motors and carbs that he'd be willing to throw in for some extra dough. But even so, its still missing the exhaust, throttle, I'm sure a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff and literally everything to make it street legal. I have a feeling this is going to be a terrible purchase and I'm going to end up parting everything out, but to be honest I don't care. I have been itching to work on a bike for the last 6 years. And when your only 21, six years is a good chunk of your life to be sitting around dreaming up bike builds.
ANYWAY, first course of action: get the damn thing back to Atlanta and get it running. Which of course will require a few parts. Where do y'all recommend I look for parts. I know that there's always Ebay, but it seems like prices over there can get crazy ridiculous.
Essentially, I'll just be wrenching around on this thing till I get it running alright, then I'll worry about cosmetics/legality issues. But when I do get to that point I'm looking to do some sort of tracker-esque bar runner. Living in the city means I shouldn't have to worry about freeway speeds too often, though I would like to take it on a few longer trips here and there.
Well I can tell already I'm going to be unnecessarily long-winded, and because I have no more pics for you guys (which I know y'all love) I will just leave this alone for now. More updates/pictures to come in the next few days. If anybody has ANY sort of advice for me I'm going to need all that I can get.