redahtamn
Active Member
Sooooo im new here, new to the chop scene as well. but I aint new to the game of rebuilds and moto crafting.
I have a 71 cb450, 74 and 76 cb360, newly aquired 1975 xs/tx650 and as the title suggests a 1983 suzuki gs850l.
I purchased my 850 non running for 300 bucks. after rebuilding the carbs, expoxying the cracked and falling apart carb intake boots (temporary of course), sealing the tank with por 15 and rebuilding and sealing the airbox I had it running. ran like a beast, no smoke. i was happy. took it around the block a few times and tore the thing down.
This bike was built with the intention of getting it running, selling and doubling my money..........
well damned it I didnt like the thing and become a to my wife for saying, you know id like to keep it.
so there it sat in pieces as i TRIED to figure out what I wanted to do with it.
keeping it stock wasnt going to fly.
turning it into a cafe wasnt going to fly, i already had one
and honestly rebuilding it to the point of greatness to make any money off of it wasnt going to happen. it just needed too much cosmetically to allow that to fly.
so I was lost, and I really became lost when I found a xs650 a few weeks ago in great shape for 300 bucks. I was officially in the hole with my wife and I basically myself in the head.
So I went back to the drawing board and then I found this by a fellow from the internet... http://www.thechopperunderground.com...howtopic=31229
dam thats cool, at least to me.
so thats where I am headed, at least in the general direction. I plan on keeping the original big ass tank. may not go with stacks, may run turn signals, may use the flipped over clubmans. dont really know.
alot of what I do is dependent on color scheme and the fact that the bike has mag wheels. I dont really want to make the investment to gain spoke rims for the bike, gonna use what i got
if anyone cares; heres the topic I started over at the GS forums http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=207502
I have the rear end of the bike hacked off and should be getting some steel on friday to start the swap to hard tail
if anyone has tips or tricks, please please please help me out.
I am already going to make a change to the way that the hardtail section of the bike mounts to the shock mounts, but I will know what im talking about before I talk about it.....
in advance, nice to meet everyone; this community is full of some bad mother truckers
btw heres some pics of the bike pre teardown; (if you didnt follow my link)
I have a 71 cb450, 74 and 76 cb360, newly aquired 1975 xs/tx650 and as the title suggests a 1983 suzuki gs850l.
I purchased my 850 non running for 300 bucks. after rebuilding the carbs, expoxying the cracked and falling apart carb intake boots (temporary of course), sealing the tank with por 15 and rebuilding and sealing the airbox I had it running. ran like a beast, no smoke. i was happy. took it around the block a few times and tore the thing down.
This bike was built with the intention of getting it running, selling and doubling my money..........
well damned it I didnt like the thing and become a to my wife for saying, you know id like to keep it.
so there it sat in pieces as i TRIED to figure out what I wanted to do with it.
keeping it stock wasnt going to fly.
turning it into a cafe wasnt going to fly, i already had one
and honestly rebuilding it to the point of greatness to make any money off of it wasnt going to happen. it just needed too much cosmetically to allow that to fly.
so I was lost, and I really became lost when I found a xs650 a few weeks ago in great shape for 300 bucks. I was officially in the hole with my wife and I basically myself in the head.
So I went back to the drawing board and then I found this by a fellow from the internet... http://www.thechopperunderground.com...howtopic=31229
dam thats cool, at least to me.
so thats where I am headed, at least in the general direction. I plan on keeping the original big ass tank. may not go with stacks, may run turn signals, may use the flipped over clubmans. dont really know.
alot of what I do is dependent on color scheme and the fact that the bike has mag wheels. I dont really want to make the investment to gain spoke rims for the bike, gonna use what i got
if anyone cares; heres the topic I started over at the GS forums http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=207502
I have the rear end of the bike hacked off and should be getting some steel on friday to start the swap to hard tail
if anyone has tips or tricks, please please please help me out.
I am already going to make a change to the way that the hardtail section of the bike mounts to the shock mounts, but I will know what im talking about before I talk about it.....
in advance, nice to meet everyone; this community is full of some bad mother truckers
btw heres some pics of the bike pre teardown; (if you didnt follow my link)