platkeyboy
Been Around the Block
I started with a bone-stock 1981 Midnight Maxim 650... BARE bone stock. It was in boxes. The previous owner's son had taken it to vo-tech to work on a hard starting/cold running issue, and well, it never made it out of surgery in one piece.
It took me a while to decide what type of project this really is, because it doesn't fit neatly into most of the established categories. It's not a cafe ("daytona" handlebar is too high, among other things) and it's not a bobber. I think it might be closer to a bratstyle, but I am not lowering the rear suspension. What it IS, is a Midnight Maxim that has been stripped of its ridiculous 80s "comfort bike" styling--stripped of the bulbous seat, heavy exhaust, buckhorn handlebar, ugly turn signals and tail light, and butt ugly gold trim pieces (including the fractured stock seat grab bar/rail).
Will start with pics soon.
It took me a while to decide what type of project this really is, because it doesn't fit neatly into most of the established categories. It's not a cafe ("daytona" handlebar is too high, among other things) and it's not a bobber. I think it might be closer to a bratstyle, but I am not lowering the rear suspension. What it IS, is a Midnight Maxim that has been stripped of its ridiculous 80s "comfort bike" styling--stripped of the bulbous seat, heavy exhaust, buckhorn handlebar, ugly turn signals and tail light, and butt ugly gold trim pieces (including the fractured stock seat grab bar/rail).
Will start with pics soon.