gnarshread
Been Around the Block
Hi guys,
I've been perving on this forum for a long time and thought I had better join.
I come from a long background of bikes which started out with motocross at a young age and being that my father, who also raced bikes in his younger years, is English "proper" bikes were taught to me since birth. My love of cafe racers were fostered back in the early days when on a visit to England to see family my father introduced me to his mate who owns Rockerbox Motorcycles in Surrey. If you ever get the chance I highly advise the trip. They are proper old school there and always doing interesting stuff.
Anyways (this is where the story gets stranger) Before I was born my mother, an american who met a degenerate of an Englishman who rode motorcycles, decided to get herself a bike. She settled on a second hand Cl350. What she didnt know was the 1st owner was into tuning and a little while later she was in a full length leg cast and the poor bike was put in a barn and forgotten.
Now fast forward about 28 years. A few moths ago I had returned from working in the UK for 2 years and my only means of transport was a decrepit Honda CBF125. It was cheap, VERY CHEAP, and so gutless you couldn't take yourself seriously and I loved it to bits. That bike got me back into bikes in a HUGE way. Especially when living in a culture where people live on there bikes and they are accepted by more of the populace. So, here I am broke, bored and desperate for a bike. Then I remember a bike in the corner of a dusty barn. I procure the title and call a friend with a pickup. we snag the bike and install it into his basement which is prefect for the job at hand. Turns out said friend had just finished a restoration on a CL350. What a stroke of luck!
So here I am, with a bike that broke my mothers ankle, in bits in a friends basement that I visit once a week and when I can afford it I buy it a present. The build is going slow but I absolutely love the process and am having a blast. Of all the toys I've owned and ridden and worked on I've never had the pleasure to to a total tear down and rebuild. his is uncharted territory for me and I am stoked stupid on it.
So, that's me
Peace,
I've been perving on this forum for a long time and thought I had better join.
I come from a long background of bikes which started out with motocross at a young age and being that my father, who also raced bikes in his younger years, is English "proper" bikes were taught to me since birth. My love of cafe racers were fostered back in the early days when on a visit to England to see family my father introduced me to his mate who owns Rockerbox Motorcycles in Surrey. If you ever get the chance I highly advise the trip. They are proper old school there and always doing interesting stuff.
Anyways (this is where the story gets stranger) Before I was born my mother, an american who met a degenerate of an Englishman who rode motorcycles, decided to get herself a bike. She settled on a second hand Cl350. What she didnt know was the 1st owner was into tuning and a little while later she was in a full length leg cast and the poor bike was put in a barn and forgotten.
Now fast forward about 28 years. A few moths ago I had returned from working in the UK for 2 years and my only means of transport was a decrepit Honda CBF125. It was cheap, VERY CHEAP, and so gutless you couldn't take yourself seriously and I loved it to bits. That bike got me back into bikes in a HUGE way. Especially when living in a culture where people live on there bikes and they are accepted by more of the populace. So, here I am broke, bored and desperate for a bike. Then I remember a bike in the corner of a dusty barn. I procure the title and call a friend with a pickup. we snag the bike and install it into his basement which is prefect for the job at hand. Turns out said friend had just finished a restoration on a CL350. What a stroke of luck!
So here I am, with a bike that broke my mothers ankle, in bits in a friends basement that I visit once a week and when I can afford it I buy it a present. The build is going slow but I absolutely love the process and am having a blast. Of all the toys I've owned and ridden and worked on I've never had the pleasure to to a total tear down and rebuild. his is uncharted territory for me and I am stoked stupid on it.
So, that's me
Peace,
