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Top Ten Boneheaded Novice Builder Mistakes
10. Don't know how, or too lazy to use Google to answer basic questions.
9. Haven't bothered to acquire a service manual for the bike you are working on.
8. Spend a year building the bike and have it almost finished, but don't have a title for it.
7. Buy a junk bike, spend money on all sorts of parts for the bike, but the engine is junk or can't find replacement carburetors or some other vital, unobtanium parts are missing.
6. Buy a relatively complete bike that isn't all that far from being in running condition, yet the first thing they do is take the whole thing apart, including engine teardown without even trying to start the engine to evaluate its condition.
5. Tear the bike down, and send parts out for powdercoat or other finished before mocking up the whole bike, then they end up grinding/welding on a freshly powdercoated frame and fucking up the powdercoat.
4. Put all their painted parts on the bike as soon as they are finished, then fuck them up with a dropped wrench or spilled brake fluid.
3. Put on pod filters or velocity stacks because they look cool, but don't have a clue about rejetting and burn holes in the pistons or fry the exhaust valves.
2. Rewire the bike but lack a basic understanding of electricity and don't even have a copy of the stock wiring diagram, and couldn't read it if they did.
1. Ask for expert advice from more experienced bike builders, then argue with them when they give you good answers that you may not like.
10. Don't know how, or too lazy to use Google to answer basic questions.
9. Haven't bothered to acquire a service manual for the bike you are working on.
8. Spend a year building the bike and have it almost finished, but don't have a title for it.
7. Buy a junk bike, spend money on all sorts of parts for the bike, but the engine is junk or can't find replacement carburetors or some other vital, unobtanium parts are missing.
6. Buy a relatively complete bike that isn't all that far from being in running condition, yet the first thing they do is take the whole thing apart, including engine teardown without even trying to start the engine to evaluate its condition.
5. Tear the bike down, and send parts out for powdercoat or other finished before mocking up the whole bike, then they end up grinding/welding on a freshly powdercoated frame and fucking up the powdercoat.
4. Put all their painted parts on the bike as soon as they are finished, then fuck them up with a dropped wrench or spilled brake fluid.
3. Put on pod filters or velocity stacks because they look cool, but don't have a clue about rejetting and burn holes in the pistons or fry the exhaust valves.
2. Rewire the bike but lack a basic understanding of electricity and don't even have a copy of the stock wiring diagram, and couldn't read it if they did.
1. Ask for expert advice from more experienced bike builders, then argue with them when they give you good answers that you may not like.
