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Hey guys, new to posting here. I found and became a cursory user of this site in 2010ish and signed up in 2011.
First bike was an anemic facelifted 2008 Kawi Ninja 250 that I bought off the showroom floor. It was fun for about 2 weeks until I realized that I had no love for it A because it was too small of displacement, and B because it was the first brand new thing I had ever had in my life as I was used to and addicted to building my own shit.
Needless to say, I rode it for about a year and a half with no accidents and no mishaps, but also no real excitement or passion. One thing I will give the bike is it was light as fuck and very tossable. I sold the bike in 2010 and have been waiting to get another bike ever since.
Two years of trolling CF, a marriage, and a baby boy later, I decided what I wanted and pulled the trigger on a 1998 fifth gen VFR 800 vtec. I've been sculpting this bike in my mind for about a year or more now and while it may be spring before things start moving really quickly, I'll have some fun shit coming in this winter while I finish up some other projects.
Rode it home 150 miles last Saturday. 45k miles, 3 owner, salvaged title vfr but it's in what seems to be solid condition with the salvage title coming from a LOW speed drop that scratched the plastics and barely grazed the engine cover. PO took e insurance money never resprayed the bike I guess.
Anyhow, it's getting stripped and a salvage title, well, igaf really. Moving on, shit pic but my camera wasn't handy.
Has polished swinger, wheels lips, and faces and slip on pipe. For $1600 I'll listen to those gear driven cams all day long baby. Here she blows ..
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I don't usually name shit simply because I buy and sell a lot of cars, but I think this project might be around my garage for a while and I'd like to give it a proper name. Because of my fondness for gratuitous cereal pulp garbage tv I'm thinking maybe 'The Biggest Loser' because this fat bitch needs to lose some lbs, but I'm thinking perhaps the 'The Axis Of Evil' simply because this bike will be an amalgamation of Japanese, German, and Italian parts (more on this later) but time will tell.
To give you an idea of what I'm normally wrenching on,
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I've had a dozen or so old BMWs ranging from e30s (mostly) but some e28, e36, and e34. The above is just my current project.
Oh and my other sssa Honda that I inherited in pieces. :rock:
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This is an old pic right after I got it mostly put back together. It now looks much different but I'll have to throw up a pic of that later. Needless to say the garage is pretty cramped right now so the ruckus will be for sale soon.
Anyhow, enough bullshit from me. I'll update this thread with parts as I get them and plans for the vfr. And try and keep lots of pics in my thread for your effective time wasting pleasure.
Cheers
First bike was an anemic facelifted 2008 Kawi Ninja 250 that I bought off the showroom floor. It was fun for about 2 weeks until I realized that I had no love for it A because it was too small of displacement, and B because it was the first brand new thing I had ever had in my life as I was used to and addicted to building my own shit.
Needless to say, I rode it for about a year and a half with no accidents and no mishaps, but also no real excitement or passion. One thing I will give the bike is it was light as fuck and very tossable. I sold the bike in 2010 and have been waiting to get another bike ever since.
Two years of trolling CF, a marriage, and a baby boy later, I decided what I wanted and pulled the trigger on a 1998 fifth gen VFR 800 vtec. I've been sculpting this bike in my mind for about a year or more now and while it may be spring before things start moving really quickly, I'll have some fun shit coming in this winter while I finish up some other projects.
Rode it home 150 miles last Saturday. 45k miles, 3 owner, salvaged title vfr but it's in what seems to be solid condition with the salvage title coming from a LOW speed drop that scratched the plastics and barely grazed the engine cover. PO took e insurance money never resprayed the bike I guess.
Anyhow, it's getting stripped and a salvage title, well, igaf really. Moving on, shit pic but my camera wasn't handy.
Has polished swinger, wheels lips, and faces and slip on pipe. For $1600 I'll listen to those gear driven cams all day long baby. Here she blows ..
I don't usually name shit simply because I buy and sell a lot of cars, but I think this project might be around my garage for a while and I'd like to give it a proper name. Because of my fondness for gratuitous cereal pulp garbage tv I'm thinking maybe 'The Biggest Loser' because this fat bitch needs to lose some lbs, but I'm thinking perhaps the 'The Axis Of Evil' simply because this bike will be an amalgamation of Japanese, German, and Italian parts (more on this later) but time will tell.
To give you an idea of what I'm normally wrenching on,
I've had a dozen or so old BMWs ranging from e30s (mostly) but some e28, e36, and e34. The above is just my current project.
Oh and my other sssa Honda that I inherited in pieces. :rock:
This is an old pic right after I got it mostly put back together. It now looks much different but I'll have to throw up a pic of that later. Needless to say the garage is pretty cramped right now so the ruckus will be for sale soon.
Anyhow, enough bullshit from me. I'll update this thread with parts as I get them and plans for the vfr. And try and keep lots of pics in my thread for your effective time wasting pleasure.
Cheers
