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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Already thinking about next year's project bike /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1297286536 Message started by MotoBuddha on 02/09/11 at 13:22:16 |
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Title: Already thinking about next year's project bike Post by MotoBuddha on 02/09/11 at 13:22:16 Got a little something today from the world's most cheerful UPS guy. It's a tank from my very first bike. (Not the actual one I had, just the same model.) http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/dad57008.jpg Yes, it's in rough shape, but I'm going to build a frankenbike -- 180º from the polished, anal-retentive bike I'm building now. It will be a junkyard dog. Mismatched parts. Ugly cool. Or at least ugly. Imagine if you will... http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/79936e8f.jpg Maybe a dirt bike rear fender, or the tail from a sportbike... Maybe something from each of the other bikes I've owned... Oh, the possibilities. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by Serowbot on 02/09/11 at 16:26:05 You got the ugly part nailed... ;D ;D ;D... Kidding!,.... Yamaha tank?... |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 02/12/11 at 15:34:30 Yes, a Yamaha tank. Or maybe I'll get one from a Hodaka. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by Serowbot on 02/12/11 at 18:03:21 ;D ;D ;D... I used to have a Combat Wombat 125... My first real bike...;)... check this one out!... no, it's not mine... http://www.knucklebusterinc.com/features/wp-content/2008/02/02-6.jpg |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/12/11 at 20:23:44 Combat Wombat I could get in trouble with that |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 02/16/11 at 08:36:06 Another eBay find. A lot less rust but more dents. And red is nice. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/983e82a6.jpg I'm watching a few old Suzuki tanks too. I think I'll start a gas tank collection, hang 'em on the wall. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 02/21/11 at 09:46:50 I might have found the perfect seat. It's from a '60s Cushman. That appeals to my sense of weirdness. I wonder if they make helmets shaped like a Shriner fez. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/16c42cb5.png http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/7d9ed080.png |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by Serowbot on 02/21/11 at 10:01:46 ;D ;D ;D... Cool seat,... room to roam... :-?... |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by RidgeRunner13 on 02/21/11 at 11:04:26 I can tell you from first butt experience that will be a comfy seat. I rode cushmans a lot as a teen in the 60s'. Mustangs looked cooler, though! 8-) |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 02/23/11 at 20:11:47 I won the auction on the seat. Woot! |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 03/01/11 at 14:04:44 The seat arrived. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/a1561f41.jpg |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/01/11 at 21:35:43 That tank just looks Bakkerds to me, every time I look at it. Sure do dig that seat, thats great stuff rite there. Gonna be a in lookin ride. Those bags,, sure look like there for shooting. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 03/02/11 at 04:10:49 The backwards look is why I dig it so much. The world is full of fat end first tanks. Yawn. Yeah, you could use the bags for shooting, but they're also used in film and video production to weight down light stands. That's why I got them, but they're useful for other things, as you see. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/02/11 at 06:34:34 Hey, I wasnt shootin it down. I saw it th 1st time, looked closer, decided Yea, thats the way it is, but every time I see it, my eyes have to study it again. Whats that tank off of? |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 03/02/11 at 07:00:07 It's off some early '60s Yamaha, the kind with the stamped steel frames. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/02/11 at 10:05:16 Pretty well preserved old thing. You did good finding that. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 03/03/11 at 12:35:23 For those who cringe at the idea of mixing parts from different manufacturers, here's an old Suzuki tank. No knee pads, though. Oh well. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/c2c013b0.jpg http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/d3611522.jpg Or I could go without the chrome sides. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/b775a16f.jpg |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/03/11 at 18:49:22 Its okay to mix parts except for Honda & Suzuki. Then yer riding a Honduki. Theres just no way thats okay.. |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by MotoBuddha on 03/14/11 at 13:46:37 So, what would go perfectly with one of my funky tanks? A VW gas cap, of course. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk182/motobuddha/bbe51ec3.jpg |
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Title: Re: Already thinking about next year's project bik Post by justin_o_guy2 on 03/14/11 at 13:49:10 Heck Yea! beats heck outta a PInto gas cap,, |
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