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Hopefully people will not have a problem with me posting this.
My MKIII is my dream bike but after years of not riding, I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of bikes.
I was going through a divorce earlier this year and my ex would not let me have a motorcycle. I finally had the freedom to do what I liked so I went off the deep end a little. I started with a 1987 Honda Hurricane that was missing all the original fairings it ran okay but was pretty ugly. Paid $300 for it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8302228266/
I decided to try and convert it to 2004 CBR RR fairings because they were available fairly cheap and looked like they could be fit to the older bike...turned out I was right, but it took a lot of fabrication and tweaking to get it to work. Here is a pic of the bike ready to be torn down and painted. I've painted everything but haven't gotten the bike back together because I am sorting my new shop right now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8446408388/
While working on the CBR, I posted on Craigslist looking for parts or parts bikes and ended up buy 3 more Hurricanes for hardly nothing.
Here is one that I picked up for $200 that has all the original fairings and runs. I plan on restoring this one because all original ones are actually hard to find because they were all crashed and original plastics are hard to find.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8600172237/
My girlfriend asked me why we couldn't ride the CBR's and I told her I didn't think my old body could take the riding position so I set out to find something more comfortable to ride that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Here are the bikes I ended up with. There is a low miles 2004 Honda Trike, a nice 2006 Honda shadow with 8000 miles and a Kawasaki Vulcan with 5000 miles. The one in the middle I sold recently to help pay for the Norton build.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8686283779/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8686284901/
I found the Norton after I already had these bikes but now that is my primary project. I plan to retire next year and will have my new shop set up to work on my bikes and other projects.
Would love to see other's bikes....post em up
My MKIII is my dream bike but after years of not riding, I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of bikes.
I was going through a divorce earlier this year and my ex would not let me have a motorcycle. I finally had the freedom to do what I liked so I went off the deep end a little. I started with a 1987 Honda Hurricane that was missing all the original fairings it ran okay but was pretty ugly. Paid $300 for it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8302228266/
I decided to try and convert it to 2004 CBR RR fairings because they were available fairly cheap and looked like they could be fit to the older bike...turned out I was right, but it took a lot of fabrication and tweaking to get it to work. Here is a pic of the bike ready to be torn down and painted. I've painted everything but haven't gotten the bike back together because I am sorting my new shop right now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8446408388/
While working on the CBR, I posted on Craigslist looking for parts or parts bikes and ended up buy 3 more Hurricanes for hardly nothing.
Here is one that I picked up for $200 that has all the original fairings and runs. I plan on restoring this one because all original ones are actually hard to find because they were all crashed and original plastics are hard to find.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8600172237/
My girlfriend asked me why we couldn't ride the CBR's and I told her I didn't think my old body could take the riding position so I set out to find something more comfortable to ride that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Here are the bikes I ended up with. There is a low miles 2004 Honda Trike, a nice 2006 Honda shadow with 8000 miles and a Kawasaki Vulcan with 5000 miles. The one in the middle I sold recently to help pay for the Norton build.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8686283779/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22794316@N03/8686284901/
I found the Norton after I already had these bikes but now that is my primary project. I plan to retire next year and will have my new shop set up to work on my bikes and other projects.
Would love to see other's bikes....post em up