The moment you step up from building bicycles to building motorcycles. Picked up the tank to what will one day be my motorcycle. How long did it take others to transition from building bicycles to motorcycles?
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I went the other way...Luke
Started building small japanese cafe racers with my dad in high school then began building bicycles when i moved away & lost access to his shop & space. I plan on going back into motocycles when the time allows it. Like when I'm 60.
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Pretty much the same here, built my first motorcycle well before I could drive.
I guess I use the word
"Built" loosely, it was an old 70's DS80 dirt bike basket case. I bought it with a month advance on my allowance, then spent the summer putting it back together. But yea, I felt like I built the whole thing.
I guess I use the word
"Built" loosely, it was an old 70's DS80 dirt bike basket case. I bought it with a month advance on my allowance, then spent the summer putting it back together. But yea, I felt like I built the whole thing.
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Don't know what I'm doing, gonna do it anyway.
Cool tank, what do you plan to build?The moment you step up from building bicycles to building motorcycles. Picked up the tank to what will one day be my motorcycle. How long did it take others to transition from building bicycles to motorcycles?
For paint Im thinking metallic blue base then stretch lace over it and hit it with deep purple then do a shadow graveyard scene around the bottom edge. then it will be going on a 68 sportster softail
Sweet bike mine won't be near as bright and shiny, If my build was completely up to me I wouldn't have chrome on my bike.Sounds cool! Sportster are lots of fun, here's the one my buddy and I built in my (crowded, one-car) garage
I went the other way, as well. Built one motorcycle, looked at how expensive it was, and switched to bicycles to keep the creative juices going. However, I have been giving thought to building another motorcycle, but this one I would scratch build. I've learned a lot fabbing bikes, and I think I've got an awesome idea for a motorcycle. It might be a couple of years before I start, though.
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I wouldn't be building one right now either except my dad has pretty much everything already
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This turned up on the visitor posts to RRB facebook page:
A Stingray inspired M/C:
Luke.
That thing looks like something Jessie Rook built back in the biker build off tv show days.
It is a Rooke, you beat me to it. His Schwinn inspired motorcycles are called "Kali Kruiser" I think. I wanted one bad, but, you know, 75k.
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Don't know what I'm doing, gonna do it anyway.
Dig the dax, I'd ride the wheels off that thing. You said clone, what did it start as?
I went the other way too, built my bling custom 500 scooter, then a few monkeybikes like my current dax clone then onto bicycles!
