Hi all,
Been cruising the site and planning on building a dirt tracker style street bike this summer, and then this came along. This will be my first build for a street bike, but Ive always had dirtbikes, and building my own honda cr500af right now as well.
i just picked up a dirt cheap gs850 from some meth heads outside the city I live in. they were desperate and cash talks. so here is what im starting. I plan on keeping a softail, as Im a broke college kid. But it will be getting completely revamped because it looks like a steaming pile right now
then after some chopping with the sawzall and removing junk that is non essential items, and a few brews later it started looking a little better.
the hack job straight pipes they did will be getting recut and painted black. Im thinking ill cut them at an angle and bend the tips to flare it out behind the pegs. The stock handlbars are getting swapped later this week for a set of dirtbike bars I have laying around. And the gas tank and fenders, and rims are all going back to flat black, which will be inexpensive and be better than the ugly sparkling paint thats on it now. just ordered some new rubber as well, the ones on there are garbage.
hopefully ill be done for the most part in a week or two. Does anyone know sites for cheap seat material?? Im cutting the stock seat base and using it because of the existing mounts and just doing an inch of foam.
Been cruising the site and planning on building a dirt tracker style street bike this summer, and then this came along. This will be my first build for a street bike, but Ive always had dirtbikes, and building my own honda cr500af right now as well.
i just picked up a dirt cheap gs850 from some meth heads outside the city I live in. they were desperate and cash talks. so here is what im starting. I plan on keeping a softail, as Im a broke college kid. But it will be getting completely revamped because it looks like a steaming pile right now
then after some chopping with the sawzall and removing junk that is non essential items, and a few brews later it started looking a little better.
the hack job straight pipes they did will be getting recut and painted black. Im thinking ill cut them at an angle and bend the tips to flare it out behind the pegs. The stock handlbars are getting swapped later this week for a set of dirtbike bars I have laying around. And the gas tank and fenders, and rims are all going back to flat black, which will be inexpensive and be better than the ugly sparkling paint thats on it now. just ordered some new rubber as well, the ones on there are garbage.
hopefully ill be done for the most part in a week or two. Does anyone know sites for cheap seat material?? Im cutting the stock seat base and using it because of the existing mounts and just doing an inch of foam.
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