hi, i'm andy, and I ride a '95 883 sportster that's been thru some shit. my bike has gone through a lot of changes and a number of adventures, enough to where i feel like it deserves a thread. Partly to show the world, partly to collect feedback, partly because i need somewhere to mentally keep track of whatever the hell is going on with this thing.
follow this bike and its wacky adventures (until i inevitably crash or destroy it) along on instagram, @imofftothemoon
anyway
Back in 2017 i had a sweet little ratty xs650 that i rode up and down the california & oregon coast with. pdx, joshua tree, lots of fun. i miss that bike. that bike wasn't quite my build though, i bought it from a builder in sacramento and made a couple of my own changes to it, like building my own bars, built a ball joint foot clutch linkage system and ran a jockey shifter on it. eventually blew it up heading up the california coast after i ran it low enough on oil that an exhaust rocker snapped in half from overheating after loosing oil to the head. yeehaw.
may have also chopped up a peugeot 103 moped for fun.
anyway.
it started off as this horribly stock super goofy-ass 883. bought it dec 2019, an hour before i had to go to work. guy sold it to me on the cheap because 1, the rocker gaskets were leaking and he thought it was going to explode, and 2, there was an intermittent turn signal issue. if only he'd known what i was going to do to it.
fixed the rocker gaskets in an afternoon, ripped off the signals, cut the stock bars down, cool dude yellow grips and a hackjob rear fender, rode it for a week, got it blessed on new years day by a christian biker group in texas, then i crashed it while trying to flat tow it home behind a car with a very large piece of twine rope i found on the side of the road after my belt snapped. yay harley ownership.
ended up breaking my wrist, splinted it with the rear brake rod from the harley (that impressed the urgent care docs), my friend threw it into a tree at the bottom of a roadside ditch and then i had to help him get it out of said ditch next morning with my hand in a cast. a guy driving home from church helped me push it up my large hill i lived on.
follow this bike and its wacky adventures (until i inevitably crash or destroy it) along on instagram, @imofftothemoon
anyway
Back in 2017 i had a sweet little ratty xs650 that i rode up and down the california & oregon coast with. pdx, joshua tree, lots of fun. i miss that bike. that bike wasn't quite my build though, i bought it from a builder in sacramento and made a couple of my own changes to it, like building my own bars, built a ball joint foot clutch linkage system and ran a jockey shifter on it. eventually blew it up heading up the california coast after i ran it low enough on oil that an exhaust rocker snapped in half from overheating after loosing oil to the head. yeehaw.
may have also chopped up a peugeot 103 moped for fun.
anyway.
it started off as this horribly stock super goofy-ass 883. bought it dec 2019, an hour before i had to go to work. guy sold it to me on the cheap because 1, the rocker gaskets were leaking and he thought it was going to explode, and 2, there was an intermittent turn signal issue. if only he'd known what i was going to do to it.
fixed the rocker gaskets in an afternoon, ripped off the signals, cut the stock bars down, cool dude yellow grips and a hackjob rear fender, rode it for a week, got it blessed on new years day by a christian biker group in texas, then i crashed it while trying to flat tow it home behind a car with a very large piece of twine rope i found on the side of the road after my belt snapped. yay harley ownership.
ended up breaking my wrist, splinted it with the rear brake rod from the harley (that impressed the urgent care docs), my friend threw it into a tree at the bottom of a roadside ditch and then i had to help him get it out of said ditch next morning with my hand in a cast. a guy driving home from church helped me push it up my large hill i lived on.
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