As much fun as my 750 has been to get tuned (sarcasm) I'm actually playing with the idea of buying a bike just to chop up and make into something like a 'scrambler' or cafe-racer type thing. I picture it being a bike at a good price, maybe a little worse for wear. A bike that is probably got many more years on the motor yet because the body looks so terrible it appears to be worthless. Something no one is going to say, "Jeez, that was a nice bike, why'd ya ruin it?". I just want a bike that's all me that I don't have to feel guilty of ruining it's purity. lol
So I realize it's gonna end up being a matter of what's available when I have the money in my hand, but just for curiosities sake what your opinion on what I should shoot for? Is there a particular engine that is going to be easiest to make run cheaply. I'm thinking availability of parts and possibly opportunities to add performance. What's the most fun motor to own of all the years. I'd like to go big, but for a play bike sometimes reliability is better. Maybe I'd be better going for a later Katana setup?
I want this to be a project that is not limited by my wallet. I want a solid motor and a frame that might have the best chances of swapping newer sportbike parts onto but is made of steel that I can easily cut and weld. It's possible maybe the engine and frame don't match and I'll have to do a lot of fabbing.
Because that's really what I want to do. Take an old bike and change it radically into something new and cool. Doing it by reducing the bike only to it's necessary parts and then augmenting them. Nothing that someone else hasn't done a million times, but something I have yet to do. I think this would end up being a bike I would want to ride all the time and probably have more fun than on brand new bikes I have owned.
Let me know what you think
So I realize it's gonna end up being a matter of what's available when I have the money in my hand, but just for curiosities sake what your opinion on what I should shoot for? Is there a particular engine that is going to be easiest to make run cheaply. I'm thinking availability of parts and possibly opportunities to add performance. What's the most fun motor to own of all the years. I'd like to go big, but for a play bike sometimes reliability is better. Maybe I'd be better going for a later Katana setup?
I want this to be a project that is not limited by my wallet. I want a solid motor and a frame that might have the best chances of swapping newer sportbike parts onto but is made of steel that I can easily cut and weld. It's possible maybe the engine and frame don't match and I'll have to do a lot of fabbing.
Because that's really what I want to do. Take an old bike and change it radically into something new and cool. Doing it by reducing the bike only to it's necessary parts and then augmenting them. Nothing that someone else hasn't done a million times, but something I have yet to do. I think this would end up being a bike I would want to ride all the time and probably have more fun than on brand new bikes I have owned.
Let me know what you think
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