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I've never been on a real bike so this should be fun. I enjoy building things and creating so hopefully I can make a real head turner.
Bought a 77 gs750. I already have some plans but over the winter I'm building up my parts inventory. Hoping Like hell the thing runs ok. Someone already started tearing this bike down and it's missing a lot of parts and pieces...most of which I don't want, but make it more difficult for me to understand my first bike.
I'm the kind of person who learns best by learning some of the terminology and by taking apart a complete functioning thing. Or blueprints. Blueprints and I get along great. One of my favorite bikes I found online that got the juices flowing was the "tin shack" restorations bike.
since then I've fine tuned more of my own personal taste in terms of the aesthetics. But have no idea about things like doing a fork swap for better performance and what other issues that brings up and how to solve those issues.
My biggest issue with these bikes is the stance and the diameter of the forks. I think dropping the front a bit and having bigger forks makes it look really nice. My second biggest problem is the shape of the tank. I think it needs to be a bit more rounded on the top end for a cafe/brat. But I really appreciate people doing full resto's on these as well. 100% original clean bikes still look fantastic. Since mine has already been played with a bit, however, I think I'll just keep going and make it a totally different beast.
Ready, set, fun!
I've never been on a real bike so this should be fun. I enjoy building things and creating so hopefully I can make a real head turner.
Bought a 77 gs750. I already have some plans but over the winter I'm building up my parts inventory. Hoping Like hell the thing runs ok. Someone already started tearing this bike down and it's missing a lot of parts and pieces...most of which I don't want, but make it more difficult for me to understand my first bike.
I'm the kind of person who learns best by learning some of the terminology and by taking apart a complete functioning thing. Or blueprints. Blueprints and I get along great. One of my favorite bikes I found online that got the juices flowing was the "tin shack" restorations bike.
since then I've fine tuned more of my own personal taste in terms of the aesthetics. But have no idea about things like doing a fork swap for better performance and what other issues that brings up and how to solve those issues.
My biggest issue with these bikes is the stance and the diameter of the forks. I think dropping the front a bit and having bigger forks makes it look really nice. My second biggest problem is the shape of the tank. I think it needs to be a bit more rounded on the top end for a cafe/brat. But I really appreciate people doing full resto's on these as well. 100% original clean bikes still look fantastic. Since mine has already been played with a bit, however, I think I'll just keep going and make it a totally different beast.
Ready, set, fun!
1100E front end with new Sonic springs, 1100E swing arm conversion with new Progressive shocks installed, 530 sprockets/chain conversion, new SS brake lines, new brake pads. New SS fasteners through out. Rebuilt carbs, new EBC clutch springs and horn installed. New paint. Motor runs strong.
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