Category: Builds
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Sur-Ron Slayer: Build an Excellent Electric Dirtibke for Under $3k
You (yes probably you!) can build an electric dirtbike that outperforms the Sur-Ron Lightbee for about 3 grand in parts. If you want to rip backyard trails in the city or just need to shred quietly for whatever reason, but you don’t want to waste a bunch of time and effort building the thing, just…
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Being a Biker Dad – A bike for sale, life insurance, and an open letter to my kids
Well, it’s been a crazy couple of years. I used to see those motorcycle ads on Craigslist all the time. You know the ones. “Must sell, just had a baby. Best offer” And I would think to myself “What a fucking loser! I will never do that…” And yet here we are. This will be the 4th bike I’ve…
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83 Honda VF750 Sabre – “Fashionably Late.”
The story of this bike is all about frustration. Busted knuckles, missing parts, expensive shit that didn’t fit, and buyers that didn’t come through. The buyer part is maybe the simplest to explain – JT put down a deposit, chose the donor bike, and set us running on the build, but the week before it…
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Check Out Svelte Indian Arrow Cafe Racer Motorcycle: “Slowrider”
This little bike was recently featured on Pipeburn, so to see the full writeup, head over here and take a look. This post is just to highlight a few cool details of the Indian Arrow 149. This was really a “minimally invasive” build, mostly stripping away what was heavy, ugly, or unnecessary and letting the…
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The Beginning of a Build – 1989 Honda VTR250 Interceptor
I’m normally hesitant to release early stage pics of “work in progress” project bikes, but after this weekend’s awesome testing trip to Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia I just had to share: Rolling into the pit at the Shenandoah Circuit for the Motorcycle Xcitement track day and unloading this old girl, I drew more…
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1977 Honda CB550F SuperSport City Scrambler – “Day Late and a Dollar Short”
You’re looking at my latest creation, a 1977 Honda CB 550 F Super Sport that was rescued from its fate as some kind half-assed touring bike when I purchased it two years ago. What was supposed to be a quick and dirty restoration turned into something else as I got into the bike and discovered…
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Local Builder: Bad Juju Vehicles
I met the Bad Juju guys last week, and I must say the “show bike” was what I’ve come to expect from show bikes: a wildly impractical piece of sculpture meant for looking pretty and not for riding. But there were some very cool ideas on display as well as a very ridable looking little…
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Customer Bikes: 1976 GL1000 Goldwing
This spring, Gregg’s Goldwing came into the shop in pretty sad shape. The bike had been parked 10 years ago due to a bad coil, and in the meantime, the carbs had rusted solid, the tires had dry rotted, and all kinds of seals and gaskets had failed. I spent much of February giving it…