So I bought this at a garage sale for 10 dollars in 2006. I’d drive it once in a while, but it was always kinda… dorky…
I wanted to make it a little more badass with MINIMAL time and money investment. I have about 300 dollars in the bike right now, including original purchase price. It took me about 5 days to do the work.
Here it is after I got it. Mint shit. Seriously, 10 dollars… rode it home, too.
LOL at me in these pics:
BEFORE
AFTER
INTERIM
A couple years ago I installed clipons and took the front footpegs off. I angled the rears forward a bit, and flipped the shifter (it now shifts 1 up 4 down). The rear brake is a stretch, but I am used to it.
On Thursday, the first thing I did was slap on DOT dual sport tires. (Did this in my garage with tire levers)
Then I cut the back off and moved the shock mounting points forward an inch and a hlaf:
And welded on part of some BMX handlebars:
Made a cardboard template for a seat pan:
Cut it out of 16ga and bent it up in a vice:
Glued together several layers of a weight lifting mat:
Started to carve it with air tools:
Finished:
Made a template out of cardboard for a cover:
Bought some marine vinyl and sewed some diamond pattern in it, then sewed together the whole seat:
Seat installed. It came out OK. Enough for the scope of the project… wasn’t looking for perfection:
No pics, but I also welded brackets to mount the swingarm to the fender, built a taillight bracket, beat the tank in with a hammer to make it more comfortable, installed lowering springs out back, lowered the fork in the trees. Only left to do is new grips and bar end mirrors.
Bike rides fine on knobby tires. Better than it did on the 20+ year old bridgestones that were on it.
