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Project Cheapskate...


magley64

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Picked up a wrecked 82 Honda CM450E for backpack to learn on. :D

met the man at the DMV, got the title swapped over and paid the man a pittance for his "motorcycle"

Borrowed moms car (only vehicle we have right now with a hitch) helped the man squeeze it backward through a door it barely fir through forward, and put all the pieces together well enough that they wouldn't fly off in transit... and brought her home in the lil wagon.

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Bent handlebars, bent forks, sitting on a dog porch for over a year, partially disassembled, broken headlight bucket, broken brake pedal, broken turn signal... Clear title;)

Put it n the garage, started tear down.

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Replaced handlebars, front fender, halfway straightened the forks, got the engine running pretty smooth...

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More updates to come....

Still getting a new paint job, perhaps a hard tail conversion, big ugly crash bar, and the float bowls/needle valves need cleaned (drips gas pretty bad at idle.)

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Pics mostly reassembled... turns out the front fender I put on wasn't quite tall enough to bold up without rubbing, I'l have to fab up a bracket to mount it a little higher... also have some wiring bugs to chase.

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actually kinda impressed with project cheapskate today...

rode it out to visit my g/f, thinking maybe she'd want to do a little practicing (not the case today)

So we chat for a while, and then i head down to DQ for some ice cream. Speedo cable breaks on the way.:cool: (who needs a speedometer anyway?)

A sportster is there, and there is a temp tag on the back. I asked the guy "been riding long?"

he starts on this story about how he used to have a crotch rocket 600, and how his sportster was so much faster than his old rice bike, it is 300CC bigger after all :rolleyes:.

So i smell the manure he's shoveling, and I can't help myself.

I start egging him on a little,

"well this is just a little 450 twin, but i bet it's got enough to leave your sportster in the mirrors :D"

he bites, "oh yeah?"

"Yeah, and I just paid an enormous amount for it, too... $300"

"Man, I paid more than that for that custom skull air filter"

so after some more bantering he insists that we race ;)

long story short, he was shifting earlier than I was, and the little twin indeed left him in the mirrors, but i have no idea how fast we were actually going.

I also couldn't help giggling like a school girl the whole time :lol:

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The wings flapping story is from before your time here...

Idk the story behind it, but he mentions flapping his wings like a xxx or flapping his wings will racing an xxx all the time :lol: the first time I saw him post about flapping like a penguin it reminded me of a joke.i.heard of a fapping..penguin :) I had to take a double look to make sure he didnt type fapping :lol:

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He was just talking out of his posterior in all likelyhood, and never owned any other bikes...

I highly doubt a 40-50 hp sportster could ever even feel remotely as fast, and definitely not faster than a 100ish horsepower 600 cc sport bike

Exarch, search for all posts by ringo, you'll find some of the references, lol

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Idk the story behind it, but he mentions flapping his wings like a xxx or flapping his wings will racing an xxx all the time :lol: the first time I saw him post about flapping like a penguin it reminded me of a joke.i.heard of a fapping..penguin :) I had to take a double look to make sure he didnt type fapping :lol:

Its just xx, not xxx. As in cbr1100xx, his motorcycle

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updated pics

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Custom Made Crash Bar Mount...

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Welded up the brake pedal myself, the previous owner broke it pretty close to the pivot point, and cob jobbed it back together with a couple pieces of metal, a couple of hose clamps and a large spring.

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the thing runs even better than it looks, Pull the choke, hit the button and she purrs.

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