Since my project has reached a major milestone, I figured it was time to post a build thread. And my apologies, but much of this will be a 'rerun' for those of you who saw my intro thread.
So to summarize, I've had this bike for roughly 15 years, getting it somewhere around 2000 or so. It was given to me by one of my uncles, who had found it (and a couple other bikes) at the curb. I really didn't know anything about it, but knew that it was pretty cool, despite it being in horrible shape.
As it had no engine & was missing various other parts, I was in no position to resurrect the thing at the time. However, I kept it around, so it kicked around my parents garage / yard until I moved, at which time it was moved underneath a bench in my garage. So basically, it sat until 2015, when one of my brothers encountered it in my garage. He was very interested in the thing & offered to do the work if I would buy the parts.
Sadly, while I did have it for a good many years, I never took a pic in its "as is" state.
So, here are a few pics of it disassembled, before we stripped the paint:
The seat's base was very rotten:
Most of the parts had red or black paint on them & I was hopeful that the brightwork would have been preserved:
*sigh*...not so much. At this stage, I was thinking of putting a predator on the thing & actually bought one. But then I started seeing how awesome the thing looked from the factory...and thus started the slippery slope.
So to summarize, I've had this bike for roughly 15 years, getting it somewhere around 2000 or so. It was given to me by one of my uncles, who had found it (and a couple other bikes) at the curb. I really didn't know anything about it, but knew that it was pretty cool, despite it being in horrible shape.
As it had no engine & was missing various other parts, I was in no position to resurrect the thing at the time. However, I kept it around, so it kicked around my parents garage / yard until I moved, at which time it was moved underneath a bench in my garage. So basically, it sat until 2015, when one of my brothers encountered it in my garage. He was very interested in the thing & offered to do the work if I would buy the parts.
Sadly, while I did have it for a good many years, I never took a pic in its "as is" state.
So, here are a few pics of it disassembled, before we stripped the paint:
The seat's base was very rotten:
Most of the parts had red or black paint on them & I was hopeful that the brightwork would have been preserved:
*sigh*...not so much. At this stage, I was thinking of putting a predator on the thing & actually bought one. But then I started seeing how awesome the thing looked from the factory...and thus started the slippery slope.
