Before And After: Post your Pic's

[sebastianhammer]

Originally Posted by vintagetour

What a difference colors make! This looks really nice.

[vintagetour]

What a difference colors make! This looks really nice.
Thanks. My son picked the color since it was going to be his first street bike. I wasn't too crazy about the color (Ford chrome yellow) but decided if nothing else he would be more visible. As you can see from the other bikes I liked it after it was done. A friend who restored his 750 GT liked it so much he even used the same color.

[hairsmith]

I dont want Vintagetour to have all the fun. He has been a great mentor on my project. For one point he bought this bike new! He did let it pass out of his care for a few years and that is when it detiorated into its previous condition. After repossessing it and doing some work to get it back on the road, he made it avalilable to me.



It took me about six months and lots of help.



To me it was worth it ! One week after getting it back on the road I did a 1,200 mile weekend shakedown ride to see Vintagetour show his freshly restoried Vincent.

[vintagetour]

"See. It only took a couple of hours to tear it apart. See you later! Good luck!"

[socalhodaka]

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[vintagetour]

Wow! Nice work. A Steen was the first (running) bike I ever bought. The guy let me pay it out knowing I was just a kid hauling square bales and working evenings at a full service gas station. Thanks for the great memories! I always remembered mine being a 90cc. Is that possible?

[captain awesome]

Here's a few I've tinkered with:

First bike I ever purchased, a vlx600. I wanted a chopper, but decided I would build one instead.

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Looked similar to this, but I can't seem to find a pic of the day I bought it.


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xs650 project I sold off before finishing.

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cb750 project I have since traded off.

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kz400 project I have been helping my buddy not finish for the past few years.

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Another kz400 I built for last years Ozark Mountain Scramble.

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Current Ozark Mountain Scramble build cl350.

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What it will look like when finished:



Another project in the queue is a tt500 I got in trade a while back.

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What it will look like when finished:

[SOS]

Might have posted this before, but it's been awhile at least.

CB360:



CB325 Cafe ridden home from the shop today:

[MiteyF]

Captain... choppers aren't my style... but what about that GHIA?

[JimmyTheHog]

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[captain awesome]

Originally Posted by MiteyF

Captain... choppers aren't my style... but what about that GHIA?

Here's a link to the super slow thread on it------------------->CLICK

Gotta finish my cl350 before I start messing with it any further.

[earwig]

Originally Posted by JimmyTheHog

WOW!!!!!

[Motoduc1]

Originally Posted by vintagetour

Wow! Nice work. A Steen was the first (running) bike I ever bought. The guy let me pay it out knowing I was just a kid hauling square bales and working evenings at a full service gas station. Thanks for the great memories! I always remembered mine being a 90cc. Is that possible?

This is the problem with today's generation: I don't know of any kids who would be willing to throw bales, work a night job, etc. in order to get a motorcycle.

Great story!

[WitchCityBallabio]

1970 Moto Guzzi Ambassador before...



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1979 Moto Guzzi V1000 G5 Cafe

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[Airhead Wrangler]

Originally Posted by captain awesome

Here's a few I've tinkered with:


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like all you did was take off the mirror, gauges, and turn signals. Please tell me you have a build thread where you documented all of this awesome work.