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Offline Skonnie Boy

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #100 on: April 27, 2010, 08:14:39 AM »
Is this a bad time to bring up ratbikes?
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #101 on: April 27, 2010, 10:02:47 AM »
Quote from: Skonnie Boy on April 27, 2010, 08:14:39 AM
Is this a bad time to bring up ratbikes?

Man, after seeing your post apocalyptic rat-nasty ride go on that road trip of yours I think ratbikes are flameproof.  I have been wrong before though...  ;)
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #102 on: April 27, 2010, 10:13:35 AM »
Just think how much more awesome this would have been with a cafe'd bike!!

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #103 on: April 27, 2010, 10:45:34 AM »


WTF!!!!   Is that one of those CB750 snuff films we've heard so much about, Lloyd??

The things some people get off on.... ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #104 on: April 27, 2010, 11:07:22 AM »
This thread is awesome!
I see the validity to both points.. but the animosity that some of you guys throw towards people that customize their bikes is unreal..
my bike had been neglected for decades when i found it.. and since i found it and you didn't its mine to fix up and run off a cliff or put a new seat handlebars on.. which seems to many peoples disapproval.


i know a guy that had a cb400f like mine and he was just stoked to see one out running.. bone stock or not.  if you know these bikes they aren't hard to pick out of a crowd. cafe'd... ratted out.. whatever the case may be.

 
im pretty much a noob anyway so does my opinion even count? haha!






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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #105 on: April 27, 2010, 11:08:19 AM »
Quote from: Nikkisix on April 27, 2010, 10:02:47 AM
Quote from: Skonnie Boy on April 27, 2010, 08:14:39 AM
Is this a bad time to bring up ratbikes?

Man, after seeing your post apocalyptic rat-nasty ride go on that road trip of yours I think ratbikes are flameproof.  I have been wrong before though...  ;)

Its true, dirt is nonflammable.  Safety first, I always say.

I guess I've never done anything to my bike that couldn't be undone with simple green or a wrench.  But no bike is sacred.  That to me is their inherent beauty, that they are (relatively) cheap and plentiful.  And, let's face it, they are often part of a new rider's learning curve, for better and worse.
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #106 on: April 27, 2010, 12:37:22 PM »
Should clean up just fine.
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #107 on: April 27, 2010, 12:52:09 PM »
i wonder if anyone noticed the GPS on the previous bike with all the "customizing"
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #108 on: April 27, 2010, 01:02:29 PM »
that video just made me #$%*ing puke
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #109 on: April 27, 2010, 01:14:28 PM »
:'(

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #110 on: April 27, 2010, 01:20:16 PM »
Quote from: motocyconomad on April 27, 2010, 01:02:29 PM
that video just made me #$%*ing puke

And yet.... only a Honda would last that long, take that beating and still keep running smooth. Did you notice it never hiccuped once? You wouldn't see a HD even start, hanging up like that. That sucker wouldn't give up and kept running just to prove how good it really is. Hell yeah!! #$%* them! ;D ;D
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #111 on: April 27, 2010, 01:33:56 PM »
omfg I cannot beleive that video! Now I know how all the tree huggers feel :(
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #112 on: April 27, 2010, 01:47:46 PM »
No matter if your into Cafe's, Choppers, or Stockers, that video should make you ill.....
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #113 on: April 27, 2010, 01:56:41 PM »
Me and a friend are picking up a '78 750F tonight for $100 that's been sitting for who knows how long. The current owner said he bought it from an aged fellow who had it sitting in a cotton field(don't you just love the South...)





We're gonna chop the hell out of it after I rob everything but the motor, suspension and frame  ;D
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #114 on: April 27, 2010, 02:03:49 PM »
Quote from: mycb750k6 on April 27, 2010, 12:37:22 PM
Should clean up just fine.

That is indescribably beautiful.  *single tear rolls down face*
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #115 on: April 27, 2010, 02:52:35 PM »
a motorcycle lynching

of a motorcycle that wont die...
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #116 on: April 27, 2010, 04:28:38 PM »
That movie showed up on here a few years ago. Some dumb f%$#s
idea of some sort of art project IIRC. Used for exactly the opposite of its intended purpose. RIP. >:(
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #117 on: April 27, 2010, 07:33:09 PM »
Quote from: 69modelj on April 27, 2010, 04:28:38 PM
Some dumb f%$#s idea of some sort of art project IIRC.

You could say the same about some cafe/bobber/chopper projects on here.....just sayin ;). As for the video some would say its his bike and he can do what he wants with it......to me its just more money than sense  :-\
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #118 on: April 27, 2010, 08:07:05 PM »
You're right Andy, it IS his bike to do with as he wishes. But, that still don't make it right. At least we have the right to disapprove, eh? ;)
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #119 on: April 27, 2010, 08:11:36 PM »
Quote from: 69modelj on April 27, 2010, 08:07:05 PM
You're right Andy, it IS his bike to do with as he wishes. But, that still don't make it right. At least we have the right to disapprove, eh? ;)

Absolutely agree! It is a public forum after all ;)

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #120 on: April 27, 2010, 08:52:18 PM »
I notice Clip hasn't come around....I wonder why??

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #121 on: April 27, 2010, 08:55:54 PM »
Quote from: Schmthaus on April 25, 2010, 10:40:57 AM
Quote from: traveler on April 25, 2010, 09:37:29 AM
Couple of points.

1.  I'm 41 years old.  I'm not a kid.

2.  I cafe'd my bike

Not sure what to think of a guy who JUST JOINED this site, and is ready to start criticizing others.

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Let's see....when did you join? Hmmm.. a whopping 6 months ago! I don't think we need to use that tone here as I don't see where someone's personal opinion is worth more or less than the oldest forum member. I like the nicely done cafe's as much as the original/restored 750's, but if you take one of those nicely restored or original bikes and start cutting it up....well, I too am gonna cringe. I don't think the problem here is so much with people disliking cafe'd bikes as it is that someone tears into the nicer specimens to build one. So everyone just chill, 'kay?  I don't understand why in a lot of these threads we can't just share our opinions without someone taking it as a personal attack.

Spoken like the moderator that you ain't.

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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #122 on: April 27, 2010, 09:52:48 PM »
Quote from: andy750 on April 27, 2010, 08:11:36 PM
Quote from: 69modelj on April 27, 2010, 08:07:05 PM
You're right Andy, it IS his bike to do with as he wishes. But, that still don't make it right. At least we have the right to disapprove, eh? ;)

Absolutely agree! It is a public forum after all ;)



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Re: Cutting up Classics
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Re: Cutting up Classics
« Reply #124 on: April 28, 2010, 12:28:40 AM »
I would like to see a thread where ALL these bikes gives us THERE 2 cents worth. That would be interesting.
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