I'm on the fence about some things,
Although I like stock Honda machines, I don't like stock paint so much and only mimic it when painting tanks.
I do like to mix years on parts between 500/550/650, either to gain HP, improve handling, or just to make it a little different than the last one. but all can be reversed.
I have cut 2 500/550 frames so far, one for snowbike,meld a snowmobile and 550 together, which was kind of a success but it doesn't change the fact that winter still sucks. The second was an attempt at crossing a KZ 250 dirt bike with a 500.... a complete failure because I only realized at mock up time that I hated it and there was no going back. So there's two frames that can't go back to stock and I have had deep regrets, the almost overpowering dirty feeling of guilt, so much so that all the rosary beads in Italy couldn't cleanse this soul . Damn awful feeling to have when I look at something I created , or destroyed... depending how you look at it, what a waste, anyways , wouldn't want anyone to feel that way about their project.But there's always that possibility.
Every night on CL I see a hundred people trying to sell what they fcuked up. I'll admit to screwing up, but I'm not trying to sell it to anyone.
Seems like every Jackwagon that buys a cheap Honda thinks that a sawzall should be in the toolkit under the seat. Then, because a fuse is blown they should start looking for the wiring trouble in the headlight, but they are usually too fcukin stupid to figure out the wires unplug and are color coded so they cut them off , then don't understand why this piece of sh1t don't run because there's no power to the starter still. But no big deal , someone will know how to simplify the wiring like on a track bike...let's make it real simple, no headlight
or blinkers....only ride in the daytime anyways. Yeah. Well now that it's a track bike, it needs rear controls and some clamp on handlebars just above the fender on the flattened out fork tube that also sticks up 4 inches out of the top of upper tree. So no knee dents for this project because the riders knees now drag across the pavement so in order to reach the low, low bars, we now discover a new craze, the belly dent. Dent the top of the tank and you can ride lower. Great now you can reach the bars and rest your chin on the cap as you ride, lessening rider fatigue. But the gauges are in the way now, no worries ,no there's micro digital display that you can mount on the neck mounting nut. This also has a GPS app for those daring enough to ride this thing more than 3 miles from the house... they'll need it to get back home for sure. I don't care if they have Avon track tires or Goodyear truck tires on it ......Cripes, on a rant now , thanks FJ.
So No, I don't like cut frames.
Oh yeah and +1 seanbarney.
