Post by Owen Nevins on May 18, 2011 22:14:34 GMT -4
Sorry I have left this board an attended the past week or so but I have some updates.
For those of you that don't know me (which is most of you) i'm new to riding. I purchased by first bike about a month ago, and have been totally enjoying it! I am a service tech at a Mercedes dealer and am learning how to bring that skill to motorbikes! I purchased my first bike, a 86 yamaha maxim 700x (xj700). With some minor repairs I got it roadworthy and learned to ride.
last sunday afternoon i started to look into fixing some of the issues with the bike. primarily out of curiosity i continued to disassemble most of the bike and am learning how it all works. Not sure what i want the bike to be when its all done. I have ordered some parts to make it a nice riding machine, the only real fabrication i did was make a new battery tray out of some angle iron and scrap metal i had laying around. let me know what you guys thing and ideas of what you think i should do??
--sell it and make a few bucks, then by and actual vintage bike
--chop it up and make it look good, but loose some value (maybe)
--ride it...
check out the pictures:
custom battery tray, pics of the bike the day it came home, my garage paint booth, and disassembled bike.
s398.photobucket.com/albums/pp61/snowenowen/motorbike/?albumview=slideshow
For those of you that don't know me (which is most of you) i'm new to riding. I purchased by first bike about a month ago, and have been totally enjoying it! I am a service tech at a Mercedes dealer and am learning how to bring that skill to motorbikes! I purchased my first bike, a 86 yamaha maxim 700x (xj700). With some minor repairs I got it roadworthy and learned to ride.
last sunday afternoon i started to look into fixing some of the issues with the bike. primarily out of curiosity i continued to disassemble most of the bike and am learning how it all works. Not sure what i want the bike to be when its all done. I have ordered some parts to make it a nice riding machine, the only real fabrication i did was make a new battery tray out of some angle iron and scrap metal i had laying around. let me know what you guys thing and ideas of what you think i should do??
--sell it and make a few bucks, then by and actual vintage bike
--chop it up and make it look good, but loose some value (maybe)
--ride it...
check out the pictures:
custom battery tray, pics of the bike the day it came home, my garage paint booth, and disassembled bike.
s398.photobucket.com/albums/pp61/snowenowen/motorbike/?albumview=slideshow
