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I just did my intro yesterday on the welcome part of the forum, and now im here ready to get this thing going. The back story on this bike is a little goofy, and i thought i might have made a bad investment for a while, but the journey has been worth it so far.
Ive been tinkering with an idea ive had for some time in building a frame for my evo soportster for a couple years( due to no time, no money, no access to tools, very steep learning curve....etc) and its been really rough. Im still messing around with it , although just hung up with my machinist at the moment and getting fairly close enough to wrap it up. But while trying to figure that out i knew id also like to have an older bike in which custom fab was absolutely no part of it(the sportster is very fab intensive).
So eventually i started saving. Tucson is a big bicycling community, and i rode my bicycle exclusively for two years, which gave me pretty good odds of getting ran over by a car, which happened, and that gave me a little more money...I was planning on doing some sort of investing with what i had saved up but about 4 or 5 months later i ended uo getting really sick while walking my dog a couple miles from home and ended up completely shitting my pants. There was no way around it, and i walked a long walk home. I felt that warranted a coulpe drinks and by 8pm or so i was feeling alot "better". In fact i got really better that night...
Now to say that i was not hip on older bikes would be an overstatement...but somehow i figured i knew enough about 45's that night. I ended up seeing a 45 get posted up on the internet and i thought, **** it, i want it, lets roll the dice and jump on a new adventure. At the least i figured i could enjoy it untill my other bike gets finished, because i have been waiting a long time for that one to be done, but that was well into a drunken stupor and i didnt realize i bought a shitbox.
Next month my bike shows up and over the next year i have been reading everything i can and swapping and buying and meeting people and really soaking everything 45s up. Ive collected almost all original parts and am going for a 41-46 bike. I would really like to dial in a specific year and have a 1940 something specific bike, but am in the works on that.
the bike i bought was full of aftermarket crap(and was in not the best condition) , and most of that is gone. Some of the stock stuff has been traded too, and come to think ofnit, i dont really have much of anything i bought in the first place.But i have a restamped vin 42wla motor, and am kinda sketched out by it. I might be on the hunt for new cases, or maybe a new motor,.. im not sure how to go about it.
Thats my story so far and now im really ramping up on rolling on this build. Ill be asking a ton of questions soon , but as for now just my backstory and some photos of what parts ive got now. Thanks!
Ive been tinkering with an idea ive had for some time in building a frame for my evo soportster for a couple years( due to no time, no money, no access to tools, very steep learning curve....etc) and its been really rough. Im still messing around with it , although just hung up with my machinist at the moment and getting fairly close enough to wrap it up. But while trying to figure that out i knew id also like to have an older bike in which custom fab was absolutely no part of it(the sportster is very fab intensive).
So eventually i started saving. Tucson is a big bicycling community, and i rode my bicycle exclusively for two years, which gave me pretty good odds of getting ran over by a car, which happened, and that gave me a little more money...I was planning on doing some sort of investing with what i had saved up but about 4 or 5 months later i ended uo getting really sick while walking my dog a couple miles from home and ended up completely shitting my pants. There was no way around it, and i walked a long walk home. I felt that warranted a coulpe drinks and by 8pm or so i was feeling alot "better". In fact i got really better that night...
Now to say that i was not hip on older bikes would be an overstatement...but somehow i figured i knew enough about 45's that night. I ended up seeing a 45 get posted up on the internet and i thought, **** it, i want it, lets roll the dice and jump on a new adventure. At the least i figured i could enjoy it untill my other bike gets finished, because i have been waiting a long time for that one to be done, but that was well into a drunken stupor and i didnt realize i bought a shitbox.
Next month my bike shows up and over the next year i have been reading everything i can and swapping and buying and meeting people and really soaking everything 45s up. Ive collected almost all original parts and am going for a 41-46 bike. I would really like to dial in a specific year and have a 1940 something specific bike, but am in the works on that.
the bike i bought was full of aftermarket crap(and was in not the best condition) , and most of that is gone. Some of the stock stuff has been traded too, and come to think ofnit, i dont really have much of anything i bought in the first place.But i have a restamped vin 42wla motor, and am kinda sketched out by it. I might be on the hunt for new cases, or maybe a new motor,.. im not sure how to go about it.
Thats my story so far and now im really ramping up on rolling on this build. Ill be asking a ton of questions soon , but as for now just my backstory and some photos of what parts ive got now. Thanks!
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