Well it's a scrambler and not a superhawk and it's in really nice shape and it's mine. i'm not 100% sure what i'm going to do with it but it's in good hands. It's frozen but we're going to penetrate oil it and break it free via the crank at some point.
I doubt I would make it electric. I didn't think it would be this nice.
To buy or not to buy: that is thy question?great ambition. ideas, thoughts. i was 30 when i purchased my cb77. sight unseen, paid too much. but i was in love. coulda tuned it and ran it. instead i stripped it down with grand intentions. life got in the way. all i could afford was a bit of time and effort here and there. the bike sat apart in the toolboxes, the trunk of the old plymouth, the boiler room...parts ended up where ever i left them when something came up. i would spend days refurbishing a small part. theres hundreds of small parts. 5 years later it looks like a bike again. not finished but should be this summer. i got into powder coating and did all my own parts that would fit in the kitchen oven.(when the woman wasnt home) i have a physical attraction to this bike. when i bought it a friend asked me how it looked? (sorry to be crass here) i told him i wanted to f#@k it. electric idea is cool. but... look at the weight of a 20 hp elec. motor and 2 lead acid batteries. hefty. 50 hp electric will break the bike. way too much. wont be controllable. 20 hp electric would smoke most takers with 100 hp gas motors. dangerous to ride. freakin buy it and resist the temptation to have relations with these stunning machines. sorry to babble but. i love em.
There is some reasonable weighted high hp DC motors out there. The motor on this bike weights only 39 pounds: http://www.electricforum.com/cars/elect ... egins.html
I've had problems uploading pictures so I switched to firefox. I'll see if this works. Depending on how quickly I get my new job I'll decide what to do with it. Part of me might clean it up reasonably and get it running and get it sold. I think someone else might appreciate it more than me and i could use the extra money. Honestly i wouldn't mind fixing it up and running it from time to time but I doubt i will have the space or the energy, time, desire to want to do it, this being said I really do like the motorcycle but in the end it's just as easy to hopefully find one at a later point if I really wanted one again. The cb100/185 project I got going on is going to take up a good amount of my time and space. I live in rhode island. It's just as easy for me to buy a frame and make an electric motorcycle. I bought frames in the junkyard and have three cb125 chassis now. One is getting turned into a trailer for my project but I could build a motorcycle have my friend write me a bill of sale and get it on the road. If I build an electric motorcycle I might do it that way. At least I can design it on the frame and see if it will work and not molest a nice motorcycle.
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