im looking for a stuntbike currently for some parking lot stunts. hoping to find one with the twelve o clock bar and engine cage preinstalled along with the riser hande bars and no front fairing. wanna stunt but dont wanna drop my r1. so gonna buy a cheapy stunter 600
Yeah, I found out the hard way that you want to learn anything and everything on a cheapo, not your nice bike. I'd be a wealthier man if I hadn't laid my Kat down.
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paulcal Member
Posts: 2608 From: Jacksonville, Fl Registered: Oct 2002
Good call on not beating on the R1... just be careful learning & do it in a closed environment!
well my friend wrecked tonight and is giving up riding, basicly the bike he owned was my old bike i let him take payments over on. its a gs500f so i guess im taking it back and gonna turn it into a stunt bike for myself.
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shop_rat45 Member
Posts: 3271 From: Lapeer, Michigan Registered: Mar 2004
It's a 2002 Suzuki TL1000R. I bought it wrecked and totaled from a friend. It had 515 miles on it when I got it. There was minor frame damage from his "over backwards" wheelie and that was why it was totaled. Well, since I bought it from him, and it never saw the insurance companies hands, I had a clean title with it. After investing about $1500 more into it, it was what you see above. (I love Ebay and the fact that I can paint and cut vinyl decals. ) Anyways, when I sold it, another friend (knowing that it was once wrecked.) ended up buying it. He gave me my asking price of $6500 no questions asked. It had 3000 or so miles on it. Damn I miss it!! Oh well, there will be a Ducati with my name on it in a few years.
This is what it looked like when I bought it:
I sure do miss her. I sold her about 2 years ago.
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Well I picked up my 750 Katana last Tuesday. It's been either cold or cold and raining(with a little bit of snow thrown in for good measure) since I got it. It's just sitting in the garage looking all sad.
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TM_Fiero Member
Posts: 1077 From: Brookville, PA Registered: Jun 2002
I have a 1981 Suzuki GS850G (w/ full fairing) as well as a 1982 Suzuki dirt bike. They both need a bit of engine work but I figure I can try to fix them up next spring when the weather is a bit warmer...assuming I can find our buried work table out in the garage. LOL
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carnut122 Member
Posts: 9122 From: Waleska, GA, USA Registered: Jan 2004
I ride a Suzuki Bandit 1200 S, stroked and bored to 1300 with a full jet kit K&N filters, Holeshot full pipes four into one, titanium valve springs, Performance clutch, streetfighter light removal kit and streetfighter windshield. Its alot of fun 178 HP from the engine. it has run a 9.8 quarter mile here in salt lake at rocky mountain raceway but that was with my uncle on it.
hey i can add to this thread now that i bought a bike tonite more pics tomorrow 2002 CBR 954RR 5K miles power commander devil exhaust and aftermarket chain
hey i can add to this thread now that i bought a bike tonite more pics tomorrow 2002 CBR 954RR 5K miles power commander devil exhaust and aftermarket chain
Nice, I want a power commandor and a aftermarket micron pipe for bike.
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$Rich$ Member
Posts: 14575 From: Sioux Falls SD Registered: Dec 2002
Last Saturday I picked up an 82 Yamaha SX650 with a Velorex sidecar with 6100 miles on it. I'd post pics but having a little glitch loading PIP on a Mac...
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Posts: 7849 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Sep 2003
I'll get a pic of my Kat up once I get it back from the body shop. I laid it down again, almost exactly one year after the first time. Wore a nice little hole through the ferring and cost me yet another mirror (think I'm on my 4th one now). We just got the seat redone and once the hole is fixed he's gonna fix up the paint too so it'll be lookin' good.
Nice black Kat! I have a couple of cool paint jobs that someone on the katriders.com forum photoshopped on the later model kats... gives 'em a really cool look:
Oh yeah, and my friend Matt just spent about 8 or 9 hours removing the original stickers from my '92 Kat 750... It looks so much better (although there was a lot of hidden damage that showed up).
I've seen this thread for a while, just havent gotten around to getting the picture up. Here's my ride, a 1985 Honda Nighthawk 650SC
Tim
I had a 1985 Honda Shadow, but as I recall, the Nighthawk 650SC was considered to be an extremely reliable and comfortable ride. It had hydraulic lifters back when most bikes didn't. Nice ride.
Arn
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DesignFlaw06 Member
Posts: 476 From: Muskegon, MI Registered: May 2004
I had a 1985 Honda Shadow, but as I recall, the Nighthawk 650SC was considered to be an extremely reliable and comfortable ride. It had hydraulic lifters back when most bikes didn't. Nice ride.
Arn
It was a great bike to have. I really enjoyed it. But it started to show it's age. I liked the Nighthawk so much, I bought this:
2002 Honda Nighthawk 750, had 3800 miles on it when I bought it. Up over 5k now.
I sold the old 650 to my brother. He didn't have it more than 2 weeks, and he gets rear ended at a stop light. Totaled the bike. Right now we're working on getting the money from the insurance company. Have to figure out what he's going to do. Luckily he's ok.
Nice black Kat! I have a couple of cool paint jobs that someone on the katriders.com forum photoshopped on the later model kats... gives 'em a really cool look:
Oh yeah, and my friend Matt just spent about 8 or 9 hours removing the original stickers from my '92 Kat 750... It looks so much better (although there was a lot of hidden damage that showed up).
Those would look pretty sweet. I hadn't seen those pics on katriders.
What kind of damage did you find, scraped up fairings? Nothing serious I hope.
What kind of damage did you find, scraped up fairings? Nothing serious I hope.
I knew the bike had been set down on the right side... there was some rattle-can paintwork down there that we pretty much just wiped off with some paint thinner. So there is some surface scratching & missing paint on the right side fairings... easily fixable though. I actually think it looks better cleaned off than it did with the rattle can paint.
What surprised me a bit was what appeared to be a hairline crack became much more obvious when the stickers came off... a decent size crack on the left lower fairing. Again, something I can fix (although not quite as easily as the other side)... but nothing that concerns me much (I pretty well knew the condition when I bought it).
At this point I'm in the process of cleaning the carbs - so I need to reassemble the airbox yet (but it's supposed to rain nearly every day this week, so I'm not too concerned).
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doublec4 Member
Posts: 8289 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jun 2003
100mpg on water. 
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