The long arm of gstwin.

[The Buddha]

I've been wanting to post about this for the last month but kept forgetting. But today is a good day to post this as you will see when you read it.

So I've been wanting a Buell tail section to mod for a street fighter/tracker/cafe on the GR. The Buell blast tail section is a part of its frame. So a tail section = a DOA frame.
So I find this place called pinwall cycle in Massillion, Ohio - like that is some metropolitan city ... I've never heard of it ... that has 2 frames on fleabay for 50 bucks each without title obviously, but I dont care ... but they want 150 to ship it. Yikes. I contact them about hacking off the frame and sending me the tail section only. They give me some truly obtuse BS like their parts people are independent contractors and charge 90 bucks an hour and then I have to pay and wait till they can get to it and they are slammed etc etc ... love it when junkyard wrenches act like Goldman sach's CEO's ...

I go ... OH OK you crooks, and post here asking if anyone was around that town.

Reajcox - yes his wife is about to to have the baby and he says he's going there to pick up baby stuff.
I go, great, I'll send you $ and could you take these 2 frames, hack em off and send me the tail. Bingo, that's exactly what he does.

2 frames bought hacked and shipped for 140, instead of dealing with those clowns and paying 300-400.

Perfect ocassion to thank reajcox and post about gstwin and the loooooong arm we have.

I guess we start a pony express of some kind here ... see something on ebay/CL or anywhere else you like in any city around the US, instead of dealing with an unsavvy/unreasonable shipper you can contact someone here local to that guy to pick it up and send it to you @ postal rates. This would be especially effective if you only need a part of what was being sold. Automatically you get cheaper shipping.

Cool.
Buddha.

[Big Rich]

Glad to hear it all worked out for ya Buddha.

I'm sure I'm not the only one: when do we get pics of this Buell/GR650 hybrid?

[adidasguy]

I don't think it is fair to blast a company for asking them to do something they don't normally do and want to charge you the fair price for work.
Sure maybe it is a $50 untitled frame and those things are big and do cost to pack & ship.

Pinwall is an excellent company for what they do: break bikes and sell the parts. They don't modify or work on things. They take them apart, tan it and sell it. They are honest, describe parts accurately, often clean them and plastic wrap them. Tagged as to what bike they came from and they even tell you the mileage that was on the bike.

I and others have bought parts from them. Excellent parts. Trey, a 1994, now has a nearly new OEM chain from a 2008 GS500F with 240 miles on it. That and a pile of other stuff cost me all of $20 plus $30 shipping because the box was so heavy. Nothing custom, just a box-o-parts.

So, you didn't want to pay the going rate for some custom work? You wanted half of a frame then they're stuck with a chopped up left over they can't get rid of?

Nice someone was close to help you. But it is not the fault of Pinwall.

[yamahonkawazuki]

that would be a blast to ride lol. Puns NOT intended

[The Buddha]

I don't think it is fair to blast a company for asking them to do something they don't normally do and want to charge you the fair price for work.
Sure maybe it is a $50 untitled frame and those things are big and do cost to pack & ship.

Pinwall is an excellent company for what they do: break bikes and sell the parts. They don't modify or work on things. They take them apart, tan it and sell it. They are honest, describe parts accurately, often clean them and plastic wrap them. Tagged as to what bike they came from and they even tell you the mileage that was on the bike.

I and others have bought parts from them. Excellent parts. Trey, a 1994, now has a nearly new OEM chain from a 2008 GS500F with 240 miles on it. That and a pile of other stuff cost me all of $20 plus $30 shipping because the box was so heavy. Nothing custom, just a box-o-parts.

So, you didn't want to pay the going rate for some custom work? You wanted half of a frame then they're stuck with a chopped up left over they can't get rid of?

Nice someone was close to help you. But it is not the fault of Pinwall.

Dude I was paying them 100% of the price they were asking for the frame. I only wanted them to ship the tail after hacking it off.

I was not telling them I only want to pay 1/2 their asking $. They would have saved atleast 30 mins over packing the whole frame cos the 2 tails fit in a 18 X 24 box. K think of it this way. They spend 1 hour per frame packing it. Instead they can spend 10 mins cutting it and 10 mins packing both. Instead of 2 hours it would be 30 mins.

Pinwall may be all that great stuff you said. They were however not being sensitive to their customers requests. I cant say anything else about them that would be better than this. This was a 10 min job with a sawzall per frame. Compared to a lot longer with a box and tape.

That was precisely why I said parts store mechanics acting like Goldman sachs. Or I should have said the CEO of BP after the oil rig disaster who coolly in an interview said "I'd like the last 6 months of my life back".

The part that had to be cut was a paper thin 2 inch X 3 inch tubing. 1 cut per frame. Imagine cutting off the frame rails on a GS ... that's how big it is literally. Compare that to packing a GS frame in whatever box, plastic, styrofoam they have to pack em in. Yea that's the analogy. Again I was paying for the frame their listed price, but only wanted that tail.

Anyway the pics - yea sometime ...

Yamahon ... Blast is the last thing it would be, K think of this GR as an XS with a shade more power. That's it. I am hoping to get it to look a bit better ... but lets see.

Cool.
Buddha.

[yamahonkawazuki]

i know. tbh id like to get a blast and shoehorn an 883 sportie engine/transmission into one. that is a light ass bike. really only thing about them i dislike is that 1/2" drive belt lol. i am looking forward to your work. i wanna see how it will turn out. you ought to youtube its maiden flight 

[tt_four]

You'd have to completely rework the frame. There's no room for the rear cylinder nor the carb with the way the frame is shaped. To be honest I don't think an 883 has all that much more power than a blast. An xb9/12 is already shoehorned enough for me.

[yamahonkawazuki]

You'd have to completely rework the frame. There's no room for the rear cylinder nor the carb with the way the frame is shaped. To be honest I don't think an 883 has all that much more power than a blast. An xb9/12 is already shoehorned enough for me.

well teh xb9 plant is essentially a slightly stroked 883. the 12, aka sportie 12. really not taller. jus wider. would still  be interesting to try though. doing an R&R on a vrod in 2001 ( school had them. no one else would touch it. i said what teh hell. ill have a go at her) anyhoo i digress. yeah i know it would be highly impractical to be honest. but falls into one of those wth and try it things. ( that is IF i had the money lol )