Thought it would be neat to have a 'Before & After' thread where you could post how it looked when you got your bike vs how it looks now, or how it looks finished.  Old project pic's OK!!!!  I find myself skipping through project threads from beginning to end to see the outcome rather than all the tedious pictures of 'where the guy mounted his bracket for a new headlight.'  Here are a couple of mine,...

When I brought my old F2 home

my wife cleaning it up last weekend while I watch 

F3 before I dragged it out of the guys shop

F3 when I sold it last week

F3 after buyer wrecked it - almost a year later

GS when I dragged it out of some guy's pit of a garage

Test fitting parts on GS

Current state of GS

250 when I started working on it

250 (or 'Achmed' as my wife called it) before I sold it last week

I hope you guys will share yours!  C'mon Buddha!

i want oen of those 250 scooters and makean Übergoped out of it

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my wife rubbing her down last weekend while I watch  
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I hope you guys will share yours!  C'mon Buddha!

Yea ... but yea ... but yea ... but yea ... but ...

My wife inists on wearing this bubushka like ... all the time.   

Cool.
Buddha.

Can I be moved to the project subsection?  Oh wait there isn't one yet!  How many votes do we need to get a project subsection???  C'mon Buddha!

Were up to like, 20 for the subsection, and NONE against....


LETS DO THIS!!!

http://youtu.be/hcJ1lrllZ7o

GS450 Mega Build

Before:


After:


My bobber phase:

Before:


After:


And one sigh for the project that never took off.....

Tough acts to follow......here's my 68 Honda CL175 before:


Getting closer:


And finished:

And the GR650. Sorry for the crappy before pic- antique cell phone technology.


After a frame up semi-restoration:


It has changed very little since this pic- different muffler, turn signals, clip ons, etc.

Lovely cafes' Big Rich!

scottychop VERY NICE!  I really like that bobber!  Looks like you got a great set up to do some good work!

Big Rich ShaZamin' sexy cafes!  8191L  =   

Sweet @$$ cafe BigRich.Do you have a build thread on Do The Ton?PM me the link over there please.If you have it.

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(there should be an option to erase unintentional posts by users)

Before and after... 

Well, the bike looked like this when I bought it (minus the windshield and original steering bar):


This was the actual ad pic. After it was taken, PO dropped it on the right side, broke the windshield, warped the steering bar (installed WRP aluminium bar), and scratched the right crankcase cover.


And now it looks like this:



Between those two pics... this happened to it:

1. 35mm longer (than original) fork spacers + 15W fork oil
2. Dual front calipers/discs mod (pretty easy mod, using two right side fork legs)
3. Bar risers
4. Puig Windscreen
5. H4 bi-xenon headlight
6. SV650 (K5) rear shock
7. Bandit rear wheel with 150/60-17 tyre
8. Home made automatic chain oiler
9. Small(er) blinkers
10. LED stop lights
11. Some eBay cheap-o mirrors
12. CBR 600 F2 engine
13. CBR front and passenger footpegs
14. Honda CB400 SF (replica) gauges - total crap ripoff, I'll never ever buy anything from that eBay seller again!

... That's about it for now, next mod is Hornet or Fazer or whatever adjustable (and affordable) front end. 

This is my desktop background.

Thanks for the compliments fellas. But my projects were easy compared to some of the other work above.

88 honda VTR250 that i got for the wife
before

after

04  gs500f
before

middle

After

04 polaris predator 500 built to a 558 big bore with alot of work
before

middle

finished

here's my 2002 GS500,
got it 2 months ago, and it looked like this, all stock:





then:





Now (but still not finish):





i still need to put the Decal Suzuki Stickers, Glossy Black Strips on the middle, Tank Pad Guard Sticker, and Change the
Turn signals, and of course, the Cross Sticker on the FlyScreen, that's a must...

Oh yeah, all the Stickers and Decals are all Reflective

Just gotta love Exodia...

Exodia,...looks clean!  Very nice!

Thank you cbrfxr67, tried to keep it clean

How did you polish those rims? Also what rear is that on the gs? It say something 650...