They like hardtails cos they are "minimalistic", and clueless fools claim "there is less to go wrong".
Except sadly they are cutting off a bike to weld on some garbage hard tail kit that costs 500 bones minimum and well, how many times has a shock caused you grief that you couldn't get home. Yea, exactly.
Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: The Buddha on July 28, 2011, 07:57:26 AM
They like hardtails cos they are "minimalistic", and clueless fools claim "there is less to go wrong".
Except sadly they are cutting off a bike to weld on some garbage hard tail kit that costs 500 bones minimum and well, how many times has a shock caused you grief that you couldn't get home. Yea, exactly.
Cool.
Buddha.

They take a perfectly functioning bike, like a virago, gs500, shadow or whatever, cut off all the reliable stuff that really can't break, or almost ever break, and then chop off factory parts and welds that were done by a machine and x-ray inspected to make sure the welds were good, only to stick weld on some tube stock that's probably the wrong thickness and a dissimilar metal to the stock frame....

Which may crack while riding due to having no shock absorption, have the rear end break off, and cause you to slide down the blacktop in your trendy leather jacket, blue jeans, sneakers, and skid lids....

Quote from: xunedeinx on July 28, 2011, 03:44:37 PM

Quote from: The Buddha on July 28, 2011, 07:57:26 AM
They like hardtails cos they are "minimalistic", and clueless fools claim "there is less to go wrong".
Except sadly they are cutting off a bike to weld on some garbage hard tail kit that costs 500 bones minimum and well, how many times has a shock caused you grief that you couldn't get home. Yea, exactly.
Cool.
Buddha.

They take a perfectly functioning bike, like a virago, gs500, shadow or whatever, cut off all the reliable stuff that really can't break, or almost ever break, and then chop off factory parts and welds that were done by a machine and x-ray inspected to make sure the welds were good, only to stick weld on some tube stock that's probably the wrong thickness and a dissimilar metal to the stock frame....

Which may crack while riding due to having no shock absorption, have the rear end break off, and cause you to slide down the blacktop in your trendy leather jacket, blue jeans, sneakers, and skid lids....

then after that. youre sliding along on your flesh , bones and GOD forbid who knows whatelse

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 28, 2011, 11:08:57 PM

Quote from: xunedeinx on July 28, 2011, 03:44:37 PM

Quote from: The Buddha on July 28, 2011, 07:57:26 AM
They like hardtails cos they are "minimalistic", and clueless fools claim "there is less to go wrong".
Except sadly they are cutting off a bike to weld on some garbage hard tail kit that costs 500 bones minimum and well, how many times has a shock caused you grief that you couldn't get home. Yea, exactly.
Cool.
Buddha.

They take a perfectly functioning bike, like a virago, gs500, shadow or whatever, cut off all the reliable stuff that really can't break, or almost ever break, and then chop off factory parts and welds that were done by a machine and x-ray inspected to make sure the welds were good, only to stick weld on some tube stock that's probably the wrong thickness and a dissimilar metal to the stock frame....

Which may crack while riding due to having no shock absorption, have the rear end break off, and cause you to slide down the blacktop in your trendy leather jacket, blue jeans, sneakers, and skid lids....

then after that. youre sliding along on your flesh , bones and GOD forbid who knows whatelse

I hear bone makes WONDERFUL sidewalk chalk.

What tripe is this guys ... of course that can never happen to "them" ... cos "they" never ride it. That riding thing vaporised the instant they sat on that torture device to roll it back in the garage after they welded up the hardtail kit.

The coolest thing about this whole weld up hardtail trend IMHO, it never makes it onto the real world. Its built by non riders, bought by non riders and put on CL every few years with a whole new set of dumbass mods and ever increasing price tags. Its one of those, I have 5,000 in the bike, I want to get atleast 4,500 for it. Yes, that 5K includes hacing off the previous owners 3K worth of mods that really was the incentive for them to pay 2500 for it, only to take a hack saw to it as soon as they got it home.

Maybe I should start a business collecting up the cut off suspension bits and waiting for the next version of "modders" to fit "suspensions" to their hardtail bikes. And I'll sell them suspensions that fit like they were made for it. And now atleast they will ride to the coffee shop and talk about how their bike so cool with a new suspension in the back.

Cool.
Buddha.

Aaaaak my eyes my eyes ... this is a freaking abomination ...

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2551773267.html

Cool.
Buddha.

Yea this trash is worth 4G -
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcd/2520733300.html

This - can you say stolen ...
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2477050128.html

Seized and Fugly ... but only 550 ...
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2561149940.html

Ruined a 1/2 decent gs450.
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2563368075.html

Not bad looking ... but can you imagine the scale of this thing ... and 4800 bones ... WTF are people thinking.
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2551844668.html
Dude got skillz, but no common sense. On a GS450/KZ400/XS650 or any other small 80's 2 cyl that mod would have been a killer.

Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: The Buddha on August 25, 2011, 02:04:03 PM
Aaaaak my eyes my eyes ... this is a freaking abomination ...

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2551773267.html

Cool.
Buddha.

Oh, please!  May I take a crack at translating this?

"You must see this!!!"

Translation:  You must see it because no one can ride it.

"This bike was built for me shortly after I got it my wife got pregnant so it needs to go."

Translation:  I bought a junk Ducati and paid my buddies a lot of coin to have it turned into this awful thing.  It was never about making a roadworthy bike, but an interesting (if you're bi-polar with no sense of economics) show bike.  It was also about having somewhere I can hang-out at night so I wouldn't have to listen to my pregnant wife complain.  It's so horrible to ride (the bike, not her, although she's not much easier!) I figured out I want to sell it faster than my wife can gestate a baby.

I don't know Buddha, the Goldwing doesn't look half bad. Probably not very comfortable to ride with the straight bars pulling you forward, but that's not exactly the idea with a bike built like that. Like you said, at least that guy appears to have some skill.

It is a huge bike for a cafe racer ... Remember the amazon ... or the Mammut ...
Cool.
Buddha.

It is rather large, I'm not sure the builder knows what a cafe racer is. It strikes me as more of a beach cruiser type bike than anything that could be considered a racer.

just chopped everything off a virago and sprayed it satin. 1000$ profit. bike looked 100 times more badass, so..........

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2572123067.html

Speaking of Viragos...

A Virago, atleast the 85 or 86 and later 700/750/1000/1100 can be bobbed without hacking anything off ... similar to a savage. Savage is even easier though, but a virago is a weekend job, savage is an hour ...
The older virago I dunno ... I wont touch those ... too much problems in the starter on em.
Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: The Buddha on August 25, 2011, 02:04:03 PM
Aaaaak my eyes my eyes ... this is a freaking abomination ...

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/mcy/2551773267.html

Cool.
Buddha.

Not only that but sacrilegious. 

About 3 years ago in Tennessee I saw a CL ad for a katana that the guy started to "convert" ... into a cruiser, apehangers were on the bike and he had long cables made for it etc etc and he had "realised" all of a sudden he doesn't have time to ride ... Yup ... no time to ride ... else he'd be riding that horror ... Yea ... right ...
Cool.
Buddha.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/2575247133.html

Not really a bobber, but somebody built this monstrosity.

Quote from: ryott52 on August 26, 2011, 06:06:22 AM
I don't know Buddha, the Goldwing doesn't look half bad. Probably not very comfortable to ride with the straight bars pulling you forward, but that's not exactly the idea with a bike built like that. Like you said, at least that guy appears to have some skill.

LOL holy hell?, that bike  looks like the "evilwing" i was considering buying a couple years back 

Those old GW's - something about their proportions are a bit off ... its too big to be anything but a full on tour bike, but yet seems minimalistic when you do need a tour bike ... the first one of its kind ... and ergo, the most confused ...
I think they would make a good car motor, like a vortex like what starwalt is building.
Cool.
Buddha.

I know what you mean about how it seems the old GW proportions are a bit off, but when you ride one it doesn't seem that way at all.  The bike actually handles decently and has good power, especially the GL1100's that came along I think two years into the model run.