Doug Nassif sends in this trick little conversion.
Hi,
2004 HRC Dream 50R, conversion to street legal.
Headlight too big? That’s me!
Cheers!
Doug.
Bismarck
Thanks again Doug. Man that looks like fun. Those overhead cams on that small cylinder are too cool. And I bet all the other bikes have headlight envy! 🙂
Do yourself a favor and go check out the rest of these pics over on Mutant Moto (link fixed)
Bret really gets it.
Thanks for the pics Bret.
Great lines…
And a VERY unusual manifold setup. A 4 cylinder manifolded to dual carbs. Very trick and probably a lot easier to tune.
Unfortunately I couldn’t stay long but I grabbed som pics with the cell phone. A lot of these bikes have appeared on the blog before.
A BMW R69 in just the sort of condition that you’d love to find one in..
Indian Brian (bet ya can’t guess why we call him that?) has his beautiful bobber out.
Butches CB200 Cafe. It an amazingly cool (and small) bike and it sound a lot bigger that it’s size with those pipes.
The driveway when I pulled up… Thanks Andre! wish I didn’t have to work today. Looked like the makings of a great day.
A few folks in the comments pointed out that this is actually and Africa Twin which I should know except we are SORELY lacking in them here in the US. To our everlasting shame 😦
From the comments:
It is an Africa Twin 😉
This Photo was taken in the Italian alps on the Passo Della Mendola near Bolzano.
It is always a great trip to the alps 🙂
Greetings
Sandra
No doubt. And thanks much for the correction.
I’ve been getting a lot of good Honda CL and SL projects lately. Here’s another fantastic cafe which was built on a VERY reasonable budget.
Pete Boyd Writes in with the breakdown on this beauty of a bike:
All parts were bought off E-bay if I didn’t have them laying around. Paid $1200 for the bike and added $800 to get it done including what I paid for the stuff I had laying around. Hated the rat rod paint job I did so I paid another $200 to have the silver paint job done professionally. Did the mods after work and on weekends for a month. Still have some grinding left to do but it is already on the road! I am selling the stock stuff on E-bay so my total investment will continue to drop.
Rear brake heel activated
Gel battery etc mounted on the rear fender support
Cut off a Bonneville front fender brace for the heat guard on the pipes
Wiring pulled through down tube on frame
CB 200 gas tank with funky chrome strips and fake alligator pad!!
Finned engine cover
Ribbed front tire
Dropped headlight and instruments down several inches.
LED tail light
Pete
Thanks very much Pete!
Work in progress
The before pic. It’s always easier (and in the long run cheaper) to start with a well sorted bike. And to you purists out there ringing your hands, be honest. They’re not exactly rare and whatever parts he didn’t use went towards the restoration of bike that were a lot worse off. Win win!
Tripped accross Andrews bike over on ADV rider and he was kind enough to hook me up with his build blog. Really really nice stuff. . He’s also the builder of another well documented NX650 Dominator Special!
Be sure to check them both out!
The Before pic!
Those rearsets are brilliant! Thanks again to Jim Jackson!
I stumbled across this sweet SL350 on ADV rider and had to ask the owner more about it. Turns out that it’s got a nice history. Paul built it to recreate an early Baha 1000 promotional ride from back in the day. For more complete info check out the AMA blog post on it here. Great stuff! Also, for a great build thread with lots of great background see this build thread over on ADV rider HERE.
Thanks again Paul!
Here’s the “Glamor Shot”
One of his potential candidates that didn’t make muster.
Here’s the first go-round on the restoration:
And here she is in her element being put to work the way she was intended! Great Stuff!
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