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Reader Ride. A Seriously Cool Adventure Streetfighter… with an unfortunate ending.

I’m not usually a tail high streetfighter kind of guy but his bike has totally MAD credibility.   Ben writes in with the following post… please read it!:


Hey there. Great site, read it every day.

My name is Ben and I’m a bicycle courier in Vancouver BC. I also build bikes in a little DIY shop with a few friends of mine. This is my CBR900RR street fighter that I built while in a wheel chair from crashing a previous bike. It’s got a 1000rr front end and VFR single sided swingarm. The rest was cooked up my me.

When it was done and I could walk again, I rode it from Vancouver to La Paz mexico following the pacific coast the entire time! The trip was phenomenal, an experience of a life time. After going through a few sets of tires and having the best time, the bike was stolen right before my eyes! Snatched into a van in downtown La Paz never to be seen again! All in all it was worth it but I sure miss her! The last two pics are of my beach side off road adventure and camping spot that was part of the Baja 1000 coarse. The other is a fantastic restaurant, great crab burrito.

P.s. If this makes it up on your site an any other readers have seen it since october 2009 let me know!


Man this is among THE COOLEST bikes I’ve ever posted. Great build. Great adventure. But a crappy ending. If anyone’s seen the bike PLEASE LET ME KNOW! It totally Sucks that it was lost that way.   And if you’re involved with the theft… then you’re a piece of shit who has a chance to   do your karma or your soul (or whatever you believe in)  some good and get this guy his bike back.

Ben my hat’s off to you.  Monster thumbs up!  Sound like a fantastic trip.  And hey I’d love to see anything else you’ve got coming out of your shop.

Thanks Very Much!

Death of a salvage yard…

Stopped by my local salvage yard yesterday and was confronted with this…. They’re not all the way closed but 70 percent of the old stuff is now gone… There were about 6 total basket case triples in there. Mostly H1’s. Not much usable on any of them but it still hurt to watch. Owner said that he’s had that stuff out there 30 years and noting had moved off that side of the yard in a decade so it was better off as scrap. I guess he had a point but it still sucked to watch. I got there too late to grab any of it. He’s said he’s probably moving and sticking to newer plastic bikes that he can make a few dollars off of. I felt like throwing up a little.

Reader Ride. A Norton Fastback/Interstate hybrid.. of sorts.

Tyler Hammond sends in this excellent Norton.

He writes in:

Hello,
I just recently completed a complete restoration on my Norton. Its a
1971 with a ’72 front end (for the disc brake) I have put a fastback
rear tail with a interstate tank. The factory never sold them this
way, but i love the fastbacks and now i can carry 5 gallons of gas for
my trips. i bought this bike from the original owner, it had been
sitting since 1979.

here is a link to a picture of the bike the day i brought it home

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thunderace/198880040/in/set-72157594212781001/

Love your site keep it going, its a daily visit for me

Tyler
San fran Bay area


A great big thank you to everyone. YES! EVERYONE!

I noticed today that the past week has been more than holding steady at “pre-move” site visit levels and it occurred to me that I’ve neglected to take the time top properly thank everyone for their patience and their enormous help.

So here’s a great big thank you to EVERYONE.  To all the folks who stuck with me through the move from blogger after my involentary shutdown and to all those bloggers (too numerous to name without the chance of rudely overlooking anyone) who provided assistance, invaluable advice,  and pitched in to help me get the word out with posts and links of their own.    I am sincerely grateful to all of you.  Thanks you to each and every one of you!

Now back to the posts!

By buddies old Triumph Thuderbird Sport..

I don’t know how folks can part with a bike this nice.  The sound was like an aria.

Jebus! The Steve Baker OW31 Racebike on display at Red Rock Vegas Harley dealership….

WOW!!!  that’s my kind of Harley Dealer!!   And right next to it you can just see a Barry Sheen Suzuki!  Holy crap!  I’m trying to get more info on it from the source.  I’ll post it up if I do.

V-Max on Ice Video!

Klatuu posted this in the comments of the previous post. Great Stuff!

Sorry, looks like you have to click through. I don’t get the point of that but whatever..