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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:37 pm
by busa1300
I'm about 30 miles straight east of South Bend
I've been in the painting business for over 35 years now....

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:03 am
by busa1300
The SR500 is gone, and the first new bike I have bought since 2002...
A split Christmas present for me and my wife....more hers than mine....but that's reality...

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:23 pm
by Warehouse1001
Heard those are a blast to ride! Chuck

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:52 pm
by busa1300
I heard they are great beginners bikes (her), and should be fun to wheelie around the country roads (me).
Won't get a chance to really find out till spring though....snowing today... :(

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:14 pm
by tz375
We were supposed to go and look at one of those this weekend but ran out of time and now it's snowing here too, so it may have to wait. May look at a fully faired one in the spring

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:01 pm
by busa1300
We got the 2016 Duke because the newer 2017 has styling even more radical...and they were cutting deals to get the older versions out the door. Not sure what has changed on the RC390 for 2017 they were sold out...? Your RZ will still be faster

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:29 am
by busa1300
I got some recognition for keeping some strokers alive, in my favorite magazine.
Words are a bit botched up as the original story was more than they had room for.
But the pic came out good :mrgreen:

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:51 pm
by busa1300
Decided to unrestrict the VJ23....
Sugaya.... no one does it better for RGV's
Not a financially smart thing to do for sure, but and extra 20 plus HP is hard to put a price on sometimes :mrgreen:
Still need the R2 CDI at some point.... considerably more rare than the bike itself is, sad to say. :cry:
Almost done collecting parts though, and will be tearing into it very soon. Needs to be ready by early May....I'm hoping

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:42 pm
by busa1300
A bit of a before and after from the picture above...
3 months of work getting it into a running bike again...read a bit more here if interested.
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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:52 pm
by busa1300
And my GS1000 has over 900 trouble free miles on it so far....very happy with this one.

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 6:29 pm
by busa1300
Hey guys, if anyone here is into street fighters of any kind....
.....I have my RZ going for fighter of the month on another website just for fun.

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:31 pm
by busa1300
Finally sold the bachelor pad, and moved into a real house.....so the bikes had to have a new place too.
Slowly getting the strokers and parts and everything else settled in.

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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 8:30 pm
by busa1300
Snow in a couple days, so one last blast out in the country before a long winters sleep..... :mrgreen:

Youtube...
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Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:41 pm
by simmons1
Do you paint bikes for people?

I may be looking at a paint job on my spare set of Buffalo parts along with a small fly screen.

Thanks!

Re: My other bikes....even some non suzuki 2 strokes

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:30 pm
by busa1300
I have painted a few Harleys in the past. But after the owners had dropped them and scratched them up time and again, expecting me to just touch it up....I figured it's not worth the trouble.
But anything is possible. I kinda do things at a pretty slow pace when I'm doing things on my own time.....it could take a while depending on condition of metal (dents/rust/cracks) and how much paint is still on the parts... The less I have to do, the easier it is to consider.

This is what I have been painting at my day job for over 15 years now....So it takes a bit of effort to try and paint after work. :lol:
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