Richmond, VA -- Home of a Yamasaki, a Kawazuki and a Noob

[Jayar]

Greetings from Richmond, Virginia, everyone.

Glad to have found yet another great bike site. I'm fairly new to bikes (riding them and working on them), but rest assured I'm kicking myself for all the years I only cared about four-wheeled fun. I still love cars, but I'm hooked on motorbikes now, for sure.

Attached is one of the current projects in my crowded garage. It's a '79 XS750 with a 2005 ZX6R Ninja front end on it. Tons of fun and sounds wicked.



There are more pics and other projects on my garage blog here:

http://johnryland.posterous.com/1978-ya ... 50-special#

Thanks for looking!

JR

- commercial sig link removed by Gummiente -

[Gummiente]

Welcome to TMW! Very fine looking bike you have there, I'd like to see pics of your other rides, too.

BTW, I had to modify your sig, as we don't allow links to commercial sites without prior approval from the Administrator (aja: "totalmotorcycle")

[Jayar]

Thanks! And copy that, regarding the sig. I guess it is commercial in the sense that it's a dot com. Really just the blog from my garage tho! One of these days the bikes might actually bring $$ IN instead of bleeding it OUT! haha.

Thanks again and great site!

JR

[totalmotorcycle]

Jayar,

A warm welcome to the site! My friend and mod Gummi is right about the commercial sig line(s), but we do offer a free business forum that you can post any message you like in to promote yourself and offer any deals to our community members to boot.

BTW- Thanks Gummi.

Mike

[Jayar]

Thanks, Mike. Happy to move this post there, altogether if you'd prefer. At this point, though, bikes are a hobby. Nothing for sale. My real job is at an ad agency...

Don't hesitate to PM me if you think maybe i should post on the biz forum. I still like showing the bikes off, even if they're spoken for

Sorry if I'm mucking things up already!

Thanks. JR

PS: I removed the "web address" in my UCP. Happy to take the links out of the body of the message too.

[totalmotorcycle]

JR,

No worries, no damage done at all.

I welcome the idea of showing off bikes, even if they are spoken for, if you have/had or find some interesting ones. They make for some great topics to chat about. I would start a topic for each different one in what forum you feel they would best fit in and go from there.

The links are the sore spot in any message, but if you keep them to a minimum and don't repeat them in every message then I don't see an issue as long as it doesn't point to a commercial site, etc. The idea is of course to keep the conversionation where the topic was posted (ie, TMW).

Have fun and enjoy!

Mike

[sunshine229]

sweet pic in your first post

[storysunfolding]

Nice bike!

I've got a (very slightly) modified Xs 850 with a sidecar rig. Always wanted a beefier front end on it. How much effort was it to get the ninja front on it?

Btw, there's a great local riding group in richmond (monkeyriders.com) if you haven't already found one. Bunch of good guys with all types of lives and bikes.

[Wrider]

Doooood... That thing is sweet looking! Welcome to the forum!

[Jayar]

Thanks, folks!

Perhansa: I've done five or six of those front ends now, so they go pretty smoothly at this point. The hardest part is being ready to pounce on a good deal when it comes along on eBay or elsewhere (for the front end/wheels/brakes/etc.)

If you have a good machine shop crew who will LISTEN to what you're trying to do, you should be good to go. Basically, it involves removing both steering posts from the lower triples of the donor bike and recipient, then having the stock one affixed to the donor lower. This allows you to use the correct bearings for the frame and keeps everything tidy in the steering department. There are some tricks and watch-outs that I'll write up for you if you decide to do it.

I'll have to look the group up, too!

Do you ever make it down to Poe's Pub (second Sunday of each month) for their bike brunch? If not, check it out in the spring. Lots of bikes of all types with no attitude from the crowd.

They'll probably be out there in a couple of weeks if it's not snowing!

JR