Am I Nuts?
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Now if I'm not mistaken Johnny 'borrowed' all those parts from the auto factory he worked at. (At least in the context of the song...) You have to tell us how you're going to sneak a bike frame out of work in your lunchbox!! Great idea though...be sure to post pics when you're done!
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it's only one in a lifetime that's non-EPA compliant.
if you use EPA compliant motor/EFI, etc... you can build as many as you want.
you can buy aftermarket EPA compliant motors, ignitions, etc now, so it's not a problem.
if you use EPA compliant motor/EFI, etc... you can build as many as you want.
you can buy aftermarket EPA compliant motors, ignitions, etc now, so it's not a problem.
ORIGINAL: JB
Go for it. We have done a number of scratch built bikes and its a blast the first time you fire that thing up and then stand back looking at it and listening to it idle and and you know with out a doubt that it is the best sounding bike that was ever built and realize that you know every single part on it, it gives you a real good feeling. There is one thing I will say that is the way the gov. has got about titling a custom scratch built vehicle limiting you to only one in a life time, if I were you I would really think about for you're first build getting a wrecked bike and doing and then doing a ground up custom job on it. A lot of these bikes there is not that much wrong with them but with the cost of OEM parts and labor rates of $70 an hour and up it doesn't take long for a bill to add up to enough to total a good bike. When done this way pretty much all you should have to worry about when licensing the bike is having it inspected to make sure its street legal to the year of the title you have for the bike, this will not clear the title as it will remain a salvage title but I have never had any problems with that. You will also gain a lot of valuable knowledge pulling down the stock bike that will really help when you build it back up to the custom you want. There is one other thing to think about and that is that after building the first one you will want to build another and if you do you're first build on a pretitled bike this will still leave you open to build you're once in a life time custom and now you will have a lot better idea of what you can do.
Go for it. We have done a number of scratch built bikes and its a blast the first time you fire that thing up and then stand back looking at it and listening to it idle and and you know with out a doubt that it is the best sounding bike that was ever built and realize that you know every single part on it, it gives you a real good feeling. There is one thing I will say that is the way the gov. has got about titling a custom scratch built vehicle limiting you to only one in a life time, if I were you I would really think about for you're first build getting a wrecked bike and doing and then doing a ground up custom job on it. A lot of these bikes there is not that much wrong with them but with the cost of OEM parts and labor rates of $70 an hour and up it doesn't take long for a bill to add up to enough to total a good bike. When done this way pretty much all you should have to worry about when licensing the bike is having it inspected to make sure its street legal to the year of the title you have for the bike, this will not clear the title as it will remain a salvage title but I have never had any problems with that. You will also gain a lot of valuable knowledge pulling down the stock bike that will really help when you build it back up to the custom you want. There is one other thing to think about and that is that after building the first one you will want to build another and if you do you're first build on a pretitled bike this will still leave you open to build you're once in a life time custom and now you will have a lot better idea of what you can do.
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RE: Am I Nuts?
You are right in wanting to do a ground up.You will be much more in tune with your bike when finished.You can also save BIG money doing it yourself,not to mention having exactly what you want.Good Luck!
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