Some of you may remember me scouring fleabay while I was in Iraq gathering up super-secret parts for my next project. The plan was to install all of those parts during the winter in Alaska, but the Army decided that I needed to move down to El Paso in February. Getting home from Iraq in October that didn't give me much time to install everything and there was still some missing odds and ends to make it all fit properly. I decided to ship the bike complete and wait to start the project once I got down to Texas. Now I've been here for a while and most of the moving boxes have been unpacked and removed from the garage so I have space to move around and work. I am still waiting on a few bits and pieces, but decided to go ahead and start this thread up like I promised I would. The bike everyone on here knows and remembers hasn't looked like this for quite a while now.
Right before I left for Iraq I discovered my front rim was bent and had to be replaced. I never took time to do anything with the new front rim except ride on it, so she had a black rear rim and a silver front rim. Just recently I dropped the bike in a gravel parking lot breaking the mirror, front brake lever and chipping the "bubble" on the right main fairing. So this is how she is sitting today before I start the rebuild project.
Here is a sneak peek at some of the parts going onto my bike.
I don't think anyone already has this name.... so I am going to call this bike "Gixana" since every part on the bike will be from a Gixxer or a Katana.
Right before I left for Iraq I discovered my front rim was bent and had to be replaced. I never took time to do anything with the new front rim except ride on it, so she had a black rear rim and a silver front rim. Just recently I dropped the bike in a gravel parking lot breaking the mirror, front brake lever and chipping the "bubble" on the right main fairing. So this is how she is sitting today before I start the rebuild project.
Here is a sneak peek at some of the parts going onto my bike.
I don't think anyone already has this name.... so I am going to call this bike "Gixana" since every part on the bike will be from a Gixxer or a Katana.
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