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thehiddencheese's $900 Bike Rebuild (Lots of pictures)
Let me start off by saying this is my first bike, and my first attempt at doing this.
Spring
This was the first day I picked it up, a 1990 Suzuki Katana GSX600, 31k miles. The rain did a excellent job of covering the rust and shit paint on this bike. I got it for $900 from a nice collage gentleman who was moving across country after graduating. It also came with a bike jack that does not work on the bike. It ran great except one problem, it would die once it got warm.
Once I got it home and the sun came out revealing the actual condition of the body. Is the bike black or brown? Hard to say.
First thing I immediately did was drain the oil (was it oil at this point?), and replace the oil filter (clogger). The poor thing. I replaced it for a K&N Filter, and MOBIL-1 racing 4T.
Next up was the dying when warm issue. The guy said he could not figure it out. I rode it around for awhile and it seem to run fine. Eventually it left me almost stranded in the country, surprise.
This issue was quickly resolved, the spark plugs were completely burnt and black when removed, and replacing them fixed the issue.
I rode it like this for a while before doing some more changes because fuck it.
Summer
Eventually after a few months I started having clutch cable issues, little did I know exactly how bad it was..
Old vs New Clutch cable
Next thing was getting that humongous ugly piece of scrap metal off the front of the bike, if this thing was going to be a "street fighter" then it might as well go the whole way.
I ordered some cheap ass dual headlights off ebay (streetfighters special) and followed up my amazing hack job with some excellent gauge placement and wiring job that only showed the utmost care.
Don't worry it doesn't stay like this for long. I just wanted to ride while it was warm out, so I rushed everything. I had to make a mount for the gauges since the front headlight frame was gone, so ghetto made it was.
I'll post more pics later, including fixing the front, paint, and a bunch of other stuff.
Spring
This was the first day I picked it up, a 1990 Suzuki Katana GSX600, 31k miles. The rain did a excellent job of covering the rust and shit paint on this bike. I got it for $900 from a nice collage gentleman who was moving across country after graduating. It also came with a bike jack that does not work on the bike. It ran great except one problem, it would die once it got warm.
Once I got it home and the sun came out revealing the actual condition of the body. Is the bike black or brown? Hard to say.
First thing I immediately did was drain the oil (was it oil at this point?), and replace the oil filter (clogger). The poor thing. I replaced it for a K&N Filter, and MOBIL-1 racing 4T.
Next up was the dying when warm issue. The guy said he could not figure it out. I rode it around for awhile and it seem to run fine. Eventually it left me almost stranded in the country, surprise.
This issue was quickly resolved, the spark plugs were completely burnt and black when removed, and replacing them fixed the issue.
I rode it like this for a while before doing some more changes because fuck it.
Summer
Eventually after a few months I started having clutch cable issues, little did I know exactly how bad it was..
Old vs New Clutch cable
Next thing was getting that humongous ugly piece of scrap metal off the front of the bike, if this thing was going to be a "street fighter" then it might as well go the whole way.
I ordered some cheap ass dual headlights off ebay (streetfighters special) and followed up my amazing hack job with some excellent gauge placement and wiring job that only showed the utmost care.
Don't worry it doesn't stay like this for long. I just wanted to ride while it was warm out, so I rushed everything. I had to make a mount for the gauges since the front headlight frame was gone, so ghetto made it was.
I'll post more pics later, including fixing the front, paint, and a bunch of other stuff.
The video makes it sound louder than it is, riding at low rpms it's not very loud, at least compared to the harleys around here.
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