Mountain Bike Mike
Well-Known Member
it is drfinately mad scientist-ish
Rz or RD?Good luck with your project. I'm currently looking to add an early 70's Yamaha 350 2 stroke road bike to my list of projects.
There is a 2 stroke show/swap meet coming up.
Looking for an RD 350.Rz or RD?
My fav is the RD400 Daytona special
painting has begun! shiny black body panels. Tank needs a little more clean up before I start it. Doing paint prep right sucks but is worth it.
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should make it flat black
Mike that was mildly intense video haha.
I did a mock up to see if what I have going on in my head is gonna work with paint, and I think I settled on a paint idea. Here's pretty much what the bike is gonna look like, just with a half red half white tank. The bars look mucho better IMHO. The tank will be red on the bottom, white on top with white for the lettering. It's not gonna be a bright white, more of a tan white - like those tan/khaki army bikes. The red will be pretty similar to the roadie on the wall in the back. I'm gonna stripe the top of the rear fender the same red/white scheme as the tank and leave the sides chrome. Looking to be test riding by next weekend as long as I don't hit any hitches from here. I still think the black works on the side covers.
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Overtime, If I owned it, I would consider these mods:
- Swap out the gauges with Round Pods instead of the current block
- Bigger headlight
- Remove the rear grab bar
- Remove the air box and replace it with K&N cones
- Swap out the pipe for a flat black 4 into 1 header
- Maybe some smaller blinkers