CUSTOM BOBBER BIKE. AMAZING STORY....VERY COLLECTABLE! SHOW STOPPER!

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This motorcycle might be the most interesting story on EBay. You will probably enjoy reading about it. I must sell...so when you are done reading...please put in some kind of a bid. Thanks and God Bless.

A little History. I have been a professional street rod builder during my life and have had various cars on the covers of the best known car magazines. I also have had about 100 motorcycles, ost of which I cleaned up or modified to my own taste, ut for the most part building hot rods was my “Thing”. This motorcycle you are looking at was built on a “bet”.

There were a few of us guys sitting around about 10 years ago lamenting about how the cost of building a “head turning” hot rod had gotten out of control, eaving the homebuilt projects as “second class citizens”. When a car or bike showed up at a show and was built on a small budget, veryone knew it and usually walked right past them to get to the “million dollar projects” so they could go “wow”!! One of my buddies lamented that the days of the homebuilt projects were all but dead because big money was what had ruined it. If you are a gearhead that does not have deep pockets, ou know what I’m talking about. I am not at all upset with folks who have the means to pay people like me to build them their dream car. I feel blessed to have been in a position to do so.

In a burst of optimism I told my buddies that I believed I could build a head turning bike for an upcoming show (the Del Mar Motorcycle Nationals) for under $500.00. They laughed at such a thought and called it impossible. That was all I needed to encourage me, o I set out to do what I believed I could do….and I did it! The bike you are looking at cost me $395.00 total to build and take to that show. If I was not a professional builder, could have done the same thing based on the way I did it. I was out to prove that anyone with a little knowledge and some basic tools and some scrap parts could do something similar if they paid attention to the details (and the detailing!).

There are a ton of fabricated parts on this bike. Everywhere you look, his bike is modified. I started with a good running 1984 Honda v-45 700cc that had been in a friends garage and had not run in a couple of years. I bought it for $200.00. The bike had about 19k miles on it. I took it back to the shop, ut a fresh battery in it, ome fresh gas and it started right up and sounded solid. The carbs were dirty and messed up and super complicated, o I threw them away and made a single carb custom manifold. I used a small SU variable venturi carb that I had lying around which works perfect on this engine. The bike starts immediately from cold and does not have to be choked to start and idle. The carb is all aluminum so I polished it up for good looks. I bought another “donor” bike that I liked the tires and wheels on for $100.00. The tail section of this bike was made from the back half of the gas tank on that donor bike.

You can read the other details on the sign that I had made for the Del Mar Show, ut the best part of this story is the sign. I parked my bike alongside other bikes that were clearly $50,000.-$250,000. rolling works of art…at first it looked like this little bike of mine was outclassed and questionable as to why it was being shown with the “Big Dogs”….until everyone read the sign in front of it. It happened time after time when someone would quietly walk up to the bike, uietly look it over and then read the sign. Then they got excited….most were very excited! They would call their buddies who may still be down at another bike drooling over it….yelling “come here. You are NOT going to believe this! The people they called over would read the sign and usually get a huge smile on their faces and look around and ask loudly….who owns this bike? I had to remain close by because the bike created such a stir. Fathers and sons and less than wealthy folks, ere especially encouraged to go home and do the same thing I had done…it was just hard work, ttention to detail and a few fabricated pieces that could be whipped up by them instead of ordering everything on the internet and having someone like me charge them $75.00 an hour to put it on. I polished everything on a small bench grinder/polisher. I painted everything with a detail gun with left over custom paint. I scrounged swap meets for other little parts and did it all “Old School” style….by myself.

The truth of this matter is that if I had to charge shop rates for this bike I would have to charge about $40,000.00 for it because it took me somewhere between 400-500 hours to build it. But The bike has sat in my shop for the last ten years and I have told this story many times to prove a point….the individual builder can still draw a huge crowd which I think is MUCH better than drawing a huge trophy! I will never forget the crowds that gathered around this bike at that show….

If you are high bidder on this bike, ou can rest assured you are getting a one and only piece of history. The bike has 0 miles on it and I just recently finished wiring it and plumbing it to run. It comes with a current California registration.

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