A Basket Case Suzuki in my shop

Ever offer to help a guy out with a simple bike related task and and up with a royal pain in the ass? I said I'd paint a 2001 TL1000R and this is the alleged motorcycle.... This is gonna take a little work.

 

well, it does clearly need to be painted! ;-)

 

well you tell homechicken that help means "assisting" not doing, then hand him the sanding block..when he gets done with that hand him the bondo or fiberglass and help with that

 

She runs, rode it to my shop. He picked her up for $1000 this spring, I told him that he could drop it off to me and we would work something out. No dice. A buddy of his in his MC told him to take it to some outfit on the east side of Youngstown that had it for 3 months and let it roll out as she looks now. No coolant in the resevoir,bald rear tire, no horn, bent front rim (but it's chrome cat!), bent left clip on, trashed chain, non operable front turn signals and about a half millimeter of front brake pads. I did manage to cut the chicken strips in half on the 18 mile ride to the shop, stupid in retrospect after seeing how scary it really was. Plan on making her safe, fixing the bodywork, and painting her in a red black & green paint scheme to match his club colors. Little ghetto fabulous for my taste but she aint my bike. If was was mine it would roll out in the spring as a blacked out streetfighter.

 

What's the problem? I thought they all looked like that.

 

Nice pictures. Now the bill for 5000.00, Or the bike wreckers:biggrin:

 

Move

You would be better off to close your shop, move to another state and change your name and gender.

 

1 week in

A week into it, after work and this weekend. Lots of damage on this bike. The upper cowl is a mess, every time I patch it it cracks up again. placed a thin steel bar behind it and epoxied it in over the screen i tried first. Fender elinimination is done besides paint. Punched out the stock pipes that were tossed on this bike after the Two Bro's were thrashed out before i got it and polished them up a bit. Feft side is still in progress. Tank was a bear but is getting close to paint. I have a vertical plate mount built and in peices on my shop bench. couple wiring issues pending, the is no horn. Any one know what color wire are supposed to run Suzuki's horn?

 

Still going...

Couple more weeks in in my free time. I would be farther, but waiting on $. go figure...

 

I hope you get pay after all the work. Good luck with the bike

 

Qustion for you guys: What cosmetic mods/fabs would you add to this build? I'm open on this cause it's not my type of bike.

 

I wouldn't do anymore than you have. After paint give it back to him and ask for carnal pleasures.

 

Got the wiring locked down today. Still more to knock out before I start shooting color.

 

Got a chainguard built from diamond plate fabbed up today after work, think Im gonna have a hugger fender built tomarrow. will be posting pics in the white. The owner has yet to give me the cash to go spring for the paint yet. What the hell, I'm enjoying bringing this bike back to life.

 

VH you do some good work. Im glad you are enjoying your work. Hope the friend posts up some Benjis' for your work

 

Well...I'ts pretty much built. Still needs paint and I'm on hold for some money from the owner. Got the body & tank repaired as well as I can w/o a base coat of color. Made the mods I planed on as well as a few more out of boredom more than anything else. Can't fire it up till I got the tank back on after paint so checking how she runs and remapping the power commander if nessisary is on hold. All body panels are in primer and I'm happy with the way it came out. I'll be happier when it's painted and burning pavement like she is ment to do! After paint I'll post on here. Hope the owner gets off his ass and gets on his bike.http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww183/m21sws/v03.jpg

 

looks good! The TLs are in some way a under rated bike... a buget liter bike with midrange torque, a feature we all love about our vfrs. Manufacturer build quality is not that great but the bike itself is not a bad design for what it is.

 

If it was an RC51 I would have told him it's trash but I'd be happy to take it off his hands. lol