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I just joined the forum, from Huffman, Texas. Been riding and wrenching since I was a kiddo. I'm currently building a 1981 GS850G cafe fighter. Got it from a brother who owed me money and it was in terrible shape. Someone attempted to make some sort of bobber out of it and failed miserably. So far I have stripped it down to just the frame and engine. Had to cut the subframe completely off due to a bad hack job on it. Decided to do something less fugly with it. So far I'm fitting a 02 ZX7 front end on it. Got a majority of that done today. Next I am adapting the final drive to the rear wheel from the same donor bike the front end came from and building a new swing arm and drive shaft. Then it's on to fabbing up a new subframe. I love building bikes and I'll post pics of the progress soon. So that's it in a nutshell.
 
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Damn ..... you're nearly next door

soon be enough of us to form a SE Texas "modified GS" club

looking forward to seeing what sounds like a pretty radical build
 
Yeah, I caught that after posting. Not sure how that will be done without some pretty impressive fabrication.
 
The fabrication won't be that difficult. It's not hard to disassemble and reassemble a motorcycle. It takes time and skill to build it to suit what you want. I'll have to build the swingarm wider, with a second universal joint to get the shaft around the wheel. It'll have a support bearing internally ( meaning inside the swingarm). It'll also be mono-shock and most like a few inches longer than stock.
 
This is the only pic I've taken so far, but I'll try to take more as I go. Don't pay any more no to my messy ass shop 😳
 

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BlackWolfGray said:
The fabrication won't be that difficult. It's not hard to disassemble and reassemble a motorcycle. It takes time and skill to build it to suit what you want. I'll have to build the swingarm wider, with a second universal joint to get the shaft around the wheel. It'll have a support bearing internally ( meaning inside the swingarm). It'll also be mono-shock and most like a few inches longer than stock.
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When you install the second u-joint, be sure to phase it correctly, so you will essentially have a CV joint. Will save a LOT of wear and tear on various parts.


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Where you from bsharpish?
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Looking at the location he has posted, it appears to be "Katy". :-\\\

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BlackWolfGray said:
This is the only pic I've taken so far, but I'll try to take more as I go. Don't pay any more no to my messy ass shop 
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Please take a few moments to set up an account at a photo hosting site. By pasting the IMG link to pictures on a hosting site, you can show full-size pictures (but please make sure that "full-size" does not overwhelm the screen) and you can show up to TEN pictures in one post. You can also show the same picture in more than one post.

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