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Well as I've posted elsewhere on here, I finally got my skunk home!!
I found it for sale on Kijiji a couple months ago, in Manitoba.
I chatted with the owner about it a few times on the phone, we came to an agreement (on the condition that the pieces from the frame that had been hacked off were still with the parts) for $1000.
I've been looking for a skunk since right after I bought my first T, and this was the only one I've ever seen for sale in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba.
I'm glad it was in my price range!!
What I was told about this bike was that he got it as part of a larger deal involving several choppers and v-twins, and had plans for it that ended when he got a divorce.
PO said when he got it that it was a drag bike equipped with a simplified harness, stripped lights gauges and signals, struts, air shifter, etc.
He claims it has a big bore and aggressive cams but the only evidence I've seen of that is a video of it running with a pretty lumpy idle, and it has what appears to be stock carbs (unknown jetting), so who knows.
He got all the stock parts with it in his purchase so he started converting it back to a street bike, and in the process took a hacksaw to the rear of the frame.
HEARTBREAKING.
Luckily he saved the chopped pieces and I work with half a dozen journeymen welders, but still it will never be as complete as it was before the chop.
The ride to go get it was long and cold and expensive, St. Francois Xavier MB is 11 hours away and the truck we took has no heat in it and gets 11 mpg.
Worth every minute of it though!!
I've posted these already elsewhere, but here are pictures!!
This was the picture in the ad.
After chatting with him a bit I requested more pictures, these are what he sent.
And the parts boxes...
Most of the parts are from the bike but there is some spares in there, like a rear fender and the sprockets from the 630 to 520 conversion.
I haven't been through the parts boxes yet though as I was pretty beat when I got home yesterday and I just headed straight to bed.
These next pictures I took when I picked it up and afterwards when we stopped for gas and there was better light.
Not sure what I had in mind before I actually saw it IRL, but it's a little bigger and wider than I was expecting. That's a good thing as I'm not a small fellow!!
And here is the pics of it in the truck after I picked it up.
I found it for sale on Kijiji a couple months ago, in Manitoba.
I chatted with the owner about it a few times on the phone, we came to an agreement (on the condition that the pieces from the frame that had been hacked off were still with the parts) for $1000.
I've been looking for a skunk since right after I bought my first T, and this was the only one I've ever seen for sale in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba.
I'm glad it was in my price range!!
What I was told about this bike was that he got it as part of a larger deal involving several choppers and v-twins, and had plans for it that ended when he got a divorce.
PO said when he got it that it was a drag bike equipped with a simplified harness, stripped lights gauges and signals, struts, air shifter, etc.
He claims it has a big bore and aggressive cams but the only evidence I've seen of that is a video of it running with a pretty lumpy idle, and it has what appears to be stock carbs (unknown jetting), so who knows.
He got all the stock parts with it in his purchase so he started converting it back to a street bike, and in the process took a hacksaw to the rear of the frame.
HEARTBREAKING.
Luckily he saved the chopped pieces and I work with half a dozen journeymen welders, but still it will never be as complete as it was before the chop.
The ride to go get it was long and cold and expensive, St. Francois Xavier MB is 11 hours away and the truck we took has no heat in it and gets 11 mpg.
Worth every minute of it though!!
I've posted these already elsewhere, but here are pictures!!
This was the picture in the ad.
After chatting with him a bit I requested more pictures, these are what he sent.
And the parts boxes...
Most of the parts are from the bike but there is some spares in there, like a rear fender and the sprockets from the 630 to 520 conversion.
I haven't been through the parts boxes yet though as I was pretty beat when I got home yesterday and I just headed straight to bed.
These next pictures I took when I picked it up and afterwards when we stopped for gas and there was better light.
Not sure what I had in mind before I actually saw it IRL, but it's a little bigger and wider than I was expecting. That's a good thing as I'm not a small fellow!!
And here is the pics of it in the truck after I picked it up.
Just remember if it doesn't have 4 digit's it is a moped 
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