This is where the story started.... A Craigslist ad for a 78 GS1000 that had not been started since 1990....$400...

I want to share my travel experience to Portugal and Spain on a motorcycle. It all started with the fact that my good friend pushed me to purchase a new motorcycle, and I am very grateful to him! gave...

Without changing the dream and going to our goals, we chose a date, made an approximate route. Riders: Urgis and his navigator Inna. We have traveled through seven countries: Poland, Czech Republic, G...

Project Hooligan...

If you ask yourself what is the most pleasant stage in the construction of a custom, then after the first start of the engine, I would undoubtedly name the final assembly stage....

"There is no formula of beauty (as well as a recipe for happiness), but if by some miracle they become known to you, then do not rush to touch them, because you deprive yourself of one of the brightes...

The clutch lever pivot hole size didn't match the lever perch, so I turned up a brass bushing to take up the slack...

Rear tank mount done...

Looks good, transfer to aluminum...

I've always wanted to build a slingshot... now I get to build 2!!...

Here's a bit of video for y'all... 5 minutes of Moonshiner 28 in North Carolina. Probably one of my most favorite roads EVER....

I upgraded the rear line to a color-matched CoreMoto line....

I wasn't happy with the look of the heel guards that came with the rearsets, so I made new ones from a sheet of carbon I laid up using 2 plys of fiberglass mat sandwiched between 4 plys of carbon....

Time for some carbon fiber fun...All my parts were cosmetic, so a simple overlay process was all it took to score a high end look....

The wiring needed to pass from the handlebars into the area in front of the airbox... but the lovely clean lines of the VFR tank prevent that... so I had to cut & shut the front of the tank....

After fitting the subframe, the next step to having a clean finish was to transition the bodywork from the tail to the tank, and then fit the seat to the tank....

I liked how the Honda dirt bike rear masters had integrated reservoirs, and I also didn't like the cost of billet parts... so I bought a CRF rear master, and reamed it out to fit the larger VFR brake ...

Raw cover and primered tank:...

Another fork in the road... frame in hand, about to install on the freshly painted motor... leave it stock, or do something different with it? Hmm... Something different it is!!...

This is what started it all... a spare motor obtained in October of 2009......