Baptistro
Bapmarker
We're talking about the bike in my avatar. I've had this bike since new, and I always said I would never outride it, and that I would either ride it to the ground or it would do the same to me.
Over the last decade we have each tried really hard to survive each other with our relationship having its ups and downs, mostly ups, although you can throw in a broken clavicle (my fault), torn rotator cuff and broken distal tibia (got hit by a truck as I was pulling into a gas station, his fault).
When I had my older daughter 3 1/2 years ago, my ride got relegated from daily ride to occasional commute duty and even more occasional track days. Since the birth of my second daughter 1 1/2 years ago, my bike got relegated to garage duty with one fling at Thunder Hill.
For the 10th Anniversary of BARF I thought I would breathe new life into the old girl. I am still planning on doing the occasional trackday (and we'll talk about those challenges later), but I've always thought the 01G1K was born for the street. Hence, it makes sense to "streetfighter" my girl.
Now, with two kids, two dogs, two cats, and a mortgage, I have lots of aspirations and no motivation. Hence I am recruiting the help of my dear friends, who have helped shape our community. I plan to ride this bike as a streetfighter to the Spring Rally in mid May with the help of MotoLiam and ElSkippador, both of whom are definitely "bad for the community."
If you have any ideas, throw them at me. The only thing I will not do is put flames on the bike, I leave that to Pelon, that sexy bitch.
Liam is already working on a custom HID headlamp, and mini fairing, and rerouting the wiring. The bike has HELI bars on it already, but we have already discussed MX type bars.
Those involved in the project will be adding photos to my smugmug gallery. For your viewing pleasure here is a link: (very little going on at the moment, but you get the idea of what we are starting out with)
Click on the pic and navigate to the rest of the pics.
Over the last decade we have each tried really hard to survive each other with our relationship having its ups and downs, mostly ups, although you can throw in a broken clavicle (my fault), torn rotator cuff and broken distal tibia (got hit by a truck as I was pulling into a gas station, his fault).
When I had my older daughter 3 1/2 years ago, my ride got relegated from daily ride to occasional commute duty and even more occasional track days. Since the birth of my second daughter 1 1/2 years ago, my bike got relegated to garage duty with one fling at Thunder Hill.
For the 10th Anniversary of BARF I thought I would breathe new life into the old girl. I am still planning on doing the occasional trackday (and we'll talk about those challenges later), but I've always thought the 01G1K was born for the street. Hence, it makes sense to "streetfighter" my girl.
Now, with two kids, two dogs, two cats, and a mortgage, I have lots of aspirations and no motivation. Hence I am recruiting the help of my dear friends, who have helped shape our community. I plan to ride this bike as a streetfighter to the Spring Rally in mid May with the help of MotoLiam and ElSkippador, both of whom are definitely "bad for the community."
If you have any ideas, throw them at me. The only thing I will not do is put flames on the bike, I leave that to Pelon, that sexy bitch.
Liam is already working on a custom HID headlamp, and mini fairing, and rerouting the wiring. The bike has HELI bars on it already, but we have already discussed MX type bars.
Those involved in the project will be adding photos to my smugmug gallery. For your viewing pleasure here is a link: (very little going on at the moment, but you get the idea of what we are starting out with)
Click on the pic and navigate to the rest of the pics.
