After over a year of searching I have finally assembled enough parts to start the long process of building a custom bike from the ground up. With no real budget to buy parts it has proved difficult and often frustrating trying to aquire components at affordable prices. But hey, that's life so I'll stop moaning and get on with this.
I have wanted to build another chop for many years now but life and all its many interuptions has always got in my way. More to the point, I have allowed life to get in the way of my building another bike, so, at the ripe old age of fifty one, I decided that time was running out if I was to build and then enjoy riding a custom bike so I'd better get on with it.
Over the coming months I intend to describe the process of taking the collection of motorcycle parts I've accumulated and transforming them into a fun to ride chop that is at home on the road not parked up and polished in a warm, dry garage. I'm not a fan of over the top show bikes, I prefer understated, practical machines that are designed to look good whilst being ridden hard rather than a piece of exagerated art that quivers in fright at the thought of being hustled through the twisties or trudging home through a downpour on a rain soaked night.
Never having blogged before it's probably going to prove just as challenging updating these pages as it is building the bike but I'll give it my best shot.
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