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Japanese Bikes / Yamaha SR185 build
« on: April 02, 2019, 02:55:57 AM »
I'm new here so please let me know if this is the wrong forum for this.
I've never been mechanically-minded. Until a couple of years, I'd never even changed the oil in a bike (or a car), but I decided to give building a go. I built this Kawasaki 454 bobber, and was really happy with the experience and the result.
I wanted to do it again and talked my daughter into working on a project bike with me. It's her first bike, so we wanted something small. Eventually I found a Yamaha SR250 on Craigslist, which turned out to actually be an SR185.
Here's a quick Photoshop sketch of what we're going for:
I've never been mechanically-minded. Until a couple of years, I'd never even changed the oil in a bike (or a car), but I decided to give building a go. I built this Kawasaki 454 bobber, and was really happy with the experience and the result.
I wanted to do it again and talked my daughter into working on a project bike with me. It's her first bike, so we wanted something small. Eventually I found a Yamaha SR250 on Craigslist, which turned out to actually be an SR185.
Here's a quick Photoshop sketch of what we're going for: