StreetKORE Project: XS650 Brat

Somehow these little Yamaha twins keep popping into my life. We had the crazy mutant hardtail, drag bike, StreetCHOPPER thing. That ultimately turned into an unrideable waste of time. There was the cafe, streetfighter, StreetRACER project that never got finished because someone bought it along with the yard find rust bucket. This time my good buddy found one in fairly good shape that ran well for all of 3 hours before he realized the entire electrical system was crap. About 3 months ago we replaced everything with a PMA swap and Pamco unit and it's run well ever since. Then he sold the CB400T hardtail project and dumped some money into this one. After totaling the Savage Brat in an accident last year he has been jones'n for another Brat Style ride. Enter XS650 project number 4. This one is on the road and running well though. Follow along as we take a perfectly good motorcycle and cut it it bits...

Savage Brat

Project for my buddy Little Mikey. He scored a deal on this very clean example of an 88 Suzuki Savage 650. It was in a 9 out of 10 condition. He rode it around for a few days and then we got the motivation to chop it up. Brat inspired styling cues and a $0 budget for mods. Rear was lowered 2 inches by moving the lower shock mounts, rear fender from a CB400T that was leftover from his Cafe project, I welded up some funky narrow T bars from an old Drag bar that was floating around. Quick tune up and a couple hours reading through www.SuzukiSavage.com for some no cost tuning mods got it running right. Great little bike to bomb around town on. Makes me want one for myself, lol. Still a work in progress. Updates to come. 

Busy Busy Busy

So I had good intentions to keep the blog updated regularly, but I've been a slack ass about it. For good reason though. Been a busy couple weeks in the shop. I won't complain about that. Been working on everything from $40K Borget Customs to tuned up CRF50's to Chinese  scooters. I hate scooters BTW. Money is money and we all need it, but I find scooters soulless and evil. I'll save that rant for another day. Couple of neat projects in the works though. The Savage Brat is getting some more custom work that is turning out well. Also have 2 CB750's sitting in the shop for a resto mod project. Pics and updates to follow soon. On the web side of StreetKORE. The new online store is coming together slowly. It's a lot of work getting everything uploaded and sorted out. The Blog will see more attention now. There's some stuff in the works that I'm eager to share. Stay tuned.