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My 01 when first purchased in January of this year:



Short lived black plastic phase:



As it sits now, with my 70 and CB550:



It was 95% stock when I bought it, only mod was a Pro Circuit spark arrestor silencer. Since then it's got a set of pro taper pastrana bend bars, bar risers from some dude in Canada (work like a champ), UNI filter, a set of Michelin S12's since the stockers were wasted, we resprung it for my weight front and rear, and it got a GSS trail port job back in July with a fresh .5 over Wiseco when I found cracks in the stock piston. It had a PC pipe on it for awhile too, but I put the stock one back on after the port job, still on the fence about it. Back in September I blew the clutch out, now it's got a Barnett carbon in there.

It's pretty much done, I need to replace the fork seals again, and I bought a spare set of wheels to mount up some ice tires. Have a studded 18" rear on it's way, and I have the bits to make a front as well so I should be ready to rock.

My first time ever riding a 500 was my buddy's on the ice anyway...



-Nick

Blusmbl wrote:My 01 when first purchased in January of this year:



-Nick

Ahhh, it still tickles my balls to see pics of bikes when they were spankin new!

Here is my fresh from the Dealer shot...

Yeah, when I went to look at it, my jaw dropped. It was practically a brand new bike, 7 years later. I guess the 56 year old that owned it was a bit scared of the power and never rode it.

Wow man. Cool make-over.
Sweet bike.

How much is something that clean going for?

Found it for $2500 on Craigslist. It was pretty cool buying something that unmolested, especially as far as dirt bikes go. It even has the original rear fender!

-Nick

Update: taking it ice racing either this week or upcoming weekend...