Okay in the interest of fairness I'll post this and a disclaimer to follow .
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/mcy/4421505092.html
attachments as i expect the ad to go away ...
~kop
This thread got pretty nuts. I just want to throw a positive mention out to Kopcicle for actually pasting the text and pictures from a craigslist post he referenced. I see SO many old threads(not necessarily here) where people posts links to craigslist, followed by a discussion about the post, and if you come along too late, you're completely lost because you'll know what the bike was.
On a side note, as much as I love seeing the chopped up 650 projects on here, I fully understand the people who don't care for it. My favorite bikes have always been Buells. People constantly buy the bikes to stick the engines in a chopper project and discard the rest. Breaks my heart a little more each time I see it. Those bikes are uncommon though, and someday you're not going to be able to find them anymore. Yahamas are, and will continue to be everywhere. Who knows. You can't get too upset about it. I like seeing guys buy a bike they can afford and spend countless hours in their garage cutting, filing, grinding, imagining, ebaying, painting, wiring, and fabricating parts for their bike, and documenting the whole thing for us to watch. I think by nature those bikes end up as hardtailed choppers because they're simple and easy to work on, which is important to people who work on their own bikes. It reminds me of when I was in college and everyone had fixed gear bicycles in the city. Yes, there are bikes with gears and brakes and carbon fiber and suspension, but those things were the absolute most fun things you could ride around the city. They were rough on your knees just like a hardtail would be on your back, but if people decide they can live without a rear suspension, it won't be any different than people 20 years from now not understanding how people still like bikes without ABS, traction control, and 8 different engine ride modes. Forums will be filled with guys buying cheap bikes, pulling off all the unwanted electronics, and a bunch of people yelling "why would you remove the ABS from your bike?! that's a backwards step in technology, so it's clearly not better!".