Originally the goal was to flip it, but I've got more into it than its worth, so fuck selling it. I'll ride it till the wheels fall off. I haven't done the valve train work to let it rev higher, but with the restrictions removed from the intake, the jardine exhaust, a ignition upgrade, and some toying with the jets, it'll more than keep up with my friends stock 1200 sportster. The thumper has grown on me. Someday maybe I'll pull its heart out of that nimble frame and get it into a roomier frame, LOL. I've seen some interesting bobbers and trackers made using them.
This winter its due for a 515 kit and a raise in compression.
Hi Nailbomb,
it's hard to tell when my only ride was a 1/2-hour procession in the midst of lumbering H-D twins but I thought the way it fizzled out at ~3,000 rpm in every gear was indicative of the bike having some kinda electronic rev-limiter.
Aesthetically, the stock exhaust's goiter turned me off too, for all that it was meant to look like a racer's air dam. Didn't fool me none though, ugly is ugly, just like the frame.
You could drop that mill into a replica Norton Featherbed frame, eh?