4K Kustom

[hbliam]

Like your stuff but...this is just a lightly modified bike, not a full custom not even an 1/4 custom.  Wheels gotta go. I'd rather have bellybuttons.

I like the blacked out motor and swingarm and am happy that you didn't defile it with another energy drink can.

[CapnCrunch]

I fundamentally object replacing a "c" with a "k" in any circumstance.

I flat out refuse to purchase any service, product, or entertainment where this occurs.

In my opinion it is the trailer park response to ebonics.

[RetroSBK]

HB, This is a customer bike, so it doesn't get a RockStar can. All the shop bikes do.

Mikeb, if you think that's all that was done, we did a better job than I thought! Thanks!

Capn - There is a whole Kustom Kulture out there that has some of the most talented, if slightly misguided fabricators and they use the word freely. I steal from them, ideas and the Letter "K"

[mikeb]

Mikeb, if you think that's all that was done, we did a better job than I thought! Thanks!

Well, then educate me.  What makes it custom?

When I hear custom I think hand made one-off parts.  Not bolt on mods and paint.  

 

[mitt]

I like it.  The wheels threw me for a loop - but a good one   

mitt

[arai_speed]

I liked the blacked out engine, specially how you left the outer casing in metal color.

But worst of all for me was the rusty front sprocket - I couldn't get passed that. 

[RetroSBK]

Arai, if THAT is what you noticed, then the rest of the job is perfect.. THANKS!

I know, i know.. I media blasted the damn thing, and it rusted in about 10 min because it rained here.. Its clean and coated now... lol

[arai_speed]

Arai, if THAT is what you noticed, then the rest of the job is perfect.. THANKS!

I know, i know.. I media blasted the damn thing, and it rusted in about 10 min because it rained here.. Its clean and coated now... lol

Haha...well it stood out 'cause the rest of the bike was so clean.

Have you found that coating sprockets lasts?  I've been thinking of doing the same thing to my bike but not sure how well the coat holds due to use.

[CapnCrunch]

Capn - There is a whole Kustom Kulture out there that has some of the most talented, if slightly misguided fabricators and they use the word freely. I steal from them, ideas and the Letter "K"

The klan used to do that, but then superman caught on to it and they stopped.

[RetroSBK]

Superman>? The klan?

I guess you lost me...

[CapnCrunch]

a little after WWI or WWII (I can't remember which) the clan was experiencing a resurgence and the authorities were at a loss on how to combat it.

so a dude inside gave the feds passwords and code sayings and what not, but the feds were not sure how to use em to bring em down.

at the time the superman radio show was real big so they had superman fight the Clan for a couple of weeks. when the clan members heard kids shouting these codes and passes to each other as the kids played in the street, they realized how make the beast with two backsing retarded it was and the clan went into decline.

just to reiterate, make the beast with two backsing retarded.

[RetroSBK]

Arai, I have em powder coated... It wears off where the chain goes, but thats no big deal really...

Capn, I never, in a million years would have thought that I would be compared to a racist terrorist group for spelling Kustom with a K. But I guess there is something new every day!

Kustom will stick in vocabulary, but thanks for the history lesson, even if it, and the legend of Stetson Kenedy are more hype than fact. Need to read Freakanomics.. Great book.

[CapnCrunch]

not comparing you to them, just laying out the proud history of intentional misspelling.