Pictures of my bike

**budman3** · 02-02-2007, 10:33 AM

A few of you may know that I am in the process of building a motorcycle... well I`m actually converting my dirt bike into a street bike- a supermoto.

Even though it doesn`t have much paint on it, it is a 2000 DRZ-400E that has seen the last 6 years in the mud and dirt

. Now the local riding areas have been closing down so I decided that it would be fun to street ride with it. Well as for detailing, I spent a few weeks with towels and a citrus degreaser to clean all of the mud and grime off the parts. I added some new plastics to make it look nice. All metal (except engine and exhaust) got Poorboy`s Wheel Sealant times 2 or 3. Heres the pictures:

Before:

During:

After:

And the wheels:

And the difference between my old front rotor and new one:

As you can probably tell, there aren`t many parts on there that are stock. The only things that are include the engine, suspension, gas tank, seat and swingarm. Most of the other parts are all aftermarket that I have been piecing together over the winter. Hope you like!

Edit- I guess without the [IMG] [/IMG] function working the pics won`t show up in the forum... which seems to only be in the motorcycle forum.

**audiboy** · 02-02-2007, 10:37 AM

Nice looking bike. It looks like it`s a lot of fun.

**Pockets** · 02-02-2007, 10:58 AM

Have fun with it!!!! I to am a dirt bike/quad rider i cant think of any better way to have a great time and just forget about everything then a nice off-road/on road adventure.

**BLUELINE 1** · 02-02-2007, 11:07 AM

Nice job! I like the new look.

**budman3** · 02-02-2007, 11:10 AM

Thanks guys. I`ll be pulling the bike out of the basement this weekend and get some better pictures

. The good thing is that if I ever want to switch it back over to its dirt set-up I have the old wheels and stuff which I can change over in less than an hour

**joe.p** · 02-02-2007, 12:07 PM

Nice work

**Troy@Protekt** · 02-02-2007, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by budman3

Edit- I guess without the [IMG] [/IMG] function working the pics won`t show up in the forum... which seems to only be in the motorcycle forum.

I can`t figure out why it`s only that way in the motorcycle forum, but I`ll get it working.

Troy

**Beemerboy** · 02-02-2007, 04:09 PM

Great looking bike!

Funny thing that winter dose to us makes us clean things that we wouldn`t even think of other wize....I cleaned all the pots and pans in the house recently

**Troy@Protekt** · 02-02-2007, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Troy@DetailCity

I can`t figure out why it`s only that way in the motorcycle forum, but I`ll get it working.

Troy

Fixed it!

**budman3** · 02-02-2007, 05:35 PM

Awesome thanks Troy!!!

Funny thing that winter dose to us makes us clean things that we wouldn`t even think of other wize....I cleaned all the pots and pans in the house recently

Haha I know huh. I went to town with an old terry, some of that degreaser and a toothbrush. I was pulling leaves and mud that was a few years old out of places on the bike. Now it`ll be much easier to keep clean

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**budman3** · 02-02-2007, 06:03 PM

Well I just took a few more pics outside:

**LikeaRock** · 02-27-2007, 06:40 PM

Man I need to check out this forum more often! That`s a sharp looking DR! Now be a man and slap a White Bros exhaust on it, or any aftermarket model at that! 4 strokes sound awesome with exhaust

I just started cleaning up my YZ 125 this last weekend. It`s older, a 93, but the motor came out of one of our karts, it`s a screamer alrighty. I`ve almost got the motor out, all the plastics and everything are off. Going to repaint the frame, clean up the plastics and slap on a new seat cover, some Pro-Tapers and new brake/clutch levers. Oh, and I need to replace my chunked up rear tire, then I`ll be ready for spring

I didn`t mean to bring up an "old" thread but that`s one clean bike! And that front rotor is MASSIVE!