Build a custom motorcycle without going broke!

MuttzNutzz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:19:11 +0000

Building a custom motorcycle isn’t just something fun to do; it’s something that can consume your life! But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it doesn’t consume your wallet in the process. If you’ve ever read the novel “Rebuilding the Indian,” you know how difficult it can be to try and build or rebuild a motorcycle from a hodgepodge of parts and pieces. Using custom motorcycle kits is a much less frustrating and less expensive way to build your custom dream bike.

Custom motorcycle kits don’t take all the fun and sport out of building a motorcycle. They just provide you with all of those pieces, parts, odds, and ends that you’re going to need to get your motorcycle together. You know the feeling you have when you realize that you need to run to Home Depot again for another thing to finish your home project? This realization often results in retiring to the couch and vowing to finish “tomorrow.” This is the scenario that custom motorcycle kits help you to avoid.

Using custom motorcycle kits doesn’t mean that you can’t add all kinds of custom chrome or aftermarket Harley parts. The opportunity to add all kinds of custom chrome and custom parts is half the fun of the building your own bike. Make your selection from the various custom motorcycle kits based on the overall features of the bike you like, then swap out mirrors here, a seat there, get an amazing paint job, and soon your custom motorcycle kit becomes a truly customized bike.

Before custom bike building became as popular as it is today, you would have had to get out the saw and the blowtorch and make your own custom motorcycle parts! Today there are so many aftermarket Harley parts, exhaust systems, wheels, and other motorcycle accessories that it’s easy to build your own custom bike without having to invest loads of money in equipment and machinery. The kit bike just makes things that much easier.

And no, there’s nothing about starting with custom motorcycle kits that is “wimpy.” The alternative is to put together a list of things that you need, and then go shopping for them all over town and on the internet until you’ve filled your list. You’ll have to decide whether you would rather have someone else put all the essentials into one box (custom motorcycle kits) or shop for everything yourself and build it from scratch.

The money wasted in mismatched parts that don’t work, the cost of gas from driving around town, and the cost of shipping parts from all over the country adds up! With a custom motorcycle kit, there is one purchase for all of your essentials, and then you can pick and choose any custom parts that you want to add or swap for a completely customized motorcycle.

By: Christine Harrell

About the Author

Author is a writer for Jireh Cycles, offering quality custom motorcycle parts. For additional information you can visit http://www.jirehcycles.com.

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The Zen of custom motorcycles

MuttzNutzz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:36:42 +0000

Any motorcycle dealer cringes at the very thought of it: custom motorcycles. Harley dealers have no problem with you adding some ape hangers or custom rims to your hog but don’t dare let them know that you were considering anything more than that. Such people despise the idea of custom choppers because it forces them to admit one very important but real fact: the designers at all of the big name manufacturers like Honda, Kowasaki, and Harley Davidson seem to lack the imagination of people like Jesse James and the boys at Orange County Choppers. This imaginative spirit cannot be faked with some chrome or any fancy saddle bag because custom motorcycles are not created by “accessorizing”.

What the custom shops do for motorcycles cannot be duplicated in any factory. Rather than a mere machine, they transform it instead into a veritable work of art. Yes, they do add on the custom chrome, the rims, and generally turn the tank into an expression of the motorcycle’s soul. And yes, it does have a soul because like the rider, there is but one of its kind. Though Harley owners have for years created custom choppers by extending the rakes and painting their tanks, this is not the same as the bikes being made in the custom shops so popularized in recent years by shows by Jesse James and Orange County Choppers. Such artists understand the Zen of the custom motorcycle and as such design and build their machines from scratch and remind us all of why America fell in love with the motorcycle in the first place: freedom. The freedom to express who you are with the machines and toys we have is indeed an American birthright and that just is something that no rice burner or off-the-shelf Harley can deliver upon.

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Build a custom motorcycle without going broke!

The Zen of custom motorcycles