This was my first "NEW" bike. I bought this bike off the show room floor in
2003 and from that day on it was given nothing but the best treatment! No, really, I promise! Ok so it
was treated like a red headed step-child but it was my baby nonetheless! In fall 2003 I was coming out of the parking lot
of my shop and some unknown lady in a beat up white station wagon decided my parking lot was her play ground and was
headed right for me. Head on collision or take a dive and let the slide begin were the choices, needless to say I took a slide.
The bike, according to the insurance company, was totaled, I of course convinced them it wasn't and that I could fix it better
than ever below the amount that would total it. Of course insurance companies are about the money so the thought of
taking the loss and losing the policy was out of the question. I had $4,800.00 to work with after deductible and
all and the project began! This project was done in a friends shop before I open my doors to the public.
Thanks to Neal and Steve Shryock at S&B Cycles for letting this happen in their shop.

 

Of course this is what she looked like new.
These pictures show the damage that was done. The majority of the damage was from sliding into a curb windshield first and flipping upside down to land with it's wheels in the air against a light pole.
	Before you can rebuild you must disassemble! Left you can see the sub frame was tweaked but some creative torch and steel pole work corrected this issue.  Right you can see the new Yosh full race system the insurance was so kind to pay for!
Here you have body mock up and design. We used Cheetah race skins because I wanted to make this bike as different as I could. Of course everything has to be drilled at first before you can spray on paint other wise you end up with a chipped up mess! For a headlight assembly I dared to be different and used two Piaa lights instead of the single Suzuki OEM light. No it's not a Ducati and yes I had this idea before they implimented it on the 999!
	Here is the paint and airbrush work before the clear was put on. The colors are pearl black with a light metallic silver. Of course the clear adds more depth than what you see here but you get the idea of what was going on.
Then there was a bike again! This project took us about three weeks but it was mostly spent waiting on parts. The paint took about three days because I was in a hurry to get out and go to bike week. I rolled this bike out the door at 6 am and left for bike week at 7 am the same morning. Because of the rush it only got one coat of clear and never had the pleasure of wet sanding, buffing or polishing but all in all it came out good.