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Originally Posted by Triple Jim
We grumble and shake fingers at guys who part out old motorcycles, but if it weren't for them, things like transmission gears would be very expensive from the custom gear cutters.
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Thank goodness for the parts-pullers. I think most folk are blind to just how many trashed bikes are available to pull parts from. It may be tough finding a nice Ninja 250 now on Craigslist, but there are TONS of them rotting away in junkyards and parts should be plentiful. That's the most efficient form of recycling too: we need to use what we have.
Oh, and I believe my old Shadow 1100 was 573lbs by the spec sheet. Admittedly, it felt like 800lbs some days
and only had the horsepower for maybe half that weight.