Hello from sunny and warm Alaska

Hi, my name is Don, I am from Anchorage, Alaska, and own a small custom bike shop. I do a lot of "bike saving"- i.e.- bringing yard finds back to life. I found this forum for that reason- I have a customer that brought in two 1980 XJs, a Maxim and a Seca, and wants me to bring them back to life. So I have a few questions, and need a couple parts. Almost have the Maxim back to snuff, it needed the least work, but had to rob a couple parts off the Seca. Going to try to talk the customer into bringing the Seca back to life too, take a little bit more money and time, but it is a savable bile, I think. Will try to take a couple pics in the next couple days. But, in the meantime, to show I am no mercenary bent on taking advantage of board members time and parts- a couple pics I have.

Here is a pic of my crowded and cluttered work space:



In the last pic, I "resurected" the VFR750F (hadn't run in 20 years) and the 89 GSXR 1100R is being resurected as we speak. I also brought back from the dead this year alone: 1982 KZ 750 "spectre", 1983 VF 500 (V30) magna, CB 650, GSX F 750 "Katana" and my old Z1.



Only the Kz750 cost the customer more than 1500 bucks, because it was a full frame off restore-show bike.

Here is the owner right after the bike show





I am also an avid rider, and have over 200k miles on my V65 Sabre, which I have owned since 1989, when it had 1800 miles on it!

IN the bike show:


Riding with "Around the world R1 Sjaak" in the winter, with studded tires, in Alaska, in mid winter:



Coming home from work after a big snow:



Hope you like it!

 

nice riding weather! Though here in the UP we're not too far away

 

Hmm that Kawasaki came up nice. Welcome to the forums cruisingram

 

Welcome to the site!
Glad to have your experiance and skill.
Looks like you have a great stable of bikes.
Parts will not be a peob-we have a Len.
And he's the best,just go to XJ4ever in our forums
list.

 

Hi & welcome cruising from another newby in the U.K. That Kwacka looks good giving me some ideas for my rebuild on a 81 XJ650 4KO I have just got my hands on.you have my type of riding weather up there,but at my age I want a chair strapped to the side (the old bones don't mend so fast now days)here is some pics of a trip we did to Tromso but that was only 300 miles inside the arctic circle,the only problems we encountered was getting the tent pegs into the permafrost.

 

Hmmmm if I had a set of those tires I could be riding

 

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

 

I was wondering about the full knobbies on street bikes... only in Alaska.

 

Dude. That's what we're here for.

That's just... WRONG.