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1986 TLR 200

I've had a long run of love for motorcycles, now I'm starting to have the time to get back into them, here was the first build I did a couple years ago, just to be a daily driver, at least until the next project came along. I'm not going to lie, I'm more about the chase of the building the next bike.

This was not an aggressive build, but a nice update for something that had been in storage since 95. I drove this for about a year and a half, it was fun but a little under powered for my size (6'2 200lbs)



 old van shelving














It got great gas millage, but at best I could only hit about 45mph. I'm going to keep this one around for my boys to learn on. This build with title (modification) and transfer to get it back on the road was $550. I might let this one go for $1,200 would be my temptation point, anything less wouldn't make it worth it.

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