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Posted by Hatchet54
 - March 12, 2025, 13:37:30 PM

I know it seems this board is barely populated anymore, but I wanted to make a post here regardless, since the information here has been such a big contributing force in the creation of this bike.

"Maxine" has finally been completed, and I've stepped away from her for good.
This bike went on a 10,000 mile trip across the US with me in 2020, and I spent 7 months of that year living off of it. She's been in every western state. Sometime around 2022 I decided to retire her from cross-country because I feared she was getting too beat up. So I found a VN1500 Classic to take her place, and put Maxine up on blocks for a complete makeover. Two or three years later, and here she is.

For the gearheads here, I am working on a blog post that will go into further detail on the build and the mods done, including the engine stuff, which I don't talk about in the video. I'll update this post when it's done, but I'm trying to be as detailed as possible, so it might take a while.

There is also an upcoming music video of Khruangbin's "Texas Sun" featuring this bike.

I posted an intro on this forum about 6 years ago with the vague note that I "wanted to do some things"...amazing how time passes.
Thanks for the journey VDR!

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