What bike for learning how to service/then customize a moto?

[Pav]

Hi guys,
could you please advise me on choosing the right bike for learning how to repair/service moto? The next stage should
be to customize it a bit to a café racer style. Something like 250 ccm max I guess... Something for a mototech. beginner.

What essential equipment and tools would you recommend?

Any tips or links to related topics?

Thanks a lot.

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[Teflon-Mike]

Almost a year since asking almost the exact same question...
This does not display the sort of 'enthusiasm' likely to see a project bike that will ever be anything but a 'work NOT in progress' in your care.

If you want to learn basic maintenance; get the workshop manual for what you got and follow the instructions...

If you want to learn more involved repair/overhaul methods; find an MOT failure going cheap; buy the work-shop manual for it and follow the instructions....

If you want to build a 'special'.... start with something already in good working, road-worthy, order, with tax and test; spend as much money as you can afford on e-bay for bum-stop seats, peanut tanks, clip-on handle-bars, dominator headlamps, stanless fasteners and anodised tat.... If you are lucky it'll come with instructions on fitting. If not; improvise. But don't cut anything, or throw anything away; cos if good chance you can put it back to stock when you discover it doesn't fit or work, or is a pain in the arse, wrists, elbows, back or other areas of the anatomy... or simply spend a couple of years looking at all the shiney bits lying around whilst the MOT runs out and tyres perish, until you slap it up on e-bay or gumtree, as an 'unfinished project' 'Just needs wiring for test, like all the other day dreamer's do.

This is much what you were told a year ago.. and to be honest, IF you had what it takes to do any of it... by now you would have done.
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[stevo as b4]

Go beg a job in a custom bike shop and watch and learn for at least 5years. Go to night school college classes and learn how to weld and panel beat.

The rest should be fairly easy after that, unless your trying to make stuff that you expect others to like and want to pay a fortune for which is the hardest bit, as it seems that good taste and profit don't go together in bikes very often.

[talkToTheHat]

Whatever bike you can find that isn't made of rust. One that's common and recent enough to have good and cheap spares availability. Carbed YBR springs to mind as a small bike, air-cooled bandit as the cheap custom favourite. Of course there's a difference between custom and throwing every available bit of cheap anodized tat on a bike...
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[Pav]

Thanks for all the relevant comments....I didn't find many though...

I just moved from London to Prague where I don't have to work so much and have enough time to work on my projects.
I meant I'm a beginner in servicing not riding - but yes, there's 125 limit here as well.

But I think I'll get something like 250 max...just need to figure out what......anyway....thanks.

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[Pav]

Yes...