A forum isn’t much if you don’t participate, so I figured I should start since I am using this site for info and hopefully parts!!
Purchased my ‘89 new in ‘90. It was something totally different since my first bike for the 5 previous years was a Sportster. Long story short; started to really get interested in sport riding and learning to be more proficient so the Hawk led to track days and soon being talked into racing. The Hawk got modified and raced. The Hawk got Really modified and continued to be raced for two more years. Moved on to racer stuff(RS125) and sold Hawk.
Fast forward 25 years and a random off the cuff search for another Hawk results in a craigslist find of MY Hawk.
I had to buy it even though I could have bought a really nice mostly stock bike for less. It was hardly ever used since I sold it and converted to street legal, but jus
t barely, it was still mostly a race bike.
So begins the process of rebirth and giving it new life as a street bike, yet retaining some of that race/track mode (san bodywork) it spent most of its life so far as.
It needs some cosmetics as it sat for so long, but the more I stare at it, the less I want to radically change or go too far back to stock. Plan is to keep it a little “racier” than my first gen daily rider SV. It will be interesting to ride the two back to back.
Purchased my ‘89 new in ‘90. It was something totally different since my first bike for the 5 previous years was a Sportster. Long story short; started to really get interested in sport riding and learning to be more proficient so the Hawk led to track days and soon being talked into racing. The Hawk got modified and raced. The Hawk got Really modified and continued to be raced for two more years. Moved on to racer stuff(RS125) and sold Hawk.
Fast forward 25 years and a random off the cuff search for another Hawk results in a craigslist find of MY Hawk.
I had to buy it even though I could have bought a really nice mostly stock bike for less. It was hardly ever used since I sold it and converted to street legal, but jus
t barely, it was still mostly a race bike.
So begins the process of rebirth and giving it new life as a street bike, yet retaining some of that race/track mode (san bodywork) it spent most of its life so far as.
It needs some cosmetics as it sat for so long, but the more I stare at it, the less I want to radically change or go too far back to stock. Plan is to keep it a little “racier” than my first gen daily rider SV. It will be interesting to ride the two back to back.
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