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Watch This Guy Build A New Custom Bike From Salvage Parts – 1699972005

re you the kind of person who doesn’t like to waste anything? Do you keep a bunch of parts around because you just know that you’ll use them for something one day? If that’s you, then this is clearly the type of build video that will be right up your alley. It’s a timelapse of several months of work, creating an entirely new custom bike built almost completely out of parts that YouTuber Tahitian Rider—real name Tom—simply had laying around.

The engine comes from a 1973 Honda CB350 Four, but prior to this build, it was missing a lot of pieces that Tom had to find and rebuild. It wasn’t running, as it was missing several key items including the carbs. He also had a partial frame from a crashed machine that had been parted out. As he explains here, the yokes were broken and unusable, but the frame itself was straight, unbent, and suitable for use in another project—such as this one.

Now, to be completely fair, if building bikes is how you live your life, then it’s very possible that you’ll have a lot more spare parts laying around in your workshop than the average DIY moto wrenching enthusiast might. That’s clearly the case here, as we see Tom pull out some of the consumables that you’d absolutely want to install new versions of in any bike—such as engine gaskets.