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2007 Honda CRF450R

This build is personally special to me. After all, it is the first big bike I had ever refreshed, much less owned for myself.

Of course like anyone I was excited to get on the bike. I started off with simple stuff: a seat cover, new chain and some new tires. Which literally got me rolling. The exhaust was blown out but that was for later on down the road.

The more I learned about bikes, especially bigger ones, the more I realized that a bike with remote reservoirs probably wasn't the best choice for a first bike. In hindsight, a 450 wasn't the best first big bike. I remember I was so excited to work on the forks. I pulled them right off, got the reservoirs off, and cleaned everything up, including the brakes. I had my dog with me in the barn.

After finishing the forks. I started on the exhaust. I got myself a dent remover kit and undented what turned out to be a full titanium Yoshimura exhaust.

I repacked the muffler and slapped it all back together to figure out it shot flames. looking into it I figured out that it was a fully built race engine.

There is much more that has been done. I will try and update it as soon as possible.