Dude!! I am completely Floored right now. Since having lost my last job, at the beginning of September of last year, when I was laid off due to Covid. On my way home from packing up my things at the workplace into a large backpack, upon entering the last turn onto my street leaned into the apex of the turn, there was a complete bind up of my throttle and brake cables being pinched somehow within the triple tree. This resulted in a collision with the curb bending parallel with the road entering the street, which caused my bike to flip and spin whipping me head first into the payment, and then drag me about 50 feet down the bend of that street. I was wearing full gear and lugging about 35lbs in my backpack, from the accumulation of all the things packed in it from the workplace. Thankfully, had it not been for that full backpack I probably would have ripped up my spine from being dragged, upon the impact I obtained a broken shoulder and three displaced separation fractures to my clavicle with some road rash to the left side of my hip. Injured and without a job, and my movement limited by my injuries there was not much that I could do at this point as I sat prisoner to my bed trapped in my room collecting unemployment. Having just lost my health insurance through work, unemployed, and injured. Spent most of my time during those first couple months with half my body trapped in a sling and movement restrictive harnesses binge watching youtube videos on how to repair my bike for when I was able to ride again. Once I was able to kind of sustainably use my body enough to at least rotate my torso I started wrenching and figuring out how to piece this machine back together. Since that time I have successfully resurrected several neglected machines, that I purchased for stupid cheap, and then flipped for major profits. I've been keeping myself busy as such ever since. I have obtained health insurance now and will hopefully be getting surgery for my still broken shoulder, but I recently have managed to start riding again on my now daily 98' Honda Superhawk VTR1000 Repsol Edition, that I purchased with some of the funds I obtained in profit from my previous flips. In these last few weeks I have acquired a decent amount of action footage equipment, and have been creating content for my own MotoVlog which I hope to be launching here soon in the next couple weeks. Hopefully I can continue to build up on this passion I've grown into, I can only dream that I am as successful as you seem to be in what you have created for yourself. I am just coming to know of you know, but I see that you're channel is rather new to the scene and I am delighted and inspired by this life you are building and sharing with all of us. Thankyou man, I find now even greater motivation to pursue my ideas for my new future by seeing your progress on a platform that is almost identical to what it is I want to do. I look forward to see the evolution of this life and channel. Thanks for sharing!! :: Cheers Mate ::
That'll be rough. Dishonest sellers stating, "it ran when I parked it". You get it home, try to get it running, and BOOM! Find out you have a blown motor and its knocking,sounds like there's marbles in the motor. Now you've got to get a motor in it and still at least at that point, break even,in reference to the monies you bought it for. Now there's alot more time going to be involved. Ideally, you try to flip cash out as fast as possible.
dont forget to give an hours/time break down vs cost, ( pre tax ) also, unless you bought the bike on Friday and sold it before monday it wasnt over a weekend ( allowance for a long weekend.
This is something me and my son have been talking about doing for a while especially on motorcycles. Where do you find these bikes on Facebook marketplace, craigslist, eBay or all the above? I Love your vids Michael... keep up the good work!
I typically find these on Facebook marketplace and Craigslist. I have stayed away from eBay just because I like to personally check out the vehicles when buying them so I know what I’m getting but there is many good deals on there. I’m glad your enjoying the videos!
Me to I learned everything off youtube in the last 5 years and now I even have a fulltime job as a forklift machanic and I never worked on anything 5 years ago and I'm now 31 and have confidence I can fix anything that comes up when I buy a project on my free time to make side money. I got a 1998 yamaha XL1200 and it was in rough shape about 2 years ago and I got it for free it wasn't running and it looked horrible from sitting in a feild last 20 years but only had 56 hours on it. I put 800 into it and just sold it for 3400 dollars and I got 2 years of fun with my family on it. I now have just bought a 05 gsxr 600 and putting new fairing and little stuff like front headlight mount and whole bunch of little stuff and imma get a couple years out of it and then sell it and move on to something else. It keeps me busy and it's basically free lol..
Sounds good but next time add how many hours of labor you have in the bike. I’m guessing it’s around 12 hours for all the work you did. Your time is valuable so what would be a reasonable hourly rate you should charge for labor? Add that to your expenses too. Also, you went on a weekend trip with your dad, that’s awesome, that also had value, a lot of value. I would love to go on a weekend trip with my dad so tons of vale there too. Not sure how you could put a price tag on a wonderful weekend with your dad but tons of positive value there. Memories made that you will always remember.
Just watched the other video along with this one. Absolutely worth my time. I hope in the future i get into the motorcycle world too. You got +1 sub, keep up the good work!
do what your're doing. Your channel will blow up. You got a good atitude. I was watching your other videos and I like a lot. I belive in you and think you got the potentional to create fabolous content. Goodluck to you man, I hope you accomplish great things coming up
I got a 2005 gsxr 600. Think its having fule pump issues . Was running great. Has power commander. Now its hitting a wall at 12000 rpms after its been running for 29 min or so. Ant thoughts?
I’d start with the STVA failure, that’s what this bike ended up being. If you watch episode 2 I cover a quick way to test if the failure is what’s causing it
@@LIFEBUILDZchannel the secondary butterflys have been removed. Emissions blockoff placed in. Pretty sure the gunk in the tank is blocking the filter of fule pump. If I let it set for a while it will run great for about 20 min. Then it has trouble reving over 12 grand
@@JB-zx2py hmm you are probably right, there’s a filter underneath the fuel pump that requires the pump to be disassembled. It’s likely clogged there’s
Doubling your investment would be a little over $3,000. Nevertheless, I’ve bought 4 street bikes and sold all of them in 9 days profiting $7,000. Easy money if you know what to look for. Great video 👍🏻
Yeah, my first flip I thought just needed a carb cleaning. $300 in parts, a bunch of headaches, and 3 months later, I got it running right and all the things that I found wrong with it. Now I just need to polish the chrome, polish the paint, and list it for sale.
@@LongMileGamer yes unfortunately they just seem to show up, if you want the most recent video on my channel it’s the story of 2 failed flips all in one😂
@@LIFEBUILDZchannel cost of bike 1200, repair cost 1556, your total cost is 2756, you sold it for 4,000 1200+1556= 2756 total cost 4,000-2756= 1244 profit
@@210jump884 I can see how you misunderstood that, the repair cost was $356, making the total investment 1556 not 2756. Therefore total profit was 2444
@@LIFEBUILDZchannel ahh I see you never separated it and said the $356 in repair cost thats where it didn’t make sense, you just started naming stuff cost off then said the total including the bike so your wording was a little off but now I see what you meant to say
Heyyy What’s going on? Crazy I’m having to come to you. But I need your help. I have a 2000 Honda CBR 600F . I recently purchased It, it has a problem losing power while riding. High idle, sputters as I shift down in gears.
Well to start with I’d pull off the tank, remove the fuel pump and inspect the filters, if they are good then I’d rent a fuel pressure tester and check to see if it’s within oem spec(if not likely replace fuel pump) if it is. Reassemble and test your injectors, make sure they are clean and firing well, next I’d replace the spark plugs/check the air filter. And finally I’d check to make sure the battery is good and has plenty of power. This isn’t exactly the order I’d check everything in but here’s a few ideas. Let me know if you’d like some more ideas, also check forums and see what other cbr owners did in that situation
@@LIFEBUILDZchannel thank you so much. The fuel filters were just changed and spark plugs. The next things I’m having replaced is the fuel pump. So it’s good I’m headed in the right directions. Thank you so much for replying.
Nice video man, I flipped 4 cars one summer and made good money. I have mechanical experience which helps. I never saw motorcycles as viable, but the prices have gone up for used bike so I'm down. Let's go!
You never did show the bike running right? You had music over the last video. We wanted to hear the gears being pinned to just under red line. Since you originally said on first ride it's running good...are you turning stuff over that isnt exactly sound?
That’s a rough accusation, the reason I had music playing was because the bike was so loud it was not enjoyable to listen to. The bike ran amazing when I sold it and the buyer was very happy
There is still a big dent and scratch on the tank on the left side. Isn't there a way to fix that as well? For me that would be a showstopper to buy this motorcycle.
Where you from LIFEBUILDS hell I've been looking for a buck for 6 months people around northern Kentucky post there bikes for sale but then won't answer me
Love GSXRs ... I dont think Id ever buy any bike besides a GSXR ... I HAD A 600 for a while and i loved how light and nimble it was, after a year or so, it just left me wanting.... more... unfortunately tho I ended up getting hit by a truck on the highway... i never even saw it coming... estimated speed at impact was 50 mph. The bike basically evaporated (the plastic anyways. I slavaged the frame and sold it for like $1800 to a guy who was planning to turn it into a stunt bike.) Miraculously, despite my helmet having been split in half... i walked away unharmed. Literally not a scratch bump or bruise on me... i was wearing boots, jeans, gloves full face helmet and a bullet proof riding jacket... how my legs didnt get tore up... who knows. My 35lbs dog got broadsided by a giant lifted F250 going at least 25-30mph... the tire hit her square on the side of her torso and then entire truck drove right over top of her... i watched it from 10 feet away... I love this dog more than life... it was one of the worst moments of my life... BUT by some absolute miricale.... like me, she too... WALKED HOME UNDER HER OWN POWER. i of course took her straight to the vet out of fear of internal injuries. They drained 2 cups of fluid from her hip, but besides that she was totally fine. That was back in like 2016 or so... she is 13 and still sitting next to me right now. Ok that was a long unplanned tangent.. Moral of the story... if I ever decode to ride again... which is pretty unlikely... the only bike Ibwould even consider looking at would be a GSXR 750. A buddy of mine had a GSXR 1000 which he let me try for a ride... while definitely bigger, faster and more powerful than my 600... it was a lot more work to ride. It felt heavy and cumbersom between my legs (tho no where near as bad as the CBRR 1000 I rode once... that is a straight line bike lol... i almost didnt make the very first turn on that bike (Missed the curb by barely a foot lol) because the handling was just so much different than my little 345LB 600... that bike you could whip a knee out throw it down while opening full throttle to pull yourself out of the curve without fear of momentum flipping you or giving it too much and having it get away from you... but a 12 second quarter mile time and getting absolutely smoked on the line by big OCC style choppers.... i dont know how those guys even held on... when they pulled up next to me at that light... i looked at them amd thought.. damn.... those bikes are sick... but Im gonna just smoke these guys... BOY was I wrong... I hit a perfect launch at 3500RMP (GSXRS have a lot more low RPM torque than other sport bikes, very smooth power band) opened it up... but i swear... these guys were 100yards down the road before I even cleared the intersection... I couldnt believe it... they must have been at least 1800 CC... Another random pointless tangent.. i swear I didn't set out to write a novel. Moral of the story... the GSXR 750 is the perfect bike and only one id consider for a purchase.
@@butt5810 I love the e38s and e39s but after owning a few I’m trying to experiment with some of the new ones and your right, they do get a lot of flack
