"Basement Rat" rat-bike/chopper build - first installment

This is the first in a series of videos detailing my first complete custom build. I'm not sure what category my creation will fall into, rat-bike or chopper, but it WILL be completely badass.

My monstrocity started life as a 1980 Honda CM400-T. But after I'm done with it noone will recognise it as such, other than maybe being able to identify the engine.

I am in no way a professional. Nor am I aspiring to be one. I'm just a guy with some parts, tools, and a few basic skills, (oh, and an empty space in the basement) who got the crazy idea to build a bike out of a wrecked and abandoned donor.

I have a general idea of what I want this thing to be when I'm done, but am open to suggestions. Let me know what you think, praise and critisizms both. This will be one hell of a learning experience for me and am thankful for any tips I can get. Even the negative can be good at times. But please be gentle... on second thought, screw it, give it to me straight, hahaha.

Here's to seeing you and your scoots on the road.

Oh, and at this point I have just under $230 invested.

*The first time I loaded this vid, the audio cut out at one point, so I changed the file type and re-loaded the vid.