The Milicri Motorcycle Lives!

My mid-life-crisis (mi-li-cri) motorcycle restomod project is back on the menu again.

A pro Suzuki mechanic had encouraged me to dump it and move on, because an essential aspect of my design - removing the bulky and klunky airbox - was going to make it VERY hard to get the bike running right. The VX800 is a weird and short-lived sidenote in Suzuki history... which is kinda why I loved it. But part of why it is a side note is that the carburetors on it are just... weird. And finicky. And prone to odd malfunctions.

ANYWAY. I posted to my VX800 list that I was going to part it out (sell it for parts) to anyone who wanted them, because my project wasn't going to work.

That's when a guy posted photos and descriptions of his HIGHLY modified VX800 ... WITH NO AIRBOX! (And also commented that it isn't hard to get it running will without the airbox, and directions for how to do it.)

So, emboldened by this one rare loony on the internet, I have decided to at least get the bike put back together and running. This will still serve my primary goal of the project, which was to get inside the engine and do work in a part of the motor I had never worked on before.

So yay! The Milicri (will) lives!

I'll post photos here for the two other gearheads on Hubski, so they can laugh at my efforts. :-)