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Stole this bad boy 2012 CR500AF on CL yesterday. Legit deal with current papers and build by http://www.mps500af.com/ . Can’t wait to tear in to it and tricked out little bit. Stoked
Clean looking scooter
The Shop
http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/Whaaaaaat-Another-MPS-Wor…
Some people...
No one wants to not speak up and then something bad happens, the OP has checked things out and looks like its good to go, so I am sure people are looking forward to ride report.
Lol, guy get new sweet ride and is stoked. Posts it to the internet and gets trashed. Say's hmmm, and strips his bike to the frame.
Moral of the story? Don't ever listen to the haters that are 13 year old kids and old men that that have too much money and a miserable life.
Nice bike dude!
Could you just for the rest of us post measurements of the length of your forearms before and after riding.
Pit Row
The only remotely passable welds in those pictures is the 'lying on it's back D'. The other welds shown, are truly of the 'chicken shit' variety.
The join in the down tube is truly, truly fearful - it's a consistent abomination on all builds I've seen from MPS.
The 'ad ins' in the cradles MPS does are never put in parallel - hell, the butcher can't even make them the same length.
The actual mounts are crap. Not parallel , and the cretin can't even think to make the front ones near one of the cradle join pairs, go across it, for strength. It looks like he just butt welded the cradle additions, with no internal pinning, and, the welds are shockingly amateurish.
Goodness only knows about the rest of the job - the ancillaries such as airbox to carb, exhaust mounts, etc.
Not to mention if the engine is positioned straight and true.
As I've written here before, I could have my crazy old Mum, weld better than MPS in about 2days of tuition.
Everything that MPS does is of the worst quality I've ever seen.
That he / they still are in business, astonishes me.
It's Not slagging the new owner, it's warning him about the utterly shite workmanship on his new ( to him) bike. Workmanship that could injure, or kill him.
If xr70 does have a friend that can TIG / is a real , accomplished TIG welder, his mate will tell him it's dreadful fabrication and Welding. For anyone to think any part of what is shown in those bare frame pictures is remotely acceptable, well they are probably at a worse level of competency than MPS.
If xr70 did get the bike at a bargain price, well, he should use some of that saving, to have the MPS materials and fabrication, removed and it properly done.
It's a genuine safety concern.
I would love to get my hands on a newer 500 one day. Rode an 86 cr480 2 years ago at a vintage ride day and have been wondering what a newer one would be like ever since
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