After a few years of innactivity, I decided to get back into bikes seriously again. I had been injured on the job, breaking my neck and severely damaging the discs and nerves between the C7 and C8 vertabrae. My doctors had told me I'd never work again, never mind ride a motorcycle. I was forced to sell my signpainting/custom airbrush business, and now had nothing but time on my hands.  This would afford me alot of spare time that would have to be filled doing something....anything.  Operations and physiotherapy had no positive effects, so instead of declaring myself an invalid, I decided to put together a new bike as a hobby.