DCMoney
Goblin Guru
Noticed theres quite a few Missouri guys with kits. I'm in St Charles County, just outside St Louis.
Been lurking for a month or so. Went through a bunch of the build logs and found out it was TheNuker that brought the goblin kits to my attention inadvertently. My best friend sent me a link to his goblin on Facebook Market place, did some research and now I'm now a few questions away from ordering a kit. Thanks to a lead from ctuinstra I have a 06 ss/sc donor that I'm almost finished stripping.
Background on myself, club raced motorcycles for a about 5 years, years of street riding before that. Had a kid in 2015, broke my collar bone in a race in 2016 and stopped riding. Finally started to get the urge to start riding again, started looking for a new bike, when I found out about the goblin I stopped looking at bikes.
Bikes were everything for a good chunk of my life, made some of the best friends Ill ever have through bikes, owed way too many at one time, several you cant see in this picture.
Last race bike was a KTM RC390.
Im not a small guy but I pushed these 390s hard.
My beloved 1198s, along with a kneedragging selfie.
Lots of bikes over the years.
What ended it all.
I do have a question regarding the goblin kit and its the main reason why I haven't ordered on yet, I cant decide between the standard frame and the extended. I'm 6', 36" waste (working on reducing that). Planned on using sliders on my seats so my wife can drive the car more comfortably, (she's 5"7 and had issues in our RZR's harnessed in and making full revolutions of the steering wheels in the stock seat location, seat slider fixed this). I've read a lot of people say they wish they had gone with the extended frame. The extended frame is what I'm leaning toward but any insight/experience would be greatly appreciated.
Extremely grateful for all the information on the forum and the videos Adam and Lonnie have put together. Not sure I would have started this journey without it all.
Been lurking for a month or so. Went through a bunch of the build logs and found out it was TheNuker that brought the goblin kits to my attention inadvertently. My best friend sent me a link to his goblin on Facebook Market place, did some research and now I'm now a few questions away from ordering a kit. Thanks to a lead from ctuinstra I have a 06 ss/sc donor that I'm almost finished stripping.
Background on myself, club raced motorcycles for a about 5 years, years of street riding before that. Had a kid in 2015, broke my collar bone in a race in 2016 and stopped riding. Finally started to get the urge to start riding again, started looking for a new bike, when I found out about the goblin I stopped looking at bikes.
Bikes were everything for a good chunk of my life, made some of the best friends Ill ever have through bikes, owed way too many at one time, several you cant see in this picture.
Last race bike was a KTM RC390.
Im not a small guy but I pushed these 390s hard.
My beloved 1198s, along with a kneedragging selfie.
Lots of bikes over the years.
What ended it all.
I do have a question regarding the goblin kit and its the main reason why I haven't ordered on yet, I cant decide between the standard frame and the extended. I'm 6', 36" waste (working on reducing that). Planned on using sliders on my seats so my wife can drive the car more comfortably, (she's 5"7 and had issues in our RZR's harnessed in and making full revolutions of the steering wheels in the stock seat location, seat slider fixed this). I've read a lot of people say they wish they had gone with the extended frame. The extended frame is what I'm leaning toward but any insight/experience would be greatly appreciated.
Extremely grateful for all the information on the forum and the videos Adam and Lonnie have put together. Not sure I would have started this journey without it all.