If you're the kind of person who's ever seen a dusty, dilapidated bike in a box and thought to yourself, "I can fix him," then this is absolutely the video for you.
Naysayers will tell you it's a terrible idea to buy someone else's project bike. They'll tell you that you'll soon be sending good money after bad, and paint unpleasant nightmare images that look kind of like the two-wheeled version of The Money Pit.
And in some cases, your friends are just looking out for you. They might, after all, be right. Even if you hate to admit it.
But other times, you get a situation like the one in the most recent Bearded Mechanic video. Now, it obviously helps that he's no newbie to working his way through difficult mechanical problems. It also certainly helps that he's got some extremely useful and helpful sponsors on board. But none of that would matter if this bike was a complete basketcase, which it thankfully wasn't.
What is this bike that we're talking about? It's a 1986 Honda XR250R, and it literally came to Craig (TBM) in one of those big Rubbermaid storage totes. You know the ones; you might even have some in your home.
