View this post on Instagram For the last few days I ventured into the Maritimes to find some of the best driving roads along the east coast! Along the way I met many new friends and learned a lot of new skills. This is the story of Mike Shaffer and his Franken Bike: "The FrankenBike is a 2003 Suzuki SV1000S which I purchased in 2013. I bought it in a small town in northeastern New Brunswick (Shippagan) as a babied, garage kept bike with only 10,500 km’s on its clock. Shortly after buying it, I did a two-month trip around the US & Canada which totalled over 30,000 km’s. Since then, it’s journeyed through every province in Canada and every US state in the lower 48. The odometer (and speedometer) died last summer so I’m not exactly sure how many miles are on it. If I had to estimate, it must be close to 175,000 km’s by now. I’ve absolutely punished this thing. It’s been crashed in the snow, dumped in the sand, off-road ridden through areas it never should have been, and aside from running out of fuel more times than I can count (rider error), it’s never left me stranded. You won’t find a bike like this on a poster in a little boy’s room … but if you ask me, it deserves to be there. 😆" A post shared by TheGreasyFixMedia (@thegreasyfixmedia) on Sep 12, 2019 at 1:28pm PDT
For the last few days I ventured into the Maritimes to find some of the best driving roads along the east coast! Along the way I met many new friends and learned a lot of new skills. This is the story of Mike Shaffer and his Franken Bike: "The FrankenBike is a 2003 Suzuki SV1000S which I purchased in 2013. I bought it in a small town in northeastern New Brunswick (Shippagan) as a babied, garage kept bike with only 10,500 km’s on its clock. Shortly after buying it, I did a two-month trip around the US & Canada which totalled over 30,000 km’s. Since then, it’s journeyed through every province in Canada and every US state in the lower 48. The odometer (and speedometer) died last summer so I’m not exactly sure how many miles are on it. If I had to estimate, it must be close to 175,000 km’s by now. I’ve absolutely punished this thing. It’s been crashed in the snow, dumped in the sand, off-road ridden through areas it never should have been, and aside from running out of fuel more times than I can count (rider error), it’s never left me stranded. You won’t find a bike like this on a poster in a little boy’s room … but if you ask me, it deserves to be there. 😆"
A post shared by TheGreasyFixMedia (@thegreasyfixmedia) on Sep 12, 2019 at 1:28pm PDT
