My Dominator-Scrambler

Hi everyone,

I'm Vittorio, a med student from Italy (22yo)

After a pretty bad crash with my Dr-z I decided i wanted something different.

I realized that my ideal bike would have been something very similiar to a Scrambler, but since I'm a student and here in Italy a triumph scrambler costs 6000E USED I knew I would have had to build it myself

I bought a cheap a 83' NX650 dominator and started working on it in my garage.






I decided not to cut/modify the frame cuz i wanted to stay "legal" or at least try

The tank is from a (69?!?) Honda CG125

This was the situation a couple of days ago:




I used an old headlught from a Vespa px125 but it wasn't good so i changed it with a bigger, more powerful and strong one.

I named it Bellerofonte (Bellerophon) as the greek hero, semi-God, son of Poseidon and Eurinome, who became famous as the one who was able to kill the mounstrous Chimera.

After the crash I had an MRI and "luckily" they found something very little and very bad.
During 6 months of treatment this bike was one of the few things that helped me to keep fighting and, finally, get better.

Even if this is my first post I was always a reader of this amazing forum, so i thought to share my story with you.

Hope you have a great weekend,

Lamps

Happy for the healing.
Great bike by the way.
I would liked it better with a bash plate and standard high exhausts, like the one on the scrambler from triumph maybe.
But the bike is your idea, so it's up to you obviously! I really appreciate the work behind it, and the look. It's seems like a sturdy bike, with some classic style!

Beautiful work.

I like it! Very nice job

Very well done, thanks for showing it to us!!

Great face-lift !

Wow great story and a very sexy bike

Nice job!! I'm thinking of doing much the same with my XL600.

Beautifully done Sir!

Wonderfull, congratulations, I hope you have a lot of fun nailing it ;-)

Very sweet. I'll take one. . .

Wow!............ You have some serious talent at this, love to see what you come up with next

Really nice work. Where did the fenders come from? Alu or stainless?

Hi there, was wondering . Did you have to modify the tank to fit , if so in what way.

Hi, I just had to cut the original bracket, It was pretty easy, 5 minutes and a dremel.


About the fenders...
Here in Italy it's pretty hard to find cheap good parts, everytime i read what you guys usually pay for parts back in US it makes me wanna move there
Initially I wanted something custom made but I asked around and the price was crazy: 2000 E :eek1
So i bought these 2 for 180E online, the front one is stainless, the rear one is Alu.
I know it isn't usual to have fenders in 2 different metals but I'm 22, student/broke so I had to improvise

Dunno if you're interest but 2day i finished the logo:




I love it

Tomorrow I'm gonna order a couple of pvc stickers ( one on the headlight, the other one on the helmet)
and i was also thinking about ordering a patch for my leather jacket

Hope you guys had a great weekend, I spent mine studying dermathology

Awesome job

Nice work. Shameful "they" aren't building a nice 400-600cc, 6 speed retro enduro style bike. They are missing the boat on the aging guys who started on XR75s and 1974 DT250s.

You've built a very good looking bike.