2004 Gas Gas EC 250 Restoration

[Ralley0895]

Wassup GasGas community!

I ride a 2004 Gas Gas EC 250.

Recently I have broken my wrist due to a dirt bike accident In the time of healing up, I got bored. Sooo I decided to entirely rebuild my old bike from ground up and make it like brand new. I bought the bike in fairly decent shape but after I did my dues to it, it became quite a Frankenstein bike.

We went through the whole bike piece by piece, cleaning, painting, rebuilding, any thing and everything I could do to make it look like a brand new bike. I also had help from friends and family to make this bike possible. I am very greatful for their help.

There are plenty of photos of my restoration process if you guys would like to see.

I am still in the process of perfecting the way it looks and rides. It is soooo close to being fully restored. I felt the want to share with yall my process and fun that I encountered as I rebuilt my bike to make it my own custom beautiful bike.

I really hope yall like my restoration.

There will be more post to follow as I make more improvements on the bike!

Thanks

Tripp

 

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2004 Gas Gas EC 250

Before Restoration:

 

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Disasemble:

 

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Clean up:

 

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Powder Coating:

I powder coated the frame, spring, clutch cover, kick stand, foot pegs, chain guard and kickstand bracket.

 

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Reassembly of bike:

 

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Reasembly:

 

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New Plastics and Decals:
New Seat Cover:

 

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I am awaiting a new headlight unit since mine is busted from a wreck. I wrapped vynal on it and sticker bombed it to make it look good for pictures.

 

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Are yall ready to see the bike all together?

 

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All together:

 

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All together #2:

 

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Added some custom stickers to the hand guards:

 

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Added sticker to the swing arm:
Added custom sticker to back of front fender:

 

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This is as far as I am today. I will be uploading more picture as it progresses into a more beautiful bike each day! I hope yall like and enjoy my post! If yall have any questions, comments, or concerns. Feel free to ask me!

 

[RBrider]

Looks really good. Well done.

These older GG's are still great bikes, well worth the effort to keep them running. I got my '01 XC 200 out of moth balls the other day, after leaving it sit for 18 months. It fired right up & ran great. Where I live & ride, a plated 4T get ridden more often. In my case that's '17 FE 250 Husky. But I definitely need to plan a off road ride somewhere so I can ride the unplated GG again.

Thanks for posting. Hope the wrist heals up OK.

RB

 

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My head light unit came in! I have to figure how to match the decaling with the rest of the dirtbike and put it on. I am so excited! Any ideas on the way my decal on my head light could look? The plastic is red now, due to a order mix up. I can wrap it in black vynal though.

 

[gg3]

nice work!!

 

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Added a new chest pad and the new head light unit!

 

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Added new kill switch and light switch due to both not working anymore. Kill switch might be just a temporary fix.