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Last minute tire change

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Getting some fresh rubber on Chris's ride, leave in 3 days!

Official kickstand pucks

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Getting ready

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Too busy to fix my own shit! ...at least the brakes will work now.


I'm talking about the yellow 599 in the way back.

This was taken on 5/28

Parts for stealing air!

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Luggage galore

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Luggage galore, originally uploaded by jiinkz.

40 dollar ebay saddle bags and 80 dollar tank bag. Enough storage for a couple weeks!

Luggage galore

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Luggage galore, originally uploaded by jiinkz.

40 dollar ebay saddle bags and 80 dollar tank bag. Enough storage for a couple weeks!

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Stickers came in...

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Stickers came in..., originally uploaded by jiinkz.

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First pick of the new muzzy ti guy.

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First pick of the new muzzy ti guy.

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Last pic of stock exhaust.

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Last pic of stock exhaust., originally uploaded by murdoch.mitch.

Now this is happening! Muzzy Ti guy.

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A Chinese box...

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... full of chinese LEDs to upgrade my dim-ass, low angle aftermarket led turn signals

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New tires!!! Pirelli diablo strada ems

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New tires!!! Pirelli diablo strada ems

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I just made some new blinker setups.  The fist-sized stock ones were killing me, so i picked up some 14 dollar lil amber guys and made a license plate bracket to hold it all together.



I also modded my stock mufflers for now cuz i couldn't stand riding with no sound and don't have the extra few hundred dollars for something decent.

Seat and Windscreen

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Reshaped my seat to fit my sweet sweet ass, then had it recovered locally. Gave it a higher nose so I don't slide up on the tank, and takes a good bit of pressure off my "sit bones". Also has a wider, concave shape instead of convex, and higher to give a bit better knee angle. Feels great.

It went from something like this:

To this:



Sweet windscreen:


Didn't have rear turn signals, so I put some on:


Also, I just ordered some of these:

My Bike

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Just hit 29k miles. '97 F3.

  • Will ditch clip-ons in favor of handlebars, about 2" higher.
  • Lube cables
  • clean/sync carbs for the hell of it.
  • higher windscreen.

That's about it.

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Got the paint marker from the insurance company off as well!

Pro-Taper Bars

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IMG00237.jpg, originally uploaded by typestandard via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

Got my new pro-taper bars on, took a lil tweaking, but everything feels great. A huge improvement over the drag bars w/bar riser setup that was on the bike when I got it.

Chris and I are going riding in the morning, about 65miles of riding, with about half of it being nice canyon roads.

Icon Urban Tank Bag Testing

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I also have the Icon Urban tank bag and can concur that it's awesome. Using on this Bay -> LA -> San Diego trip right now and it's working great as both a tank bag and backpack.

I snapped some pics of the bike with the bag on it today...







In the photos it has a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and a hat in it, so it's far from its capacity. I rode with it about 120 miles last Sunday, and its like its not even there... until you want to rest, and then you can just lay on it while you are riding. It's AWESOME! Al and I rode downtown and parked at the harbor and walked around. I put my helmet in the carrier underneath, and my gloves and other stuff in the main compartment, and it was awesome as a backpack also!

It's available from Parts Unlimited:
http://street.parts-unlimited.com/