Getting some fresh rubber on Chris's ride, leave in 3 days!
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40 dollar ebay saddle bags and 80 dollar tank bag. Enough storage for a couple weeks!
40 dollar ebay saddle bags and 80 dollar tank bag. Enough storage for a couple weeks!
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... full of chinese LEDs to upgrade my dim-ass, low angle aftermarket led turn signals
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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.
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.
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:
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:
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!
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.
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/
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/
I picked up an Radiantz "Hardcore Lighting" LED license plate frame from Biker Hiway the other day. It's a nice, clean frame that has been finished with a gloss black powdercoat. For now, it's just ziptied into place, but I'm very happy with the overall look and output. Naturally, the top of the plate is brighter than the bottom, but at night, the entire plate is highly visible.
There are two downsides to the frame. The first is that you need to cut a notch out of the top edge of your license plate so the wires can pass through. The other is that the top holes don't quite match up with the NJ plate as well as the bottom holes do. It's something that could be solved with smaller hardware.
All in all I'm happy with it. It's one less thing for the cops to harass me about... so I thought I'd share.
