Tape and Zip ties.
 

Lets face it. we all love the look of shinny parts and sleek corners, but when it comes down to it nothing beats the look of self fab'd parts. Zip ties and duct tape got me home from Tennessee last year... If I've spent 2k on new parts for my bike and 20 dollars on zip ties and duct tape, it seems the thing im always glad i have is the later.

Every bike I've owned has had zip ties holding something on.

Truth. usually.

Got to love zip ties!!

Coming from the rock crawling world, this statement could not be truer. :rockwoot: I much preffer building, rather than buying on most items but am quickly learning that it's not as easy on bikes.

I showed the wife a while back where the bag of assorted zip ties were in the tool box and she's gone zip tie crazy !! I'll need a new bag not too far in the future. :lol:

At first I was expecting a Dark Alley thread... :lol: I'm disappointed.

Should I bring zip ties with me tonight? :lol:

You 2 need to keep that between yourselves, just dont ask for derfs ball gag:panic:

Look at any track/race bike theyre all held together with zip ties, duct tape and jb weld


Tom

that gives me some ideas...

Duct tape and zip ties...best baby sitters I have ever used!!

No tape or zip ties on my bikes ever. I haven't had a reason to, but I know they are handy. It's best to keep a few zip ties with you at all times.

I've always got some with my tool kit, IIRC NtS used a few at the Dragon last year...

don't forget safety wire

Frankenbike! :lol:

Bad ass.

That is damn impressive.

how long did that take to do?

Tom

Ive never had to use zip ties on my new bike other than to keep wires or hoses in place. However, my first camaro was a 81 Z28 and I kept a roll of duct tape in the trunk and I had 3 full bags of zip ties in there, (three diffrent sizes) and there were times I wouldn't have made it home with out them.

it's not my work :idk: but the guy who did it is very talented fixing stuff:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...y+wire+fairing


there is a reason my bikes don't have fairings.

My Liscense Plate is held on by Zip Ties.

The only zip ties on my bike are holding a few wires down.

Same for me... good thing being they only have 200 & 50 miles on them.

My current bike's tail fairings are pretty well ziptied onto the bike on account of the tabs that are SUPPOSED to keep em there breakin off. fuck it, they work, and I'm good with that.

no duct tape, penty of electrical though holding various things in their places.

Mine was for a while since I lost a bolt. I just replaced when I hacked my fender off after having it zip tied for about a year.

I have a Few Zip ties holding an Expansion Chamber/Silencer on.:rockout:

The guy that previously owned my bike lost about 1/3 of the fairing screws on the entire bike. It was all held together by zip ties....

And I hated that. First thing i did was snip those damn ties and rip the fairings off.....

i wouldnt ever purchase a bike w/ zipties on it unless i was paying the guy in wampam...

AMEN! I HATE buying things for my truck... I'd rather build them. though I really need to learn to weld... and get another Toyota Pickup before I start doing that again...

the X isn't for off roading... no matter how much they advertise it as just that... :lol:




Zip ties are like Duct tape, Sea Foam, and WD40... mandatory items in your garage... but like Duct Tape... mandatory in every vehicle's emergency kit

Lets just say i got a good price..... but i could have haggled even more once i noticed the small stuff. But i didnt. Live and learn.

coolest safety wire job EVER!

truth!

No tape or zip ties on mine, other than zip ties for the wires for my HIDs.

Yea, it actually looks bad ass. Adds character to the bike.

Well than that means there's fucking zip ties doesn't it?

Nothing essential being held on by zip-ties, prick.

Essential or non-essential...it's still a zip tie, ninja.

I figured you would make some smartass comment about lights being not essential.

Buell must have thought they were non-essential b/c the headlights on the Firebolt are FUCKING WORTHLESS. Might as well just disconnect them.

Mine were alright, then I installed HIDs and its insane. Wont have another bike without em.

I'd have better lighting if I taped a flash light to my helmet.

Do like trip and put LEDs on your helmet. HID kits aren't that expensive, and i'm sure someone makes one for your bike.

Yeah they make them....I could get a low beam for around a hundy.

Mine is only low beam also. Cost 120. I just wired up both of my headlights to high beam, then adjusted the lights to where they shine fucking far without blinding anyone.

That's why they fixed that prob on the 1125's.
Though I still want to get HID's.

Sadly, they were even worse before the recall.

I can fix that problem for you. ;) I'm getting ready to sell my '83, and you know most of the specs, if you can remember that far back. :D PM me if you are interested.

Plus seven thousand! I don't ride at night because of it!

Any h3 light will fit..

Was going to throw in some silverstars, but couldn't find what I wanted.

There's a couple on BadWeb for sale right now. Dirt cheap. The Firebolt headlights are seriously the worst of ALL FUCKING TIME.

Worse than the lightning?

No clue. I've never rode a Lightning...but I've also not heard of headlight issues with them either.

I use zip ties in addition to bolts to hold my license plate on. Almost lost it once when 1 bolt fell out so now I keep the zip ties on there just in case.

You have those lights yet? What do you think?

Aside from holding various wiring, I only use zip-ties on my forks to see where I'm bottoming, and to keep the hamsters from flying off my spokes.

JC

Not yet.